"Brand positioning is an attempt to create and maintain a unique representation of the brand in customer’s mind‚ a representation that is expected to stimulate choice of that brand" (Rossiter‚ 2005‚ p.42). Positioning‚ in fact‚ refers to how customers think about different brands in a market. Through brand positioning a company attempts to build a sustainable competitive advantage on product attributes in the consumer’s mind. Nevertheless‚ developing a successful positioning strategy is not easy
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Shouldice Hospital Limited A Brief History: Dr. Edward Earle Shouldice graduated from the University of Toronto in 1916. By 1940‚ Dr. Shouldice was operating a private medical and surgical practice‚ lecturing at the University of Toronto‚ and pursuing research work in areas of advancing medical knowledge. During World War II‚ he was called to serve on the Medical Examining Board. Dr. Shouldice‚ a major in the army‚ found that many young men willing to serve their country had to be denied enlistment
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Yesterday‚ I followed my father to visit my uncle who was hospitalised at a private hospital. We left home at about 5.00 p.m. and reached the hospital at 6.15 p.m. The private hospital was a new hospital. It was opened two months ago. My uncle suffered from chronic diabetes. Two days ago he came to the hospital for his regular check-up but the doctor had to admit him because his sugar level was very high. The doctor had to monitor him all the time. He would be allowed to go home once his sugar level
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Hospital is a place where we find only the sick and the disabled. The smells of medicines‚ the sight of the doctors and nurses running here and there‚ and wheelchairs rolling from one end of the hospital to another is all that we see in a hospital. The aura is ever so depressing and disheartening. Some people even get nausea or faint with the effect of the pungent smells hanging in the very air of the hospital premises. Once when my grandfather was very seriously ill‚ and was hospitalised I
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relationship between the spiritual aspect of the patient and healing. All too often‚ the patient as a whole does not get treated. Hospitals get ran as a business instead of a place of respite and healing. You may ask what can be done about this‚ and there is in fact a movement that is occurring in health care that addresses this very issue. Let’s take a look at how some hospitals are changing their culture to address this issue. As stated in the earlier paragraph‚ medicine has become so advanced
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CASE 4 Giordano: Positioning for International Expansion Company Background Giordano was founded in Hong Kong by Jimmy Lai in 1980. In 1981‚ it opened its first retail store in Hong Kong and began to expand its market by distributing Giordano merchandise in Taiwan through a joint venture. In 1985‚ it opened its first retail outlet in Singapore. Responding to slow sales‚ in 1987 Giordano changed its positioning strategy. Until 1987‚ it had sold exclusively men’s casual apparel. When Lai and his
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The Case of the Unhealthy Hospital Anthony R. Kovner Harvard Business Review No. 91506 SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 1991 HBR Anthony R. Kovner The Case of the Unhealthy Hospital Bruce Reid‚ Blake Memorial Hospital’s new CEO‚ rubbed his eyes and looked again at the 1992 budget worksheet. The more he played with the figures‚ the more pessimistic he became. Blake Memorial’s financial health was not good; it suffered from rising costs‚ static revenue‚ and declining quality of care. When the
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What Makes a Top 100 Hospital Ronald Regan UCLA Medical Center – What Makes a Top 100 Hospital Castellanos‚ Juan Manuel DeVry University What Makes a Top 100 Hospital? Since 1993‚ the Truven Health 100 Top Hospitals program has used both independent and objective research to guide hospital and health system performance. In this process‚ they analyze public data sources to compare hospitals to similar organizations. The 100 Top Hospitals program uses a balanced scorecard that incorporates
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they grow up. Cooking is one of the most important skills a person can have and it has been proven that families who cook together eat better. A small change in your kitchen could save the like of someone you love.”(Jamie) Time and time again‚ we hear kids eat out too much‚ lack the proper in take of the correct vegetables‚ fruits and meats. Parents are not on same page to learn how to make healthy choices. Do you like feeding your children processed‚ starchy meals‚ and junk food? Do we not know how
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Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Introduction At a conference in 2012‚ Health Affairs Editor-in Chief Susan Dentzer affirmed‚ “It is well established now that one can in fact improve the quality of health care and reduce the costs at the same time” (Rickert‚ 2012). This is the principal concept of “patient centered care”. Health-care providers practicing patient centered care enhance not only patients’ medical outcomes‚ but increase patient satisfaction rates and improve the quality of the
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