MBA Integrative Module Sustainable Decisions and Organisations N14M94 Semester 2 2012 – 2013 April 15 - 19 2013 Module Convenor: Simon Wright Table of Contents Teaching Staff Module Outline and Reading List Provisional Session Summary Assessment and Criteria for Assessment Session 1 Module Introduction Session 2 Business Briefing: Sustainability at J Sainsbury PLC Session 3 Sustainability and Business Strategy Session
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PESTLE UNITED STATES POLITIC: 1) High unemployment and slow growth are still the dominant features of the US economy. Growth during 2011 has been at a very slow pace. While there has been real‚ if modest job growth in each of the last five months‚ much of the drop in the official unemployment rate is due to unemployed workers giving up looking for jobs. * 9.1% (2011 est.) 2) Voters in North Carolina approved a constitutional amendment effectively banning same-sex marriage
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Case Study: MAS Holdings An excerpt from Market Movers: Lessons from a Frontier of Innovation Full Market Movers report‚ and its companion piece‚ Developing Value‚ are available at www.ifc.org/enviro and www.sustainability.com/marketmovers 1 Market Movers Case: Mas GoinG beyond Despite a violent ethnic conflict and the removal of trade protections under the Multi Fibre Arrangement (MFA)‚ this Sri Lankan apparel manufacturer has thrived in recent years while championing women’s empowerment
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cost. • Structure of project management‚ prime and sub-contracting. • Methods of project planning • Methods of project control • Financial‚ legal or international implications commented on • Elements of success or lack of it identified. • PESTLE (Political‚ Environmental‚ Social‚ Technological‚ Legal and Ethical) issues Your team should choose a project type from the following list of ten. Each team must select a different project. Other types not listed may (exceptionally) be considered if
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Executive Summary The following is an analysis of the IKEA case study found in the Strategic Management Text book. This analyses the strategies used by IKEA to gain competitive advantage in markets outside its original area. The report begins by providing a background into IKEA. It studies International Business Level Strategy and the three international corporate level strategies. The case study goes into informing its target market and pricing strategy‚ which is already discussed. This case
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Content Page Executive Summary 4 Situational Analysis 5 Macro-Environment PESTLE Analysis 5 The SWOT Analysis 7 Strength (Internal) 7 Weakness (Internal) 7 Opportunity (External) 8 Threats (External) 8 TOWS Analysis 9 Maxi-Maxi Strategy (Strength-Opportunity) 9 Maxi-Mini Strategy (Strength-Threats) 9 Mini-Maxi Strategy (Weakness-Opportunities) 10 Mini-Mini Strategy (Weakness-Threats) 10 Objective 10 Marketing Strategy 10 Technology 11 New methods of food preparation 11
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industry is analyzed. The business environment is mainly analyzed in the PESTEL framework and the Porter’s five forces model. In this post‚ We analyze PESTEL Model first‚ and this will help you analyse the Opportunities and Threats of Toyota… Political Factors In the background of the financial crisis‚ each country’s government carried out the relating remedy policy to protect or stimulate each important industry‚ including the annotative industry. For example‚ in end of 2008‚ U.S. government gave
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IKEA is a well-known global brand with hundreds of stores across the world. In order to improve performance‚ it must assess its external and competitive environment. This will reveal the key opportunities it can take advantage of and the threats it must deal with. IKEA responds to both internal and external issues in a proactive and dynamic manner by using its strengths and reducing its weaknesses. Through this‚ IKEA is able to generate the strong growth it needs to retain a strong identity in the
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In order to diversify in to new market‚ Nokia needs to develop a marketing plan which will give them the idea what factors to be considered before entering the mobile network sector. The marketing plan includes all the factors that need to be undertaken. They are market analysis‚ competitor analysis‚ and environmental analysis‚ and customer analysis‚ internal and external factors. The mobile network market is growing rapidly and has good opportunities for new entrants to enter market and gain market
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IKEA 1. A firm advantage of IKEA is they have a dedicated supplier network so they are able to offer quality furniture at low prices. IKEA reaps huge economies of scale from the size of its stores and the big production runs necessary to stock them since the same furniture is sold all over the world. Since IKEA saves‚ they are able to match their rivals on quality and still manage to undercut their furniture by 30 percent. A country advantage is they have more than 2‚300 suppliers in 67 countries
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