Borrowed Car‚ Inc: Zipcar Watch Out Car Sharing & Opportunities for Growth Zipcar‚ Inc. is an entrepreneurial venture started in 1999 and was incorporated in the year 2000 by founders Robin Chase and Antje Danielson. The Zipcar business model is a sophisticated form of car sharing that was innovative for the time. Yet‚ it is important to note that this form of company is not the first of its kind. This would be a potential business to model our business after. Our goal is to create a smart economical
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Created by: The 4 P’s Jessica Burg Alice Popescu Ranjita Shetty Ritesh Maskay Project Summary Car sharing is an economical and eco-friendly mode of transportation that is designed to fulfill a just-in-time need for personal access to passenger cars. This transportation network encourages people to be socially and environmentally responsible by minimizing private vehicle ownership. Car sharing started gaining popularity in the early 1990s in Europe. Today‚ such fleet of automobiles operates
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Some other variable costs‚ however‚ went down partly because of this unexpected high volume of new registrations. Lease cost went up to $4‚800 per vehicle because as Zip Car got bigger‚ the exposure to risk also got bigger for car manufacturers as their leased vehicles will be used by a larger pool of different drivers. Parking fee per car per year was also higher than expected (25% more) and fuel bill were 10% higher than planned. Because these were variable cost‚ they would bring down the company’s
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Sociocultural Carsharing or car sharing is a model of car rental where people rent cars for short periods of time‚ often by the hour. They are attractive to customers who make only occasional use of a vehicle‚ as well as others who would like occasional access to a vehicle of a different type than they use day-to-day. Carsharing contributes to sustainable transport because it is a less car intensive means of urban transport‚ and according to The Economist‚ carsharing can reduce car ownership at an estimated
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PACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS Zipcar is expanding rapidly since it was established in 2000. According to its latest 8-k form‚ for the 2012 first quarter‚ revenue increased 20% to $59.1 million compared to $49.1 million in the prior year period. Revenue growth resulted primarily from a 23% year-over-year increase in membership to more than 709‚000 members at quarter end. But does it really have a sustainable growth to support its expanding and operation? We implement a rough accounting and financial
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“Strategic HRM is the process of linking the HR function with the strategic objectives of the organization in order to improve performance.”(Bratton & Gold 2007) Strategic Human Resource (SHRM) management is human resource management with a strategic edge‚ linking both business strategy with human resource (HR) strategy of an organization. Human resource management has become an integral part of almost all the companies all over the world. Human resource management concerns not only how peoples are
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Assignment Grading Course Name Zip-6 and Venezuela Student’s name Professor’s name [Optional] University Zip-6 and Venezuela Political risk is the likelihood that the outside speculation of a business will be controlled by a mass of the administration’s strategies. The suggestion to purchase out a Venezuelan soda pop maker and bottler Zip-6 in Venezuela will represent a potential hazard because of the Venezuelan economy that uses an administration process made up of trade controls‚ sponsorships
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How to analyse a case study Step 1: Get a general impression • Which organisations and industries/sectors does it relate to? • Is the organisation doing well or badly and how has it performed in the past? Is it an organisation that has an unbroken record of success or has it fallen on hard times? • Look at the development of the organisation over time. What strategies has it pursued? Which have succeeded and which have failed? How successful has the organisation been – and on what bases do
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The purpose of this case study is to analyse the strategic capabilities of Dyson. We can find out the reasons make Dyson successful. By analysing those conditions we will know Dyson’s threshold capabilities and strategic capabilities. It is meaningful for Dyson to develop the strategic capabilities to be competitive in the future. Threshold capabilities are those needed for an organisation to meet the necessary requirements to compete in a given market and achieve parity with competitors in that
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How to analyse a case study Case studies offer descriptions and data of situations‚ from which you have to: Firstly‚ • Identify the key points or issues • Weigh up the situation • Consider the information you do and don’t have Before you can‚ • Define the problem/issues to be addressed precisely • Outline the objectives: the desirable outcomes • Identify resources/techniques helpful to opening up the case study • Generate ideas or alternative solutions Then
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