Lecture Topic 1 : The Service Sector Reading : Chapter 1‚ Services Marketing : People‚ Technology‚ Strategy by Kotler & Wirtz‚ 7th Edition. The Service Sector- some facts : • In the West‚ business conditions generally remain difficult for service sector firms with falling prices hitting profitability. - The service sector typically accounts for between 66% and 75% of GDP in most of the more highly developed economies. (Central Intelligence Agency‚ 2011)
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Motorola‚ Samsung and Sony Ericsson. The advertising primarily focuses promotional expenditure on new models of phone. Publicity and sponsorship is an important technique to increase awareness. Nokia sponsors the successful X-Factor series on UK Television‚ Samsung sponsor the Chelsea Football Club and Sony Ericsson sponsors the UEFA Champions League
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Course Book: Paul Trott‚ Innovation Management and New Product Development‚ 5.th Ed Learning objectives and Some Discussion Questions for Mid Term Exam • Recognise the importance of innovation • Explain the meaning and nature of innovation management • Provide an introduction to a management approach to innovation • Appreciate the complex nature of the management of innovation within organisations • Describe the changing views of innovation over time • Recognise
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Entrepreneurs innovate. Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. © Peter Drucker. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. © Steve Jobs‚ Apple. As time goes on‚ nothing remains the same in our world. Seasons‚ weather‚ relationships‚ human emotions‚ everything is affected by time- everything keeps changing. The same thing is in market industry. The progress is unstoppable and
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day hero. Theseus would be a hero today because he saves the people of Athens‚ from the Minotaur. He stands bravely with a sword gripped in his hands‚ ready to battle the beast. “With a grunt‚ the beast charges directly into Theseus’s sword‚ which sliced through its neck”. After Theseus had killed the Minotaur he knew his people were safe. “The Minotaur bellows‚ utters a fearful moan‚ and then a gasp of death”. This shows proof that Theseus would be a hero today because he would be taking the role
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longer have to search through papers as everything can be found on social media‚ or online news platforms. Indeed‚ technology changes our understanding of the way things work and changes how we interact with one another. However‚ at the same time it has adversely affected the traditional social institutions. Industries like the newspapers‚ the Postal Service and even the local libraries depend upon
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authors would like to thank the senior management of Baleno for their inputs/ comments in the preparation of this case and the staff of the Asian Center for Brand Management‚ Hong Kong Polytechnic University for their clerical support. Baleno: Expanding Retail Operations in China INTRODUCTION It was a hot and humid Friday afternoon. Samuel Chan‚ Marketing Director of Baleno‚ was preparing for a meeting with the staff of the Franchising Department. They were to discuss whether the company should
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Creative Retention Strategies that are used by organization today[/SIZE][/B] “Take Care of your Associates & they will make sure that our customer will keep coming back”. Bill Marriott (Founder Marriott Hotel) With the fast changing economic & market conditions‚ companies are facing very high pressure to perform which require them to have the best people to work with‚ to retain their experience minds; they want to be the most preferred employer in the eyes of their prospects (future employee)
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How did television impact on Australian society? Television was first introduced to the Australian society in 1956. Television changed the way Australians spent their leisure time - people began staying at home‚ rather than going out to the cinema or other venues. Television exposed Australians to American culture on a larger scale than ever before. Throughout the 50s television portrayed an idealized version of reality‚ displaying thin‚ beautiful woman and charming‚ well-trimmed men. The influence
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How Television Shapes our Mind Grace Sangkuan Koo‚Ph D. The television has displaced reading and thus inhibits the growth of reading skills. Watching TV requires less mental effort than reading. Television makes things tangible‚ while reading demands symbolic representation of language. While television maximizes the use of saliency(bright colors‚ loud noise‚ zoom) that appeals more to the right-brain hemisphere‚ reading depends on the understanding of syntax and the relatively slower‚ sequential
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