has been using the Qualitative method rather than Quantitative method. 2. What is the importance of accurate forecasting for YFHC? Justify with case specific information and avoid general comments. (5 marks) (max.150 words) 3. What should be an appropriate forecasting horizon (duration)? Justify with one specific example connected to the case. (5 marks) (max. 150 words) 4. Please draw the graph of 4 years demand data and write down your observations (5 marks) (max.100 words for observations)
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Is Isom’s business vision responsive to the situation? In general‚ most of the companies in property and casualty insurance business would want to be high performing specialists rather than generalists. Yes‚ in this case however his vision was responsive to the situation. He had a good view of the situation and knew that radical shift in the divisions strategy is required to turn around the future. P&C was a low performing generalist insurance division • Years of
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Ducati & TPG – A “Wild Ride” LBO Case Study December‚ 2010 Q1. The nature of the opportunity and the question of brand expansion 1.1 The situation of the target firm Positives: (1) The Ducati brand was world famous;(2) The product was great in terms of technology and quality and it had won the 1990‚ 1991‚ 1992‚ 1994‚ and 1995 World Superbike championships against strong competition;(3) Ducati’s product family was broad offering 15 models in four families based on seven different engines;(4)
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21/12/2011 Marketing Strategy analysis of LVMH with a special focus on LV Industry overview: Louis Vuitton Malletier is commonly referred to as Louis Vuitton‚ sometimes shortened to LV‚ is French luxury fashion and leather goods’ company. The company was founded in 1854‚ and now is the cornerstone of LVMH and its main division carrying almost a quarter of the total group. LVMH is the world leader in the luxury industry. It was established in 1987 through the union of three brands: Louis
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Background of the company Louis Vuitton is the first designer and creator of this brand.He use a creative ideal that combining the quality of making with innvotion design to fulfill the need of customer and the changging modes of world travel. In1854‚ the name of Louis Vuitton Malletier ("Louis Vuitton Trunk-Maker")‚ is the first store in Paris that Louis Vuitton opens. He also begins a design that first flat-topped trunk that was lightweight and airtight by using the "Trianon" trunk.In 1860
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MapReduce is a widely used parallel computing framework for large scale data processing. The two major performance metrics in MapReduce are job execution time and cluster throughput. They can be seriously impacted by straggler machines— machines on which tasks take an unusually long time to finish. Speculative execution is a common approach for dealing with the straggler problem by simply backing up those slow running tasks on alternative machines. Multiple speculative execution strategies have been
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Airbnb offers free rentals to the victims of hurricane Matthew The government ordered millions of residents in the southeastern U.S to vacate their places due to the dangerous hurricane have approached the city. The home sharing platform‚ Airbnb has decided to help the people whose houses were affected by the dangerous storm. Hurricane Matthew moved to Florida’ east cost before affecting the regions of Georgia and South California. Though the storm has weekend‚ the impacts it created takes days to
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Q1) Comment on the forecasting method being used by Yankee? Suggest changes that you feel are justified? Ans1) Yankee presently is using the qualitative method for forecasting future demand. Qualitative method as we know is subject to experts’ intuition‚ experience‚ and opinions. So each person according to his/her past experience‚ forecasts the demand for the future. For example‚ Phil Stanton who is in the operations makes his decision of producing in the future on the basis of demand forecast
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rough economic times. They are constantly improving quality of the product to please the customer. 2. What are the opportunities and challenges for Louis Vuitton in Japan? There are times when spending is low due to the economy‚ but Japan’s market shows peak times of spending as well. The challenges LV market in Japan is the number of competitors like Coach and Gucci. Other companies such as H@M offer low prices for more money conscious consumers. 3. What are the specifics of the
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6.0 Recommendations Acid Test Ratio The acid test ratio shows that Muhibbah have less liquidity which indicates that they holding low amount of cash but high level of inventories .They may have difficulty paying its current liabilities on time. Business is relying on turnover of stock to meet obligations. Here‚ we recommend that Muhibbah should consider level of their accounts payable or paying off their liabilities and ensure the cash flow of the business is optimal meaning that the company must
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