LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF BUSINESS & LAW Business Strategy Questions Section 1 To what extent has Ryanair’s strategic growth been internally or externally driven? Section 2 Referring to the Ryanair case‚ critically discuss the extent to which low cost competitive strategies are sustainable. SWOT Analysis: Firm’s strategy should take external opportunities and threats and internal strengths and weaknesses into account. This is done by SWOT Analysis. The SWOT-Analysis
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Centre Number Surname Other Names Candidate Signature Candidate Number For Examiner’s Use Examiner’s Initials Question Mark General Certificate of Education Advanced Subsidiary Examination June 2012 1 2 TOTAL Business Studies Unit 2 Managing a Business 9.00 am to 10.30 am Monday 21 May 2012 BUSS2 For this paper you must have: a calculator. Time allowed 1 hour 30 minutes Instructions Use black ink or black ball-point pen. Fill in the boxes at the top of this page
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Jason Peters MGMT 1125 Case 2 Questions 1. Social Responsibility is such an important concept in today’s world. If you do not practice it or worse‚ do the opposite‚ you will most likely find your company failing. I believe that every time a tree is cut down‚ a new one should be planted. If industrials are not conscious of their effect on different habitats and ecosystems‚ Earth will surely fail. Starbucks launched the Shared Planet website with three main goals: to achieve ethical sourcing‚ environmental
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production. Case Study 2-1 Ethics Case: Brixton Surgical Devices No‚ Ed and Robin’s decision on boosting inventory and persuading their customers with discounts in the fourth quarter is unethical. Their acts to scheme and manipulate production will have an impact on the investors. The shareholder value is based on the “business value‚” which is estimated based upon the present value of the forecasted cash flows. Ed and Robin are giving them a false perception of their business value. The idea
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Management of human resource has always been a critical task and must be looked after at all times. At Eezee Business Machines (EBM)‚ the marketing manager is concerned about the deterioration of employee engagement in the marketing department. Business problem: “Has employee engagement been affected in the marketing department at EBM leading to a communication problem?” Plan to collect data: The author shall gather information through primary data and secondary data from the human resource and
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forms of employee fraud that we have been seeing for quite some time involves access to internet banking. Businesses often have two signatories for company cheques but allow full single user access to their internet banking. The result is an accident waiting to happen. An internet banking fraud of $20 million was reported today in the Sydney Morning Herald involved the payroll manager of listed white goods retailer‚ Clive Peeters. Full story : http://business.smh.com.au/business/employee-admits-stealing-20m-20090811-eh02
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Business Research Appie Case January 13‚ 2011 Appie is a retail chain that owns four supermarkets in Tilburg. These include two conventional supermarkets (the Appie stores)‚ a convenience supermarket (Appie-To-Go) and a hypermarket (Appie-XL). Recently‚ the manager responsible for the Tilburg Appie supermarkets hired a market research agency to learn more about his customers. This agency held in total 110 surveys with Appie customers in Tilburg. These interviews were held outside the Appie
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Understand different types of business information Shivani Bachoe and Janay Adriaan Iems1c 18 november 2012 Introduction. we have to look for a hospitality business we choose MacDonald’s‚ because it’s one of the largest hospitality business over the world. And we want to know how they to it there table of contents: 1. Investigate a hospitality event business 2. Present the obtained information 3. Analyze different types of business information 4. Evaluate
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SMAC your Business - See how it is going to play a major role? Why will you SMAC your Business Model in this new digital age? To effectively make use of emerging technologies to develop innovative solutions To lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) To leverage the IT infrastructure in a more efficient manner To increase operational efficiency‚ reduce costs To improve decision making capabilities To deliver products/services in a more systematic way anywhere anytime To exponentially increase productivity
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Is competition good for business? Why not? But competition without cooperation is bad for the nation and what’s bad for the nation is bad for the business.( Umi‚ 2002) “Have you ever thought that marketing your small business would be easier without competitors? The truth is that most of us have thought that way.”( Belonwu‚ 2013). Competition is an art and the entrepreneur is an artisan. It can create beautiful things. It depends on your concentration and skill. Having competition is healthy and
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