to Michael Porter (2008)‚ the key reason for the existence of intense competition and rivalry in the health care industry works as a mechanism to increase value for patients. Competition or opposition has ensured provision of better products and services to satisfy the needs of customers. It is capable of increasing value for customers over time. Quality and process improvements‚ as a result of competition or opposition leads to decreased cost and increased customer satisfaction (Porter‚ M. 2008)
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Practicum Report One thing that has come increasingly obvious to me from taking this course is that the music industry is a rather rapidly changing industry although music will undoubtedly be around forever. Technologies are constantly changing‚ and the internal infrastructure of musical organizations change quite frequently and rarely have a consistent schedule. I had originally anticipated to work for Landlocked Records‚ and had hoped to help them out on one of my favorite days of the year‚ record
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Autotune Work." How Does Autotune Work. Web. 26 Oct. 2010. . I Am T-Pain. Web. 26 Oct. 2010. . Reid‚ Shaheem. "T-Pain Says It ’s Time ’For Everybody Else ’ To Stop Using Auto-Tune - Music‚ Celebrity‚ Artist News | MTV." New Music Videos‚ Reality TV Shows‚ Celebrity News‚ Top Stories | MTV. 19 Nov. 2008. Web. 26 Oct. 2010. . Reid‚ Shaheem. "T-Pain Says It ’s Time." New Music Videos‚ Reality TV Shows‚ Celebrity News‚ Top Stories | MTV. 19 Nov. 2008. Web. 26 Oct. 2010. . Soeder‚ John. "LexisNexis® Academic
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FIVE FORCE MODEL Introduction Michael Porter (1980) has identifies five forces that determine the intrinsic long run attractiveness of a market or a market segment in other words the competitive structure of an industry can be analysed using Porter’s five forces. Attractiveness in this context refers to the overall industry profitability. The overall industry attractiveness does not imply that every firm in the industry will return same profitability. Firms are
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FORCE | NOTES | LEVEL | THREAT OF NEW ENTRANTS | -Inexistence of legal entry barriers;-High initial investments in the industry;-Existence of economies of scale;-Inexistence of switching costs for costumers. | MEDIUM | THREAT OF SUBSTITUTES | -There are no switching costs for costumers;-High interest in exotic products; | HIGH | BARGAINING POWER OF SUPPLIERS | -European packaging industry is highly concentrated;-There are no substitutes for the packaging input. | HIGH | BARGAINING POWER OF
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Today if you look at the music industry most females are singers. Most band if there is a female in the group they are most of the time the singer or a guitarist. There aren’t many female drummers in the music industry‚ but the past few years there has been more female drummers and females getting into drumming. Of the people behind the scenes of the industry‚ women make up less than half of the worker. There are hardly any female A&R (Artists and Repertoire) workers. Females have been underrepresented
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1970s Music The 1970s created a perfect musical bridge from the rebelliousness of the 1960s and the happy songs of the 1980s. Following the counterculture of the 60s‚ the 70’s created a trend of relaxing music as well as dance music. People may have grown tired of the fighting that happened the previous decade and many of them sought a refuge in dance clubs and other places to enjoy a good time. Out of this idea came the Disco movement. Of course‚ there was still the bands and artists that continued
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The Music And Times Of A Generation Chief Bushnell The Sixties were an exciting and revolutionary period of time with great social and cultural change. Some called it the “Decade of Discontent‚” mainly because of race riots and protests throughout America (Smith 1999). Others‚ contrarily‚ called it the decade of “Peace‚ Love‚ and Harmony” because of the flower children and hippie movement. The sixties were about civil rights and peace marches‚ sexual freedom‚ drug experimentation‚ and a presidential
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Global forces and the European Brewing industry –Case 1 Table of Contents Introduction……………………………………………………………2 PESTEL……………………………………………………………….2 Porter’s Five Forces…………………………………………………..4 Strengths & weakness of Companies………………………………..5 Impact of Trends on the Companies………………………………..7 Bibliography……………………………………………………………8. Introduction This case shows how global forces have impact on European brewing industry and how these companies are trying to overcome the obstacles. In spite
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influence on the music industry has been present ever since he performed his first song showing the mix of explicit lyrics and outrageous productions in a single song‚ while paving the path for many artists of our time with his unique style allowing other artist to explore the road he paved. Prince’s biggest contribution to the music industry is how he changed the desires of his audience through‚ much of at the time‚ his very controversial style. People considered prince’s music as “experimental”
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