After doing a bit of a research on the banking industry Value Chain (VC) I came across multiple references indicating that a generic VC for Banking is the opposite to the industrial VC (Figure 1 in the attachment). The Banking VC starts from the customer side‚ where the products are offered to the market‚ sold‚ provided to the customer and finally corresponding transaction is executed. I decided to look closely at one of our core businesses‚ Premier Consumer Credit‚ to evaluate activities within
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A big week of announcements for Starbucks as it continues to emerge from the global economic downturn. It has announced plans to accelerate its store opening programme‚ with 400 new stores outside the USA alone. And it has also decided‚ for the first time‚ to start growing its own coffee beans‚ as a way of supporting its ambitious growth plans in China. The cost savings associated with outsourcing overseas (most often to China)‚ while once significant in the short term‚ is not as great as it
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Machael Porter’s Value Chain SUPPORT ACTIVITIES Support activities assist the primary activities in helping the organisation achieve its competitive advantage. They include: Procurement: This department must source raw materials for the business and obtain the best price for doing so. The challenge for procurement is to obtain the best possible quality available (on the market) for their budget. Technology development: The use of technology to obtain a competitive advantage is very important
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Value Chain Analysis Inbound Logistic 1. Farm : Coffee Bean begins at the farm on coffee trees. After trees are planted‚ it takes between one and three years for the trees to bear coffee "cherries". Than the farmer will harvest the coffee trees to get cherries. After that‚ they will use coffee mills to process the product from cherry to bean. 2. Exporter : The coffee export process varied greatly depending on origin country and buyer. In some countries‚ beans were exported through government
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negative beta implies that security A would stabilize the returns on a portfolio since the returns on A are negatively correlated to the market. The riskiness of a portfolio is determined by its beta value. Security A has a negative beta (-0.5)‚ which makes it less risky when compared with positive beta value for security B (0.5). In addition‚ if we consider a standalone risk‚ standard deviation plays an important role. It is used as an indicator of risk‚ security A has 30% standard deviation which
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3. Value chains: Real or Virtual? With the steady grown in the country’s economy as well as the people’s living standards‚ the rhythm of people’s living is speeding up and a lot of changes have taken place in their daily life. The discussion about whether or not the Value chains is real or virtual is a very controversial one. Many people take the view that the reality of the value chain has a strong applied legacy. Nevertheless‚ there are also a majority of people insist that the value chain is
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firms can gain a competitive advantage‚ it is useful to model the firm as a chain of value creating activities. For this purpose‚ Porter identified a range of interrelated generic activities common to a wide range of firms. The resulting model is known as the value chain. According to Porter (1985)‚ " Competitive Advantage arises out of the way firms organise and arrange discrete activities". Through using the Value Chain‚ the activities performed by a firm competing in a particular industry can
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Summary 2 Introduction 3 Company Profile 4 4Ps of Harley-Davidson Marketing Mix Strategies 5 Product 5 Promotion 7 Price 7 Place 8 Harley-Davidson’s Value and its Competitors 9 Market segmentation 10 Evaluation of the target market 11 Intervention 12 Harley-Davidson SWOT Analysis 12 The 4 Areas of improvement and values 13 Conclusion 15 References 16 Executive Summary The researcher will discuss on Harley-Davidson (HD) and its marketing mix concepts and recommendation
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Case Study (2) Questions: 1- Should Harley-Davidson continue to sponsor the Posse Ride? Why or why not? What role should the Posse Ride play in the HOG events mix? - Definitely ‚ they should continue to sponsor the posse ride . The experience is not only very beneficial to the Harley-Davidson management‚ but it is an experience that is forever remembered by the members of HOG. The main reason being bringing a good crowd together with a good amount of business by providing dealership business and
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Production and Operation Management Group IV BSEM 3-2 Product Design Parameters Members: Bulaong‚ Jennifer E. Velasquez‚ Pauline L. Fernandez‚ Rose Ann F. Escoto‚ Gellian Prof. Rizza Valdez Nine Factors to Consider When Determining Your Price 1. Your Costs If your rate doesn’t include enough just to break-even‚ you’re heading for trouble. The best thing to do is sum up all your costs and divide by the number of hours you think you can bill a year. Whatever you do‚ DON’T
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