and capabilities in strategy formulation. • The resources of the firm • Organizational capabilities • Appraising the profit potential of resources and capabilities • Putting resource and capability analysis to work—a practical guide • Creating new capabilities. Shifting the Focus of Strategy Analysis: From the External to the Internal Environment THE FIRM Goals and Values Resources and Capabilities Structure and Systems THE INDUSTRY ENVIRONMENT STRATEGY STRATEGY •Competitors •Customers
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Unit 4- Task 4 SWOT Analysis “The results of a questionnaire given to 200 people that regularly visit McDonalds found the following: * 85% are happy with the service in their local McDonalds. * 80% would like McDonalds to be open 24/7. * 50% thought they could make a happy meal healthier. * 65% would like more wraps on the menu. * 30% would like part of the menu to be focused on healthier options. * 20% said staff were unfriendly. * 90% said parking facilities were good
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PEST ANALYSIS The PEST analysis is a useful tool for understanding market growth or decline‚ and as such the position‚ potential and direction for a business. PEST is an acronym for Political‚ Economic‚ Social and Technological factors‚ which are used to assess the market for a business. Basically it is a scan of macro-external environment‚ in which a business wants to operate. Political Factors include: • Tax policy • Employment laws • Trade restriction and Tariffs
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PEST Analysis for a Company in the Tourism Industry The Tourism industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. The World Travel and Tourism Council estimates that in 2004 Travel and tourism is expected to generate * US$ 5‚490.4 billion of economic activity * 10.4% of total GDP * 214‚697‚000 jobs or 8.1% of total employment * 12.2% of total exports [1] My task is to conduct a PEST analysis for a company within the Tourism industry. Within the tourism industry‚ I have
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Marketing Environment What would you assume to be the key PEST drivers? PEST/STEP is about the macro environment. We should use the finer grained variant of Kotler which details Social into Cultural‚ Demographic and Natural (the first two probably being very “yielding”). Political Forces Alcohol consume is a threat to public health and should be constrained • Market monopolization in Scandinavian and other countries • Alcohol taxes in most countries of the world • Anti-alcohol campaigns
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Series The Global Cement Industry Cement is a basic ingredient for the construction industry. Cement is made out of limestone‚ shell‚ clay mined out of a quarry close to the plant. The raw material is crushed‚ and then heated at temperature in excess of 1000 ºC in rotating kiln to become clinker. Clinker is then mixed with gypsum and ground to a fine powder to produce final grade of cement. The technology is a continuous process and is highly energy intensive. Cost of cement is 29% energy‚ 27%
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Internship Organization: Lafarge Surma Cement Limited Internship Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Abdul Hannan Chowdhury Director‚ BBA Program School of Business. North South University Bachelor of Business Administration Part – 1 Organizational Part |Name | Lafarge Surma Cement Limited (LSC) was incorporated on 11 November
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CORROSION OF CEMENT PASTE In general terms cement products have good durability‚ but their strength will decrease or even damage structures with the role of some erosive media (such as soft water‚ acid water)‚ known as the erosion of cement paste. The main reasons for corrosion are: Soft-water Corrosion (Dissolution Corrosion) Rain‚ snow‚ distilled water‚ industrial condensate water‚ and the river water and lake water with low bicarbonate content‚ all of them belong to soft water. When hardened
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Financial Accounting and Reporting (8th Edition)‚ FT/Prentice Hall. Lewis‚ R. & Pendrill. D. (2004)‚ “Advanced Financial Accounting” (7th Edition)‚ FT/Prentice Hall. Britton & Jorissen. (2003)‚ “International Financial Reporting and Analysis” Thomson Task 4 Tisdale M.A. (N.D.) WiseGeek: “What is a Trade Surplus” [Online] available on http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-trade-surplus.htm# Pettinger T. (2012) Economics: “Balance of Payments Disequilibrium” [Online] available
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AIM iC BS E.c om To Study the Setting of Cement CERTIFICATE Mr. B D Kotwani iC Principal BS E.c om This is to certify that this project work is submitted by ROHIT GUPTA to the Chemistry department‚ Aditya Birla Public School‚ Kovaya was carried out by him under the guidance & supervision during academic year 2009-2010. School (Head of chemistry dept.) Kovaya Aditya Birla public ACKNOWLEDGEMENT E.c om I wish to express my deep gratitude
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