Amazon Your Industry: Extracting Value from the Value Chain "Way cool" Web sites and measures of "hits" and "eyeballs" are clearly driving revenue in the dot-com world. To date‚ these metrics have provided the basis for the extraordinary market valuation of the new generation of Web retailers. In the near term‚ most "e-tailers" must focus on surviving the incubator phase of the Internet retail industry by gaining enough market shares to become a sustainable player. "Efficiency and productivity lie
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Virgin Atlantic Environment Policy A message from Virgin Atlantic’s CEO‚ Steve Ridgway: Virgin Atlantic is embedding sustainability at the core of our business. We recognise the growing impact air travel has on the environment‚ and are seeking to address this as best as we can. There are many projects in place across the business to make this a reality‚ both in the air and on the ground. Our recent commitment to invest up to $8bn in the most efficient aircraft available for our routes‚ is a
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ticket (Anderson‚ 2009). When Apollo 11 mission landed the first humans on the moon launched on July 16‚ 1969. The whole worlds are stunned. That fact makes a 19-year-old Richard Branson decided that he will one day experience the wonder of space ("Virgin galactic overview‚" 2009). For several years‚ interest in the potential of space tourism has been steadily increasing among engineers‚ scientist‚ entrepreneurs‚ and general public. The attractiveness and exclusivity of traveling into space that drives
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Leadership in Virgin Established by Sir Richard Branson 22 years ago‚ Virgin Atlantic has become Britians second largest airline. It operates 37 aircraft‚ employs 9000 staff and flies more than 4.5 million passangers a year to some of the worlds major cities. After the slump in air travel following 9/11 Virgin Atlantic went through a period of rapid growth. Virgin Atlantic introduced a leadership development program that was led by business objectives rather than HR process and fitted into
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The art that I found the most interesting in the book “Gardner Art through Ages: The Western Perspective” was a painting named Birth of the Virgin. This painting is on chapter 14 page 415 and is figure 14-14. It is a large triptych meaning three part panel. The panel is separated by two white piers and includes arches at the top of each section. It was painted with Tempera on wood. It was created by Pietro Lorenzetti‚ an Italian Gothic painter of the Sienese school. Pietro Lorenzetti was a student
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virgin america Analysis & Strategic Plan strategic management 780-634 Michele K. Masterfano‚ DBA LeBow College of Business Drexel University Summer 2012 Table of Contents OVERVIEW 1 Fast Facts 1 ENVIRONMENT 3 Internal Analysis 3 Company Structure 3 Company Culture 3 Operations & Logistics 3 Triple Bottom Line 3 SWOT 3 External Analysis 5 Competitive Environment 5 Summary 8 External SWOT Analysis
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Executive Summary Despite Virgin America’s numerous awards‚ acclamations and recent success‚ the airline is still not classified as a major carrier by the Department of Transportation (DOT). To be considered a major carrier‚ an airline must achieve $1 billion dollars in operating revenue and meet the Department of Transportation’s requirements on baggage handling‚ on-time performance and other operational statistics. Virgin America currently operates 39 Airbus 320A aircraft to 14 destinations
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CASE STUDY 6 THE VIRGIN GROUP 1. The corporate rationale of the Virgin group is to re-ignite static industries‚ with fresh ideas and developments‚ thus offering the consumer differentiation. Diversification is an extremely important attribute of Virgins rationale. Their SBU’s improve Virgin’s scope and therefore its existing markets and products. Virgin uses the ideology of ‘the corporate parent’ to add structure and guidance to its various business units‚ which in turn adds value due to the effective
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Re-defining the Independent Film Value Chain A paper by Peter Bloore Introduction: An industry value chain or system could be summarized as a connected series of activities‚ that combine to create and deliver a product (or value) to customers. These activities could include research and development‚ manufacturing‚ packaging‚ marketing‚ and distribution. Strictly speaking‚ a value chain represents those activities as carried out within a single company‚ and a value system represents those activities
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| Products | | Existing | New | Markets | Existing | Market Penetration | Product Development | | | *Development of more apps (22)(23)*Geographically net sale increased 2010 in (America ‚Europe‚Japan ‚Asia specific) –(iPhone) – (Financial Table 3.4 & 3.5) (21)*Net Sales - increased by Product in 2010 – (Financial Table 3.4 & 3.5) (21) | *Apple pricing decoy(27)*Apple & Microsoft joint force(28)*Apple pushed iPhone for business(29) | | New | Market Development | Diversification
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