CMCS: Growing Without Losing Control Objective: Describe Samman’s leadership style‚ analyze whether it is conducive to company growth and suggest recommendations Course: Leadership Instructor: Mr. Youssef Nassar Prepared by Daoud Matta‚ Class 13 Date: September 23‚ 2012 Samman has been so far a successful entrepreneur. He established CMCS‚ expanded it to new territories with a wide range of products and services‚ and built reputation and brand recognition. With the ambition
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1. SWOT Analysis Strengths IBM’s core strength lies in its System/360 and System/370 mainframe series. These mainframes have become the industry’s benchmark that competitors try to match. Moreover‚ IBM’s high-priced lease strategy‚ supported by excellent customer support‚ enhances the company’s fortunes. Over the years‚ IBM’s excellent service‚ along with a successful sales team has given it an advantage over the competition. IBM’s successful ventures with computer‚ software‚ and marketing companies
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Draft 300860 PESTEL Analysis Costa Rica Political Analysis • Costa Rica has emphasized strongly in the development of democracy and respect for human rights. • Costa Rica lacks armed forces therefore they are free of military infringement. • Costa Rican law protects the formation of contracts. • Costa Rican law protects Copyrights‚ Trade Marks‚ Encrypted Program-Carrying Satellite Signals‚ Industrial Designs‚ Patents‚ Geographical Indication‚
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PESTEL Analysis of Food Souvenir Industry in Macau POLITICAL: Bejing Visa Policy: The GDP of Macau is expected to increase by 30% this year which indicates that the economy is recovering from 2008 recession. That means‚ if the economy keeps its same speed‚ Central govt. might bring some new policy on visa restriction for Chinese visitors similar to that of 2008 & 2007. If the central govt. observes any negative impact of the gaming boom‚ they might tighten the visa policy. International
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The PESTEL framework examines the six main macro environmental influencing factors of companies: political‚ economic‚ social‚ technological‚ environmental and legal. These influences determine the future success or failure of the corporate strategies. The political influence include the role of the governments; economics embraces the macro economic factors such as growth rate‚ exchange rates and business cycles; the social component stands for changing cultures and demographics; technological influences
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Geert Hofstede defined that culture is "collective programming of the mind distinguishing the members of one group or category of people from another". (HOFSTEDE‚ 2012a) Human culture derives from people’s background‚ education‚ gender and so on. Therefore‚ different people have various cultures. Culture can influence employees’ relationship in workplaces. (HOFSTEDE‚ 2012b) Geert Hofstede studied this question for more than six years‚ and found six groups of national cultural dimensions. The first
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PESTEL Political- The theatre is subsidized by the public purse in the form of local authorities and the arts council (Arts council‚ 2010). However‚ funding is under continual pressure after cuts made to the arts budget by the coalition government (Mintel‚ 2012). This has been evident since 2008 where the arts council of England stopped funding of the theatre meaning it is only supported by Winchester City Council‚ Hampshire city council‚ sponsors and friends of Theatre Royal Winchester (Burn
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Table of content 1. Introduction 1 2. Importance of environmental analysis 1 3. Procedure 1 4. Findings 2 1. PESTEL analysis for environmental scanning 2 2. Political factors 2 3. Economical factors 3 4. Socio-cultural factors 4 5. Technological factors 4 6. Environmental factors 5 7. Legal factors 5 8. Porter’s five forces model for environmental scanning 6 9. Threat of entry 6 10. Threat of substitutes 7 11. The power of buyers 7 12. The power
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Political The long-term political consequences of the crisis are as yet unclear. The crisis‚ and the siege of Suvarnabhumi Airport‚ saw a rise in international press coverage on Thailand‚ with numerous high-profile articles breaking Thai taboos about public discussion of the role of the monarchy in the crisis as well as the succession. Thailand political situation is described uncertain. The crisis escalated and increasingly affected the economy. ZEN Department Store can lose some revenue due to
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COUNTRY ANALYSIS REPORT India In-depth PESTLE Insights Publication Date: December 2010 OVERVIEW Catalyst This profile analyzes the political‚ economic‚ social‚ technological‚ legal and environmental structure in India. Each of the PESTLE factors is explored on four parameters: current strengths‚ current challenges‚ future prospects and future risks. Summary Key findings India is a stable democracy‚ but terrorism and its relationships with its neighbors continue to be a problem Since
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