NIKE Part 1: Organizational Analysis 2/6/2013 NIKE Part 1: Organizational Analysis Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Overview and History 4 Organizational Strategies and Innovation 5 Organizational Design and Effectiveness 6 Competitors 7 Organizational Structure 7 Board of Directors: 8 External Environment 9 Opportunities 9 Threats 9 Internal Environment 10 Strengths 10 Weaknesses 11 Competitors 11 Nike Products and Services 12 Information Technology
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NIKE HISTORY Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight founded Nike Inc. as Blue Ribbon Sports in 1962 with a handshake. The two man team began the company with a combined investment of $500 each. They reached an agreement with a Japanese manufacturer of athletic shoes‚ forming BRS/Tiger shoes. Phil Knight started this company selling shoes from the trunk of his car. As the empire grew‚ the two man team developed the idea to cut overheard. In 1972‚ BRS and Onitsuka Tiger went different ways and thus Nike
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2010 FIFA World Cup Mega Project Analysis By: Liezl Troskie (32136) Project Management Lecturer: Mr Msizi Cele Index 1. Introduction 2 2. The Organisation 3 3. Major Stakeholders of the FIFA World Cup 2010 4 4. The Project Structure
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Outline Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to help fight homelessness Central Idea: With more help for the homeless we can better America Attention I. Imagine for a moment that your not in this classroom. A. Instead your outside‚ but you not walking to class or your dorm‚ your living there. B. Imagine for a moment that you yourself are homeless. 1. You have no shelter 2. When it rains your wet 3. When its cold your freezing 4. You have no money
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most important competitions for the sports. It is the FIFA world cup. It will be the 20th official FIFA world cup and it will happen between June 12 and July 13 of 2014. The winter will not stop everybody to have a good time because the temperatures during winter time in Brazil usually do not go below 45 degrees. Brazil will be host the competition for the second time. The first time was in 1950 right after the World War 2. The two world cup before this one got canceled because of the war. In 1950
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something different to make the game a lot more entertaining. This eventually came in the shape of the first World Cup in 1975. Before that‚ it was in the year 1900 that cricket was played in the Paris Olympics in which Great Britain beat France by 158 runs in a two-inning match. That was closest to the concept of a mega event that the game of cricket experienced. Therefore‚ a cricket World Cup was something to look forward to‚ a competition in which eight teams bunched into two groups participated
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The Homeless Homelessness infects many people in our world every day. People can become homeless from different reasons‚ but in the market today the reason is usually foreclosure. There are many ways that we can prevent people being homeless. By learning how people live when their homeless‚ we can see fit that they get help. There are more homeless people today than there ever has been because of our current economic situation. Being homeless can lead to many health problems because of their lack
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Introduction …..……………………………………………………….. Page 3 Nike history ….………………………………………………………... Page 3-4 Marketing ….…………………………………………………………. Page 4-6 Nike factories ………………………………………………………….. Page 6 Nike financial results ………………………………………………….. Page 7 SWOT analysis …………………………………………………………. Page 8 Conclusion ……………………………………………………………… Page 9 Bibliography…………………………………………………………….. Page 10 Nike – Just do it Today Nike is a multinational corporation and also the leading
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NIKE Executive Summary Nike Inc. founded in 1962 by Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight was first named Blue Ribbon sports. Their goal was to distribute high quality Japanese athletic shoes to American consumers in an attempt to compete with Germany’s domination of the athletic wear at that time (Adidas and Puma). Nike manufactures and distributes athletic shoes at every marketable price point to the global market. More than 40% of sales come from athletic apparel and sports equipment
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company if bad publicity ruins your whole image? Do you give up or do you fight with everything you have in order to change the bad publicity? If that is the case‚ then how do you turn the negative publicity into positive? “Innovate for a better world” is Nike’s CSR slogan which is about reaching their potential. Their biggest challenges are also their biggest opportunities and seeing these challenges as something positive instead of something negative – opportunities‚ is innovation with the purpose
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