Understanding the Proof of Business Concept Copyright Alan Thompson 2002 Understanding the Proof of Business Concept Prepared By Alan Thompson Murdoch Business School 1 August 2003 Understanding the Proof of Business Concept Copyright Alan Thompson 2002 Contents 1.0 FEASIBILITY STUDIES VERSUS BUSINESS PLANS ...................................1 1.1 Feasibility Studies ........................................................................................ 1 1.2 Business Plans ..............
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In a move that almost destroyed the company Netflix suffered a blow when in September of 2011 they tried to divide their business into two divisions. They created one division for DVD’s‚ Qwikster‚ and another for streaming videos. Along with this split in the company there would also be an increase in monthly fees. Once the plan was announced Netflix lost over 805‚000 subscribers and the stock dropped by more than 50%. Hastings‚ the founder and chief executive officer of Netflix‚ believed that
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Communications Service Providers (CSPs) have unique assets at their disposal. Aepona’s software platform bridges the enterprise with the network‚ enabling Service Providers to offer communications‚ context‚ commerce and control features that enrich business applications using cloud-based APIs. These Service Provider capabilities will play a key role in addressing the need to : increase productivity reduce costs improve customer service increase sales This allows Service Providers to monetize
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Dell created PCs Limited while a student at the University of Texas at Austin. The dorm-room headquartered company sold IBM PC-compatible computers built from stock components. Dell dropped out of school in order to focus full-time on his fledgling business‚ after getting about $300‚000 in expansion-capital from his family. In 1985‚ the company produced the first computer of its own design‚ the "Turbo PC"‚ which sold for $795. PCs Limited advertised its systems in national computer magazines for sale
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Most Multinational Companies are able to manage their businesses very well at home‚ but often struggle in other countries. While their business processes are well run in their home country‚ they find that the same processes perform unsatisfactorily or at least sub-optimally in their overseas entities. This is mostly a result of replicating the business models‚ organisational structure‚ processes and practices in different countries without full appreciation of the fact that businesses have to
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Bricks and clicks Bricks-and-clicks is a business model by which a company integrates both offline (bricks) and online (clicks) presences. It is also known as click-and-mortar or clicks-and-bricks‚ as well as bricks‚ clicks and flips‚ flips referring to catalogs. For example‚ an electronics store may allow the user to order online‚ but pick up their order immediately at a local store‚ which the user finds using locator software. Conversely‚ a furniture store may have displays at a local store from
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Porter’s five forces applied to Zipcar Threat of new entrants: Potential new entrants include existing car rental firms‚ companies that currently supply cars to car-sharing businesses (such as Volkswagen)‚ and new start-up car-sharing ventures. As Zipcar is operating in only Boston‚ there are opportunities for new entrants (with sufficient resources) to establish themselves as dominant car-sharing service providers in other cities. This threat to the profitability of Zipcar’s planned future expansion
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or assistant that you’ve never heard of‚ worked with or seen? Chances are the answer is a big NO. In today’s age of technology‚ we have the luxury of getting to know and deciding to trust the person or company behind each purchase. However‚ as business owners‚ this means that we MUST go that extra mile to consistently create our know‚ like and trust factor. To do this‚ it is important that we are consistently active on our social media platforms‚ website‚ and offline networking. For example
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revolutionizing the sector’s business model and successfully implementing its model through innovative practices that enabled it to sell national brands at "Every Day Low Prices". The challenge Wal-Mart faced was whether it could transport its successful model to win in a market with many differing characteristics which threatened its low-cost structure and which could nullify its competitive advantage. Concerned with the application of established domestic business models in international expansion
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University of New South Wales‚ 2015 www.hbr.org BEST OF HBR 1998 Too often‚ companies try to impose Western models of commerce on developing countries. They’d do better— and learn more—if they tailored their operations to the unique conditions of emerging markets. The End of Corporate Imperialism by C.K. Prahalad and Kenneth Lieberthal • Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 1 Article Summary The Idea in Brief—the core idea The Idea in Practice—putting the idea to work
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