applications used to help make the business case for the warahouse - Sprague provided the Data-Dialog-Models (DDM) paradigm 2. Late 1980s - Telecommunications‚ retailing and financial services industries built warehouses to store vast amounts of customer and sales-related data - These industries remain leaders in terms of the size of the warehouses and how the warehouses are used - Data-centric approach : support a variety of applications 3. In 2000 - the movement to real-time data warehousing
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Competitiveness How effectively an organization meets the wants and needs of customers relative to others that offer similar goods or services Business compete using MARKETING 1. Identifying consumer wants and/or needs is a basic input in an organization’s decision making process‚ and central to competitiveness. The idea is to achieve a perfect match between those wants and needs and the organization’s goods and/or services. 2. Price and quality are key factors in consumer buying decisions
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KODAK FUNTIME ANALYSIS 1. Diagnosis of the reasons for Kodak’s market share loss and assessment of likely development of the market if Kodak maintained the status quo. Answer: Kodak had been experiencing a loss on market share from 76% to 70% over the past five years‚ which was caused by the action of its competitors like Fuji Photo Film Co. and Konica Corp.‚ wooing consumers with low-priced versions. If Kodak did nothing to deal with the situation‚ either in pricing or creating something
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Unilever Group ANALYSIS for NYSE : UL JANUARY 30‚ 2013 SKIN & HAIR CARE (DOVE‚ LUX) $ 39.65 Trefis Estimate $ 40.37 $114.3 B MKT CAP Market Price Unilever’s Skin Care & Hair Care Market Share 5 Global Hair Care Market Size 6 Global Skin Care Market Size 7 EBITDA Margin of Dove‚ Lux Skin & Hair Care 8 BECEL‚ BLUEBAND‚ KNORR‚ HELLMANN’S Unilever’s Market Share of Grocery 10 Global Market Size of Grocery 11 $112.3 B MKT CAP See the Full Analysis for Unilever Group on Trefis
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of internal and external actors that influence a company’s operating situation. The business environment can include factors such as: clients and supplers ; its competition and owners; improvements in technology; laws and government activities; and market‚ social and economic trends. A business is influenced by the environment in which it operates and the success of any business is dependent on its ability to adapt to its environment. The complexity of this reality for business owners is compounded
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representative ’ Lets see what Kaye Goodwin from Virgin Atlantic has to say! In a day of a representative at Virgin Atlantic I have to look at how these needs are identified and I must cover: Customer requests in writing Customer requests to representatives of organisations verbally (face to face or telephone) Recognition of unstated needs Customer type one: Families If a family was too put in a request in writing‚ because they may have young children‚ they could possibly write their requests to
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perfectly competitive markets where there are many sellers who are price takers to a pure monopoly where one single supplier dominates an industry and sets price. We start our analysis of market structures by looking at perfect competition. Firms operate within their market‚ which consists of: Supply side: all of the firms producing similar products Demand side: all buyers willing to purchase the products Markets differ; the auto market is far different from the tomato market‚ for example.
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Understanding Customer Needs One of the primary objectives of customer immersion activities is to generate new customer insights. Insights are different from just observations in that they identify the underlying behavior and thinking process of the customer. It is important to keep on finding new customer insights because over time‚ customer behaviors‚ needs and thinking patterns change‚ old insights become common knowledge‚ and the company which responds to new insights the fastest is the one
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COMPANY INTRODUCTION PepsiCo is a world leader in convenient foods and beverages‚ with 2005 revenues of more than $32 billion and more than 157‚000 employees. The company consists of Frito-Lay North America‚ PepsiCo Beverages North America‚ PepsiCo International and Quaker Foods North America. PepsiCo brands are available in nearly 200 countries and territories and generate sales at the retail level of about $85 billion. Many of PepsiCo’s brand names are more than 100-years-old‚ but the corporation
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Merger or Acquisition. The key principle behind buying a company is to create share holder value over and above that of the sum of the two companies. Two companies together are more valuable than two separate companies together. 1. Acquisition: An acquisition is the purchase of one company by another company. Acquisitions are actions through which companies seek economies of scale‚ efficiencies and enhanced market visibility. All acquisitions involve one firm purchasing another - there is no
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