Assignment Questions: 1. What is Southwest’s competitive strategy? What are the sources of its success? How does it make money? Southwest has a short-haul and low fare flight business model. In order to realize this model‚ it depends on low cost structure such as focusing on airports underutilized and close to a metropolitan area like LOVE Field in Dallas. It also utilize only fuel-efficient single aircraft model Boeing 737‚ leading to additional reduction of maintenance cost. To cut cost‚
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What is Strategy? - Michael Porter Author of the article‚ "What is strategy?" reasoning based on the assumption that a company if a company can have a strong position‚ and be able to combine different activities can create sustainable competitive advantage which can lead a firm towards profitability and sustain its position in the market. This article is important for this course because firm ability to make decisions on how‚ when and where to target a customer group‚ use recourses‚ set
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Based on what you know about high-tech companies‚ what are some likely strategic objectives for HITEK? Given these‚ what should be the objectives of HITEK’S HR department? Do you think these are the objectives that guide the behaviors of Isabel Rains? Explain. As per my knowledge about my high-tech companies the most likely strategic objectives for HITEK are continued industry issues ‚supply chain‚ challenges of prices‚ short product life cycles‚ mass customization ‚ globalization ‚strategic market
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Face validity refers to how a test ‘looks’ as it measure what it is meant to measure. For listening test‚ it is expected that the questions and test subject will require takers to listen to audio recordings. Face validity also includes other factors such as the setting of the examination and the equipment used (Hughes‚ 2007). Finally‚ criterion validity refers to the criteria wherein the results of the examination will be compared to (Hughes‚ 2007. The criteria used to evaluate the skills of students
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CUSTOMER RETENTION STRATEGIES USED BY INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS IN KENYA 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS PART ONE INTRODUCTION ……….………………………………………………….……………3 1.1 Background ……………………………………………………………………….3 1.1.1 Customer Retention Strategies…………………………………………………….4 1.1.2 Internet Service Providers …………………….…………………………………..6 1.2 Research Problem ………………………………………………………………...8 1.3 Objectives of the Study ………………………………….………………………10 1.4 Importance of the Study ……………………………………………………...….10 PART TWO LITERATURE REVIEW
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! Online Training V Face to Face Training. ! ! ! ! ! ! Our first mistake could be thinking that one is better than the other. Or that one exists without the other. However‚ progress comes from adapting to the environment in which we find ourselves and training like everything else in our lives is going “online". So anyone who wants to make a difference in vocational education can now raise their sights to master the “classroom on the cloud”.! ! So what do we want to bring with us‚ from the old
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Can You Say What Your Strategy Is? by David J. Collis and Michael G. Rukstad Reprint R0804E It’s a dirty little secret: Most executives cannot articulate the objective‚ scope‚ and advantage of their business in a simple statement. If they can’t‚ neither can anyone else. Can You Say What Your Strategy Is? by David J. Collis and Michael G. Rukstad COPYRIGHT © 2008 HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Can you summarize your company’s strategy in 35 words
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Xiao Liang Kelly Robert English 101-02 Essay #3 3/30/2014 What Did the Firefighters Die for? A Response to Timothy Egan Do you have a friend or a relative who is a firefighter? Have you heard of what firefighters do? Have you seen how firefighters rescue people and property at the spot or on television? What is a firefighter? A firefighter also known as a fireman‚ is a rescuer extensively trained in firefighting‚ primarily to extinguish hazardous fires that threaten property and civilian
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Strategic management The concept of strategy ➢ Strategy is the great work of organization. In situations of life or death it is the Tao of survival or extinction. Its study cannot be neglected. ----SUN TZU‚ The Art of War.2500 B.C ➢ Strategy is about winning. ➢ Strategy is not a detailed plan or program of instructions‚ it is a unifying theme that gives coherence and direction to the actions and decisions of an individual or an organization. Characteristic of a winning strategy
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Social Networking vs. Face to Face Communication With social networking at its peak‚ face to face communication has become scarce in modern society. With sites such as Facebook‚ Twitter and MySpace face to face communication lost its indicative value. Social networking has become so widely spread throughout the world that it has become the primary form of communication. Both face to face communication and social media have limits and boundaries that contribute to their major distinctions. With
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