geLong Range Planning 33 (2000) 779-804 www.elsevier.com/locate/lrp Managing Change at Novotel: Back to the Future Roland Calori‚ Charles Baden-Fuller and Brian Hunt Novotel is one of the world’s major hotel chains‚ occupying a leading place in Europe and with locations globally. We interpret Novotel’s change management programme in the 1990s in three parts. First‚ we summarise the actions that managers took in terms of strategy and organisation. Second‚ we consider the sequence and timing
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F663 Exemplar Answers with Commentaries June 2010 Introduction OCR has reproduced these exemplar candidate answers from the June 2010 series to support teachers in interpreting the assessment criteria for the GCE English Literature specifications. These exemplars should be read in conjunction with the past paper/mark scheme and Principal Examiner’s Report for unit F663 from the June 2010 exam series‚ also available on the OCR website. This content has been selected by senior OCR examiners‚ to illustrate
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1 2 3 Date Text 7/16/14 “If they give you ruled paper‚ write the other way.” –Juan Ramon Jimenez 7/16/14 7/16/14 7/16/14 Response Cod e The novel begins with this quote‚ P leading me to believe the theme of the novel will be rebellion and going against the norm. p. 1 “It was a pleasure to burn. It Ray Bradbury starts the novel off R was a special pleasure to see by describing the pleasure firemen things eaten‚ to see things get out of their occupation and blackened and changed
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Fathers and Sons in Relation to Aeneas’ Quest for Pietas in Vergil’s Aeneid In Book VI of Vergil’s Aeneid‚ Aeneas encounters at least three pairs of fathers and sons: Brutus and his sons‚ Marcellus the Elder and Younger‚ and Daedalus and Icarus. The concentration of these three father-son pairs illustrates the importance of parental relationships throughout the Aeneid. Loving father-son relationships play prominent roles in at least eight of the Aeneid’s twelve books.[1] However‚ the
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Marks & Spencer Case Study Introduction........................................................................ Page 3 EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT 1.0 PEST Analysis................................................................ Page 3 2.0 Porters Five Forces Model................................................. Page 4 INTERNAL ANALYSIS 3.0 Auditing the Resources of M&S.......................................... Page 5 4.0 Value Chain Analysis....................................................
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Allusions in M. E Forester’s “My Wood” Chapter 1.General considerations on allusion as a stylistic device. 1.1 Definition and functioning of allusion and its types. An allusion(ah-LOO-zhen) is a figure of speech that makes a reference to‚ or representation of‚ people‚ places‚ events‚ literary work‚ myths‚ or works of art‚ either directly or by implication. M. H. Abrams defined allusion as "a brief reference‚ explicit or indirect‚ to a person‚ place or event‚ or to another literary work
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Rhetorical Terms/Devices Figurative language is the generic term for any artful deviation from the ordinary mode of speaking or writing. It is what makes up a writer’s style – how he or she uses language. The general thinking is that we are more likely to be persuaded by rhetoric that is interesting‚ even artful‚ rather than mundane. When John F. Kennedy said‚ “Ask not what your country can do for you‚ ask what you can do for your country” (an example of anastrophe)‚ it was more interesting –
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Instructor’s Manual 503 © Pearson Education Limited 2005 C A S E T E A C H I N G N O T E S Marks & Spencer Nardine Collier and Gerry Johnson 1. Introduction This case study is about why one of the world’s most famous retails‚ Marks & Spencer‚ ran into trouble at the end of the 1990s and how it attempted to manage a programme of change to overcome those problems. It is therefore useful to explore issues concerned with organisational culture‚ strategic drift‚ strategic
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Divine Myth; “True myths” or “myth proper”. Stories in which the main characters are super natural beings. Generally explain some aspect of the world Example would be Zeus over throwing his father and the related stories; creation of myths and of the ancient greeks Nyx (Night): the abstract concept of night given to a few human characteristics. Union of Nyx and Erebus (Darkness) produced their opposites‚ aether ”Radiance” and herma “day” Legends (Sagas) Latin word is Legenda “something that
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Chapter 1: Childhood: Abandoned and Chosen Steve Jobs was the natural-born son of John Jandali and Joanne Schieble. Jandali was a teaching assistant from Syria and Joanne was a Catholic girl from Wisconsin whose parents disapproved of her relationship with a Muslim. Unable to wed‚ they gave their baby up for adoption and baby Steve was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs of San Francisco‚ California. Paul Jobs was an engine technician turned car mechanic‚ and he introduced Steve to the world of engineering
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