TOPIC: STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP AND DECISION-MAKING: ETHICS AND VALUES APRIL‚ 2010 INTRODUCTION Values and ethics are central to any organization. What exactly do we mean by values and ethics? Both are extremely broad terms‚ and we need to focus in on the aspects most relevant for strategic leaders and decision makers. What we will first discuss is the distinctive nature of ethics; second‚ we will take a look at work ethics; third we will look into strategic leadership and decision making; fourth
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European Tour Operators have managed to achieve a strong position in the tourism industry. The two biggest ones‚ TUI Travel and Thomas Cook‚ have a large market share. However‚ in the latter part of the decade‚ between 2007 and 2010 the industry has experienced a downturn because of the turbulent environment which was created new threats and modified the competitive forces. Political: Taxation Policies on travel methods by different countries has a large impact on the tourism industry‚ governments
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competitive marketplace‚ organizations need a strategy to help them stay focused. In setting the course for the company‚ management needs to identify where they are now and where they want to go (Kerin‚ 2004). Once these questions are answered‚ Kerin suggests that secondary questions emerge on resource allocation‚ converting the plan into action‚ and revising the plans‚ if necessary‚ the basis of the Strategic Marketing Process. The Planning Phase Strategic marketing planning examines three areas:
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1.0 Definition: International Strategic Management is a planning process of developing international strategy in the direction of achieving strategic-fit between the organisation’s competence & resources and the global environment under which it tends to operate. It is an ongoing process that adhere an organization to compete in an international scenario. International Strategic Management (ISM) is an ongoing management planning process aimed at developing strategies to allow an organization to
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Strategic decision success is heavily reliant on the attitudes that managers take toward the decision-making process and toward the decision itself. The Cuban missile crisis is the most well known case of strategic decision making at the level of the nation-state. The nature of the case was such that the use of evaluative frameworks and concepts along with the right managerial attitudes eventuated in a successful strategic outcome. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the United States
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2.4.2 What is different in Strategic Alliances? To see the importance of an alliance‚ there will be a short comparison of strategic alliances and traditional relationships. Seven distinctions may emerge: Alliances explore the wellsprings of costs and afterwards minimise them. Traditional relationships push costs to others. This is the result of traditional win-lose negotiating the zero-sum game. Alliances concentrate on a definitive client‚ and partners give value that clients pay for. Traditional
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1.0 INTRODUCTION Game theory is a study of strategic decision-making. More formally‚ it is "the study of mathematical models of conflict and cooperation between intelligent rational decision-makers". An alternative term given to the theory is interactive decision theory. Game theory is mainly used in economics‚ political science‚ and psychology‚ as well as logic and biology. In game theory‚ the Nash equilibrium is a solution concept of a non-cooperative game involving two or more players‚ in which
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----------------------------------------------2 Part A: Woolworths Ltd Strategic Analysis---------------------------------------------------------------2 SWOT analysis for Woolworths Ltd------------------------------------------------------------------------3 Key Capability Analysis---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------4 Major stakeholder analysis for Woolworths Ltd---------------------------------------------------------5 Assessment
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Framework for Tour Operator Manual As we have seen during our classes‚ Tour Operators are one of the links in the holiday retail distribution chain. It is part of your task to put together and organize a package holiday to be sold through retail travel agents. The role of T.O.’s is to act as intermediaries in the retail distribution chain. They provide‚ for example‚ the link between the hotels‚ airlines‚ travel services such as transport companies‚ attractions‚ museums‚ car rental companies
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THE PORTFOLIO ASSIGNMENT PART A: The European Tour Operators Case Introduction The first part of the Portfolio Assignment will include an analysis of the external environment of two large travel companies‚ Thomas Cook and TUI. The three models that will be included and discussed in the first part of the assignment are PESTEL‚ Porter’s Five Forces and Industry Life Cycle. These three models should be done for both of the companies. For this assignment I should also briefly discuss the overall attractiveness
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