E-commerce and the ready-made garment industries
Dissertation - 40 pages - Business strategy
Electronic Commerce is the conducting of business over the web. It typically involves three broad steps. First, a person uses the web to collect information to decide which product or service to purchase. Second, the person transmits payment information (such as a credit card number) to the...
A study on quality circle
Thesis - 23 pages - Business strategy
The term quality circles refers to small groups of line employees (usually ten or fewer) who meet periodically outside of regular work hours to discuss ways to improve the quality of products they produce and the efficiency and effectiveness of the production processes they oversee. Although...
Analysis of software project time overrun
Tutorials/exercises - 38 pages - Business strategy
A project can be defined as a plan or proposal; a scheme or an undertaking requiring concerted effort. Software's are the programs, routines, and symbolic languages that control the functioning of the hardware and direct its operation. They are instructions for the computer. A series of...
Business analysis of Air Deccan (Now Kingfisher Red)
Tutorials/exercises - 45 pages - Business strategy
Air transport is the most modern, the quickest and the latest addition to the modes of transport. Because of speed with which airplanes can fly, travel by air is becoming increasingly popular Air Deccan is a unit of Deccan Aviation Private Limited, India's largest private heli-charter...
A study on the E-Brands and case studies of Amazon.com, Boo.com & Gap
Tutorials/exercises - 57 pages - Business strategy
Over the past few years, there has been an explosion in the online world - an explosion that is also a harbinger of how business will operate in the future. Supply chains are being rethought, products and services reconfigured, and business models revamped. As such, the Internet is having a...
Intercultural management, electronic arts in China: strategic plan
Case study - 6 pages - Business strategy
Electronic Arts, an American company specializing in video games wants to expand its products all around the world where there are opportunities. The American company founded in 1983 and based in Redwood City in California, is today one of the top ten companies as video game producers in the...
Analysing financial statements: Puma
Financial analysis - 13 pages - Business strategy
Despite few important sport events, the sporting goods industry as a whole, has continued to record further growth. The healthy growth in the sport lifestyle segment was due to the sustained trend towards fitness and wellness, the increasingly important connection between sport and lifestyle, and...
Corporate entrepreneurship: Nestle Nespresso case - publié le 24/05/2009
Case study - 6 pages - Business strategy
Nestlé Nespresso is one of the fastest growing subsidiaries of the Nestlé group. The group includes many different brands of coffee. Among them, there are two very profitable entities: Nespresso and Nescafé. Although they are not the same company, they are owned by the same group, yet the...
The Walt Disney company
Case study - 5 pages - Business strategy
The first issue the Walt Disney Company has to face concerns diversification: has it diversified too far? It is legitimate to consider such a question as the number of businesses Disney presents has exploded since the company's beginning. Indeed, being first a company based on movie-making,...
Nike case : hitting the wall
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
A firm's success depends on its social legitimacy. Usually, in the consumer's mind, the importance of a firm relies on what it can bring to the society. Therefore, for Nike, relocations basically mean that the company takes away jobs from US citizens. Moreover, Nike's labor scandals have...
Business community and automation of business processes
Tutorials/exercises - 36 pages - Business strategy
The goal of this study was to understand the needs of business community for the automation/computerization of business processes and the level of automation that exists in business. The data was collected using a structured questionnaire through a direct interview method. One hundred respondents...
A study on GE's business strategy
Tutorials/exercises - 40 pages - Business strategy
GE Lighting is a leading supplier of lighting products for global consumer, commercial and industrial markets. Products include incandescent, fluorescent, high-intensity discharge, halogen and holiday lamps, along with portable lighting fixtures, lamp components and quartz products. GE also...
Sensitivity analysis of the fertilizer industry
Tutorials/exercises - 71 pages - Business strategy
Crude Oil is one of the most important sources of energy for a country. The prices of crude oil depend on many factors like Supply restrictions by Oil producing nations, demand for oil, uncertainties like war in the middle east and also the stability of US Dollar, in which crude oil is priced....
A study on Ramee guestline hotel
Thesis - 35 pages - Business strategy
One of the biggest challenges facing a marketing researcher is converting a complex set of data to a form that can be read and understood quickly by executives, managers and other employees who will make decisions from the research findings. This has been the main purpose of the research on Ramee...
Ryanair: (in) consistency between low fares and high average revenue per passenger - publié le 20/05/2009
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
Ryanair is best-known for its low fare. Most of the flights are worth, at worst, €1, at best, for free. Nonetheless, Ryanair is making huge profits, and has the highest profit margin of the airline industry (20% and more). Besides, it has average revenue per passenger more than 50 times...
IKEA's growth plans in the American market - publié le 20/05/2009
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
The US furniture retailing market is fragmented. Being one of the top 10 furniture retailers, IKEA owns less than 15% of the market share. In a highly fragmented market, gaining market shares is harder than in a concentrated market. Besides, IKEA is a generalist furniture retailer, i.e. it...
Overview of a planned 5-10 MW CBM fired pilot power project
Presentation - 69 pages - Business strategy
This presentation is based on the company Optim Energy. The trend of the presentation will be a beginning with who Optim Energy is, followed by what the project is all about and why they chose the Princeton area. Next will be a description of what coal bed methane is and how prevalent is it...
Maverick Energy Group: Company profile
Thesis - 18 pages - Business strategy
Maverick Energy Group, is a rapidly growing US independent currently positioned to benefit from the current rise in both oil and natural gas prices. Declining production and depletion of existing reserves within the United States is causing increased pressure on state and federal agencies to...
Global business and innovation: The case of Belgacom TV - publié le 17/05/2009
Thesis - 14 pages - Business strategy
In the general context of globalization, “innovation is the key element in providing aggressive top-line growth and for increasing bottom-line results". This is deeply anchored in the companies' daily life and golden rule of success. Programs of organizational innovation are typically...
Negotiation dynamics: Bouygues Vs Propriétés Privées - publié le 17/05/2009
Essay - 4 pages - Business strategy
To do this assignment I have chosen to take a case that I recently came across at my work. I currently work in a real-estate agency as a marketing manager. In my work, I am in charge of the marketing of the company and I am in charge of finding new partners for the company as well. For example,...
The Alliance Theater : A case study - publié le 17/05/2009
Tutorials/exercises - 54 pages - Business strategy
Team Alliance initial objective is to focus on the key points that would help us gain more knowledge regarding the motivations and decision-making processes of the Alliance Theatre's 18-35 year old target market. Currently, Alliance Theatre's patrons are composed of 35-50 years old, more females...
The Thomas Cook case - publié le 17/05/2009
Case study - 6 pages - Business strategy
Thomas Cook UK had transformed its business processes in order to improve the profitability and minimize losses. The Thomas Cook management team developed a program to reduce costs and improve the margins and integrate operations. Behind this real case, I will go deeply into the IT consulting...
Clarins : Yesterday and today - publié le 17/05/2009
Thesis - 28 pages - Business strategy
The aim of this document is to critically review the marketing and business of the company plan by producing a marketing strategy report (see Appendix). Afterward, we shall present a new strategy to address issues that have been highlighted during the audit. This report contains a marketing...
The case of Google
Case study - 7 pages - Business strategy
Google Inc. is a company created on the 27th of September 1998 in the Silicon Valley by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. About 16,000 employees work for this company. Google's mission is “to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful .” Currently, Google...
Virgin Mobil's proposed takeover by NTL - publié le 17/05/2009
Thesis - 8 pages - Business strategy
NTL proposed a £871 m takeover of Virgin mobile but was rejected, then a second proposition was made at £961 m. On the 3rd of April they announced a total of $1.66 billion for Virgin Mobile. The negotiation will be ready to receive both cash and NTL shares in a deal. Virgin Mobile will have a...
Understanding strategic decisions and impacts on service innovation - published: 17/05/2009
Thesis - 6 pages - Business strategy
By network strategy we can understand that firms are willing to develop their networks and to make them denser, being able to offer always more and better services. For instance, Mc Donald's opens several new restaurants worldwide every day and tries to position them in strategic places....
SWOT Analysis - Starbucks France
Thesis - 3 pages - Business strategy
Taking its name from a character of the book Moby Dick, Starbucks specializes in coffee retailing. It is currently the most important chain in the coffee industry. When Starbucks Coffee Company was founded in 1971 by Jerry Baldwin, an English teacher, Zev Siegel, a history teacher, and the...
Business tourism in France - publié le 17/05/2009
Thesis - 13 pages - Business strategy
Working in a family business, named DESERTOURS™, we perform in a challenging and competitive market: tourism. With twenty years experience, DESERTOURS™ is the 4WD and motorcycle adventure travel leader in the French market. Our company offers trips around the world, including Morocco,...
Identifying and evaluating strategic opportunities for the followers of a seemingly unbeatable leader - publié le 17/05/2009
Thesis - 5 pages - Business strategy
In the French market, the food market represented a global turnover of 134 billions of euros in 2004. In this food market, the leading products are vegetables and corn. The turnover of this specific market saw a growth of 6% just for 2004 and the leader firm for the European market is the French...
The SKF group - publié le 17/05/2009
Tutorials/exercises - 110 pages - Business strategy
The SKF Group is the leading global supplier of products, customer solutions, and services in the business of rolling bearings and seals. SKF Group's main competencies include technical support, maintenance services, condition monitoring and training. The Group also holds an increasingly...
