Smirnoff Product Life Cycle on the Market

Diageo is a company that produces alcoholic beverages. It is operational in numerous countries across the world especially the US, Australia, Italy and India. It is recognized for its alcoholic beverages especially Guinness and Smirnoff. The company is successful as evident in its listings in the stock exchange especially in...

Wal-Mart’s Efforts in Global Expansion

Introduction Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world, was founded in 1962 by an American Sam Walton in Arkansas State in the US. It did not start international expansion until 1991 when it opened Sam’s club in Mexico City. Since then it has expanded its international business to 13 countries...

Porter’s Generic Strategies Analysis

Choosing what position to take in the market in which a business function is an extremely important part of a company’s strategy. Michael Porter identified three basic strategies which cover the range of positions that a business can take to compete in the market. These three strategies are Cost Leadership...

Strategic Human Resource Management in Iran

Introduction Human Resource Management can be stated as the managerial task that involves the matters associated to populace such as recompense, appointing, presentation, administration, association, expansion, security, well being, remuneration, worker incentive, communiqué, supervision and teaching. “Human Resource Management (HRM) is the function within an organization that focuses on recruitment...

Compensation and Security in Organizational Management

Compensation system is an important part of organizational management and effective resource allocation. Managing compensation is based on plans and involves three distinct goals: attracting and retaining qualified staff, motivating employees, and controlling costs. Although the HR manager would like to achieve each goal, it is also true that it...

Event Management Analysis: Local Soccer Championship

Introduction Even management requires careful and detailed analysis and planning in order to avoid a project failure and create an impressive and amazing setting for visitors. The event selected for analysis is a local soccer championship. This event attracts much soccer fans and people interested in s[port events. For this...

CRM Software in Amazon: Gains

The customer-related management software that Amazon.com has developed was since its launch one of the most advanced technologies. But it did not offer only reliability to the company in order to pursue its business; it also helped it improve its business. If you want to have a successful company that...

Ribble Kitchen Company’s Product Mix

Introduction In an optimization problem, the nature of mathematical relationship between the objective and constraints as well as the interconnection between the decision variables determines the optimum level of any operation (Solver.com, 2009). If the objective and all of the constraints involved are convex in nature – that is adjustable...

Understanding and Managing the Brand Space

A brand can be related to the products or services and can define the functions, meaning, image, or benefits of those products and services; combining these two elements describe the concept of brand space. The arguments given by the authors in their article regarding the mistakes made by many organizations...

Employee Benefits Plan and Design for BAE Systems

Introduction The company I chose to do my project on is BAE Systems. I chose this company, because my sister works for them. She has worked in the Colorado Springs, CO office for ten years now. She feels that this company is a good company to work for; and they...

Agri Beef Co as a Reputable Company in the Niche Market of Non-Raw Beef

Nowadays business is highly developed all over the world and it is very important to find a niche that will be profitable and will provide opportunities for business growth. Since it is impossible for a human being to live without food consumption, the food industry is one of the most...

Petroleum Exporting Countries Organization

Introduction The purpose of this paper is to regard the history of OPEC as the organization of petroleum suppliers, represent this alliance as the political power and provide the models of its further development from the context of its necessity and usefulness for the development of the world economy. To...

Airline Industry’s Economic Profile

Introduction The currently witnessed globalization may be attributed, to a great extent on the expansion and advancement of air travel. In the last few years, demand for air travel has been growing at a high rate due to the increased mobility of people on tourism, diplomatic or business mission. The...

Business Communication: Fitting the Message to Channel

Introduction The fact is that that the allover communication process is the transmission of a message from one person to another, which is aimed at sharing thoughts, considerations, opinions, and facts. As for the business communication process, and the messages, the issues of proper selection of the communication channel for...

IKEA: Supply Chain Efficiency

IKEA is a world-class business leader in furniture products serving over 35 countries the world over. Such accomplishment doesn’t come easily and IKEA has time and again proven that its supply chain is the key to its success. When IKEA first started expanding out of Sweden, it supplied its furniture...

Understanding Individual and Group Behavior in Business

Problem Statement The Superior Slate Company experienced the drastic decrease of its productivity, and the company’s CEO Mr. North and superintendent Mr. Williams connect the issue with the formerly started technological modernization of the slate mill. For Superior Slate Company, technological modernization brought the results opposite to the expected ones....

Social Marketing: An Approach to Planned Social Change

The role of social marketing image in the spheres of business and social life functioning is presented through the promotion of strategic marketing planning process and other concepts leading to considerable environmental changes in the society. It is necessary to investigate the planning of change agencies and social marketing peculiarities....

Deere & Company Establishing E-Business Standards

Introduction A B2B exchange should present Deere with an opportunity to market its products using a cheaper platform. This should in turn reduce its operation cost hence an increase on profits. There is however one big question about the whole exercise. This is on whether Deere should join an existing...

Marketing Plan for Williams Engineering Company

A marketing plan gives an overview of an organization and depth analysis of its marketing strategy the marketing plan highlights the major aspects of an organization that is related to marketing. In this paper, we will develop a marketing plan for Williams Engineering Company. The business Mission The mission of...

Difficulties Women Face Becoming Managers

Organization overview AF&L Insurance Company aims at providing the modern consumers with a complete end-to-end facility of healthcare insurance. The company is providing a 24-hour call-in facility where the customer can call to achieve healthcare insurance benefits from within the confines of their own home. The idea is to provide...

Use of Contingent Employees at the Federal Bureau of Prisons

The Federal Bureau of Prisons was founded in 1930 as a means of offering more advanced and humane care to the Federal prisoners, to enhance the professionalism of the prison service, and to guarantee consistent and centralized management of the 11 Federal prisons that were in operation then. As of...

Organizational Management and Performance: Inter-Organizational Relationships

Organization An organization is formed when a group of people joins together intentionally, to accomplish a common goal or goals (McNamara, 2007). People composition in an organization ranges from two to thousands of people. In every organization, a policy must be put in place to define its conducts and relationship...

Du Telecommunications Ltd.: Strategic Planning

Executive summary This report was written to examine strategic planning options of Du mobile telephone service providing company operating in the UAE. It starts by giving research methodology that was used to collect data in which primary data was collected through direct interviews and secondary data through books and other...

NYSpeak: Company Product Analysis

Introduction Dealing with any kind of business, every company faces the necessity to develop the new products and launch them into the markets so that to catch up with the constantly developing competition and preserve of facilitate its market position and market share. Sooner or later, any company comes to...

Market Analysis of Allstate Insurance Company

Introduction Allstate Insurance Company began its operations in 1931 as an Illinois Corporation which is currently licensed in over forty states to write property and casualty business. It became a public company in the year 1993 after enlisting in the New York Stock Exchange. It is the largest publicly held...

Beak & Johnston: Human Resource Managment

Introduction to Beak & Johnston Beak & Johnston is a family-owned business, and has been operating in Australia since 1986. The company produces and supplies pre-packed meat portions, roasts, soups and seasoned meat products to both domestic and export customers. Servicing some of Australia’s largest supermarket chains and countries such...

The Pseudo-Wire Company: Organizational Behavior

Introduction The organizational culture is a significant part of modern management science that has practiced in the private sector business organizations to comply with the promptly changing environment to achieve organizational effectiveness. Beliefs and values, customs and attitudes, psychology and expertise all together form the Organizational Culture. Organizational culture may...

Restaurant Manager: Functions, Factors, Performance

Store manager As a store manager, the key is to have good forecasting sense and ability to lead a team. The store manager has to motivate a team consisting of employees at all the levels, there are certain unexpected times such as dissatisfied customers complaining or claiming a refund, as...

“New Bases of Competitive Advantage”: Article Summary

Introduction The business environment today is becoming increasingly complex, so much so that traditional models of strategic management are increasingly diverging towards irrelevancy. The New Bases of Competitive advantage discusses the alternative adaptive imperative that has to be adopted by companies seeking to survive the competition. The purpose of this...

The Ajax Company: Case Study

Outline This White paper analyzes the case study about the “Automated Production Control System Case” of the Ajax Company. The paper identifies and describes the associated risks pertaining to the two alternatives under consideration. The report has been prepared in the form of a White Paper. Description of Problem and/or...

Customer Service at Boeing

Introduction Boeing, like many other aerospace companies, needs to ensure that its clients are fully satisfied with their services or that their consumer expectations have been fully met. The paper shall look at how Boeing does this and analysis carried out on its effectiveness. Customer service at Boeing There are...

Personal Branding by Groskop and Arruda

Personal branding has become a trend and the debate about its importance has increased. Groskop (2008) and Arruda (2003) present their opinions about this issue. Groskop is of the opinion that for people to be successful in the 21st century they need to considers personal branding. Arruda believes that a...

Alitalia’s Challenges as an International Business

Introduction Globalisation has provided unlimited expansion opportunities for established international businesses, merging of markets as well as mushrooming of small local enterprises due to the efficiency and capacity of information and communication technologies. However, the recent tide of financial crisis has also adversely affected a lot of business organisations especially...

Pentax Incorporation: Market Research

Market Research Pentax incorporation is a firm that is well established within the information technology industry. The firm deals with the development of software. The management of the firm has realized that the magnitude of competition within the software industry has increased in the recent past (Joshua 1). This is...

Demand Versus Supply: Discussion

Introduction A quantity is the effect of a given intensity of demand upon the amount of a commodity that will be brought over a certain range of prices. Generally less of a commodity will be sold at a high price than at a low price this is because, as price...

Managing Ethics: Methods and Results

This research paper discusses the methods and results of managing ethics. It is therefore divided into: Author’s Statement Abstract Introduction Methods of Managing Ethics Results of Managing Ethics Discussion and Conclusion Abstract Managing ethics in an organization has numerous benefits to both managers and leaders of that particular organization. The...

Decision-Making in Organizational Management

Introduction The process of decision-making is a sequence consisting of small parts that fit to work together so as to resolve the problem. These parts that make up the problem solving process include the definition of the problem, problem representation, analysis of the problem, brainstorming for possible solutions, choosing the...

Innovation and Product Development for Nokia

Innovation and Product Development: Best Practices for Nokia Nokia is a global company specialized in communication technologies. For Nokia, the “art” of entrepreneurship can be defined as a unique vision of reality and the world around us. Markets for a new venture’s product are typically not homogeneous. For Nokia, product...

Proctor and Gamble: Company Analysis

Introduction The paper explores on the vast area of retail marketing distribution processes. The study is carried out for the firm “Proctor & Gamble”, to identify the possibilities of success and failure of its entry to the retail field with the current background as manufacturers and marketers. The channels of...

Time Management Days Plan

Introduction Time management is one of the most important recipes to success. In order for an individual to succeed virtually in almost all aspects of his or her life (either in business, academic or even social life), strategic time management is inevitable. Effective time management directly translates to high productivity...

Ethics in Business Leadership

Nowadays the role of ethics in the sphere of business running is especially centralized through its influence on productiveness and quality of performed work. Leadership is considered to be one of the basic features to be developed in the process of working experience obtaining; it is necessary to underline the...

Branch of Retail Co Company – Riverside

Outline This case study will be based on a branch of Retail Co Company called riverside. The main issue being that of identifying the human resource policy, strategy and practices being employed at the branch level in particular, the River side branch. The case study will try to analyze whether...

Challenges Faced by Managers in Social Care Services

Introduction When one takes a new responsibility as a manager in any organization, he or she is usually optimistic of steering such an organization towards achievement of its objectives. However, these hopes might be unrealistic and unachievable because of several challenges that these new managers face within the organization. For...

Marketing Research: Kudler’s Grocery

Introduction Market research is the basis of any marketing move or formation of a strategy. Without it, managers can be overconfident and think they might not need research. That is one of the biggest mistakes made in my business today. With Kudler’s example, we will look at the importance of...

Financial Decision Making in Organizations

Introduction Capital investment appraisal is very important to the United Kingdom public limited companies in the 21st century. The increase of competition has made companies more sensitive to projects that are profitable to the organization. An investment decision to be undertaken by the company will influence the growth of the...

Employee Training Program For Interclean

Introduction This training program was developed in the backdrop of the merger between two companies; Interclean and EnviroTech. Interclean dealt with selling of cleaning products only. EnviroTech on the other hand offered cleaning services in the health industry. This implies that EnviroTech required supplies from InterClean. The merger necessitated the...

Comparison of International Financial Reporting Standards and United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

Introduction Since the introduction of IFRS, a public traded companies in Europe are required to adopt the standard requirement in reporting their financial statements. While in the United States, foreign companies reporting under the new IFRS were required by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to provide a reconciliation between...

Organizational Change Models by Kurt Lewin, John Kotter, and William Bridges

Introduction The merger of two companies with different organizational cultures inevitably creates difficulties for the manager who has to adjust his or her leadership style to the needs of the corporation and regulate workplace relations among employees. In this case, we are speaking about the fusion of two departments which...

Marketing System of Sakhr Software Co

Acknowledgements This paper is result of work of the number of people among whom I would like to thank the public relations department of Sakhr Software Co., the officials of Sakhr Software Co. who facilitated the conduct of my research in their enterprise, and the scholars whose research works I...

Manage the Risk of Corrosion in KJO’s Facilities

Abstract The cost of facility maintenance has become so expensive in the modern economic world. Organizations are under pressure to reduce operational costs, increase revenues and achieve competitive advantages. Operation costs here include transport, depreciation, staff salaries, sales, and marketing expenditure. This proposal presents an analytical study about KJO which...

Accounting, Marketing, and Management in the Organization

Introduction An organization is a complex system that is made up of integrating structures, systems, and applications that are represented in form of roles and functions as indicated in the organizational structures and departments/ functions. Departmentalization, therefore, is the process via which the tasks and applications in an organization are...

Materials Management at Boeing

Introduction Boeing is one of the most recognizable aerospace corporations in the world. It has established itself in one hundred and forty-five countries and therefore requires a highly comprehensive materials management program. The paper shall look at this company’s approach to materials management and its strengths/ weaknesses will be identified....

Elusive Records: Marketing Strategy

Executive Summary The marketing strategy for Elusive Records is to ensure the artists get the best publicity to increase album sales. This is why the promotional activities are taken as such great opportunities to ensure adequate exposure for the overall marketing objectives. The Old Blue Last and Peacock are known...

Project or Program Failure and Organization Reputation

Abstract Organizations undertake project or programs development in order to meet certain needs of their businesses. These projects do not always become a success as they fail to meet the expected outcomes and in the expected quality. Projects and program failures have negative impacts on the reputation of an organization....

Business-to-Business Marketing Plan: Cleaning Products

Mission statement To work towards a clean environment by developing products that work and are friendly to the environment. Marketing objectives To increase awareness by 35% of the market on the need for a clean working environment To increase the demand for the new cleaning products by 50 percent in...

Business Development Stages: Start-up Phase, Growth Phase, Maturity Phase, and Decline Phase

Introduction There are four major phases of business development namely the start-up phase, growth phase, maturity phase, and decline phase. These stages are characterized by the need for effective business support systems capable of facilitating progression from one stage to another. The start-up phase The stage in which the business...

Toyota Prius and Ford Mondeo: Marketing Strategies

In 1990, three of the United States’ leading automotive manufacturers sued the state of California for the intensity with which it was establishing and implementing emission regulations. Toyota however, began work on the Toyota Prius as a move that has now become one of the most fuel-efficient cars in the...

Cooper Industries’ Interest in Nicholson File

Introduction The most important reason why Cooper Industries was interested in Nicholson File is its pretty good market positioning. Nicholson File at the moment of acquisition holder a stunning 50% of the domestic market for files and rasps. It also had a lower, but still considerably strong positioning, of 9%...

Corporate Governance: Boeing Firm Infrastructure

The modern world is abounding with different companies and firms. These companies, firms, and factories produce different goods which they supply the markets with to please the consumers. These firms are also different in their infrastructure and the way they run business, what company politics they lead and how they...

Into the Teamwork in the Organization Management

Introduction In order for an organization to remain relevant and competitive in the face of fierce competition, it is important that the management is in the apposition to deliver on the goals and objectives of such an organization. For this reason, a lot of organizations today are emphasizing cooperation and...

Introduction to Management in Australia

Outline The paper ‘Introduction to Management’ discusses the group decision-making adopted by organizations in Australia. It is a report on the increasing significance of group decision-making in organizations in Australia for meeting their organizational objectives. The research topic is the critical analysis of the subject of group decision-making in today’s...

Energy Saving Light Bulb Manufactures Ethical Issue

Introduction Owing to the negative effects that global warming is having on our planets, debates have raged on as to the best way to alleviate the degradation of the environment. One of the ways that have been proposed and to some extent embraced in some countries is the use of...

Team Macgyver Experience Analysis

Introduction A team is a group of people working towards achieving the same set of goals. Though teams usually work to achieve these goals, they face a myriad of challenges right from their formation. When our groups were first announced, every student was nervous, quietly waiting to see which group...

People-Oriented Organization: Information Sharing

Introduction Information sharing is an important part of knowledge management in the company. Assessing the context of information sharing, it can be said that it is associated with personal attributes, as information sharing is “voluntary act of making information available to others, [where] sharer could pass information on, but does...

Adult Learning in the Company

I guess that organizational learning is one of the most important aspects of organizational development as it helps modern companies to improve their performance and introduce knowledge management initiatives. Organizations learn when they increase their knowledge of action relationships by obtaining information that they recognize as being potentially useful. This...

Scottish Real Estate Market Analysis

This business report deals with the analysis of commercial real estate market conditions in Scotland. The demand and supply theory in the real estate market context is included in this report for assessing the future market conditions. The economics, dynamics and interactions between use, investment and development sectors are discussed...

Sheltair Aviation: Lean Six-Sigma

Abstract Management is one of the most important concepts in the operation of a firm. The management of Sheltair Aviation, a firm that deals with the fixed-based operation of airlines in North America, has integrated this concept. Over the years, its performance has been optimal due to various management strategies...

Digital Dashboards and Management Cockpits

Digital dashboards are business management tools that visually give the position or status of the business using the core indicators of that same business. They display data from various business departments to give the bests decisions that the business venture should follow. There are three types available in the markets;...

Using E-Commerce: A Technology-Based Business

Introduction According to Wigand (1997), electronic Commerce is an integrative concept, designed to draw together a wide range of business support services. This includes inter-organizational e-mail, directories, trading support systems for commodities, products, customized products, and custom-built goods and services, ordering and logistic support systems, settlement support systems, and management...

Motivation Techniques at Workplace

In the business environment, motivation can be defined as the internal state that activates behavior and energizes individuals to goal-oriented behavior. It is a composition of design beliefs that directs these needs me to take action. Motivation can include things such as inspiration, encouragement, and support. Motivating factors are the...

The Marketing Importance for Purchase Desicions

There is a certain food stuff manufacturing firm from which I always purchase snacks. The firm produces different types of cakes, biscuits, and on the other hand processes milk into different final products like yoghurt, cheese, butter, fresh milk etc. I am a constant buyer of this business as I...

The U.S.A v. Jeffery Skilling – An Ethical Analysis

Statement of Facts Legal Issue Statement Applicable Legal Rules Observations In this case, in the lower court, jurors who were educators, office workers, a nurse, and engineers observed that Skilling was final repository as he was the main brain behind binding “side-deals” to perpetuate his technique to defraud. According to...

Infosys Firm’s Information Systems Management

Executive Summary This research study is concerned with the role played by information systems management within an organisation. The company under exploration, in this case, is Infosys Solutions, an information system management company that provides information systems solutions to government, corporate and individual organisations. Following a brief description of the...

The Promoting of Effective Board Governance

Introduction The organizational structures, especially companies, are different and more complex from those of smaller ones. While sole proprietorship and partnership consist of just the management team, larger organization and companies in particular (both profit making and non profit making organization), usually have boards of director which is the organization’s...

Organizational Structures: Ford Motor Company

The organizational structure of an enterprise can be affected by a great number of factors, such as marketing strategies, operations, human resources, and others (Bateman& Snell, 2008). Provided that we are speaking about Ford Motor Company we should first speak about operations. As a representative of the automobile industry, Ford...

Conflict Management Styles in Workplace

Conflict management (CM) styles provide us with those patterns of expressing our concern that usually develops in workplace organizations with an aim to resolve conflicts. Conflicting situations require the skills to cope up with various problem scenarios. CM is usually examined in my place of work as a dual process...

Pricing and Marketing Strategies for Windows and Office That Microsoft Should Follow

Introduction For a long time, the Microsoft Company has had huge profit margins through employing the monopoly power it has to hold constant the prices of the company’s software at all times regardless of the business situation. However, in these times of horrible downturn and ever-increasing competition, the CEO of...

Operations Management: Ford vs. Firestone

Introduction Operations management refers to all sets of strategies and activities that are geared towards the careful management of processes to produce and distribute products and services. According to Bjorn & Rune (1999:294), the set of activities that are involved in operations management includes product creation, development, production, and distribution....

Lifestyle in Market Segmentation

Introduction The article under consideration is called “construct “lifestyle” in market segmentation: the behavior of tourist consumers” is written by A.M Gonzalez and L. Bello. The article is dedicated to the problem of personification of the market strategies using innovated lifestyle concepts. These new streams in the market are precisely...

Information Systems at Boeing Corporation

Managers and business organizations invest in information technology and systems because such strategies provide real economic value to the business. The decision to implement or sustain an information system presumes that the profits on this investment will be higher than that of other assets. These higher profits can be expressed...

Lufthansa Group: International Growth Strategy

Introduction Background to the study Lufthansa is one of the largest firms in the European airline industry. The firm operates from two main hubs which include Munich and Frankfurt. In its operation, the firm serves approximately 242 destinations which are located in 87 different countries (Lufthansa, 2008, ¶ 3). Apart...

Brand Development: Branding Strategy Insider

Introduction Building a brand or generating response have been subjects of debate over the years, as fighter brands remain an ancient strategy in branding. In their articles “How the GFC has forced brands to rethink their strategies” (Addis 2009) and “Fighter brand strategy considerations” (Daye & VanAuken 2009), the authors...

Employment Contract, Termination and Restraint to Trade

Introduction An employment contract is an agreement between two parties, that is, the employer and the employee (Mouzas, S. & Furmston, M., 2008). The contract is a legally binding agreement that is enforced by law and in case of a breach of contract the court may provide a remedy. According...

The Relationship of Leadership to the Politics of the Organization

The advice given by Dr. Kennedy is practical to some extent. Many workers prefer to be led rather than be managed. This means that most employees would rather have someone to guide them and then allow them to complete their jobs on their own. While this advice may work for...

Stakeholders and CSR (Stakeholder Theory)

Stakeholders have a great impact on product markets as they determine the main trends and product requirements for a future period of time. To decide what a customer means by more colorful, more durable, or stronger, and to build these characteristics into a product, can easily involve misinterpretations. Moreover, needs...

How Does Wal-Mart Benefits From Green Sustainable Supply Chain?

Outline Environmental change has begun to grip the world with consistent patterns of turbulent weather conditions which have resulted in extreme heat waves, rainfall, snowfall and hurricane in most parts of the world. Under the circumstances it becomes important for people to be concerned about taking remedial measures in reducing...

The Risks of Outsourcing

Outsourcing is a process through which a company or an organization may ask other firms to handle some of its functions. These functions usually consist of marketing, human resource, finance, selling, retailing, etc. Since there are other firms in the market which specialize in these fields, it becomes easier for...

PSU: Women Managerial Career Development

There is scarce information on the different and changing organizational situations in which women follow their careers. During the 1980s and 1990s, private and public organizations underwent various levels of restructuring as a result of the need to be competitive in the external market and improvement of the internal market....

Management Skills Learning and Development Plan

Career goals and career opportunities Currently, I am working as an Accountant in the Finance Department of a hotel. My senior is Assistant Financial Controller and Director of Finance. I have been working here for a month only. My job duty is to do month-end closing and management reporting and...

Case Study “Tough Guy”: Problems in the Organization

Introduction The problems that this case study presents revolves around the insulting and derogatory behavior of Chip Mazey, the vice president of Hudson Smith Gordon, an investment bank, along with his poor people skills. Case analysis The insulting and derogatory behavior Mazey portrays has led him, a vice president of...

Hatch and Schultz Action Research in Lego Company

Introduction Action research undertaken by Hatch and Schultz in LEGO Company elaborates a handful of insights on corporate branding. It offers an insightful example of managerial challenges and dynamics involved in organizations that are used in developing global brands (Hatch, 2009). They argued for a shift from product to corporate...

Collective Bargaining in Public Sector

A union (labor union) is an organization that is formed through workers coming together to achieve common goals, in very key areas such as the conditions of work. Unions are legally recognized as worker’s representatives in many companies and industries. According to John, (p24) “In most cases, unions are found...

Porter’s Competitive Forces and Its Effect on Business

Porter’s model shows the five forces influences on a businesses enterprise including threat of entry of competitors, threat of substitutes, bargaining power of buyers, bargaining power of suppliers, and rivalry among the existing players. Moreover, to make the model more comprehensive, a sixth factor, government was later included in the...

Finnforest Corporation: Implementation of E-Procurement in Business

Introduction The wave of IT revaluation has shaped our business community to replace traditional procurement with e-procurement. The pioneer of technology adoption has argued to quick turn into e-procurement, when the classic thinker stands for traditional procurement. As a market leader of European Forest Industry, Finnforest Corporation has been demonstrated...

Ethics Within the Organization

Ethics within an organization have become very important now because all organizations have now realized the benefits and advantages they can get by following these ethics. The organization I work in has a number of tools that ensure that ethics are being followed and practiced within the company. Some of...

Pendux Incorporation: International Business

Introduction Pendux Incorporation is a private limited company that was established in 2000 within the coffee industry in US. The firm’s headquarters are located at New York. Pendux Incorporation deals with retailing and wholesaling of roasted coffee. The management of the firm ensures that its products are of high quality....

Wal-Mart Stores as Sam Walton’s Enterprise

Sam Walton incorporated his business as Wal-Mart Stores in 1969 and more than thirty years later it has become a global retailing juggernaut with an unprecedented revenue that will exceed $400 billion in fiscal 2009 (Thompson, Strickland, & Gamble, 2008, p.374). It is the largest retailer in the United States,...

Project Management Process: The Distributed Decision System

Introduction A project plan may be defined as a formal, official document created in order to set clear, understandable guidelines for and to provide direction to both project operation as well as project control. The main reasons for creating such a document are to help efficient and productive planning assumptions,...

Boston Children’s Hospital’s Communication Case

Introduction Communication is the vital need of every human being. In other words, people would not differ from other species of animals if they had no ability to formulate their thoughts and communicate them. This ability allows people build certain relationships with each other within their local communities and in...

Consumer Purchase Decision Psychology

Executive Summary Consumer purchase decision is influenced by external factors used as stimulus in store design. These factors enhance the consumer capacity to assess the stimulus meaning and initiate a response in them to involve in more purchases. Customer behaviour modification during shopping is based on the perception of customers....

TiVo Inc.: Strategic Management

This paper aims to describe the industry and operating environment of such a company as TiVo Inc. In particular, it is necessary to focus on such aspects as the intensity of completion, the possibility of new entrants, the bargaining power of customers and suppliers, etc. The analysis may help to...

Job Analysis- InterClean and EnviroTech

Introduction The merger between InterClean and EnviroTech has led to a new outfit that has shifted the two companies strategic direction to a completely dimension. InterClean dealt with cleaning products only while EnviroTech offered cleaning services for organizations in the healthcare industry. The merger effectively brings together two business entities...

Scheduling and Supply Chain in Manufacturing

Introduction Manufacturing of new products requires product design and complete description of the steps involved. Companies should opt for a production system, which will enable production of the desired quality of goods at the right time. The major types of manufacturing processes are job shop, batch shop, assembly and continuous....

Motivational Problems at Workplace

Managers have the responsibility to make workers motivated since lack of it can be a source of many problems in the workplace. Motivation is the reason why people want to work. There is a gap that exists between an individual’s desired state and the actual state. Motivation, therefore, is a...

The Coca-Cola Company in Sub-Saharan Africa

This is a research of international business activities of Coca-Cola Company in Sub- Saharan Africa. Coca-Cola Company is a multinational company with its origin in Atlanta, Georgia. It was invented by Doctor John Pemberton in May 1896. Today, it’s the world’s leading beverage company in the world. Along with Coca-Cola,...

External Environmental Factors That Influence Wataniya Airways Performance

Introduction This paper focuses on the Wataniya Airways and the external environmental factors influencing its performance. Wataniya Airways was established in the year 2005. It was founded as a section of the Kuwait Government’s liberalization of airways services and was established by Kuwait corporations that comprised of Global Investment House...

Business-Level Strategy for Boeing

Introduction The business world of today is a practical example of hard-line competition. The main cause of these types of aggressiveness is maybe the newly shaped borderless markets all over the world. The total world is now a big market and thus named as global market. Companies, Like Boeing, are...

Business Plan Analysis and Critique of Abaka Company

Introduction The marketing plan is one of the most important and vital documents which determines the main strategic directions and goals of the project. As the basic vehicle for matching solutions with means, or management resources with market opportunity, management planning becomes the mechanism through which a company is brought...

Group Problem-Solving and Decision Making

The modern sphere of business has always been looking for ways to improve the working process. Individual decision making, brainstorm, group work, are all types of decision making, which are used by the companies. Group problem-solving and decision-making is one of the most effective techniques as the group of people...

Assessment and Management of Risks

Risk can be defined as the unexpected happening in uncertain events. Risk can also be described as a combination of the likelihood of a hazard occurring and the severity of the hazard. One is never certain that risk is going to happen and so the risk is un-foretold and uncertain....

Leadership Theory: Human Relations Approach

It is universally acknowledged that every company has its own hierarchical structure where the company is split into departments and divisions headed by managers. Hence comes, each company works out its own strategy of the subordinate relationships. Therefore, people can be divided between the leaders and the followers and effective...

“The One Minute Manager” by K. Blanchard and S. Johnson

The book “The One Minute Manager” is written by Kenneth Blanchard and co-authorized by physician Spencer Johnson. K. Albrecht (2002) writes the following about it: “Originally self-published in 1984, and only sold to a commercial publisher after it had achieved significant sales numbers, it eventually sold over 5 million copies...

Toyota Motor Ltd: Guiding Principles, Philosophy, and Practices

At the end of the day, the insistence of the company on lean and efficient production rests on the strategy of offering the market cars that work reliably and are as affordable as possible. Quality and productivity helped the company penetrate an impoverished domestic market still struggling to surmount the...

Business Ethical Issues Definition

While carrying out business, people encounter numerous moral and ethical constraints, which is explained by the fact that the human factor dominates in business relationships. However, to solve the emerging disputes based on the infringement of moral principles, it is necessary to apply the legal issues that foster the balance...

Consumer Adoption of Optus Company’s New Technology

Introduction Optus Company is a communication company that provides various communication services to about seven million consumers in Australia every day. The various services that the company provides include mobile, all telephone services (international and local), business network services, internet and satellite services and subscription television. The merge of Sing...

Diversity and Demographic Impacts on Behavior

Abstract Businesses or firms that employ a diverse workforce are in a better position to appreciate and realize the demographics of their market. Demographics in this case refer to specific characteristics used in marketing or business research. They include race, disabilities, income, gender, location, and age. A company with a...

Virgin Company: Organizational Leadership

Abstract In business, leadership is of vital importance because the financial success of every company depends upon the abilities of its leader to structure the work, motivate employees and customers, promote the goods produced, and facilitate the increase of the company’s market share. Richard Bronson, the founder of the Virgin...

Case of JP Morgan Chase

Introduction Various approaches have been used to define the term organizational development, and the organizational change has been used synonymous with organizational development. In all geographical locations, various factors have led to the organizational development because of the necessity of an organization have to expand in the global market place....

Malaysian Market for Wiper Blades

Introduction Wiper blades are one of the fastest-growing commodities being sold internationally. Because of the increase in demand for vehicles, the wiper blades industry is becoming one of the most lucrative industries. The wiper blades industry in Malaysia had developed into large operations whose products are used all over the...

Organization Management: Quality Management in Companies

Introduction Within the operation of any organization, quality management is mostly considered to comprise three basic components, namely quality control, assurance and improvement. Quality management does not only focus on product quality, but also on the ways of achieving it, hence, it incorporates quality assurance, control of processes and products...

Management Planning: Tyco Company

Introduction All business and human organizations need the right management practices for them to be sustainable and viable. Proper management practices should focus on both the long and short-term objectives of an organization. It involves formulating strategic targets, defining clearly organizational goals, implementation of correct plans and executing the plans...

Investment Management: The Relevance of Portfolio Theory and Capital Asset Pricing Model

Introduction Background Risks are essential repercussions of different investments. Treasury bills are considered safer than other investments. Treasury bills are those long term bond investments that offer investors assets whose prices rarely fluctuate. Low risk entails low returns. That is why treasury bills provide the lowest average return when compared...

Alton International Pte Ltd.: Supply Chain Management

An Outline The following was the team’s plan for the study of Supply Chain Management in the business situation at Alton International (S) Pte Ltd, Singapore Operations. Actual site visit Purchasing Department Sales and Marketing Department Human Resource Department Warehouse & distribution Department Customer Service Department Presentation of conclusion and...

Executive Compensation Practices: Compensation Packages, Executive Pay, and Criticisms

Introduction Executive compensation concerns the remuneration of top executives in corporations. The executive compensation is a package that includes base salaries, bonuses etc. The top executives negotiate for their employment contracts. These contracts are typically five years and they spell out basic salaries, target bonus- that is paid with or...

Systems Thinking In Organiztions

Introduction An organization system is a compilation of elements or units that are well incorporated to achieve a general aim. The system consists of entities that undertake a course of action to generate definite outcomes that collectively, result in the desired yield for the arrangement. Therefore, a system comprises numerous...

Gentiva Home Health Company Positive Ethical Behavior

Introduction The Gentiva Health Company has been the leading health care company in the United States and this has been attributed highly to its best-defined organizational policies. As America’s leader in the provision of home care health services, the company has been delivering an expansion of healthcare in homes for...

SABIC Brand Role and Its Reception in Australian Market

Purpose of the Proposed Research It is expected to give clear information on the possible reception of the SABIC brand in the Australian market and reveal the gap for entry and brand building for competitive advantage. Research question What role will SABIC brand play in the Australian market and what...

Assessment of Leadership Capabilities

Leadership skills are the skills demanded in any kind of position from any employee: “These skills include the knowledge of how to control the performance of one’s subordinates or partners, participate in decision making, and bear responsibility for them” (Northhouse, 2004). Accordingly, a leader is to be a person with...

Decision Making in Paradise Two

Effective decision making and business prosperity interrelate to each other and reflect organization’s strategic plans and management systems. The case of Paradise vividly portrays that decision-making determines overall success of the organization and its development. Leadership style of the executive enables him to be accepted by others. Decision-making mechanisms adopted...

“Plan, Do, Study, Act Model to Improve an Orientation Program” Article Synthesis

This paper is a synthesis of the article, “Plan, Do, Study, Act Model to Improve an Orientation Program” that concerns the processes of employee orientation at work. Employee orientation is a process wherein the new employees at a workplace are taken “on board” and introduced to the various elements of...

Impact of Organization Restructuring on Motivation

Introduction Organizational restructuring may bring positive or negative impacts on the motivation of the members of the organization. Although changes of an organization may achieve cohesion among the members and increased morale due to a change in the culture, it may bring changes that are uncertain, and thus result in...

Educational Training Program Proposal Report

Abstract The project is carried with the aim of identification of the factors that will improve the employment management system. It provides with ideas and solutions for the understanding of the employees’ needs and preferences who are learning online. In addition, the project presents the models of program development of...

Marketing Mix Products and Brand Strategies

In this research paper importance of branding will be discussed with regards to placing a product in the minds of the consumers. The paper will then delve into the relationship element of the brand with its users or consumers. Finally a comparison will be made between two brands of different...

Managing Diversity and Creating Equal Opportunity at Workplace

Introduction Despite the expanded role of women in the workplace over the last three decades, the proportion of women continues to decline at progressively higher levels in managerial hierarchies the higher the level in the organization, the fewer women are found. Understanding the work environment is crucial to understanding what...

The Most Critical Leadership Competencies

Making a good leader is the central goal of any working organization striving to create effective business staff headed by a qualified specialist. Leadership is considered to be one of the central skills helping any person to succeed in business and social activities; this quality makes anyone stand out from...

Managing Organizational Change at Du Pont

Introduction This case study takes up the matter of how the organizational development (OD) approach to changes is enforced in Du Pont. “Organisational Development is concerned about “measurement and identification of organizational factors that encourage and inhibit performance.” (Organisational development 2009). In the context of Du Pont, it is seen...

SABMiller on the South African Beer Market

SABMiller has saturated the South African beer market. It has to find a way to increase their revenue in the global market and so decided to raise capital through the London Stock Exchange. When they did not succeed in attracting investors, the company made the mistake of acquiring the second...

Creativity Under the Gun At Litmus

Introduction Creative ideas are new and useful for the progress of any organization. But creativity has been hindered at the Litmus Corporation due to time pressures that results in stressful working conditions. Analysis Colquitt, LePine, and Wesson (2009) defines stress as a psychological response to demands for which there is...

Sullivan Ford Auto World Company’s Management

Introduction This article deals with the issue of service marketing. The subject of the article is in a case study format. Sullivan Ford Auto World has been selected as the particular case whose operations will be scrutinized and the issues it faces would be analyzed. Additionally, subsequent to the analysis...

Problem Solution: Best Snacks INC.

Best Snacks is part of a giant industry in the modern world. The fast food industry is a rapidly changing industry. As we will see in the pages to come, Best Snacks is finding itself in a difficult position lately. It is one of the oldest operating companies in the...

Environmental Trends in Microbrewing (Craft Beer)

Technological Trends The Micro Brewing and beer brewing industry has turned into a high technology industry and there are a number of factors that impact the industry. Beer Spoiling Bacteria Breweries across the world and across all types of beers are faced with the repetitive problem that beer can get...

Blue Star Inc.: The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business

Ethics and morality are philosophical concepts that are understood differently by different people. There are some rules in the society that are aimed to be the norms of the behavior. Business is the same world where norms of behavior also exist. The ethical code of behavior states some issues, according...

International Marketing – Impact of Globalization

Abstract Due to the invention of highly developed technology the current world has more and more become an integrated community and as a consequence global business is the present form of trade in this 21st century. Also due to globalization concept there has been immense disregard to countrywide boundaries, the...

The Role of Integrated Marketing Communications Campaign

Integrated marketing Communication refers to a general approach to marketing. This is aimed at ensuring that there is uniformity of message with the corresponding use of media. It involves the use of online and offline marketing sources. Online marketing channels comprise websites, e-marketing, internet TV, and blogs. Offline channels include...

Importance of ‘Strategic Planning’ in the Marketing Process

Background Strategic planning is an important aspect of the process of marketing. It deals with the process of defining a strategy and making decisions regarding the allocation of resources for the particular strategy. Strategic planning can be defined as the “determination of the steps required to reach an objective of...

Toyota Boshoku: Human Resource Management

Introduction The company which has been selected for this paper is Toyota Boshoku. This paper is based on human resource management activities of the company. This paper is going to help with understanding the extent to which the Human Resource functions and the HR strategies, policies, and practices are integrated...

Ensuring Quality Management with Certifications

Abstract This paper outlines what certification is, what its perceived benefits to the employees are and why managements try and get their staff certified in the first place. It also provides some details of the commonly pursued certifications like the CMA, the CPA, CIA, etc and gives some information on...

IT Goals for Supply Chain Management

Executive summary This paper will base its discussion on the importance and role played by the information technology sector using system integration in supply management to achieve its goal when supplying. This paper will look at the demerits and merits that are to be faced by a manufacturer as he...

ING Group’s Information Audit and Policy Development

Executive Summary This document gives a short summary of ING’s business and how this business is affected by the information that the company must process on a daily basis. The document further stresses the need for this information for the proper functioning of the company and need to have the...