THE COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT OF VIRGIN ATLANTIC AIRWAYS Introduction The Virgin Atlantic Airways is a UK-based private international airline that started operation in 1982. Flying up to 20 destinations in North America‚ Asia and Africa‚ it is 51% owned by Virgin Group and 49% owned by Singapore Airlines (Wikipedia). It competes with other local and international airlines including British Airways‚ the biggest and leading in UK. In 2005‚ it posted $2.5B in sales and $40M net income
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The knowledge management strategy formulation process. The strategy formulation process is an important assessment tool in understanding the effectiveness of strategic performance through- out organizations. The formulation process consists of three main components; strategic planning‚ strategic thinking and embedding. In practice‚ strategic planning and strategic thinking supplement each other in a number of ways and are usually combined to yield a more successful strategy formulation
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Knowledge Management Knowledge management (KM) comprises a range of strategies and practices used in an organization to identify‚ create‚ represent‚ distribute‚ and enable adoption of insights and experiences. Such insights and experiences comprise knowledge‚ either embodied in individuals or embedded in organizations as processes or practices. The theoretical foundations of knowledge management Table - The flow and use of Knowledge Management (KM) theory with examples Applied
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BAB 2 LANDASAN TEORI 2.1Sejarah Knowledge Management Istilah Manajemen Pengetahuan baru marak digunakan sekitar tahun 1990. Walaupun pemikiran mengenai manajemen pengetahuan telah berkembang pada tahun-tahun sebelumnya. Para pionir yang mengkajinya secara akademis diantaranya Peter Ducker di tahun 70-an‚ kemudian Karl-Erik Sveiby di akhir 80-an‚ serta Nonaka dan Takeuchi pada 1990. Perkembangan manajemen pengetahuan banyak dipengaruhi oleh perubahan waktu‚ ekonomi‚ sosial‚ dan teknologi. Globalisasi
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CHAPTER 2: THE MANAGEMENT ENVIRONMENT • • • • Explain what the external environment is and why it’s important. Discuss how the external environment affects managers. Define what organizational culture is and explain why it’s important. Describe how organizational culture affects managers. What Is External Environment? External environment is the factors‚ forces‚ situations‚ and events outside the organization that affect its performance. Understanding External Environment What Role
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Defining and Sustaining the Knowledge Management of Organizational Culture and the Role of Leadership TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES Figure 6.1: Knowledge Management Models for an organization 1 INTRODUCTION 3 2 OBJECTIVES/PURPOSE OF STUDY 4 3 FINDINGS 5 3.1 Knowledge management in organizational culture 6 3.1.1 Theories of organization and culture 6 3.1.2 Organizational Culture 6 3.1.2.1 Knowledge sharing critical success factors 8 3.1
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Examination Paper of Semester III IIBM Institute of Business Management Semester-III Examination Paper Knowledge Management Section A: Objective Type (30 marks) • • • This section consists of Mixed Type questions & Short Answer type questions. Answer all the questions. Part One questions carry 1 mark each & Part Two questions carry 5 marks each. MM.100 Part One: Multiple Choices: 1. UCC stands for a. Universal Commercial Code b. Uniform Commercial Code c. Uniq Commercial Code d. United Commercial
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The industrial property includes inventions (patents)‚ logo‚ industrial designs and trademarks; copyright includes artistic works literary. Actually‚ intellectual property is an intangible property; its object is the product of intellectual or knowledge. Its value is same as houses‚ cars‚ jewelry and other tangible property‚ and it also protected by governmental laws; for some well-know patents‚ logo and trademark have more value than other tangible property. The reasons for protect intellectual
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Introduction Knowledge is an important element in every individuals’ lives but most importantly to businesses to succeed in today’s economy. The successfulness of knowledge is through many strategies that involve knowledge creation‚ knowledge transfer and knowledge management and also by using advanced IT systems through the economic growth and change (Anantatmula and Kanungo‚ 2010). The purpose of this report is to evaluate how successful the KM strategies are in place within Apple and to evaluate
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Employing Strategy in a Competitive Environment Cheryl Hawes BUS 599 July 28‚ 2012 Dr. Phyllis Parise Strayer University Introduction Appraising a company’s resource strengths and weaknesses and its external opportunities and threats‚ commonly known as SWOT analysis‚ provides a good overview of whether the company’s overall situation is fundamentally healthy or unhealthy. Just as important‚ a first-rate SWOT analysis provides the basis for crafting a strategy that capitalizes on the company’s
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