BUS 611: Enterprise Rent-A-Car Case Questions 1. Rental car companies provide the use of a car for their customers‚ but what did Enterprise do to create a unique rental experience? How has Enterprise established a competitive advantage over its competitors? All companies provide customers with a car to drive but Enterprise took a unique approach to the car renting experience. Although Enterprise is the largest and possible most well-known rental car company‚ they focused on giving each customer
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rental market. Given their current dominance in the market‚ relationships with auto shops/dealerships/insurance companies‚ and reservation system’s direct interface with insurers‚ Enterprise is the most well positioned car rental company for discretionary and insurance repair/replacement rentals. Dominance - Enterprise initially sacrificed investment in the airport market in order to dominate the local market. With its 6‚000 branches‚ one wonders how Avis/Hertz would begin to match Enterprise’s
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Accounting Information Systems‚ 12e (Romney/Steinbart) Chapter 1 Accounting Information Systems: An Overview 1) Which of the following statements below shows the contrast between data and information? A) Data is the output of an AIS. B) Information is the primary output of an AIS. C) Data is more useful in decision-making than information. D) Data and information are the same. Answer: B Page Ref: 4 Objective: Learning Objective 1 Difficulty : Easy AACSB: Analytic 2) Information
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Supply and demand are extremely essential parts of the US economy and other free-enterprise systems. Interaction between the two determine the price‚ quantity‚ and distribution of products in the market. Supply refers to the amount of products businesses are able to sell at different prices at certain times‚ while demand refers to the amount of products consumers want to buy at different prices at certain times. If a certain product is in high demand‚ producers will produce a larger quantity of the
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Medium of exchange is what a buyer uses to purchase either a good or service from a seller‚ in most cases this is going to be money. Money is an accepted medium of exchange because we know that we will be able to obtain goods and services if we have the money to purchase them. Unit of account is used to measure and record economic value. This means that we use this when the amounts will be measured in dollars and not the quantity of goods. The store of value is when someone will keep the money that
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About MySQL: MySQL is (as of July 2013) the world’s most widely used open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases‚ though SQLite probably has more total embedded deployments. It is named after co-founder Michael Widenius’s daughter‚ My. The SQL phrase stands for Structured Query Language. MySQL is a popular choice of database for use in web applications‚ and is a central component of the widely used LAMP open
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Performance Management “How I get my people to do what I want them to do‚ in the way I want them to do it!” Performance management (PM): Organisations that take performance management seriously‚ manage a range of different but inter-related topics: • Mission • Vision • Strategy • Business plans • Values (how people should and should not behave) • Culture in which improving performance is valued and developed • Monitoring of performance – at individual‚ unit and Team levels • Feedback
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The purpose and benefits of continuously improving my own performance at work is to move one step forward and exceed my limitations‚ achieve further goals‚ self-motivation‚ not to be the same person and on the same position after a certain of time‚ to exceed my performance at work and doing work‚ improving my own performance helps me to progress on my career and give me a job satisfaction. However this leads me to evaluate my own work by looking at the work that takes the most time‚ and what actions
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KCA JOURNAL OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT: VOL. 2‚ ISSUE 1 (2009). MANAGEMENT OF BUSINESS CHALLENGES AMONG SMALL AND MICRO ENTERPRISES IN NAIROBI-KENYA Michael Bowen1 Daystar University‚ Nairobi‚ Kenya Makarius Morara2 Smart Outcome Services Ltd.‚ Nairobi‚ Kenya Samuel Mureithi3 Daystar University‚ Nairobi‚ Kenya Abstract Small and Micro Enterprises (SMEs) play an important economic role in many countries. In Kenya‚ for example the SME sector contributed over 50percent of new jobs created in
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LINKING COMPENSATION WITH PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL Building a Contemporary Pay for Performance System Over the last two decades‚ most organizations have moved away from pay systems that are driven by tenure to those that reward performance. The basic premise of a pay for performance system is that it rewards high performers - employees with high performance appraisal ratings – proportionately more than low performers. Performance ratings in an organization may follow a standard continuum; employees
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