potential use of information technology for strategic advantage. Sunflower Inc. is a large distribution company that purchases and distributes snack foods and liquor to retail stores throughout the United States and Canada. The organization has one head office and twenty-two regions. Each region is encouraged to be autonomous to accommodate local tastes and practices. Competition is very intense in the industry and Sunflower Inc. is unable to respond to market shifts. The organization is characterized
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Case Study 2: Hacking into Harvard Naugie Pratt Unit 2 October 2‚ 2012 Case Study 2: Hacking into Harvard Summary of Events: This case involves students who have applied to MBA programs‚ who stumbled across an opportunity to learn of their results early‚ information that had been obtained via message board. Anyone who has ever applied for admission to a prestigious college‚ or who has been interview for a desired job knows the feeling of playing the “wait game”. However in this case
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Production and Operations Management Case study: “ Hightec Inc” Date 12th October 2011 Submitted To: Prof .Dr. R. Jagadeesh Submitted by‚ Sec: B‚ Group: 2 BHARADWAJ S (11070) HARSHITH SHETTY (11090) PRASAD KRISHNA (11099) SAGAR CHIMURKAR (11106) SAURABH MANDAL (11108) Contents Executive Summary: ............................................................................................................................... 3 Major Problems:...........................................
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Case 2– Research in Motion- RIM 1. What were some of the challenges RIM faced to protect its Intellectual Property and how did RIM handle those challenges? There was a legal action between NTP and RIM over the intellectual property. RIM resolved the action. To protect its intellectual property‚ RIM agreed to pay $612.5 million to NTP Inc. to settle the fight. The dispute had threatened to end RIM’s BlackBerry e-mail service to millions of users in the U.S. and has been the subject of a four-year
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Table of Contents 1.0 INTRODUCTION 2 2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW 3 3.0 CASE ANALYSIS 5 4.0 PORTER’S FIVE FORCES 7 4.1 Internal Rivalry 7 4.2 Potential or new entrants 7 4.3 Substitute products 7 4.4 Power of suppliers 8 4.5 Power of Customers 8 5.0 SWOT ANALYSIS 9 5.1 Strengths 9 5.2 Weaknesses 10 5.3 Opportunities 10 5.4 Threats 10 6.0 CONCLUSION 12 7.0 RECOMMENDATION 14 8.0 REFERENCES 15 1.0 INTRODUCTION In
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WAL-MART CASE STUDY ANALYSIS SWOT STRENGTH ▪ Information Technology : They have a strong information technology system as implemented EDI‚ Information system‚ UPC at POS‚ Satellite system‚ Pick to light system‚ Vendor management inventory system which was not implemented by any other competitor. ▪ Supply Chain (Strong). They had a long term relationship with the supplier as there was no non sense negotiator as they eliminated the manufacture representative from negotiation with the suppliers
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Question 1 - Risks surrounding the identified accounts The Audit of TNO Ltd has highlighted number of risks. The risks highlighted in the audit are discussed throughout the report. Below is a table of the risks and tests to carry out‚ based on the five accounts highlighted as being of risk. The common assertion that is common to the five accounts is valuation and allocation. Account Assessment of Risk Substantive audit procedure Accounts Receivable Account Receivable has increased while sales
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Economic conditions change‚ competitors launch new assaults and the product passes through new stages of buyer interest and requirements (Kotler‚ 2001‚ p. 484). Consequently a company must plan strategies that address any changes in the market. ebay Inc. is the world’s largest and most popular person-to-person trading community on the internet (Bradley‚ 2001‚ p. 1). From its inception eBay was unchallenged however with amazon.com’s (Amazon) entrance into the online person-to-person auction arena and
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The Wallace Group; Laurence J. Stybel | | | Case 2 The Wallace Group‚ Inc. I. CASE ABSTRACT Harold Wallace‚ founder‚ serves as Chairman and President of the Wallace Group. He owns 45 percent of the outstanding stock. The company consists of three operating groups?Electronics‚ Plastics‚ and Chemicals‚ which generate sales of $70 million. Mr. Wallace continues direct operational control over the Electronics Group. Several years ago‚ Wallace and the Board embarked on a strategy
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capital is based on company financials as well as market trends and forecasts. There should only be once cost of capital estimated for the company since so many of its segments share the same general risk and growth factors‚ aside from their non-Nike brand lines. However‚ they only comprise 4.5% of company revenues and are relatively insignificant. One of the first errors regarding the analysis in the case is that the employee calculated equity as a portion of total capital based on the company
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