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Music Industry Decision Making

leads both the US and Europe, and by a wide margin (Cieslak, 2007). As digital forms continue to evolve, if CD sales contin...

Is an IT Strategy Focused On Maintaining Cutting-Edge Technology the Most Effective Way to Support Any Kind of Overall Business?

business strategies (Deloitte Consulting, 2004). The problem is that although there may be benefits of IT gaining alignment...

Knowledge Management

Management In the past it may be argued that knowledge management was a potential source of competitive advantage, but i...

IBM Systems and Technology Marketing

had to recover from losses that the firm may be argued as becoming one that was more marketing oriented. The firm certainly undert...

Minimizing Exposure to Exchange Rate and Interest Rate Risks

the home currency, but this may also have a cost, as it may limit customers, as it does not mitigate the total risk, it is shiftin...

Crisis and Change at Toyota Motors

In 2013 Toyota Motors adopted a new organizational structure to enable changes in the firm to overcome the problems of the past. T...

Tax Rates and Investment Assessments

Business should consider a number of factors before making strategic and investment decisions. The first part of the paper consid...

Marketing Research Proposal To Identify the Features of Effective Social Networking Media Messages

Social media is playing an increasingly important role in firms marketing strategies. This paper presents a research proposal des...

Future Strategy for TOMS Shoes

Using a text provided by the student, the case of TOMS shoes is assessed and the problems identified. The writer then identifies ...

Change for Firms Facing a Financial Crisis

The paper is written as a literature review examining different aspects and approaches to change that are pertinent for firms tha...

The US Dollar, Depreciation, and Sony

The writer looks at the way in which exchange rate volatility takes place, it is influences and the way it can impact on internat...

Choosing a Method to Survey Employees

There are many situations in which an employer may wish to gain the options of employees. The writer looks at the way a survey to...

Effective Healthcare Management

This research paper pertains to the fact that a variety of tools have been designed in order to identify and assess the competenci...

The Impact of Corporate Culture on Customer Services - A Proposal for Case Study Research

The writer presents a proposal to assess the link between corporate culture at an airline and the reasons for poor levels of custo...

Candidates Views on Fairness in Job Recruitment

collecting background information on the candidate; gathering only information which was classified as objective and could be veri...

Can IKEA Remain Successfully Expand into New Markets?

et al, 2011, p261). The consumer is part producer, as they do not go to a traditional furniture store to purchase the goods, but t...

Outputs at Skype

chargeable, and are a main source of revenue. In 2011 the organisation had a total of 663 million different registered users (A...

South African Breweries

should be measurable. Financial measures for the company should include measures such as overall turnover, cost of goods sold, gr...

Influences on Price Determination for a New Product

The writer examines the different factors a firm will look at when deciding on a pricing strategy for a product that is new to the...

The Way in Which Increasing Globalisation Has Created Increasing Economic Interdependence and Reliance on Nation States

seen as increasingly important with recent financial crisis seeing the need for countries in dire straights receiving support in o...

Mission and Values at Southwest Airlines

sense of warmth, friendliness, individual pride, and Company Spirit" (Southwest Airlines, 2012). Applying the idea of McNama...

Considerations for a New Product

may also be a requirement. With a high quality unit the after sales service may also need to be considered, including the guarante...

Rich Pictures and a Business Tool

manufacturing companies may be a lack of efficiency within the firm as a whole and falling productivity or sales levels1. In this ...

Assessing a Potential Investment - Southwest Airlines

customer service (Southwest, 2012). The firm has been highly regarded by investor due to the strong financial results that have be...

Financial Performance of eBay according to the 2010 Accounts

firm has proven the effectiveness of its business model, showing it is suitable to different economic climates. 1. Introduction ...

Proposal for a New Assessment Model Aimed at Analysis of Information Technology Use within a Firm

which an organisation competes. Porter (1985, p13) has designed two differing categories of competitive advantage; cost advantage ...

Strategic Assessment of Telefonica

the desired results. Analysis of Telefonica Telefonica S.A. is a large Spanish telecommunications group. The firm was once the...

Asian Agri Market and Strategy

market trends, where there is high level of sales, the company has some concerns regarding the potential future of the commodity. ...

A Theoretical Assessment of Motivational Strategies at Starbucks

service creating happy customers (Heskett et al, 1994, p164). The human resource management (HRM) model of Starbucks is often ci...

The Services and Core Competences of UPS

The writer answers a set of questions posed by the student looking at the type of service strategy adopted by UPS, the core compe...