SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT MGMT 314 OPERATIONS AND SERVICES MANAGEMENT Trimester 2‚ 2013 COURSE OUTLINE Names and Contact Details COURSE COORDINATOR and LECTURER Teaching Period: Monday 15 July – Friday 18 October Study Period: Monday 21 October – Thursday 24 October Examination Period: Friday 25 October – Saturday 16 November (inclusive) Withdrawal from Course 1. Your fees will be refunded if you withdraw from this course on or before Friday 26
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The Five Pillars of Islam There are five pillars of Islam. These are the foundation of what holds the principles of all of the beliefs of the Muslim religion. Just a pillar would hold up a building in Rome so the five pillars hold up or mold the principles of Islam. A Muslim who fulfills the Five Pillars of Islam and remains in the faith of Islam‚ sincerely repents of his sins‚ will make it to Jannah or paradise. If he performs the Five Pillars but does not remain in the faith‚ he will not be
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Assignment 1 Describe Porter’s Five–Force model and how it is helpful when developing one’s international strategy. Do you see any limitation to Porter’s modeling techniques? Michael Porter ’s Five-Force model‚ as described and illustrated in “Porter’s Five Forces: A Model for Industry Analysis (Article from QuickMBA.com)”‚ goes beyond the traditional industry competitive analysis that would just compare Rivals‚ both current and potential‚ to include Suppliers and Buyers and also Product or Service
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From Five Zero Four to Nine Eight Five As I laid down a long piece of masking tape on the last moving box‚ I thought back on my life living in New Orleans that was focused mainly around my friends. I though back to myself about all the lies I had told my parents about where I would be in the large‚ drunken‚ crime-filled city. Every morning I would rapidly throw the heavy‚ soft‚ fur blanket off over my body while a sharp nasally pitched voice was yelling‚ “Raegan! Get your lazy butt out of that
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Com 224 25 July 2013 Five Guys in Malaysia! Our group has been chosen as a consulting team by the domestic organization of Five Guys restaurant here in the United States. Five Guys has hired us with the purpose of wanting to expand their successful restaurant chain into other parts of the world. Our goal as their consulting firm is to help them flourish in taking their first step in globalizing their domestic organization into a multinational company. We believe that their first foot step in
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Porter’s five forces Michael E Porter developed the Porter’s five forces analysis in 1979 which serves as a framework for industry analysis and business strategy development. Its five forces determine the competitive intensity and therefore attractiveness of a market. Attractiveness in this context refers to the overall industry profitability. Three of Porter’s five forces refer to competition from external sources. The remainder are internal threats. It is useful to use Porter’s five forces in
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and interacts with others. Most of the times we measure personality in traits a person displays. Measuring personalities has been done in the past by various people. The Big Five are broad dimensions or categories in a hierarchical sense‚ such that they encompass a lot without detail. We lose information‚ and while the Big Five factors provide useful personality descriptors they are somewhat less useful at predicting specific behaviors. So a researcher chooses a hierarchical level of analysis suited
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These five forces are empirically derived‚ e.g. by observation of real companies in real markets‚ rather than the result of economic analysis. Porter’s five forces is a useful generic structure for thinking about the nature of industries. The understanding of the structure of an industry is the basis for formulation of competitive strategy. The work of Porter provides an analytical framework for the analysis of the structural factors that condition competition within an industry and suggests several
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Five Star Beer Problems Analysis Decreasing Market Share Five Star Beer had a great history. This was closely related to the policy of China at that time. Before 1978‚ Chinese government controlled almost all Chinese economy and resources. Every company was owned by government. Every activity was under the control of Chinese government‚ including what the prize was‚ how much beer it should make‚ where to sell‚ and how much the employees should earn. Five Star Beer served Beijing and the
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Hofstede’s Five Dimensions and Leadership Hofstede’s Five Dimensions and Leadership Geert Hofstede examined IBM the company for over thirty years and developed a theory about cultural differences. His theory is widely used to compare differences in culture‚ and also in leadership. There were initially four dimensions of values that he measured; uncertainty avoidance‚ individualism‚ power distance and masculinity. Later a fifth dimension‚ long term orientation was added in 1991. These dimensions
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