Organisational approach of Mintzberg
Case study - 4 pages - Management
The traditional concept of regulating the behaviour of employees in an organization dates back to the end of the nineteenth century. This was chiefly due to the works of Henry Fayol, Max Webber, Frederick Taylor and their contemporaries. These approaches are consistent with the concept of the...
Strategic management H&M
Case study - 46 pages - Management
In 1947, H & M, a Swedish clothing chain, opened its first store in the world. The company then conquered Europe and arrived in France in 1998. Today, H & M is a firm well known internationally and has over 550 outlets in 12 countries in Europe. Operating both in the market for menswear, women...
Market research: L'Oreal
Case study - 83 pages - Services marketing
The market potential represents the number of persons likely to consume in a given geographic area. The market potential for the cosmetic brand L'Oreal extends to the entire world population, since the number of countries where its products are distributed and the number of segments available to...
Porter's five forces contribution to the SWOT model
Thesis - 5 pages - Business strategy
The SWOT model, abbreviation of “strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats", is a strategic tool, defined in 1971, for helping a company to analyze its internal context (strengths and weaknesses) and its external context (opportunities and threats), which have an impact on its...
What are the challenges of rebranding?
Case study - 3 pages - Services marketing
When do companies feel they need rebranding? Are their earnings going in deficit or have they started undermining their profits. Is it the less number of customers coming to them or they are making less profit on their earnings. Has the product gone in to a “Dog” stage of BCG...
Controlling organized crime paper
Case study - 3 pages - Journalism
Although the amount of information available to investigators on organized crime has increased due to the increasing number of crime activities, crime has also evolved significantly,and the law enforcement units have a large amount of information to keep. The significant collection of information...
Strategic marketing plan for Caroll (the French "fashion house") in China
Market study - 10 pages - Services marketing
Today, with the globalization, companies have to establish in other countries than their origin country, to be more competitive and to resist in the market, especially in the clothing retail market. So, the main part of companies opens new subsidiaries in other countries and more on emergent...
Public relations services agreement
Standard contracts - 7 pages - Other law subjects
Recitals: The purpose of this Agreement is for the Company to retain an experienced and qualified public relations agency to provide a range of public relations and communications tasks for Company. The Parties Agree: 1. TERM: The term of this Agreement is for one year commencing on (Month, Day...
A presentation on marketing management
Presentation - 61 pages - Services marketing
This presentation will start with marketing environments and systems. It will explore environments like the economic, competitive, technological, socio-cultural environments, etc. The presentation will then progress towards market oriented strategic planning. It will also talk about the BCG...
Aquatic habitats in forest ecosystems
Essay - 8 pages - Ecology & environment
There is a wide variety of aquatic habitats found in forested areas ranging from water-?lled tree holes through to large rivers, lakes, and inundated forests. This article initially reviews the classi?cation of aquatic habitats and some of their important geomorphological, physicochemical, and...
Music, emotion and Zipf's law
Essay - 59 pages - Linguistics & languages
The hypothesis of Zipf concerning a universal Principle of Least Effort, manifesting itself in Zipf 's law and modeled by Ferrer i Cancho and Sol´e in a signal-object reference matrix, gave rise to the idea that maybe the elements in music that elicit our emotional...
Catholic religious orders in Europe
Thesis - 3 pages - Philosophy
Monarchism started in Egypt during the IInd century and may have its roots in the forms of some Jewish sects. Saint Antony (236-347) created next to Alexandria what we call anachoretism. He organized a hermits' life. These men gather in communities called anchoret. They live alone but meet on...
The evolution of Chinese and French women since the nineteenth century: Differences and similarities
Thesis - 17 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In the two last Centuries, French women and Chinese ones have realized, little by little, their emancipation. What are the matrixes which have participated to the positive evolution of the condition of the Chinese and French women? Under which form has it taken place, and at which moments in the...
The architecture and functioning of OCB-283: The switching node in the Alcatel 1000E
Thesis - 20 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
This document relates to the O.C.B 283 system, switching node in the ALCATEL 1000E 10 switching system. It outlines the general architecture and operation of the O.C.B.283, both the fixed subscriber centers and the access exchange to services (G.S.M, IN). O.C.B.283 is digital switching system...
2007 NCAA March Madness Tournament: A game theory approach to finding an optimal strategy for office pools
Thesis - 10 pages - Logistics
The focus of this paper is to use aspects of game theory to form a strategy for maximizing a player's chances of winning a NCAA Tournament Bracket from the sweet sixteen rounds on. For each match-up, a strategy for selecting a team to advance will be determined by analyzing a payoff matrix...
Fuzzy QFD for optimizing the engineering characteristics of a casting product
Thesis - 8 pages - Computer science
A casting may be defined as a metal object obtained by allowing molten metal to solidify in a mould, the shape of the object being determined by the shape of the mould cavity. Defective castings, even at advanced foundries, account for 2 to 5% and sometimes from 10 to 25% of the number of...
Cost optimization of supply chain networks using particle swarm optimization
Thesis - 8 pages - Computer science
With increasing competitiveness in the business world, focus on supply chain has got greater attention. Therefore supply chain has to be made effective by reducing unnecessary losses occurring in the supply network. These losses are caused due to production, distribution planning and improper...
The development of a customer-focused organization
Thesis - 7 pages - Management
Flow management, flat organization, project management, re-engineering processes - the theme of the integrated enterprise management is the quest for better coordination between organizations and entrepreneurs which has had a major impact on business and change management in the recent past....
Is "Al-Dar Islamic Fund", created by Pictet, a Geneva based Private Bank, Islamic compliant?
Essay - 10 pages - Finance
Who has created the ?Al-Dar Islamic Fund'? Is it Pictet which is a Geneva based Private Bank which is in compliance with the Islamic culture? The answer to this buzzing mind boggling question is ?No'. As confirmed, the contained shares are not Islamic compliant and secondly the targeted...
Human resources final case study assignment British Petroleum
Essay - 11 pages - Human resources
We will analyze the case "British Petroleum: Transformational Leadership in a Transnational Organization". During this analysis, we will explain how different management styles are practiced in this company. Two different CEOs, Robert Horton and David Simon, succeeded this British oil company. We...
Media and terrorism: new challenges for freedom of expression?
Essay - 5 pages - Journalism
Benjamin Cardozo, an American jurist of the 20th century, used to say that "Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom?. As such, freedom of expression was recognised, as early as at the end of the 18th century, as a fundamental...
Strategic analysis of "Yahoo!"
Case study - 20 pages - Management
There are more Yahoo! Mail users around the world than two times the population of Mexico” (Yahoo! Website, 2008). One cannot deny the success of Yahoo! over the last decade. However, the reason why Yahoo! is catching a lot of media attention today does not lie in its success but more on...
Global Youth Culture: A Cross Border Market
Thesis - 13 pages - Services marketing
I think it may be useful to remind that however we are acting on a domestic or a global market; we always have to keep in mind that according to Wedel, M. and Kamakura, W A. (1998) an efficient segment should be: Identifiable, Sizeable, Accessible, Stable, Responsive and Actionable. Masaaki, K....
Marketing plan for Caudalie products in Saudi Arabia
Case study - 55 pages - Services marketing
Caudalie, founded in 1993 by two people: Mathilde Bernard Thomas and Professor Vercauteren, features products made from grape pips (from wine producer: Laffite), which are considered to be highly beneficial for the skin. Two years later, the duo launched their first range of products. Keeping in...
Transformational Change at British Petroleum : one goal two different leaders
Case study - 5 pages - Management
Before Robert Horton took over as CEO and Chairman of British Petroleum (BP) in 1990, the company's situation was difficult in terms of the lack of clearness of mission and strategic policy within the top 150 managers surveyed at the beginning of 1989. This survey revealed the managers feeling in...
Caroll in China: strategic marketing plan
Case study - 22 pages - Services marketing
With an economic growth of nearly 10%, China looks very attractive to a lot of companies today. The emergence of a strong middle class characterized by a high purchasing power makes opportunities plentiful. However, China's huge market is much more complex and specific than western ones. That...
EADS : A cross cultural merger
Case study - 8 pages - Finance
Since the early 1980s, mergers and acquisitions have been developing in Europe and worldwide. After the dramatic increase in the number of mergers and acquisitions in the second half of the 1980s, the 1990s leaves its mark by rapid cross-border connections and increased significant value of...
Ports Design Limited - strategic management
Case study - 16 pages - Management
PORTS Design Limited is a fashion company which is vertically integrated. It is commonly known as an, international fashion company. The main activity of PORTS is being engaged in the design, manufacture and the retail of high-end fashion garments and accessories for men and women.The brand...
The role of conceptual models in strategic management
Essay - 7 pages - Management
Since many decades the corporate world has experienced significant changes. In order to remain competitive, companies must adapt themselves to the new changes. Strategic management is one of key success for competitiveness. To achieve the company's goals, strategic management models have been...
