competencies refers to “the skills and abilities by which resources are deployed through an organisation’s activities and processes such as to achieve competitive advantage in ways that others cannot imitate or obtain”. Developed by Hamel and Prahalad in 1990‚ simply stated‚ (a) it provides customers with major benefits‚ (b) it is difficult to imitate and (c) it can be leveraged in many products and markets. Differentiated from regular competencies and capabilities‚ Hamel and Prahalad (1990) highlighted
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The purpose of this essay is to explain how an organisation uses an intranet to achieve knowledge sharing among its employees. This essay provides a brief description of an intranet. Research showed that businesses that utilise this technology are more time efficient. It was also noted that using an intranet saves time and money for the organisation. An intranet is a private network that is contained within an enterprise. Unlike the Internet‚ intranets are private and restrict access to employees
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Task 9 Explain how quality management can be measured. It is important to measure the quality goods and services provided by an organisation. By some measurement organisation can find out that the products or services are not in their best quality. It helps to management the each step has taken during the production to serve level. For specific production need additional material or inventory which are generally not be used‚ for sold goods service done because they need warranty repairs. Whereas
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Good morning everyone our topic is how can the profession and regulators ensure that audit failures do not occur? Here are our contents. First we give a brief introduction and we talk about some professions’ and regulators’ measures‚ and also some safeguards‚ finally we have a conclusion‚ if u have any questions‚ we are welcome to answer your questions at the end in the Q&A section. As we know‚ audit is playing a very important role in the current society. For example‚ lots of investors’ economic
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about important information that would be available to them at any given point in time. The use and training of employees to access and navigate their way around an intranet would be of small time and effort as many to almost everyone would have had some experience in the use of the internet which in fact is very similar in the way an intranet functions and is used. An organisation can use an intranet to achieve knowledge sharing by allowing consistent access to updated information that is readily
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‘’Cost performance on project s often poor‚ what are the possible causes of this and how can it be improved?’’ Introduction The cost planning is one of important phases for project management. It will goes through whole project’s life cycle. It is foundation of project and it will tell the project are measured‚ reported and controlled in every process. Estimating is the process of forecasting or approximating the time and cost of completing project deliverables. A successful project management
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zero” ‚ is very much achievable‚ but there are huge obstacles that need to be overcome if one is to achieve it‚ as large interests wish to keep us dependent on fossil fuels‚ and important policy makers worry about productivity. Some countries are huge produces or investors in fossil fuel. Larger developed countries who are large polluters are therefore reluctant to change their ways. This is why China and other countries that are still expanding rapidly are building more power plants and polluting
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How best can managers ensure employees are motivated at work? There are two reasons why people do things‚ first because they want and willing to do‚ or second because they have no choice. If people do things when they have to‚ it is likely that they will do no more than necessary‚ and they will stop doing as soon as they can. Therefore‚ the term “motivation” is introduced‚ in order to make people want and willing to do things. This essay will be looking at how best managers can ensure their employees
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1.Executive summary In this paper I look at how organisations develop ’culture ’ and how this culture can be created‚ manipulated and changed my management. I also look at what other factors can change and affect a companies ’ culture. The paper will take the following format. A definition of culture and the problems associated with its definition. I then look at how organisationl culture develops‚ with an explanation of the levels of cultural analysis‚ a look at the various different types of
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“Customer loyalty can make or break a brand.” How far do you agree with this statement? Increasing number of companies put the strategy of customer loyalty into focus. Marketers from different countries come to an agreement that combining customer development with customer retention can bring long-term impact on brand performance (Kotler‚ 2003). In specific‚ price premium‚ brand awareness and market share closely associated with brand profitability count on customer loyalty. For instance‚ loyal
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