LANGUAGE FOCUS: THE VOCABULARY SHIFT A distinctive feature of academic writing style is choosing the more formal alternative when selecting a verb‚ noun‚ or other part of speech. Verbs English often has two (or more) choices to express an action or occurrence. The choice is often between a phrasal or prepositional verb (verb + preposition) and a single verb‚ the latter with Latinate origins. Often in lectures and other instances of everyday spoken English‚ the verb
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McDonald ’s owned $13 billion of fast-food industry‚ operating 12‚400 restaurants in 59 countries (Ezine). The company recorded revenues of $21‚586 million during the fiscal year ended December 2006 and increase of 8.8% over 2005 (Yahoo Finance‚ 2007). SWOT ANALYSIS: Strengths: The greatest strengths of McDonald was introducing people to the fast food and creating an image in people minds of fast food culture. McDonalds has over 30‚000 branches in 120 countries and 80% of its revenues is derives from
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Tawyna C Robinson Banks Explain some of the reasons that the clearance rate is so low? One reason for a low clearance rate could be due to the number of random crimes. Typically crimes with motives or close personal links are easier to solve and provide leads. However‚ a random act of violence leaves a much broader range of suspects. Research problem with solving burglaries? The biggest problem with solving crime is police doesn’t respond to break in unless somebody is hurt or dead. Due
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J.C. Penney’s CEO Ron Johnson embraced focused-differentiation as his primary competitive strategy. The focused-differentiation strategy is to offer products or services that are of unique or superior value compared to those of competitors and to target a narrow market. This strategy closely mimicks differentiation strategy as both are used in efforts to attract customers‚ but focused-differentiation is more focused on a certain group of potential customers. The CEO was targeting a different kind
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SWOT ANALYSIS: Strength: • Excellent quality service • Good networking • More consumer oriented marketing due to ALFALAH Bank • It brings new trends in mobile technology • Worldwide roaming • Choice is high and cheaper rates • Very easy to use • Proper connectivity • Defensive strategy • Online billing system • High franchises Weakness: • No attractive advertisement on media. • Very tough competition with other mobile companieslike‚ MOBILINK‚ U-FONE‚ TELENOR and ZONG • Need to
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Charlie Weed SWOT Analysis A SWOT Analysis is a “situational in which internal strengths and weaknesses of an organization‚ and external opportunities and threats faced by it are closely examined” to provide an adequate strategy (http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/SWOT-analysis.html). Panera Bread Company has become one of the leading companies in the quick casual restaurant market. Strengths The Strengths that Panera Bread Company has are the following: a strong presence in its niche
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Open source products and services. As the company states:” Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” The same is with almost any of Google products. Let it be Google maps‚ calendars‚ drive‚ OS or the advices how to rank better in a search index. Google’s products can also be used with any OS or mobile device without a charge. Google openness is the key why Google is the number one in many products and services. 1. Quality and customer
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SWOT KFC SWOT analysis 2013 | Strengths | Weaknesses | 1. Second best global brand in fast food industry in terms of value ($ 6 billion) 2. Original 11 herbs and spices recipe 3. Strong position in emerging China 4. Combination of KFC – Pizza Hut and KFC – Taco Bell 5. KFC is the market leader in the world among companies featuring chicken as their primary product offering | 1. Untrustworthy suppliers 2. Negative publicity 3. Unhealthy food menu 4. High employee turnover
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Assignment: Individual SWOT Analysis BUS/210 April 29‚ 2012 John Pollard Jr. Assignment: Individual SWOT Analysis Out of the seven business plan topics I have chosen to create a SWOT analysis for a fitness and sports business. All over the United States there are many fitness and sports centers that many people attend on a daily basis. Such as gyms like Curves‚ Planet Fitness‚ Gould’s Gym and many more. However all of these gyms have something in common and that is to promote
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United Parcel Service‚ Inc. Company Profile Publication Date: 1 Sep 2008 www.datamonitor.com Datamonitor USA 245 5th Avenue 4th Floor New York‚ NY 10016 USA Datamonitor Europe Charles House 108-110 Finchley Road London NW3 5JJ United Kingdom Datamonitor Germany Kastor & Pollux Platz der Einheit 1 60327 Frankfur t Deutschland Datamonitor Hong Kong 2802-2803 Admiralty Centre Tower 1 18 Harcour t Road Hong Kong t:+1 212 686 7400 f:+1 212 686 2626 e:usinfo@datamonitor
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