companies aim at creating competitive advantages in order to increase customer satisfaction‚ deal with competitive threats and sustain market share as a basis for maintaining long-term profitability. Porter’s (1980) five forces framework appears as a useful tool for analyzing industrial environments‚ assessing the position and competitiveness of an organization and developing successful business strategies. Porter’s Five Forces Model illustrates how the competitive landscape in an industry is strongly
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The big list of classroom language for playing games Useful vocabulary Roll a/ the dice Board (game) Counter Team Winner (= First place) Second place (= Runner up) The wooden spoon (= Last place) (Flip/ Toss a) coin/ Heads or tails? Paper scissors stone/ Rock paper scissors (Move) clockwise/ anticlockwise (= counter clockwise) Bonus question Joker Pass (to the next player) Cheating Minus one point/ Take away a point Clue/ Hint Shuffle/ Mix (up) Deal (out) (My/ Your/ His/ Her/
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Chapter 13 Case Study – Mini Assignment 1 1. When scanning the environment‚ Globalive needs useful information. Use the criteria in the section “What Is Useful Information?” to identify information useful for determining the company’s decisions. Globalive was the first in Canada to open themselves up to all different types of reviews by customers‚ not to mention even receiving criticising opinions and judgements‚ for this reason Globalize was ahead of all the other companies in knowing what the customers
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“You don’t know what you have until it’s gone” Like an old saying “You don’t know what you have until it’s gone”. For some people these are just words‚ but for others it’s really more a life changing phrase. To me this phrase are more than just words. I question myself every time I see or hear about mother’s abandoning their children’s. I really can’t understand what come across their minds to make a life changing decision. Every woman who has the blessing of having children’s should be grateful
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A government is considering subsidising a series of high-speed rail lines in order to reduce short-haul air flights. To what extent might CBA be a useful method of evaluating this proposal? The Basic Economic Problem is that needs and wants are unlimited but resources are limited. Cost Benefit analysis (CBA) is a technique for assessing the monetary and social costs and benefits of a capital investment project over a given time period. It is by this method that we decide to which project proposal
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How useful is social class as a variable for segmenting consumer markets? Explore. In the early days of segmentation‚ according to Schiffman‚ it was not unusual to apply only one segmentation criterion‚ e.g. demographic segmentation. Today marketers have realized that it is to simplified to apply only one criterion for segmenting complex markets. Therefore‚ it is common to combine several criteria to create rich and comprehensive segmentation profiles in order to find the most beneficial target
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would Google Hangouts and Skype be useful for a business? Social networks and messaging services have transformed communication‚ and this is influencing both the consumer market and the business world. A business solution that has had a great reception in organizations are video calls. Two of the users in the world are Skype and Google Hangouts. Both have additional elements for the business theme. Their service is free and the tools they offer are very useful. Users can communicate with other contacts
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(a) Study Source 1. How useful is it as evidence for an historian studying the outbreak of the Kapp Putsch of 1920? [13] This is a primary source so it can be a useful piece of evidence for a historian studying the outbreak of the Kapp putsch. This is a primary source because it is an extract from the proclamation‚ (The Cabinet issued this proclamation calling on Germany’s workers to defeat the putsch by means of a general strike.) This was written for public consumption and the author’s reputation
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are some of the attributes that make financial information useful to the various users of financial statements. Required: Explain what is meant by relevance‚ reliability and comparability and how they make financial information useful. (10 marks) (b) During the year ended 31 March 2006‚ Porto experienced the following transactions or events: (i) entered into a finance lease to rent an asset for substantially the whole of its useful economic life. (ii) a decision was made by the Board
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How useful is the Boy in the Striped Pyjamas in telling us about the Holocaust? The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas‚ shows what life was like in Germany when the Nazis were taking over. The film tells us about two young boys with two different lives. The Boy in the Striiped Pyjamas is useful about some topics based in that time however it can also be unreliable in others. The Holocaust was mainly a target for Jewish people‚ black people‚ homesexuals‚ gypsies and the physically disabled‚ the mentally
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