Business Strategy & Competitive Advantage BU 481 – Session 5 & 6 1 Today’s Class: Creating Strategy • What is Strategy? – Chapters 2 and “What is Strategy” Reading – Chapter 3 (Big picture of Diamond-E and Strategic Analysis) • Elements of Strategy – Goals‚ Core Activities‚ Product Market Focus‚ Value Proposition • Generic Strategies – “Generic Strategies” Reading • Case: WestJet in 2009 – How Strategy Creates a Competitive Advantage Course Roadmap Strategy Formulation Setting Direction
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Q. There is no longer distinction between the roles of solicitor and barrister. The two professions should be emerged. Discuss Solicitor and barrister are known to be the two most prestigious branches of law with rich history and independency. These two separate professions have worked side by side in providing justice to the public. The Barristers‚ referred to bar as skilled advocates where as the solicitors are referred as the legal advisers who offer legal service to clients. Their reputation
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CASE 1 1. What skills does Black think employees need to work successfully in the area of HR? According to the text; the ideal characteristics of employees in the area of HR that they should be commercial‚ challenging‚ and focused on delivery and excellence (Bohlander). They must understand change and transformation‚ excel at operations and balance tactical and strategic thinking and acting. They should be able to manage and navigate organization complexity and ambiguities and not to
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Macbeth’s downfall is essentially caused by his vaulting ambitions and fatal flaw in his personality‚ while other external factors also contribute to his self-destruction. The witches‚ Lady Macbeth and fate all contribute to Macbeth’s downfall by fuelling his climbing ambition. This is conveyed through both Shakespeare’s text and Polanksi’s film. Macbeth’s vaulting ambition and tragic flaw are the principal factors‚ which lead to his downfall by gradually destroying his conscience and reputation
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Linear Programming is a mathematical technique useful for allocation of scarce or limited resources to several competing activities on the basis of given criterion of optimality.The usefulness of linear programming as a tool for optimal decision-making on resource allocation‚ is based on its applicability to many diversified decision problems. The effective use and application requires‚ as on its applicability to many diversified decision problems. The effective use and application requires‚ as a
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P 3–4: Just One‚ Inc. Just One‚ Inc.‚ has two mutually exclusive investment projects‚ P and Q‚ shown below. Suppose the market interest rate is 10 percent. The ranking of projects differs‚ depending on the use of IRR or NPV measures. Which project should be selected? Why is the IRR ranking misleading? Using the IRR method will result in project Q being selected over P due to its higher rate of return. Using the NPV method would result in choosing project P because of its higher NPV.
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Based on James Q Wilson-"Just take away their guns" College Reading and writing Gun control is an extremely debated issue in today’s society. The majority supports high gun control laws‚ but they will never work. From the precedent‚ gun control laws have actually given rise to homicide and increased the crime rate. Most criminals do not get their firearms from gun stores or pawnshops. They either borrow them‚ or steal them. Only about one-sixth legally bought firearms are being used for criminal
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"To His Coy Mistress" is primarily the author‚ Andrew Marvell‚ trying to convince and seduce "his coy mistress"‚ into having intimate relations with him. The poem has three stanzas; each with a different purpose: the first stanza gently and subtly flatters his mistress‚ using positive diction and images to show‚ how Marvell wishes he could love her for all of eternity; the second stanza‚ however‚ uses imagery to show how time is moving fast and also‚ strongly negative diction and images to show how
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The character’s goal in the story was to have a child because in their tribe they need to have a child . the main problem was lumnay and awiyao can’t have a child so awiyao needs to marry another woman ‚ madulimay. If I were confronted with the same problem ‚ I would get really hurt if my husband were to marry another woman because we cannot have a chld and it will hurt because I know that he loves me but yet he needs to find another for he’s own good and for his responsibilities. The type of conflict
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Q: The rise of nationalism was the most important factor leading to World War I. How far do you agree with this statement? Explain your answer. I agree that the rise of nationalism was the most important factor leading to World War I as it increased tensions among Serbia and Austria-Hungary resulting in the direct cause of World War I. The Balkan crisis’s in 1908 and 1912-13 involving the annexing of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary. Serbia wanted to expand into the Adriatic Sea as a
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