Comprehensive Term Project United Airlines [pic] Prepared By: Presented to: Jeffrey R. Nystrom Management 4500 Business Policy and Strategic Management November 18‚ 2008 Table of Contents SECTION 1: CASE STUDY 1 1.1 Background / History 1 1.2 Organizational Mission 1 1.3 External Environment 2 1.4 Internal State of Affairs 4 1.5 Generic Strategy 5 1.6 Long-Term Objectives 5 1.7 Grand Strategies 5 1.8 Short-Term Objectives
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SOUTHWEST AIRLINES Southwest Airlines Co. is a major U.S. airline and the world’s largest low-cost carrier‚ headquartered in Dallas‚ Texas. It was established in 1967 that operates Southwest Airlines and AirTran Airways to fly among three major Texas cities – Dallas‚ Houston and San Antonio. It is the biggest operator of the Boeing 737 in the world. Flight distances ranged from 190 to 250 miles and flight time were about 45 minutes. Today Southwest operates nearly 400 Boeing 737 aircraft to 59 U
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Superficial STEEP and Porter’s Six Forces analyses for the US airline industry. STEEP ANALYSIS 1. Technological • Internet Availability: The availability of internet to the general public gave the airline industry a lot of competition. Before there was much more price control from the airlines themselves and prices could be raised or lowered whenever they felt necessary. Only travel agencies had this information available other than the airlines themselves. Internet availability has regulated a lot
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Southwest Airlines 2008 Introduction : While the airline industry in the USA has not made thriving financial headlines‚ Southwest Airlines has emerged as a successful organization. It has been able to make profit consistently and has sustained itself through difficult situations like recession‚ energy crisis‚ and September 11 terrorist attacks. Problem Statement : The problem under consideration here is: How can Southwest Airlines achieve a sustainable growth in future in spite of increasing
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Impact of New Media in Music Industry Introduction In the recent years‚ there have been changes in the structure of the Music industry and the paths that have been used for creating‚ promoting and distributing music. Most of these changes resulted from the advancements in technology‚ which affected both economic and technological structures of the industry. The digitization of music and its migration on to the Internet has been one of the biggest challenges to the traditional music industry. Ever since
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I chose New York‚ New York by Frank Sinatra. The lyric "If I can make it there‚ I’ll make it anywhere" gives a sense that any success in New York means success in everywhere; Even though it is extremely competitive to be successful in New York‚ the reward is very pleasurable. The line "It’s up to you‚ New York‚ New York" presents those do their best in New York will be successful since this place has full of opportunities; however‚ if they do not‚ they will not be successful. As the line describes
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DSE BASED ZONE PROTECTION: The dynamic state estimation based protection (also known as setting-less protection) has been inspired from the differential protection function and can be considered as an extension and generalization as illustrated in Figure 1. In current differential protection the electric currents at all terminals of a protection zone are measured and their weighted sum must be equal to zero (generalized Kirchhoff’s current law). Thus the current differential protection function consists
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THE CASE OF THE UNIDENTIFIED INDUSTRIES West Coast Finance In the Case of the Unknown Industries‚ we matched several industries with their corresponding balance sheets. We used several different methods to come up with our conclusion. An important factor we had to remember was the economic state industries were in their respective year. A. Online Retailer This set of data belongs to the online retailer industry. The most significant categories that helped with our decision was the low inventory
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is available at http://www.emerald-library.com Journal of Management Development 19‚6 456 The story of Singapore Airlines and the Singapore Girl Deputy Head of Department/Group Head‚ Republic of Singapore Air Force‚ Singapore Keywords Airlines‚ Singapore‚ Brands‚ Differentiation‚ Strategy‚ Service quality Abstract Maps the strategic 50-year journey of Singapore Airlines (SIA) to identify the underlying factors that account for its extraordinary success and world-class stature. Both longitudinal
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Southwest Airlines in 2008 - 2009: Analysis and Recommendations Analysis Performed By: American Consulting Group‚ LLC CEO: Michael A. Evans Table of Contents Letter of Appreciation to Gary Kelly‚ CEO ……………………………...3 Executive Summary ……………………………………………..........4 Appendix 1 ……………………………………………………………….10 Appendix 2 ……………………………………………………………….11 Appendix 3 ……………………………………………………………….12 Appendix 4 ……………………………………………………………….13 Appendix 5 ……………………………………………………………….15 Appendix
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