Ans – 1 Definition of ’Core Competencies’ The main strengths or strategic advantages of a business. Core competencies are the combination of pooled knowledge and technical capacities that allow a business to be competitive in the marketplace. Theoretically‚ a core competency should allow a company to expand into new end markets as well as provide a significant benefit to customers. It should also be hard for competitors to replicate. Ans – 3 One topic that interested FlexCon managers was a
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PART “A” 1) Pick an organization with which you are familiar. it can be an organization in which you have worked or one that you interact as a customer or one you have searched on the web. For this organization answer the following questions: a) Write a brief summary of the organization´s operations (industry‚ products‚ country‚ etc) Inditex is one of the world’s largest fashion retailers‚ welcoming shoppers at its eight store formats -Zara‚ Pull & Bear‚ Massimo Dutti‚ Bershka‚ Stradivarius‚ Oysho
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Problem Statement Sainsbury’s implementation of LMUK’s Nectar loyalty program is one of its largest outsourcing collaboration in history. Although the partnership has been proven to be successful‚ Justin King ponders over whether Sainsbury’s should continue to work with LMUK or go solo and develop its own loyalty program. Benchmarking with other grocery chains‚ the group chief executive is wondering if Sainsbury’s should continue to invest £120 million on Nectar or shift the investment to other
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SANLU’ S MELAMINE-TAINTED MILK CRISIS Case Facts: • Incidence of finding high levels of melamine in milk and milk products for infants produced by a famous dairy processing company of China known as Sanlu. • Death of 3 babies and 6200 diagnosed with kidney problems and cases of kidney failure due to consumption of tainted milk. • The news of discovery of tainted milk was hidden from the central government by the local offices and the Company itself. • Whistle blowers/critiques
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Brham S. Inocencio BSA IV-A CASE 01 – Enron Corporation 1. List three types of consulting services that audit firms have provided to their audit clients in recent years. For each item‚ indicate the specific threats‚ if any‚ that the provision of the given service can pose for an audit firm’s independence. In the recent years‚ auditing firms provides the following consulting services to their clients: a. Internal auditing b. Design of accounting systems c. Various types of Information Technology
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The Smartest Guys in the Room It was a profound story happened between two giant companies‚ both of which once marked as one of the greatest companies for decades in the American History. Enron‚ started as Northern natural Gas Company in 1930‚ creatively making its way through the Great Depression by opening up the natural gas market with its lower cost and developing extensive pipeline network with the unlimited low-cost labor resource‚ fell apart due to its creative use of the SPEs and related
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The Global Leader In Audit and Information Security Training Audit Director and Managers Training Week 7-1117 - 21 June 2013 October 2013 London London Part 1. Managing the Internal Audit Department Part 2. Auditing Governance‚ Strategy‚ Ethics and Risk Management Courses can be attended individually or attend both and save 10% www.mistieurope.com/TW11 Audit Director and Managers Training Week Audit Director and Managers Training Week Dates: 7-11 October 2013 www.mistieurope
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662‚ Case 3 1. Do you think the Renminbi is overvalued against the US Dollar? 2. Why does the Chinese government want to keep its currency at an artificially low level against the US Dollar? What is the risk for China? For the US? 3. What would be the consequences of a 20% revaluation (increase in the value of the Renminbi) for China‚ western countries‚ Japan‚ and developing countries? How would it impact workers‚ exporters‚ and importers in China? Various studies have suggested that
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eCommerce Set of Case Study Questions 7. Describe the multiple locations from which customers can submit orders and the information technology components customers would need (on their end) to accomplish this activity. - Multiple storefront locations: GPS system to locate a store - Online: Computer with access to the FastFit online store (if there is one) - By phone: Telephone/mobile phone necessary to place an order 8. a) Describe the information technology components FastFit
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CASE: SM-151 DATE: 05/16/06 INFOSYS CONSULTING IN 2006: LEADING THE NEXT GENERATION OF BUSINESS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CONSULTING There is no doubt in my mind that five years from now‚ the Infosys Consulting model will be the standard way of doing things where technology development is done off-site. We are one of the fastest growing IT consulting firms in the world. Our major bottlenecks right now are convincing clients to break with old habits and take a chance on a new‚ better model and
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