Industry Value Chain” National University MGT/602: Strategic Decision-Making in Global Business Instructor: Prof. July 17‚ 2009 The purpose of this paper is to explain why the growing popularity of downloading music from the Internet gave rise to a new music industry value chain that differs considerably from the traditional value chain. The internet has helped usher in the "New Age of music/media access”. The internet has it used its technology infrastructure to make this happen
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3. Value chains: Real or Virtual? With the steady grown in the country’s economy as well as the people’s living standards‚ the rhythm of people’s living is speeding up and a lot of changes have taken place in their daily life. The discussion about whether or not the Value chains is real or virtual is a very controversial one. Many people take the view that the reality of the value chain has a strong applied legacy. Nevertheless‚ there are also a majority of people insist that the value chain is
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Value Chain as Competitive Advantage Unit 3 Assignment Katherine Moore GB570 Managing the Value Chain Jerry Haenisch‚ PhD. Kaplan University December 27‚ 2012 Value Chain as Competitive Advantage Industries have in the earlier years concentrated on enhancing the supply chain activities in search of creating value. Nonetheless‚ optimizing these activities‚ only can lead to operative proficiency and not structural effectiveness. Contritely‚ when an organization‚ focus on growing
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Time Value of Money Danielle Kaplan B6022-P A01 Calculate the future value of 100‚000 ten years from now based on the following annual interest rates 2 ( 100‚000 x (1.02)10 121‚899 5 ( 100‚000 x (1.05)10 162‚899 8 ( 100‚000 x (1.08)10 215‚892 10 ( 100‚000 x (1.10)10 259‚374 Calculate the present value of a stream of cash flows based on a discount rate of 8. Annual cash flow is as follows Year 1 100‚000 ( 100‚000 / (1.08) 92‚592 Year 2 150‚000 ( 150‚000 / (1.08)2 128‚600 Year 3 200
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A convenience store chain attempts to be responsive and provide customers with what they need‚ when they need it‚ where they need it. - What are some different ways that a convenience store supply chain can be responsive? - What are some risks in each case? Answer: A supply chain could accurate its responsiveness if it is able to improve in these criteria: - Respond to wide ranges of quantities demanded - Meet short lead times - Handle a large variety of products - Build highly innovative
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returns of 30%‚ a correlation coefficient with the market of - 0.25‚ and a beta coefficient of - 0.5. Security B has an expected return of 11%‚ a standard deviation of returns of 10%‚ a correlation with the market of 0.75‚ and a beta coefficient of 0.5. Which security is more risky? Why? In order to answer this question you need to outline Security A and Security B Security A Expected rate of return of 6% Standard deviation of returns of 30% Correlation coefficient with the market of -0.25 Beta
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Shells Bricks in Different Height The table 1 shows how durable the Golden Apple Snails Shells Bricks that fell from different height. On trial 1‚2 and 3‚ the brick is still durable when it fell in 1 meter . On the trial 1‚ it is still durable when it fell with a height of 5 meters but on the trial 2 and 3 it is not durable anymore when it fell from the height of 5 meters and 8 meters. The table 1 shows that the brick is not durable when fell from a height of 8 meters. Kinds of Bricks | Height
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DISTRIBUTED DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM A distributed Database Management System (DDBMS) is a database in which storage devices are not all attached to a common processing unit such as the CPU. It may be stored in multiple computers‚ located in the same physical location; or may be dispersed over a network of interconnected computers. Unlike parallel systems‚ in which the processors are tightly coupled and constitute a single database system‚ a distributed database system consists of loosely coupled
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and “improved” digital era of music production with its ongoing demands and browsing and how this ongoing battle between certain formats seems to be here to stay. Given that the subject in question is such a broad subject I am going to be concentrating on a specific case study of peer-to-peer file transferring with precise reference to Napster and the way it paved a new path for the downloadable MP3’s and how industries jumped on the bandwagon and used the once frowned upon technology today as a selling
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compounded annually. How much will you have at the end of four years? How much would you have at the end of four years if interest is compounded semiannually? If interest compounded annually I would have saved $5‚519.06 at the end of four years. If interest compounded semiannually I would have saved $5‚522.43 at the end of four years. 2. Change the interest rate to a higher rate. How much will you have at the end of four years if interest is compounded annually at a rate of 3%? How much would you
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