Exploration: Energy in an Ecosystem Directions You will evaluate some of these activities yourself‚ and your teacher may evaluate others. Please save this document before beginning the lesson and keep the document open for reference during the lesson. Type your answers directly in this document for all activities. ________________________________________________________________________________ Self-Checked Activities Read the instructions for the following activities and type in your responses
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Starbucks Case: Starbucks’ Value Chain A value chain is used to identify key areas of a corporation‚ including their resources and what they may achieve. The value chain is made up of key primary and secondary activities‚ which differentiate a business from others and creates a competitive advantage. The primary activities include inbound logistics‚ operations‚ outbound logistics‚ marketing/sales‚ and services. Secondary activities are made up of the firm infrastructure‚ human resource management
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Which future for Virgin? Diversification is often seen as the last evolution for a company. However‚ there are ways and options to adapt your strategy after you diversify in order to make it more efficient to this new change. Virgin is‚ as we’ve seen in the previous parts‚ a well-diversified company. There are usually 4 paths a diversified company could use after it diversified‚ and we can use them to analyse the potential future of Virgin. 1 Broaden the diversification base Virgin’s
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exceptional supply chain? The many challenges in order to improve the supply chains usually come with the unidentified. Many companies produce products they think their consumer will want. After that‚ they ship their products to retail stores. Then‚ these stores try to sell the products to the customers. Here‚ the supply chains slows down as they are figuring out what to build next. Then‚ these companies deal with their suppliers to get the materials for the products. Here‚ the supply chain slow down more
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How does the Sofia Coppola‚ in The Virgin Suicides‚ use a range of stylistic features (film techniques) to display the movies themes and with what effect on the audience? INTRO: Director Sofia Coppola uses a range of film techniques to display themes of obsession‚ the superficiality of vision and isolation from the real world in her film The Virgin Suicides. Through use of symbolism‚ characterization‚ setting and techniques specific to a film such a soundtrack‚ Coppola is able to construct
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PEST Analysis of Virgin Media •Political Factor Demand for fixed line telephony is in decline‚ with the rate of decline in lines used by business nearly twice as high as that in the residential fixed telephony market. There is a trend for businesses to replace fixed line telephony with voice-over-internet-protocol‚ or VoIP‚ telephony‚ while residential customers are tending to migrate from fixed line to mobile telephony. However‚ Virgin Media’s fixed line customers may not migrate to the company’s
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Primary and Support Activities of Value Chain. Introduction Raytheon Company has created new software that improves the logistics system of the company by providing constant tracking data of all products in the inventory‚ which has saved the company nearly $9M. MTrak is a web-based system that includes the Microsoft .Net technology‚ which is used to capture bar-code scans and combines it with information from the mainframe computer to provide tracking of all inventories anywhere within the
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VIRGIN BLUE UNDERSTANDING EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT 1. Attractiveness of the Industry 1a. Identify the industry‚ product segments and value chain The industry is the Australian airline industry (global). Core activities cover providing travel services to leisure travellers in Australia and overseas‚ including flights‚ travel insurance‚ holiday packaged deals‚ and freight business. Products segments including ▪ Business travel ▪ 57.1% of industry revenue ▪ full-fare ▪ business &
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Introduction The company I’m going to investigate is Virgin Atlantic. Virgin Atlantic is a British airline‚ which was founded almost 25 years ago; it is a leading player of Sir Richard Branson ’s Virgin Group‚ who own 51% of it and Singapore Airlines owns 49%. Its headquarters are located in Crawley‚ West Sussex‚ England‚ near London Gatwick Airport‚ they also have Technical Engineering Centers and other buildings and offices for cargo and Logistics in Manchester and Norfolk. It operates between
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VIRGIN AMERICA LANDS IN THE UNITED STATES Virgin Group is the corporate umbrella for a large network of almost 300 different companies offering varieties of services including but not limited to telecommunications (virgin mobile)‚ cable TV (virgin media)‚ financial services (virgin money)‚ fitness (virgin active)‚ and soft drinks (virgin drinks). The most famous of them all is the Virgin Atlantic. Virgin Group is owned by European business tycoon‚ Richard Branson. Virgin America debuted in
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