1. Meet the some sub – county Agriculture Sector Heads. 2. Discuss the Agriculture sub – county staff status. 3. Discuss the Agriculture sub – county stakeholder inventory. 4. Discuss and collect data on the current and potential value chains in the sub counties. 5. Distribute invitation letters for sensitization of the entire sub sector heads. Budget implication. |Officer |Lunch allowance
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Machael Porter’s Value Chain SUPPORT ACTIVITIES Support activities assist the primary activities in helping the organisation achieve its competitive advantage. They include: Procurement: This department must source raw materials for the business and obtain the best price for doing so. The challenge for procurement is to obtain the best possible quality available (on the market) for their budget. Technology development: The use of technology to obtain a competitive advantage is very important
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Marriott Corporation Jacob Piquette Jingjin Cen Chen Huo Wenkao Wu Accurately Measuring Debt Capacity For Marriott Corporation While management was correct in some aspects of measuring debt capacity for Marriott Corporation‚ the method used to obtain the ratio of 6.64 did not include the debt from the previous repurchase‚ grossly overstating the ratio and leading to believe that Marriott Corporation had a large unsused portion of debt capacity. This is shown in Exhibit 5. After thorough analysis
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Value Chain Analysis Inbound Logistic 1. Farm : Coffee Bean begins at the farm on coffee trees. After trees are planted‚ it takes between one and three years for the trees to bear coffee "cherries". Than the farmer will harvest the coffee trees to get cherries. After that‚ they will use coffee mills to process the product from cherry to bean. 2. Exporter : The coffee export process varied greatly depending on origin country and buyer. In some countries‚ beans were exported through government
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Strategic Value Chain Analysis Wednesday‚ December 04‚ 2013 8:48 AM "Competitive Advantage" 1986 Companies are not groups of people‚ they are sets of activities. There are 2 sets of activities: Cost and willingness to pay (WTP) PRIMARY: In-bound / raw material ==> Process ==> Marketing ==> Service SECONDARY: Accounting‚ Exec Management‚ CIA Cost of distribution drivers (for cinnamon buns): # of stops (greater # raises cost) # of packages they drop per stop (greater # lowers
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negative beta implies that security A would stabilize the returns on a portfolio since the returns on A are negatively correlated to the market. The riskiness of a portfolio is determined by its beta value. Security A has a negative beta (-0.5)‚ which makes it less risky when compared with positive beta value for security B (0.5). In addition‚ if we consider a standalone risk‚ standard deviation plays an important role. It is used as an indicator of risk‚ security A has 30% standard deviation which
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The direct sale to consumers is creating conflicts with its own resellers Currently available supply chain‚ manufacturing‚ and fulfillment technologies aren’t easily integrated with online build-to-order Not known for its research and development leading to innovative designs«systems The e-commerce is limited to USA‚ however‚ has planned to expand to Canada and international in the near future Online customer service not "helpful" or easy to find OPPORTUNITIES Increasing
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Marriott Corporation: The Cost of Capital T c=income taxes of 1987 / income before income taxes of 1987 = 175.9/398.9 = 44% Step 1:From the Exhibit 3 ß equity for each firm in this industry are below Marriot Corporation 1.11; Hilton Hotels Corporation .76 ; Holiday Corporation 1.35 La Quinta Motor Inns .89; Ramada Inns‚ Inc 1.36. Step 2: For each firm in the industry‚ to estimate bunlevered using the bequity estimate: bequity = [1 + (1-TC)Debt/Equity]bunlevered bunlevered of Marriot= 1.11/[1+(1-
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MARRIOTT INTERNATIONAL‚ INC. { PEST ANALYSIS } External Environment Analysis Every organization has analyzed its strength and weakness. Nevertheless‚ the external environment is also the important factor that affects the future of the organization. In the environment that we are living nowadays has changed all the time. Therefore‚ it has to analyze on the external factors. PEST Analysis is the tool and method to handle the marketing‚ which is one of the well-known methods to analyze the external
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Marriott Corporation: The Cost of Capital April 2012 Executive Summary Determining the appropriate cost of capital for new investment projects for a diversified company like the Marriott Corporation is not an easy endeavor. However‚ it is an important exercise because the more effective the process‚ the better it can help to support the company’s growth objective with its financial strategy. The four components of the financial strategy are: manage rather than own hotel
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