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Technology Ideas

in the US in 2005 there was a record year, a total of 409,532 patent applications were filed and 165,485 patents were issued, this...

Porter's 5 Forces Analysis & Value Chain - Retail Industry

companies. 3. Substitutes Products. Is it possible for a substitute product to capture the market? While it is always possible tha...

Collecting and Using Marketing Data; The Case of Tesco

years is so valuable that Tesco has bought out the IT compnay that used electronic data transfer to collect and analysis the data....

Grabbing the Attention of the Reader

two distinct arguments of the death penalty issue and this would be an adequate introduction. But the development of a more varie...

Environmental Sustenance Quest

In twelve pages this paper examines sustaining the future through environmental preservation....

The Goal by Eli Goldratt

degree in engineering and MBA. In his personal life, he is married with two kids. He is also an example of an employee who has r...

Issues at Boeing

of Harry Stonecipher, CEO of Boeing, over alleged ethical violations (Holmes, 2005). Its alleged that Stonecipher was having an af...

How Some Competitive Advantages Endure in New Industries

manufactured products, firms will reverse engineer the products in order to find ways around the patents, and in some cases, as se...

Blue Nile Inc.

of Porters Five Forces model can be used to assess the industry and the firms ability to compete in that industry, the way the fir...

Advantage to Other Forms of Transport?

types of transport for many reasons. The development of air freight and increased use of passenger aircraft to carry cargo provi...

Competitive Strategy Health Care

Building a competitive advantage is crucial for all businesses to succeed. This paper uses Urbany's Competitive Strategy in 3 Minu...

Assessment and Strategy Recommendation for TEVA

for the firm to start increasing the level of expenditure on research and development. To determine the most appropriate strategy ...

The Competitive Approach of Intel

both the architecture and the elements are changed there is a radical innovation (Henderson and Clark, 1990). When looking at the...

Organizational Development

and large companies alike in a range of different sectors. The market position adopted by the company will also be influen...

Notes on Marketing and Strategy

In eight pages this paper examines acquisition advantages over startup, Porter's Competitive Strategy, and the marketing effects o...

Hotel Industry Productivity Performance Measurement and Assessment

In eight pages this paper discusses how operational efficiency and effectiveness can be measured and assessed while also consideri...

Presentation on Canada's Hamilton Health Services

allows justification for greater technological expenditures as well, because the patient base is not limited only to the immediate...

Performance, Efficiency, and Port Operations

opened up to whatever ship happened by (Hill, 1991). The advent of container shipping has brought about the need for closer conta...

Four Questions About Business

sakes and marketing this may indicate there is at least a partial meeting of this aspect. The third issue is the goals for succe...

TQM and Operations Management

by Haigh and Morris (1994). Total is seen as being the entire organisation or company, from board level through to the tea lady. ...

Information Systems and Information Technology: Still Providing a Competitive Advantage?

on the manufacturing sector. There, the author says, the "competitive advantage is provided by integrated information systems" (T...

Does Information Technology Still Provide Competitive Advantage?

on the manufacturing sector. There, the author says, the "competitive advantage is provided by integrated information systems" (T...

Strategy at BMW

such had more benefit of economies of scope and scale. For example, the merger between Daimler and Chrysler in 1998 had been diffi...

IT and Competitive Advantage

Information technology and how it can be implemented to gain competitive advantage is the focus of this paper consisting of seven ...

3 Questions Answered on International Trade

example of the use of anti-dumping legislation is seen with the import of seafood. The US Department of Commerce ruled in prelimin...

An Examination of Avis

In the survey of loyalty in the different sectors a points scheme is used, Avis achieved 119 point out if 120 (Avis, 2001). In ter...

Aspects of Competitive Advantage

In five pages competitive advantage and its various factors are examined in terms of how it can be gained in business, with Porter...

Industry Competition and Advances in Technology

In twenty pages this report discusses how industrial competitive edge is sustained through advances in technology. Sixteen source...

The Sources of Competitive Advantage at Burberry

also accompanied by style. The brand also has a number of logos and recognized styles that link in with the firm, traditions and q...

Testing Competitive Advantages

simply offering a low price" (Porter, 1985; 120). The premium that the product, or service, can command as a result of this differ...