What Is Grand Strategy?* by John Lewis Gaddis** Yale University When my colleagues Paul Kennedy‚ Charlie Hill‚ and I first began talking about setting up a grand strategy course at Yale in the late 1990s‚ at least half the people to whom we tried to explain this thought we were talking about “grant” strategy: how do you get the next federal or foundation grant? This misunderstanding would not have occurred‚ I think‚ during the fifty years of insecurity that separated the Japanese attack on Pearl
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as an administrative function and ignore the need and opportunity to align it with its strategic plans. The irony with HR being left out of strategy planning is that by its nature‚ HR is about people‚ which is the core of an organization and its strategic plan. It is hard to measure HR success and thus it is considered “soft” and not important in the strategy development. In contrast to the HR administrative function‚ strategic HR practices are more contemporary concepts. A definition of strategic
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Project objective This project aims at evaluating fashion brand – Etam’s marketing strategy on Sina Weibo by comparing other fashion brands which have official account on Weibo.To be specific‚ three major objectives are to figured out in this project: To have a clear understanding on the performance of Etam and other six fashion brand on Weibo To glean intelligence and insight from Etam and competitors’ Weibo To provide our own implication and recommendations to Etam’s Weibo strategy. 2. Methodology
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1. Discuss IKEA’s country-specific advantages and its firm-specific advantages. IKEA experiences many country-specific advantages. First‚ IKEA’s location in Europe made it relatively painless for the company to spread throughout the rest of Europe. Along similar lines‚ IKEA has been able to send employees who know the local language of foreign locations to set up stores‚ bringing the IKEA philosophy and standard practices along with them. IKEA also embraced its advantage of its heritage‚ focusing
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3. Data Analysis - Preference of Various FMCG goods in rural market 8 3.1 Toothpaste market in rural sector 8 3.2 Different Soap Brands in Rural Market 9 3.3 Preference of different shampoos 9 3.4 Preference of consumer towards detergents 10 3.5 Analysis of all data collected 11 4. Data Analysis - Strategies used by different companies to expand their market share 12 4.1 Strategies to penetrate the rural market 12 4.2 Strategies adopted by companies and output they got 14 4.2.1 ITC 14 4
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Explain the strategies for competitive advantage. The challenge for a marketing strategy is to find a way of achieving a sustainable competitive advantage over the other competing products and firms in a market. A competitive advantage is an advantage over competitors gained by offering consumers greater value‚ either by means of lower prices or by providing greater benefits and service that justifies higher prices. Porter suggested four "generic" business strategies that could be adopted in order
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ocean strategy is a business concept that focuses on doing business along the line where there is no competitor or little or no competition; rather it seeks to create new opportunities for business instead competing for space in the already saturated horizon. It does this by either creating entirely new product in a market or reinventing already existing product in such a unique way that will meet the needs the of the market in a way that has not existed before. It adds value to the market while
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Chapter no.8 Identifying Market Segments & Targets No. of Group members=5 From: Mallas 1- The Marketer does not create segments; the marketer’s task is to identify the segments and decide which one(s) to target. 2- (T/F) 3- A flexible market offering consist of two parts: a naked solution and discretionary options. 4- 5- (T/F) 6- 7- 8- A market segment consists of a group of customers who shares different set of needs and wants. 9- 10-
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When an organization has made a decision to enter an overseas market‚ there are a variety of options open to it. These options vary with cost‚ risk and the degree of control which can be exercised over them. The simplest form of entry strategy is exporting using either a direct or indirect method such as an agent‚ in the case of the former‚ or countertrade‚ in the case of the latter. More complex forms include foreign direct investments which may involve joint ventures‚ or export processing zones
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Emerald Article: How is strategy formed? Ten schools of thought Kippenberger‚ T Article information: To cite this document: Kippenberger‚ T‚ (1998)‚"How is strategy formed? Ten schools of thought"‚ The Antidote‚ Vol. 3 Iss: 6 pp. 11 – 14 Permanent link to this document http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000006623 Downloaded on: 14-08-2012 Citations: This document has been cited by 2 other documents To copy this document: permissions@emeraldinsight.com This document has been downloaded
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