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'Strategic Intent' and Company Operations

relentlessly targeted Southwest in demarketing efforts, Southwest not only continued to exist. Eventually, it surpassed all of th...

To What Extent Can Decisions About Operations Really Be Strategic From The Firm's Point Of View?

For example, operations management may be able to help determine the right location for a factory, by looking at the available sit...

Strategy at Bunge

when a firm follows a strategy of diversification, but it is not always an advantageous. For a firm to undertake diversification t...

Business and Contingency Thinking

companies that had offices in different areas, either nationally or internationally there is also an indication of the mitigation ...

Comparing Marathon Oil and Valero Energy

5,000 retail outlets that the company does not own. The company has a total level of 22,068 employees and with an income...

Strategic Decisions at EBay

This 3 page paper looks at the way strategies and strategic decisions have been made at eBay and how the company competes. The pap...

Business Case Study: Key Findings

companies as Microsoft, Convergys, Hewlett Packard and America Online whereby the organization is not actually downsizing but inst...

Assessment and Recommendation for TDG Ltd

assess the way it should continue to compete in the future. 2. Internal Analysis In order to assess the company and determine t...

Strategic Communication And Effective Leadership

in the workplace, however, far too many of them seem to gloss over the interpersonal nature of work environments and focus more po...

Overview of a Doctoral Program Statement of Intent

to make an impact on society as a whole. My first goal is academic. My pursuit of an education extends from my belief that the ...

SWOT Analysis of Multinational Corporations

allowing them the advantage in contract negotiations. Strengths May also include access to resources. MNCs will have a rang...

Healthcare And Strategic Management

institution with a type of benchmark that evaluates their position in the market, internal metrics provide information about the i...

Starbucks

generally seen as the primary stakeholder in a business the most common measurement of company performance is that of the financia...

Case Study of THL in 2004

economy (Akoorie and Scott-Kennel, 2005). Industry has this level of interest is likely to receive a degree of political support. ...

Strategic Human Resource Development

This 30 page paper looks at what is meant by Strategic Human Resource Development (SHRD), how it differences from human resource d...

PBS/Corp. Partnerships & Strategic Alliances

this trend, Austin points out that the "era of ever-bigger national government is coming to an end" (Austin, 2000, p. 7). In previ...

Student Supplied Continental Case Study

themselves to the creation of a competitive advantage. To develop a strategy for the future the current weaknesses need to be re...

Blockbuster Inc.

850 franchise stores. In addition to the Blockbuster brand the company also has 400 of the newer concept store in store operations...

Fast Food Success and Kentucky Fried Chicken

In ten pages this paper presents a KFC case study that includes an executive summary, strategic and SWOT analyses, and strategic i...

A Case Study of a Fictitious Firm

and authors Deal & Kennedy (2000) warn that companies should consider the human factor when making changes. In the long run, it do...

Mexican Cement Company CEMEX

the latter 1980s and the 1990s, mainly through acquisitions (Podolny and Roberts, 1999). What also helped was liberalization of fo...

HR Strategy for Interclean

the management. When management overhears these concerns there is an entrenchment of the separation between management and employe...

Church & Dwight; Arm and Hammer Grow Up - A Case Study

by Church & Dwight are similar those faced by many other companies; how the company should proceed and develop strategy in a chang...

Shell Strategy

The majority of organisations have structures that were formulated for effective operations over a century ago. Technology was ver...

Plan Proposal for Computer Game Business

In thirteen pages and five sections the CuttingEdge computer game business is examined in a proposed plan that includes company in...

Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad's Article 'Strategic Intent'

In ten pages this paper discusses the issues of strategic intent raised by Hamel and Prahalad and compares those with 'Coping with...

Jet Blue Airlines: A Case Analysis

to pull itself out of the mire that constitutes the greatest economic recession since the fabled stock market crash of 1929, nearl...

U.S. Naval Operation Earnest Will and Hostile Intent

flag patterned in stars and stripes and printed in the colors red, white and blue. These new flags proclaimed that each tanker ha...

Human Resource Strategic Planning

human capital is aligned with business needs. The shape of contemporary business leadership has taken on a vastly divergent appea...

The Problems Airbus

clash a misunderstanding with sites located in different countries. In order to assess ways that the operations of the comp...