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Research and 'Voice of the Market'

learning about the customers of competitors and what competitors are doing to gain market share. The voice of the customer simpl...

Business and Data Mining

that have already occurred (Nash, 1998). The purpose can be to determine which websites generate the most traffic and where that ...

Moving forward at SWA

In five pages this paper examines how Southwest Airlines can be finely tweaked for the future while retaining its competitive ad...

Information Technology and Competitive Advantage

A literature review of information technology and how it can be used to acquire competitive advantage consists of five pages. Sev...

Business and Information Technology

In five pages this paper explores the many business uses of information technology in a consideration of competitive advantage and...

Internet and Music Sales

In twelve pages the business of selling music on the Internet is examined in a consideration of competitive advantage and a compar...

A SWOT Analysis of the American Express Company

In five pages this paper explores where American Express retains its competitive advantage through internal and external factors a...

Amazon.com, the Internet, and IT

In eight pages this paper examines the information technology uses of Amazon as a way of creating competitive advantage and also c...

XYZ Plumbing in the Future and Competitive Advantage

In eight pages this paper examines XYZ Plumbing's future challenges in a consideration of IT, small company downsizing, globalizai...

BT GROUP, SALES PROCESS AND ENVIRONMENT

Discusses BT Group plc (British Telecommunications), its history and how it is using sales process to develop and retain a competi...

Business in a Niche Market - The Competitive Advantages

loyalty in consumers. Therefore, finding a niche to fill is a great way for a business to not just survive, but to thrive....

The CostCo Business Model and Performance

places it in stiff competition with firms such as Sams Club, owned by Wal-Mart. In addition to this there are also Costco Business...

Real Estate Business Strategic Plan

to be located in an area where there is sufficient infrastructure to support the demand of the company. For example, this may be i...

Competitive Advantage and Unique Japanese Structure Keiretsu

the Keiretsu structure, how it operated and how it may impact on the commercial environment and the operations of the member and n...

Samsung and Competitive Advantages

of competitive advantage. These are cost advantage and differentiation. These are two different ways a competitor may get the edge...

Remote Environmental Analysis of Boeing

of lucrative space and defence contracts" (Madslien, 2005). The U.S. then threatened to take the entire issue to the World Trade O...

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...

Fitness Center IT System Design

deal with scheduling and resource planning and will also need to keep tack of results, such as leagues or matches where there are ...

Telecommunications Industry and Consulting

well as look for areas of improvement to help the company, constantly reviewing the way they work. In this paper the consultant is...

IT and Systems Management

in mind when it comes to designing and implementing a system, as opposed to not doing so. While this might be a simplistic stateme...

IT and the Implications of Outsourcing

results, the National Health Service in the UK has outsourced many services to a high level of criticism as has the London Ambulan...

Management and Complexity Theory

some over-riding constraint" (Rosenhead, n.d.). Physical sciences have discussed the concepts of stable and unstable systems but ...

Germany's Competitive Position

for a competitive advantage (Porter, 1980). He argued that there were two sources of competitive advantage; cost and differentiati...

Organizational Theory Models and Proctor and Gamble

In four pages this paper discusses organizational theories as they pertain to Proctor and Gamble by answering some questions that ...

FedEx and Sustainable Competitive Advantage

advantage, leading the company to acquire Kinkos to enable innovative operations. Relevance Never before has FedEx been any...

Analysis of Nucor Corporation Analysis

as a team (Wall Street Transcript Corp., 2002). Gambardella also commented that one of Nucors strengths is its management team (20...

Competitive Advantage and Technology

and Millar (1985) noted some 20 years ago that information technology ends up creating a competitive advantage by offering the bus...

Tourism Industry and Employee Empowerment

more than likely to have positive things to say about an employee. In one instance, for example, on a cruise ship, a family found ...

Case Study of Japan's Komatsu Limited

such as the "F and F" project - Futures and Frontiers. Through this project, the company asked all employees to contribute ideas a...

United Kingdom's Marks and Spencer Group PLC

or criticisms regarding quality when 90 percent of its products were made in the U.K. but by the time only 65 percent were made in...