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The value of Strategy to Local Authorities in Kenya Central and provincial governments have progressively realized that effective service delivery to the community is best delegated to local government. This decentralization trend has obliged local governments to enhance their professionalism and performance. Yet‚ in many developing countries‚ the weakness of local governments is a key challenge in managing development processes. Many local government authorities in Kenya now go beyond one year
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Strengths include the well-designed products that the company puts out‚ such as the iPhone‚ iPad and Macintosh computers. Apple has loyal customers and the strength of its products allows it to charge more than its competitors. Weaknesses include Apple’s relative softness in the business market. Most of its products are bought by everyday consumers and aren’t widely used by businesses – PCs are more common computers to find in an office‚ and Research In Motion‚ which makes Blackberry phones‚ has
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Types of Strategies Three Kinds of Business Strategy Figure [ 1 ]: Three Kinds of Strategy There are at least three basic kinds of strategy with which people must concern themselves in the world of business: (1) just plain strategy or strategy in general‚ (2) corporate strategy‚ and (3) competitive strategy (see Figure 1). The purposes of this post are to clarify the differences between and among these three kinds of strategy and to provide some questions useful in thinking about all three
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Business Generic A firm positions itself by leveraging its strengths. Michael Porter has argues that a firm’s strengths ultimately fall into one of two headings: cost advantage and differentiation which are applied at the business unit level. The two basic types of competitive advantage combined with the scope of activities for which a firm seeks to achieve them‚ lead to three generic strategies for achieving above average performance in an industry: cost leadership‚ differentiation‚ and focus
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Strategy Strategy sets the organizations direction and provides the framework that management will use to achieve to goals through strategic‚ tactical and operational planning. When developing a strategy‚ managers answer such questions as "What products should we make?" "What markets should we serve?" What operations should we use?" "How should we compete?" To effectively answer these questions‚ managers consider four elements when they create organizational strategies. STRATEGY LEVELS
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M004LON Finance‚ Funding and Legislative Frameworks For Success Coursework One: Data Response (Evaluation of Marks & Spencers plc) Submitted by: Binish Babu ( Nakul Vinod (3943256) Julin Ann Thomas (3997710) Date of submission: 4th March‚ 2012 Word count : 1492 words Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2 INTRODUCTION 2 Ratio Analysis 3 1) Liquidity ratios 3 2) Solvency ratios 3 3) Working capital management ratios 3 4) Profitability
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weakness. The one thing that the project plan needs put into action is safeguards to insure that the project is completed on time. BEC has taken on the matrix organizational structure. This type of structure combines functional and divisional organization structure styles. There are advantages and disadvantages in utilizing this type of organizational structure. Advantages include resource utilization‚ specialization‚ cross functional areas‚ communication and flexibility. Resource utilization allows
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questions & answers can help to both students and teachers to understand concepts of organization behaviour deeply. These can be used for skill tests or aptitude tests. List of Organizational Behaviour Multiple Choice Questions with Answers: Q1. Organization structure primarily refers to a. how activities are coordinated & controlled b. how resources are allocated c. the location of departments and office space d. the policy statements developed by the firm Q2. The purpose of job enrichment
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Strategy and the Internet |Published: |April 16‚ 2001 | |Author: |Michael E. Porter | Executive Summary: Don’t throw the strategy baby out with the Internet bath water. In this Harvard Business Review article‚ HBS professor Michael E. Porter urges business planners not to lose focus on strategic development and If average profitability is under pressure in many industries influenced by the Internet‚ it becomes all the more important for individual companies to set themselves
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