Question: The ability of some firms to sustain longer term competitive advantage relates to their capabilities according to the resource based theory of the firm. Summarise this approach to explain why some firms perform better than others in an industry. Sustainable Competitive Advantage Within all economies there have always been firms that are destined for success and firms that are doomed to failure... or have there? Is this an inevitable outcome predestined by exterior market forces
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Value of Synergy Aswath Damodaran Stern School of Business October 2005 2 The Value of Synergy Many acquisitions and some large strategic investments are often justified with the argument that they will create synergy. In this paper‚ we consider the various sources of synergy and categorize them into operating and financial synergies. We then examine how best to value synergy in any investment and how sensitive this value is to different assumptions. We also look at how this synergy value should
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Synergetic Solutions Inc. Amy R. Simmons COM - 530 Communications for Accountants November 26‚ 2012 Dr. Ed Wirth Synergetic Solutions Synergetic Solutions Inc. is a system integration company that has secured a network design order worth $1.2 million with the possibility of $5 million more in the works (University of Phoenix‚ 2012). Synergetic has five locations on the East coast and employees 300 people‚ most of them being in sales and service departments (University of Phoenix‚ 2012)
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3) Core competence / sustainable competitive advantage Online Services Division: Microsoft’s search‚ portal‚ advertising and personal communications services‚ including online information offerings such as Bing and the MSN portals and channels. Server and Tools Business: Microsoft infrastructure software‚ developer tools and cloud platform‚ including products such as Windows Server‚ SQL Server‚ Visual Studio‚ System Center and the Windows Azure Platform. Microsoft Business Solutions: A portfolio
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Leveraging Convergence. Rethinking Strategy for Highly Dynamic Markets For many businesses‚ the competitive landscape is dramatically changing due to convergence--a process by which the boundaries across industries or businesses or markets or geographies or customer experiences become blurred‚ resulting in new business opportunities to serve customer needs and improve customer value. To manage in a convergent economy‚ executives must understand the key drivers of a broader concept of convergence
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In organization Synergy becomes very important. Take an organization of your choice and bring out the importance of Synergy in making the organization more productive. Synergy means that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. In organizational terms‚ synergy means that as separate departments within an organization cooperate and interact‚ they become more productive than if each were to act in segregation. The concept of synergy is resulting from the systems approach in which the management
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Performance management starts by defining the skills and behaviors needed for an employee to succeed in a position. Employees who possess the skills and competencies to perform their work and can meet the expectations for their role are more engaged and satisfied (Nelson & Quick‚ 2017 p.92). Hiring and selecting the right talent requires identifying potential candidates who possess the abilities and behaviors required to perform the tasks for a specific position. Individuals are different
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keep moving on to make the world different. When Steve Jobs passed away‚ not only fans of Apple products but also those who appreciate his great contribution to electrical industry feel sad about the loss of a great man. 2. What were Apple’s competencies in the music and telephone business? Are they a source of competitive advantage? Why or why not? Apple’s
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Question 4 Assess the strategic alternative used by the firm Burger King is the world’s largest flame broiled fast food restaurant chain. As of mid-2009‚ it operated about 12000 restaurants in all 50 states and in 74 countries and U.S. territories worldwide through a combination of company-owned and franchised operations‚ which together employed nearly 400‚000 people worldwide. Two major ways in which Burger King differentiates itself from competitors are the way it cooks hamburgers by its
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The Factories Act‚ 1948‚Section 51 to 60: 51.Weekly hours: * No employee will work more than 48 hoours in a week. 52.Weekly Holidays: * NO worker will work on the first day of the week. * Incase he is made to work the he should get a holiday 3 days immediately before or after the first day for which the responsible manager has to send a notice to the inspector for approval which must be displayed in the factory notice board. 53.Compensatory holidays: * In case an employee
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