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Competitive Advantage Through Information

superior profits. To compete in the long term Porter has argued that there should be a source of competitive advantage, however, t...

Competitive Advantage and Southwest Airlines

the U.S. Department of Transportation gave a name to the phenomenon - the Southwest Effect (Southwest, 2003). It refers to the con...

Competitive Advantage and Process of Consumer Decision Making

the hotel industry and Marriott Hotels we can see that it is by way of differentiation that they appear to try to operate....

Competitive Advantage, Organizational Structure, and Businesses

sorting out. In these examples, what elements of organizational structure are managers working with to enhance performance and com...

Apple; Loosing and Regaining Competitive Advantages

vision. The vision was simple and idealistic, and it may be argued was copied later by Bill Gates and Microsoft. Steve Jobs, who f...

Creating Operational Efficiency While Sustaining Competitive Advantages

was bought out by a competitor, due to the inefficient operations failing to create a profit (Anonymous, 2007). Other companies, s...

Competitive Advantage: U.S. Naval Hospital, Guam

reassuring people that if they come to the hospital, they will get the best care possible, with the latest technology, and be retu...

Strategy and Competitive Advantage at HP

2006, "PC sales in the US advanced just 2.6%. But in China they jumped 21%, to 23 million" (p. 42). If growth in China continues...

The Competitive Advantage of Organizational Culture

short, having a functional organizational culture is viewed as the fundamental component necessary to achieve and sustain a compet...

Business Basics - Competitive Advantages and Challenges of International Trade

of cost advantage... [and] ... sell a standards no frills product" (Porter, 1985; 13). This means that the cost to the firm of pro...

How Can Nations Gain Competitive Advantages

the industry. In Porters model the government is viewed as a catalyst to strengthen an industry. Porter also identified innovati...

AN OVERVIEW AND ANALYSIS OF COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

(Competitive Advantage - Definition, 2009). Gerald Flint (2000), in his long treatise about the meaning of competitive ad...

The Resource Based View (RBV) and the Attainment of Competitive Advantage

are cost advantage and differentiation. These are two different ways a competitor may get the edge on its rivals. For example, if ...

Politics and International Competitive Advantage

the transfer of power to the centre in Europe" (Siedentop, 2001; p. 25), such as also occurred in the process of Americas formatio...

Duke Urgent Care South and Competitive Advantage

This research paper assesses the nature of Duke Urgent Care South's competitive advantage using the a criteria developed by Profes...

Supply Chains that Offer a Competitive Advantage

This paper is about one of the companies that is praised for their supply chain management and transportation systems. They are un...

Model for Competitive Advantage

There are many theories and models to increase an organization's competitive advantage. One of those is the kaizen methodology pro...

Competitive Advantage Through Information Systems

same way that would have once happened in a paper environment (Kumar & Babu, 2011). In other words, a J2EE developer in such an or...

Proposal for the Setting up of A Mobile Garage Services Firm

(Freedonia, 2010). By 2007 there were 250 million vehicles registered as on the road in the US, indicating a high potential nation...

A Plan For Diversity

how to implement an effective diversity plan. Implementing Diversity in the Workplace According to the 2010 census, the racial ...

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 ...

The Competitive Strategy of Southwest Airlines

the resources and knowledge gained from the AirTran acquisition. The report will look at the company, consider the way in which i...

Annotated Bibliography for Research on Southwest Airlines

text is able to answer many of the questions about the organisation, focusing on leadership and relationships, with context given ...

The Attraction of Environmentally Sustainable Commercial Policies - The Case of Bahrain

for new equipment, manufacturing techniques and goods as well as general behavioural patterns. There are a number of tools or f...

Generic Strategy of Southwest and its Fit with SWOT Factors

strategic choices and how it is aligned with the vision and mission statements. 2. The Strategy of Southwest Airlines Michael P...

Compare Culture Three Automotive Companies

Corporate cultures have been identified as competitive advantages and this paper briefly explains the culture at three auto compan...

The Use of ICT in Corporations

One of the operations that we know gives a company a competitive advantage is a well-managed supply chain. Along the lines of corp...

The Latest Ways to Analyze Business Data

It is very hard for a business to gain a lasting analytics competitive advantage yet some companies have done just that, such as W...

How to Develop Strategy

Porter’s five forces of competitive advantage and using them to develop strategy is as applicable today as it was when he wrote th...

9 Cases for Business

The writer answers questions on a set of 9 short business cases dealing with a range fo strategic and management issues. Cases in...