Using value-chain analysis to discover customers’ strategic needs David W. Crain and Stan Abraham David Crain‚ a marketing and strategy consultant‚ is visiting professor of marketing at Whittier College‚ CA‚ and former Director of Marketing at Fluor Corporation (davidwcrain@aol.com). Stan Abraham is professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at Cal Poly Pomona (scabraham@ csupomona.edu) and author of Strategic Planning: A Practical Guide for Competitive Success (Thomson South-Western‚ 2006).
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a primary reason to provoke many of their deficiencies in academic learning in school. Therefore‚ how does the culture and structure of the school and its students influence the teacher’s instructional practices? I strongly feel that each teacher needs to perform a self-evaluation in the area of; the cultural differences‚ socioeconomic level‚ family and school relationship‚ and racial differences‚ in order to take an entirely different approach towards each student on a more personal level‚ in order
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Water Quality and Human Health in Southern Africa: Application to Scenarios to Zimbabwe Tarirai Manyevere A Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MSc in Enviromental Sciences(Pollution and Monitoring) Brunel University(United Kingdom) 2010 ABSTRACT Parsons and Tredoux (1995) in their research noted that water quality requirement for a particular use plays an important role in the management
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responsibilities of female paralegals vs male paralegals. Dividing positions within occupations into hierarchy enhancing roles‚ and hierarchy attenuating roles‚ Felicia Pratto and Lisa M. Stallworth of Stanford University‚ along with Jim Sidanius and Bret Siers of the University of California‚ define hierarchy enhancing roles as “roles that serve the interests of elite or already privileged groups”‚ and hierarchy attenuating roles
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Psychological Needs PSY/211(BSAL1CGZN7) Caitlyn Lee 6/1/2014 Kurtis Armstrong Born in 1908 Abraham Maslow was an American psychologist who was known best for creating Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Maslow introduced his concept of hierarchy of needs published in the 1943 Psychological Review pages 50‚ 370-396 called “A theory of human motivation”. He went on to publish several books and articles featuring personality‚ motivation‚ and human nature until his death in 1970 (Wikipedia)
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Caste: Social and Gender Hierarchies The fundamental issues of caste not only affect the privileged and the working peoples‚ ethnic and racial minorities‚ and religious piety‚ but also the roles of men and women within the framework of gender relations. Through male domination of the public sphere‚ specific female roles were constructed. The primary concept of caste supported depictions of oppressed and subordinate women‚ which can be examined through the early literature of India. Women were no
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Changing Hierarchies in Early America In “A Model of Christian Charity‚” John Winthrop proposes to change the existing social and economic hierarchy. The old world social hierarchy divided the classes based on wealth and property. The highest class consisted of the king and royal family‚ then followed by the bishops. Next on the hierarchy were the nobles‚ gentlemen‚ and the wealthy. And at the bottom of the hierarchy of course‚ were the poor. Because of this extreme division‚ there was no middle
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Case 3: Creative Deviance – Bucking the Hierarchy? One of the major functions of an organizational hierarchy is to increase standardization and control for top managers. Using the chain of command‚ managers can direct the activities of subordinates toward a common purpose. If the right person with creative vision is in charge of a hierarchy‚ the results can be phenomenal. Until Steve Jobs’ regrettable passing in October of 2011‚ Apple had used a strongly top-down creative process in which most major
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How much we get paid compared to others is clearly of importance to us. It says something about our social position‚ our value in the social hierarchy. (p89) because it says something about our ‘value’ in the social hierarchy. Getting paid is central to our idea of work and a hobby because one of them is paid and the other is not‚ even though they can take the same amount of physical and mental effort. People who do something for free‚ for purely idealistic reasons‚ tend to become less satisfied
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A REVIEW OF THE HIERARCHY OF EFFECTS MODELS HOW CAN THE THEORY BE USED TO DEVELOP MARKETING STRATEGIES FOR LAUNCHING A NEW MODEL MOTOR CAR AND CAMPAIGNS FOR SAFER DRIVING? Abstract With advertising being such a large source of expenditure for firms‚ there has been a plethora of postulation’s put forward in order to determine how advertising works‚ and how it influences consumer behaviour. Most importantly studies have been conducted in order to discover‚ what constitutes advertising effectiveness
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