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Forecasting

such as influences in the demand for the goods which may include macro economic factors such as expected disposable income level m...

Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Case Analysis

into the 2000s, Krispy Kreme shifted from a wholesale bakery strategy to a "specialty retail strategy," emphasizing the "fresh, ho...

Lean Manufacturing, Total Quality Management, and Six Sigma

measuring the effectiveness of any remedial work (General Electric, 2005). Six Sigma has six main concepts that the tool ...

Crisis in Health Care and the HMO Model

wider array of coverage options so that all patients would be treated well. In essence, while people cannot choose any doctor they...

Coca Cola's Capital Structure

short-term loan. The most recent long-term financing decision was in 2003, when the company issued debt in the form of "lon...

Porter's Five Forces Analysis of UK and Ghana Credit

new entrants, substitute products (or services), and the power of purchasers and suppliers. Porter does not see these exte...

FedEx Ecommerce and Structural Transformation

did create that portion of it that offers next-day delivery. Twenty years after the company was founded, the Internet would arriv...

How Companies Should Compete to Maximize Internet Returns A Proposed Dissertation

(2000), as "Commerce that is transacted electronically, as over the Internet". This indicates that e-commerce is much wider than s...

2 Case Studies on Organizational Performance and Performance Metrics Compared

Not having something upon which to fall back that offers substantial support in trying circumstances proves considerably more thre...

Business and Consumer Sales and Marketing Differences

businesses and consumers, however, despite a potentially similar approach when deciding the way the markets may be approached, it ...

Competitive Strategies, Old and New

strategies. The companies and industries which are moving from old to new models are certainly relevant. It is true that while o...

Business Competition v. Collaboration

idea that traditional, old fashioned competition is what drives business. Money and profit and what is "best for the company" are ...

5 'Golden Threads' and Their Implications

and Shared Minds Implications for business are clear. All of these threads weave together in the effective organization to...

Sustainability Encouragement

customers in 168 countries around the world" (Dow Releases First Triple Bottom Line Report, 1999). At the time, Dow had annual sa...

Leadership and Business Ethics

Businesses must maintain integrity and they do this "within a framework of the law and ethics" (2000, p.17). Some firms have imple...

Faith Community Hospital Management

aware that Faith Community hospital deals in "product" much more valuable than anything that could be produced by a factory or dea...

BMW Mini Cooper Division Strategy

where it is the sports utility vehicles that are increasing in sales, the revamping and re-launch of a small car was the result of...

Employee Performance Improvement Through Performance Pay

most individuals believe there is a large gap between pay and performance (Bradley, 1996). Given this, its Bradleys belief that bu...

E-Commerce Questions

seen in many banks, who not manage relationships when suggestively selling, offering products suitable to the customers lifecycle ...

How to Analyze the External Environment in Business

a whole and the company in particular, the effect on consumers/customers and the effect on all other stakeholders, both internal a...

Challenges Managers from Australian and New Zealand Businesses Encounter When Operating in Asian Countries

to cross boarder business. A useful model that can be used to assess potential culture clash differences and difficulties ...

BabyCare Ltd Case Study

assumed 90% retention rate is over optimistic (as it is higher than any levels achieved so far) there is still a high level of gro...

Business Ethics and Citizen Responsibility

This paper addresses big business and the topic of citizenship. The author includes an interview with the owner of a modeling age...

U.S. Business and Economic Competition

In five pages economic concepts such as the business cycle, competition, and Porter's Five Forces model are discussed. Four sourc...

Yachting and Business Adjustment

In five pages a Seawind Boats, Inc. business manager's proposal is presented in terms of profit alternatives with a shift to manuf...

eCommerce Strategy of Dell Computer

In sixteen pages Dell's ecommerce strategy is examined in a direct distribution business model discussion. Fifteen sources are ci...

Overview of the Five Forces Model Developed by Michael Porter

In six pages this paper discusses various external forces as they impact upon business with a fictitious company application of Mi...

Hypotheses, Variables, and Statistics

In ten pages this paper examines business statistics in a consideration of various models, hypotheses, and variable types. Four s...

Enhancing Performance in the Workplace Through Performance Appraisals

In twelve pages this paper argues that relationships between managers and employees as well as productivity and performance by wor...

ARAMARK Strategy Formation

In fifteen pages this diverse business is examined in a consideration of strategic formation and includes company and industrial a...