What is the most effective strategy for building customer loyalty in business-to-business (B2B) relationships? In today’s highly competitive business environment‚ the remarkable increase in the number of companies is becoming a problem. Due to this situation and also diversity in customer demand‚ business people are required to contemplate how to establish strategies to gain new potential customers or to maintain existing customers. Caceres and Paparoidamis (2007) identify that the cost of acquiring
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Thompson−Strickland−Gamble: Crafting and Executing Strategy: Concepts and Cases‚ 16th Edition I. Concepts and Techniques for Crafting and Executing Strategy 1. What Is Strategy and Why Is It Important? chapter one © The McGraw−Hill Companies‚ 2008 1 What Is Strategy and Why Is It Important? Strategy means making clear-cut choices about how to compete. —Jack Welch Former CEO‚ General Electric A strategy is a commitment to undertake one set of actions rather than
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A project report on INTER COMPANY ANALYSIS Analysis of Pharmaceutical Industry in the Indian environment and comparative analysis among Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. and Cipla Ltd. Under the guidance of Prof P. Madhavan Visiting Professor‚ IIM Rohtak Undertaken by Ashwani Kumar Atif Aslam Dhiraj Rishiraj Sisodiya Shashi Singh pgp03.016 pgp03.017 pgp03.019 pgp03.054 pgp03.053 This project report is submitted as a partial requirement for the fulfilment of the Business Analysis and Valuation
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What Is Strategy? Authors: Porter‚ Michael E.1 Source: Harvard Business Review; Nov/Dec96‚ Vol. 74 Issue 6‚ p61-78‚ 18p‚ 1 Black and White Photograph‚ 3 Diagrams‚ 1 Graph Document Type: Article Subject Terms: *STRATEGIC planning *ORGANIZATIONAL effectiveness *MARKET positioning *COMPETITION *BUSINESS planning *INDUSTRIAL management *ORGANIZATIONAL change
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For the exclusive use of J. CO www.hbr.org What Is Strategy? by Michael E. Porter Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 1 Article Summary The Idea in Brief—the core idea The Idea in Practice—putting the idea to work 2 What Is Strategy? 21 Further Reading A list of related materials‚ with annotations to guide further exploration of the article’s ideas and applications Reprint 96608 This document is authorized for use only by James Co in Food and Agribusiness Strategic
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I believe that most successful companies are those who create most revenues or most profitable. Ranking them by revenue for their respective fiscal years ended on or before March 31‚ 2013. That honor goes to oil giant Exxon Mobil‚ whose $44.9 billion profit was followed most closely by Apple‚ at $41.7 billion. While Exxon Mobil was last year’s profit king‚ it did not take in the most revenue last year. That company would be Royal Dutch Shell‚ which at $481.7 billion wins Global 500 list’s top
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and type of change (Maclnnes 1987‚1989; Metcalf‚ 1989; Brown and Wadhwani‚ 1990; Nolan and Marginson‚ 1990; Oulton‚ 1990; Beardwell‚ 1990; Kelly and Richardson‚ 1989). The aim of this paper is to describe and assess the underlying changes in large companies in management thinking and strategic intentions towards the management of labour in the 1980s. This concerns primarily the development of the firm-specific labour market and organization-based employment systems in contrast to the traditional reliance
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units resulted in equity earnings of P13.9 billion—26 percent higher year-on-year. The company recently announced the issuance of preferred shares worth P10 billion‚ proceeds of which would be used to prepay higher costing debt and ensure sufficient funding source for its planned investments. AYALA LAND INC. Results of Operations for the Nine Months Ended September 30‚ 2013 Ayala Land‚ Inc. (ALI or “the Company”) sustained its high growth trajectory in the first nine months of 2013 as net income
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Table of Contents Introduction………………………………………………………………………………2 Green Grown……...……………………………………………………………………...2 Business Strategy……………………..………………………………………………….3 HR Strategies and Policies……..…………………...……………………………………4 Corporate Strategy..…………..……………...……………..……………………………7 Trends……………………………................…………………………………………….8 My Ideal Workplace……………………………...………………………………………9 Works Cited……………………………………………………………………………..10 Introduction Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to design your ideal workplace
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After the Louisiana Purchase in 1803‚ a large amount of land west of the original 13 states and the Northwest Territory was acquired. The open land‚ additional benefits and other existing problems encouraged Americans to expand westward. The American people began to realize that the future of the country lay in the development of its own western resources. There were many reasons that made the people face the grueling and dangerous movement west‚ but the primary reason was economy
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