Lotus Bakeries NV International case study Bart Bauwens Director Export November 2010 Personal introduction • Bart Bauwens – 1967 • Master in Business Economics - University of Ghent‚ Belgium – 1991 • Master in Business Administration – National University of Singapore – 2008 • Specialisation in Export Management University of Antwerp‚ Belgium • 1/1/2000: Start with Lotus Bakeries • Director Sales & Marketing Lotus Bakeries Asia Pacific : 1/11/2003 – 31/07/2008 • Since 1/08/2008: Director
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The External Environment directly affects what a manager does. � TABLE OF CONTENTS 41.0 Introduction � 42.0 What is a Managers responsibility � 53.0 Characteristics of a good Leader � 54.0 Literature Review � 65.0 What are the external factors? � 65.1 Primary Factors � 65.1.1 Political � 65.1.2 Economic � 75.1.3 Socio/Cultural � 75.1.4 Technological � 75.1.5 Legal/Legislative � 75.1.6 Environmental/Ecological � 75.2 Secondary Factors � 85.2.1 Ethics � 85.2.2 Judgement � 85.2.3 Intuition
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Finale’s reputation for providing high quality desserts and maintaining above average customer service motivated members of our team to observe and analyze the bakery’s operational process. Its outstanding performance was recognized when the restaurant was chosen as the Best of Boston 2000 in the dessert category and was featured on the Food Network. All team members participated in the observation and data collection process. The task time and efficiency analysis was assigned to three
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changes that will affect your business and suggest at least 2 ways that you can identify new business opportunities. Submit your response for assessment. I will base this project on the bakery Brumby’s Riverton Forum‚ where my husband works as a baker. For the purpose of this project‚ I will consider that this bakery is not a franchise but a start-up company. According to Wikipedia‚ "A start-up company is a company‚ a partnership or temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable
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of this report is to inform airline executives about the external forces affecting their industry and what they can do to keep up with the changing business atmosphere. The terrorist attacks of 9/11 had a grueling effect on the economy‚ and while most industries are almost back to their pre-9/11 financial status‚ the airline industry is lucky to break-even. This report will explain three leading trends that are forcing the airline industry to re-think their stance on strategic planning. The first
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the world (Harrison & Enz‚ 2005). Meanwhile‚ the company still targets for operating 30‚000 stores worldwide in long-term growth (ibid.). Among numbers of destinations‚ China is Starbucks’ next target. Opening its first store in 1999‚ Starbucks is running 540 stores in China‚ including Taiwan‚ Hong Kong and Macau (ibid). Although China currently accounted for less than 10 percent of Starbucks’ USD 7.9 billions global sales in 2006‚ Starbucks’ CEO Howard Schultz believes that the country will soon become
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survive and prosper in a global environment that is highly dynamic and unstable. Managers in this setting not only deal with a set of social ‚ economic‚ legal and political factors in the home nation‚ but with entirely different set of these in each country of operation. International management involves balancing a firm ’s internal environment forces which is a system of shared meaning and beliefs within an organization that determines employees act with external environmental forces which is outside
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Construction Engineering and Management A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Degree of Master of Science in Construction Management The Islamic University of Gaza – Palestine April‚ 2008 Abstract Construction industry has complexity in its nature because it contains large number of parties as clients‚ contractors‚ consultants‚ stakeholders‚ shareholders‚ regulators and others. Construction projects in the Gaza Strip suffer from many problems and complex issues
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SUBMITTTED BY ABHILASH VISWANATHAN REG NO: 09095101 S2 MBA ICM POOJAPPURA SUBMITTED TO: SIVAPRAKASH CS | MARKETING ENVIRONMENT OF INDIAN AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY | | | | | | MARKETING ENVIRONMENT OF INDIAN AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY Introduction Forty years since India’s independence from the British in 1947‚ the Indian car market was dominated by two localized versions of ancient European designs - the Morris Oxford‚ known as the Ambassador‚ and a old Fiat. This lack of
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