Hewlett-Packard: The Flight of the Kittyhawk
Case study - 10 pages - Business strategy
The technology industry is a market of change, due to innovative breakthroughs. But for the firms in this sector, the challenge is to predict success. The disk drive industry provides some characteristics of how changes can cause certain types of firms to succeed or fail in choosing for instance...
Case study: Amazon.com
Case study - 6 pages - Business strategy
Amazon.com, which went online in 1995, has been the first company to thoroughly understand the fundamental basics of e-commerce, and who skilfully knew how to use the evolutions in the Internet landscape and composition to its advantage, constantly adapting to the market. Amazon.com is an...
Case study: PepsiCo
Case study - 7 pages - Business strategy
PepsiCo, the manufacturer of Pepsi-Cola, Diet Pepsi and related products, discovered the value and necessity of accurate and consistent communication in 1993, when multiple claims all around the USA reported that syringes and other hazardous products were found in Diet Pepsi cans. From the...
Exporting French toys to Canada - published: 07/10/2004
Market study - 20 pages - Business strategy
Moreover, the French and Canadian governments have recently tried to strengthen their business relationships, and encourage trade between them. It may be very interesting for the French toy industry to penetrate the Canadian market as its presence there remains reduced, and Canada seems an...
Exporting French toys to Canada
Market study - 20 pages - Business strategy
Moreover, the French and Canadian governments have recently tried to strengthen their business relationships, and encourage trade between them. It may be very interesting for the French toy industry to penetrate the Canadian market as its presence there remains reduced, and Canada seems an...
How to launch a business model based on the Internet and that generates profits?
Market study - 74 pages - Business strategy
The aim of that paper is to give to the reader a clear view about a Web/Internet Project. There are some similarities between a Web Project and projects in general but there are some specifications to be considered while working on a Web Project. Some parts of the Web Project have to be really...
The Disney licencing
Case study - 8 pages - Business strategy
Marketing has been defined as the management function responsible for identifying, anticipating and satisfying customer requirements. Marketing is therefore, both a philosophy and a set of techniques which deals with research, product design and development, pricing, packaging, sales and sales...
Cisco financial analysis
Financial analysis - 6 pages - Finance
The computer network industry had undergone an economic slowdown of 4% in 2002/2003, after two years of sustained growth with two figures. Moreover, many computer network suppliers outsource their production to reduce their cost. As a consequence there were mass redundancies in Alcatel, Cisco and...
United colors of Benetton: One suucess story
Case study - 16 pages - Business strategy
One of the 5 best-known brands of the world, Benetton is unanimously cited for its scandalizing campaigns it launched at the beginning of the 1990's. It is obvious that the advertisement campaigns provoked violent reactions in the public, but one has to consider that those campaigns made...
Negotiating strategy
Case study - 60 pages - Business strategy
Negotiation is generally defined as a dynamic process through which several parties (at least two) try to solve a "conflict", whether active or latent, which opposes them, and freely look for an "agreement". The conflict (opposition of opinions and/or interests) is "omnipresent and inevitable":...
The resistance to change : how to understand it in order to overcome it better
Essay - 33 pages - Management
This project investigates the reasons for resistance opposed within an organization to change. It concentrates on an individual dimension of the resistance, in opposition to the organizational dimension featuring the traditional stakeholders' interactions. It analyzes in detail, the factors...
The advantages of fidelity programme for an airline company
Essay - 12 pages - Business strategy
Customer loyalty as defined by Brown is the result of an oganization creating a benefit for a customer so that they will maintain or increase their purchases from the organization. True customer loyalty is created when the customer becomes an advocate for the organization, without any incentive....
Presentation of Dell firm
Case study - 25 pages - Business strategy
Dell Computer Corporation was created in 1984 by Michael Dell, from Austin University in Texas, with an investment of $1000 and the will to suppress intermediaries in the computer industry. In 1985, the company Dell launched its first computer, the Turbo, featuring the Intel 8088 processor. In...
French Wine Exports
Market study - 14 pages - Business strategy
In 2002, the sales turnover of wine in the world market was estimated to be around 101.5 billion euros, which is equal to the size of world cosmetic market and 3 times the size of disc market. The sales turnover in volume was increased to 224.8 million consumed hectolitres.In the current scenario...
Corporate strategy: Sensimor
Case study - 21 pages - Business strategy
Sensimor AB's Headquarters is located in Västerås' Technology Park. It was set up in 2002 as the spin-out of ABB. The company's mission is to combine high-end laboratory equipment with front line industrial automation technology. In this project we will analyze Sensimor's...
The launch of a new product on the Algerian market (Sagem mobile phones)
Market study - 38 pages - Business strategy
This report mainly focuses on Algeria as an emerging market, mobile phone as a product and Sagem as a French company. This report includes a detailed study of the marketing strategy and the economic conditions in Algeria and also analysis of the product and the services that Sagem offers to...
The entry of Kellogg's on the Hungarian market
Case study - 28 pages - Business strategy
The year 1999 marked the biggest challenge in our company's history which was the internal restructuring of our production and sales. One can imagine that this process is probably a time consuming process. Besides that, we also acquired Keebler Foods in 2000. As a result of the purchase...
The entry of Falke group on the Saudi Arabia market
Case study - 44 pages - Business strategy
Facing an increasingly difficult economic environment in Europe, the FALKE Group as a traditional German family business, needs to enlarge its perspectives in future and think about entering further markets. Due to its organizational structure and its size, the company has always operated in...
Analysis of the French Public railways company strategy
Market study - 25 pages - Business strategy
The SNCF (Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français), the French Public railways company has implemented revenue management for the high speed trains. In this study, we will analyze the key factors to succeed in the railways business in relation to revenue management. To achieve this goal, we...
Business strategy: How Dell Computer uses technology to gain competitive advantage and keep its leader position on the PC market ?
Case study - 22 pages - Business strategy
When Dell's CEO, Michael S. Dell and President, Kevin B. Rollins met in the fall of 2001, they were confident that the company was recovering from the global crash of personal computer (PC) sales. In fact, Dell is the master at selling PCs directly and bypassing middlemen and thus delivers PCs...
Company Overview: Leroy Merlin DIY
Case study - 18 pages - Business strategy
Leroy Merlin sells “do-it-yourself products” in 13 different domains including painting, sanitary equipment, gardening, etc. The Leroy Merlin group is the sixth leading group in the world in this sector with an increase in turnover from 2654 million euros in 1998 to 4088 million euros...
Is the cultural diversity facing the global business primarily a concern for Marketing or Human Resource Management?
Essay - 6 pages - Business strategy
Global businesses are a reality nowadays. The development of technology, the decrease of tariff and non tariff barriers, the creation of international trade values and institutions such as the World Trade Organisation (created in 1995 as a successor for the GATT) allow companies to trade...
The Strategy Analysis of Southwest Airlines Company
Case study - 10 pages - Business strategy
In 1996, Southwest Airlines was a successful and profitable low-cost airline company, operating in south-eastern US markets. After entering the Florida market, the company had to face certain strategic challenges. It was a big challenge to maintain the profitability while competing with all the...
Fair trade: Increasing the awareness of this concept in United Kingdom
Essay - 38 pages - Management
?FairTrade' is a trading partnership that seeks greater equity in international trade. It contributes to sustainable development by offering better trading conditions and securing the rights of marginalized producers and workers, especially in the South. The aim of the project is not to prove...
Coca-Cola's strategy
Case study - 15 pages - Business strategy
Coca Cola Enterprises is recognized as the world's largest producer, marketer and distributor of products that was invented in May 1886 by Dr. John S. Pemberton in Atlanta, Georgia. The products of the Coca Cola company include some of the most popular beverage brands in the world. For...
The accounting harmonization
Essay - 9 pages - Accounting
Firstly we will have to consider the relevance of international accounting in history and its requirements to be successfully implemented. Secondly we need to examine the benefits of implementing these international standards. Finally we have to conclude by sighting the significant obstacles with...
To what extent and in what ways can multinational companies be expected to be a source of diffusion of ?best practice' human resource management techniques? Illustrate your answer with examples from at least two countries
Essay - 8 pages - Human resources
Globalization of markets and their productions directly benefits multinational companies (MNCs). Firms are increasingly dispersing parts of their production process to various locations around the globe to take advantage of the national differences in the cost and the quality of the production...
Training management
Essay - 10 pages - Management
Training its employees is one of the main things which companies have to care about particularly if they want to perform better. Indeed, as employees are the elements who decide the strategic way of companies, and the ones who work to keep companies alive, it is therefore essential for them to...
Do Trade Unions have a role to play in organizations that practice unitarist management techniques?
Essay - 4 pages - Management
Organisations tend to have an increasingly individualistic management. Indeed, since wages have been individualised and workers paid according to individual appraisals, collective bargaining has lost weight in the employment relationship and the employee representation is hence weakened as Unions...
BNP Paribas : creation of a data base about top-of-the range customers
Case study - 17 pages - Management
BNP Paribas is a bank which boasts a strong financial structure, a large portfolio of brands, and expertise in terms of the new banking distribution channels, and the use of new technologies. It is also a powerful efficient financial service group created through a successful merger, with solid...
