LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS MIS 211- MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS I FINAL PROJECT Objective In the Information Age that we have reached‚ many companies have made “their business their technology and their technology their business”. There is an element of technology in every business and regardless of what career you choose‚ you will be dealing with people‚ information‚ and information technology. To apply the information you have received in this course‚ you are to
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SHOPRITE PTY LTD Background The Shoprite Group of Companies started from small beginnings in 1979 with the purchase of a chain of 8 Cape-based supermarkets for R1 million. In 1983 the Group opened its first branch outside the Western Cape – in Hartswater in the Northern Cape and expanding in other provinces too. Shoprite was listed on the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa with a market capitalisation of R29 million It then owned 33 outlets. Two years later Shoprite ventured over
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Value Chain Analysis (Starbucks) Primary Activities: • Inbound Logistic: Starbucks had its agents travelled regularly to coffee – growing countries to establish relationship with growers and distributors. In sourcing green coffee beans‚ it was increasingly dealing directly with farmer. It normally offered high prices to ensure that the poor small coffee growers have enough money to cover their production cost and for their families. To buy coffee beans‚ Starbucks used fixed price purchase
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strategy is working? Why is it working or not working? Improvements in IKEA’s strategy - Performance evaluation of IKEA’s strategy 200?-2009 - Finding - Recommendation - Should try to include the following items in Scope: • Value Chain model • 5 M’s • Porters 5 Forces - Eight Performance Measure • Firm Survival‚ Accounting measures‚ • Multiple stakeholder approach • Balanced score card • Corporate social responsibility‚
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report should follow the following template: 1. Brief statement of current position/outlook of Bonny Doon (about 1 paragraph) 2. Firm Analysis (This part should include: - business model‚ business-level strategy and position‚ - value chain model analysis - analysis of the firm’s resources‚ capabilities and competitive advantage‚ - organizational analysis (management‚ ownership) - profitability analysis (please make sure to include relevant numbers). 3. Industry analysis
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Case study: MTN Introduction: The resource-based view of strategy According to Segal-Horn (2004 p 163) the Resource-Based View (RBV): “ ... places the firm rather than the industry at the centre of strategy formulation ... It has an internal resource focus rather than an external industry or market focus for strategic thinking.“ Why RBV? Rumelt’s research (Unit 3 Section 2 pp 8-9)‚ although contested‚ showed that the industry environment accounted for a very small percentage of the
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387 From supply chains to value chains: A spotlight on CSR Malika Bhandarkar and Tarcisio Alvarez-Rivero* 1. Introduction Corporate social responsibility (CSR)1 has become a hot topic in boardrooms across the world. Changes in corporate value systems are being driven by pressures from different actors‚ including governments‚ consumers‚ non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and institutional investors (diagram 1). Multinational corporations (MNCs) have operations spread across the globe‚ relying
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subject company. PART II Internal Analysis This section entails an internal analysis which is more specifically concerned with the company relative to its competitive environment. Here‚ models such as the Competency Framework‚ VRIN Framework and Value Chain Model can be used to analyse resources and competencies that currently exist for the company (and those which might further need to be addressed) in the pursuit of sustainable competitive advantage. The final part of this section calls for a comparative
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better strategic understanding of product markets than the concepts of ‘product’ or ‘commodity’ chains. Abstract This paper will investigate the relevance of three tools for analysing and prescribing remedies for improving company performance; Porter’s Value Chain‚ Gereffi and Korzeniewicz’s Global Commodities Chain framework and finally the Sector Matrix approach as described by Froud‚ et. al. Values and limitations of these approaches will be recognised and discussed via specific references
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Case : Intel BYOD Assignment Questions 1. Does BYOD increase productivity in workplaces? 2. Should it be encouraged or discouraged? 3. How might other firms benefit from Intel’s approach to security (as shown in case Exhibit 2)? 4. How can Intel turn BYOD into a new source of competitive advantage? 5. What decisions can Intel make to ensure security of the corporate data on an employee-owned device that is used in the workplace? 6. How should Intel manage BYOD in the face of its e-Discovery obligations
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