Ducati & TPG – A “Wild Ride” LBO Case Study December‚ 2010 Q1. The nature of the opportunity and the question of brand expansion 1.1 The situation of the target firm Positives: (1) The Ducati brand was world famous;(2) The product was great in terms of technology and quality and it had won the 1990‚ 1991‚ 1992‚ 1994‚ and 1995 World Superbike championships against strong competition;(3) Ducati’s product family was broad offering 15 models in four families based on seven different engines;(4)
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OPER/084 IKEA’s Cost Efficient Supply Chain “Assembled furniture is expensive to transport and store because you end up paying for a lot of air. By flat packing unassembled furniture and getting customers to pick their own products in store‚ Ikea dramatically reduced its transportation and warehousing costs and passed the savings to their customers”1 Carter McNabb‚ Partner‚ GRA2‚ November 2008. INTRODUCTION On January 01‚ 2009‚ Modern Material Handling announced that IKEA Group3 (IKEA)‚ world‟s
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Nonylphenol and bisphenol A binding studies with antioxidant enzymes through homology modeling and molecular docking methods M. Jayakanthan1#‚ R. Jubendradass2‚ Shereen Cynthia D’Cruz2‚ P. P. Mathur1‚2‚3* 1 Centre for Bioinformatics‚ School of Life Sciences‚ Pondicherry University‚ Pondicherry- 605 014‚ India 2 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology‚ School of Life Sciences‚ Pondicherry University‚ Pondicherry - 605 014‚ India 3 KIIT University‚ Bhubaneswar - 751024‚ India
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Case Assignments Case 1: An ERP Story 1. What are the project’s main characteristics and challenges identified by Jean Roberge? 2. In your opinion‚ does the project have other characteristics or challenges that Jean Roberge did not identify but should also be taken into account? Case 2: Mrs. Field Cookies 1. Describe and evaluate the role of information technology at Mrs. Fields Cookies in terms of the following: a. IT architecture b. IT and Organization
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Psychopathy (/saɪˈkɒpəθi/) (or sociopathy /ˈsoʊsiəˌpæθi/) is traditionally defined as a personality disorder characterized by enduring antisocial behavior‚ diminished empathy and remorse‚ and disinhibited or bold behavior. It may also be defined as a continuous aspect of personality‚ representing scores on different personality dimensions found throughout the population in varying combinations. The definition of psychopathy has varied significantly throughout the history of the concept; different
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MapReduce is a widely used parallel computing framework for large scale data processing. The two major performance metrics in MapReduce are job execution time and cluster throughput. They can be seriously impacted by straggler machines— machines on which tasks take an unusually long time to finish. Speculative execution is a common approach for dealing with the straggler problem by simply backing up those slow running tasks on alternative machines. Multiple speculative execution strategies have been
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Airbnb offers free rentals to the victims of hurricane Matthew The government ordered millions of residents in the southeastern U.S to vacate their places due to the dangerous hurricane have approached the city. The home sharing platform‚ Airbnb has decided to help the people whose houses were affected by the dangerous storm. Hurricane Matthew moved to Florida’ east cost before affecting the regions of Georgia and South California. Though the storm has weekend‚ the impacts it created takes days to
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Characterization of a Yam Class IV Chitinase Produced by the Recombinant Pichia pastoris X-33 Department of Botany‚ Jahangirnagar University‚ Savar‚ Dhaka 1342‚ Bangladesh Abbreviations: Endo H‚ Endoglycosidase H; PR protein‚ pathogenesis related protein; P. pastoris‚ Pichia pastoris; VTS‚ vacuolar targeting signal; PCR‚ polymerase chain reaction; PAGE‚ polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; SDS‚ sodium dodecyl sulfate Abstract A yam (Dioscorea opposita Thunb) class IV chitinase‚ whose genomic
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Question 1: how does information technology support FedEx’s business processes? When we think of processes we think of several steps that would allow us to accomplish some sort of task. As such a business process‚ according to Appian‚ is a collection of linked tasks or activities which find their end in delivery of a service or product to a client. Most organizations use business processes to help them achieve their goals. These processes must have well defined inputs‚ which give additional value
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Q1) Comment on the forecasting method being used by Yankee? Suggest changes that you feel are justified? Ans1) Yankee presently is using the qualitative method for forecasting future demand. Qualitative method as we know is subject to experts’ intuition‚ experience‚ and opinions. So each person according to his/her past experience‚ forecasts the demand for the future. For example‚ Phil Stanton who is in the operations makes his decision of producing in the future on the basis of demand forecast
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