a few core eompetencies in the race to stay ahead of rivals. ing‚ partnering‚ rcungineer’ing‚ change manage- ment. Although the resulting op- erational improve- ments have often ^^^^ dramatic‚ many companies have Positioning-once the heart of strategy-is reject- ed as too static for today’s dynamic markets and changing technologies. According to the new dog- ma‚ rivals can quickly copy any market position‚ and competitive advantage is‚ at hest‚ temporary. But those beliefs are dangerous half-truths
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1- In what ways were Britian the dominant industrial power in the world in 1850? Produced more than 50 percent of the world’s textile products Mined more than 80 percent of its coal Made almost half of its iron Helped other countries to build their railways Provided the machinery for fatories in other countries Had the biggest and most powerful steam engines‚ which were also exported worldwide Germany- Germany was not a unified country until 1871; before that‚ industry developed predominantly
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THE SUPPLY OF GOODS AND SERVICES: Market supply is the quantity of a good or service that all firms in a market are willing to sell‚ whereas a firm’s supply is the quantity that a particular firm within the market would like to sell. The relationship between the two is just that market supply is the sum of the supply of all the firms or producers in a market. The market supply curve slopes upwards due to the business objective that we‚ as economists‚ assume all firms have; to make the biggest
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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT OF McDONALD’S INDIA Company Introduction. McDonalds is a fast food chain with restaurants all over the world. McDonalds is world’s leading food service retailer with more than 31‚000 restaurants in 119 countries serving more than 50 million customers each day. In India‚ McDonalds is a joint-venture company managed by two Indians. While Amit Jatia‚ M.D. Hardcastle Restaurants
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Operational Effectiveness Is Not Strategy For almost two decades‚ managers have been learning to play by a new set of rules. Companies must be flexible to respond rapidly to competitive and market changes. They must benchmark continuously to achieve best practices. They must outsource aggressively to gain efficiencies. And they must nurture a few core competencies in the race to stay ahead of rivals. Positioning-once the heart of strategy-is rejected as too static for today’s dynamic
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Power: Ways to Gain and Maintain It Power is a way for people control and dominate others; it takes a lot of work to maintain and use effectively. It can take years‚ or possibly seconds to gain power of others. It all depends on the how you create that power‚ and who you are using it against. In William Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice most of the characters spend the whole time trying to gain and maintain power. The play is about a Jewish moneylender named Shylock lending money to a merchant
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What Is Grand Strategy?* by John Lewis Gaddis** Yale University When my colleagues Paul Kennedy‚ Charlie Hill‚ and I first began talking about setting up a grand strategy course at Yale in the late 1990s‚ at least half the people to whom we tried to explain this thought we were talking about “grant” strategy: how do you get the next federal or foundation grant? This misunderstanding would not have occurred‚ I think‚ during the fifty years of insecurity that separated the Japanese attack on Pearl
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Why use regulated power supplies? The ideal voltage-regulated power supply would have the following features: 1. Zero output impedance at DC and at all frequencies 2. Zero regulation (constant DC output voltage) for a wide range of AC line voltages and over the entire range of load currents that are required by the powered circuitry. 3. Zero power dissipation. 4. Instantaneous recover from changes in line voltage and load current. 5. Overload protection so that normal operation is automatically
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Logistics and supply chain management are not new ideas. From the building of the pyramids to the relief of hunger in Africa‚ the principles underpinning the effective flow of materials and information to meet the requirements of customers have altered little. Throughout the history of mankind wars have been won and lost through logistics strengths and capabilities – or the lack of them. It has been argued that the defeat of the British in the American War of Independence can largely be attributed
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To what extent are human rights universal? The Universal Declaration of Human Rights goes beyond the national interest of a state. It outlines the obligations of every state within the international arena. Human rights are a controversial issue with many conflicting arguments. Some may argue that human rights should be mandatory to all‚ universally. While others may argue that the notion of human rights is dynamic and complex and cannot be applied towards every state‚ as every state functions in
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