I. How Do Businesses Compete? （Q1‚Q2) 1. Business strategies are primarily concerned with allocating resources across functional activities and product-markets to give the unit a sustainable advantage over its competitors. 2. The unit’s core competencies and resources‚ together with the customer and competitive characteristics of its industry‚ determine the viability of any particular competitive strategy. 3. Most SBUs pursue a single competitive strategy—one that best fits their market environments
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Curled Metal Incorporated has declining sales‚ but has developed a new product (curled metal pile driver pads) that‚ in field tests‚ deliver customer benefits that are many times CMI’s manufacturing costs. Joseph Fernandez and Rajiv Sanwal of CMI’s Engineered Products Division are responsible for formulating a strategy for the new product. A key issue is the price to charge for the pads. The case raises issues of analyzing market potential‚ aligning price with business strategy‚ and the implications
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INTRODUCTION Purpose of Report and Intended Audience The purpose of this report is to evaluate the everyday job requirements‚ prerequisites‚ and benefits of a sales manager and a finance manager. Also‚ the work environment and growth of the each industry will be analyzed. Background Currently attending Santa Fe Community College for the past year‚ will be earning his Associative Arts degree at the end of spring semester in 2008. After graduating from Santa Fe Community College he will be
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An account manager is a person in a business who is responsible for the management of the sales and relationship with particular customers. They are allocated particular customer accounts‚ especially the key accounts which provide the most business. The Account manager varies depending on the nature of the business. The account manager builds client relationship by acting as the interface between the customer service teams and sales teams within a company. By maintaining the company’s existing relationship
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Sales manager is an important position in a company. He does not only focus in sales alone‚ yet he needs to set sales objectives‚ forecasting‚ budgeting‚ organizing and salesforce’s recruitment. In order salesforce to achieve it objective‚ sales manager needs to create a positive environment for his salesforce. According to Barker (2001)‚ salesperson’s behavior is influenced by three groups of antecedents - activities of sales manager‚ characteristics of salesperson and an appropriate sales organization’s
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Promotion to Manager 1. Whom should Longman choose for area sales manager and why? Mr. Lester Longman should choose Steven Bellach. I think the key point of choosing Mr. Bellach or Ms. Bell for a senior area sales manager is which person is a proper sales manager who not only keeps the sales growth‚ but also has strong talent to motivate sales representatives. There is already an action by Mr. Longman that we cannot ignore; he already spent a lot of his time and expense choosing sales representatives
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CHAPTER 1: INCIDENT The Transferred Sales Representative Harold Burns served as district sales representative for an appliance firm. His district covered the central part of a Midwestern state‚ and it included about 100 retail outlets. He had been with the company for 20 years and in his present job and location for 5 years. During that time he met his district sales quota each year. One day Burns learned through local friends that the wife of a sales representative in another district was
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Question 1 (a) The 3 main roles that a sales manager should perform are listed as below: 1. Manage customer relationships 2. Serve as customer consultants 3. Manage the hybrid sales force Sales managers should firstly‚ continuously achieve a conversation with his or her customer‚ provide customized service and recommendations to them in order to increase customer retention. Secondly‚ sales managers should build ongoing relationships and profitable partnerships with his or her customers
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the tongue and the sweet sugar stuck to the teeth like glue. Groups of friends sipped on drinks and appetized themselves with divine‚ delish‚ luscious bites and the tempting‚ savory roadside paani puri and chaat. With the fuse of cuisines the bake sale was a continental platter. And BANG! with the major hit of the event. The jumping castle. Already I’m certain I can bump my way to merriment and amusement. Whilst the fragile bodies are vibrating vigorously‚ removing thin‚ brown-black hair from the
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OPERATİON MANAGEMENT BENCHMARKİNG TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTİON 2. WHAT IS BENCHMARKING? 3. TYPES OF BENCHMARKING AND LİMİTATİONS 4. COSTS İN BENCHMARKİNG 5. CRITICISMS OF BENCHMARKING 6. ETHICAL PRACTICES CONCERNING BENCHMARKING 7. XEROX CORPORATION 8. CONCLUSION 9. REFERENCES 1. INTRODUCTION It is often stated that those who benchmark do not have to reinvent the wheel. By following others one can make improvements and not focus on stale ideas
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