The internal environment: * Strategic competitiveness and above – Average returns result when Internal organization (What a firm can do : function of resources‚ capabilities‚ and core competencies) matches External environment ( What a firm might do : function of opportunities in the firm’s external environment → Competitive Advantage * Competitive advantage key points: * No competitive advantage lasts forever. * Over time‚ rival use their own unique resources‚ capabilities‚ and
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Enterprise Architecture Article – 10 By: George Brundage February 12‚ 2011 This article includes my thoughts about the business architecture‚ Cloud Computing‚ Business Process Management (BPM)‚ and Business Rules. This article consists of a conversation between the CIO and Enterprise Architect. It is a product of my imagination. ____________________ CIO: I don’t want you to use the word “consolidation.” Instead‚ use the word “integration.” I am worried that someone will think that we are
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Abercrombie and Fitch: International expansion external and internal analysis Name Here Business Mgmt Name Here Date Here Executive Summary This case study was identified to examine why international sales volume of Abercrombie and Fitch have increased over the past three years and to recommend further international expansion to increase sales volume. The research draws attention to the fact that in 2009‚ the US stores generated 81.2% of Abercrombie and Fitch’s net
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2012 Costs of Rent Control Over the past decades‚ the consequences of government intervention in housing markets have been widely discussed. Many governments have implemented rent control for a long period of time‚ because it ensures shelters of many low income and median income families efficiently in a short time. It seems that rent control might be the wave of the future. However‚ although many cities are still controlling their house rents for a short term benefit‚ harms of rent control are
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External and internal shocks serious setbacks to economic growth July 2012 IMPERATIVES FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Economic growth is likely to fall to below 2 per cent this year as external and internal shocks are serious setbacks to the country’s economic growth. The Central Bank has not revised its economic growth forecast for the year‚ but current conditions suggest that economic growth would slip from 1.7 to 1.3 per cent that it estimated earlier this year to even below 1.5 per cent‚ if global
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VacationSpot.com and Rent-a-Holiday were both on-line travel companies that focused on the independent leisure lodging segment of the travel market. VacationSpot.com company comes from Seattle‚ Washington while Rent-a-holiday comes from other side of western world Brussels‚ Belgium. Both companies started at around same time and in April 1999 they entered formal merge negotiations. In march of 1998 the CEO and president of VacationSpot.com Murch was contacted by the CEO of Rent-a-holiday Coppieters
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Introduction The external environment can be defined as forces and factors outside the organization affecting the overall company’s performance directly or indirectly. It can be divided into two components including specific environment and general environment. Specific environment refers to the unique factors of each company that directly relevant to the achievement of goals and affect managers’ actions and decisions directly including suppliers‚ customers‚ pressure groups and competitors. General
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Introduction SBS Transit is one of the leading bus operators in this part of the world and started rail operations in 2003. It was formed in 1973 through the merger of three private bus companies and listed on the then Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES) in 1978 as Singapore Bus Service (1978) limited. In November 1997‚ Singapore Bus Service (1978) Limited was renamed DelGro Corporation Limited (Now ComfortDelGro Corporation Limited) and the subsidiary Singapore Bus Services Limited‚ was separately
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about rent seeking and what exactly it is. The idea of rent seeking was discovered by Gordon Tullock in 1967 and in 1974 the expression “rent” was invented by Anne Krueger. Rent seeking is when an entity tries to get some type of income by making full use of a certain resource‚ of some sort‚ without giving anything back to society or the resource they got the income from. When speaking in these terms‚ the word “rent” does not have its usual meaning of paying rent to a landlord. The word‚ rent‚ was
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which affect a child and young person’s development. The first is personal factors this can be linked to genetics‚ health and learning difficulties all of which influence the development of a child. Then there is personality which is linked to the environment which is influenced later on in the development. Genetics Genetic information about a child is important to know and understand if they have any condition which they were born with‚ has been passed down through the genes or does the child have
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