report states that about 25% - 50% of plants restricted their employees from drinking water & accessing toilet during the working hours. Almost the same percentage of factories denied workers at least a day off of the seven days that they work. Nike’s CSR Challenge highlighted the difficulties of bringing change to a company that isn’t centralized. In fact‚ the challenge was to alter the way business is done. Traditionally‚ leadership was seen as guidance to steer your employees towards the company’s
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Main Aspects of Porter’s Five Forces Analysis The original competitive forces model‚ as proposed by Porter‚ identified five forces which would impact on an organization’s behaviour in a competitive market. These include the following: • The rivalry between existing sellers in the market. • The power exerted by the customers in the market. • The impact of the suppliers on the sellers. • The potential threat of new sellers entering the market. • The threat of substitute
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CSR ACTIVITIES OF ITC ITC Limited was incorporated on August 24‚1910 under the name of ‘Imperial Tobacco Company of India Limited at Radha Bazar Lane‚Kolkata.Later it was renamd as “Indian Tobacco Company.”in 1974.It is one of the Indias’s foremosrt private sector companies with a market of approx $14 billion.Its range of products includs:Cigerettes & Tobacco‚Hotels‚Information Technology‚Paperboards & Speciality Papers‚Agri-Exports‚Foods‚Lifestyle Retailingand Greeting
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Porter Analysis of the Zara Fashion Chain The Zara fashion chain‚ with 546 stores in 30 countries today ?from which 340 are outside Spain- and ?2914‚3 millions of total sales in 2002‚ is undoubtedly the group?s locomotive (Inditex‚ 2003). In 2002 it represented 33% of the group?s total stores‚ accounted for 72% of the group?s total sales and contributed to the holding?s total profits for ?540.4 millions (Inditex FY2002 Results Presentation‚ 2003). Moreover‚ Zara with 75-90 new stores within 2003
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Porter’s five forces Michael E Porter developed the Porter’s five forces analysis in 1979 which serves as a framework for industry analysis and business strategy development. Its five forces determine the competitive intensity and therefore attractiveness of a market. Attractiveness in this context refers to the overall industry profitability. Three of Porter’s five forces refer to competition from external sources. The remainder are internal threats. It is useful to use Porter’s five forces in
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Beverages like Bournvita Cadbury delight Candy like Cadbury halls Gums like Bubbaloo Commitment to the environment Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is at the heart of their success. At Cadbury India have always believed that good values and good business go hand in hand. It’s part of their heritage and the way they do things today. CSR is about growing our business responsibly. Migratory birds stop over at Bangalore factory Water is a precious resources. As
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Revision Q1) Porter`s Five Forces Strategies for overcoming the influencers. * Threat of new entrants * A way of trying to eliminate threat of new entrants would be to create economies of scale. This approach would make it harder for new entrants to reach high scale production‚ as they would have higher costs. This is what Samsung and Apple are trying to do at the moment‚ by building large economies of scale. But at the same time‚ ZTE a Chinese company‚ started selling the cheapest Android
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ISM Question 1 Explain various system design and development methodologies. Question 2 Write short notes on following: • Data Mining • IT Outsourcing Question 3 Differentiate between MIS and TPS [pic] http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/mashkoor-883032-tps-transaction-processing-system/ http://books.google.co.in/books?id=D7UMstcSWkoC&pg=PR173&lpg=PR173&dq=list+of+differences+between+MIS+and+TPS&source=bl&ots=C2x_cS9fQz&sig=rmM2TuHnkzbPLer
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In General Motor (GM) in relations with their external environment‚ there are many elements in which (GM) as a company will have no control over when conducting it business. In the “Five Forces Model” ‚ Michael Porter provide an suggestion and analysis regarding the forces which companies like (GM) will have no control over such as: 1. Who their immediate rivals will be‚ 2. Who the potential entrants are‚ 3. their customers‚ 4. suppliers and 5. Substitute products that will be purchased over (GM)
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sacrificing her beliefs for a communist principle‚ Katherine Anne Porter stated her position very clearly. In “To Dr. William Ross” she states her strong beliefs against any form of totalitarian government or ideas because of the the way she was raised‚ the lack of freedom‚ and her love for her country. “This is the first time i’ve encountered this dangerous nonsense‚ but I have known from the beginning what my answer must be.” Katherine Porter is opposed to the idea of communism by the principals brought
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