The Blue Sky Software Consulting Firm MNGT 6000-Integrated Studies in Management People clearly are an organization’s most critical resource. Their knowledge and skills along with their commitment‚ creativity‚ and effort are the basis for competitive advantage. It is people that have creative ideas for new products or for process improvements that devise marketing strategy or take technologies to the next level. As consultant for Blue Sky‚ it is my obligation to develop recommendations
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U02a1 Operating Model Definition I have chosen the unification operating model for Ralph’s Ribs. The unification operating model would be the best choice for this franchise as it will assist in the integration of processes throughout franchises 200 locations. The main location will have the ability to make changes to expectations or processes and make them available to all of the 200 locations from the main location without having to go to each location individually.
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Answer1 Pushing inventory upstream is not just a network strategy‚ or an inventory strategy‚ or a fulfillment or manufacturing strategy. Rather‚ it is an end-to-end strategy for the supply chain that has implications for many areas‚ from the customer through to the supplier. To achieve maximum value from segmentation for both the customers and the enterprise‚ companies must have policies in each area that are coordinated to the value proposition offered to each customer/product combination.
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The decisions of one firm therefore influence and are influenced by the decisions of other firms. Strategic planning by oligopolists needs to take into account the likely responses of the other market participants. Description[edit] Oligopoly is a common market form where a small number of firms are in competition. As a quantitative description of oligopoly‚ the four-firm concentration ratio is often utilized. This measure expresses the market share of the four largest firms in an industry as a
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Standard Operating Procedures in Retail: Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) is a set of written instructions that document a routine or repetitive activity followed by an organization. Operational procedures are vital to the business of running a retail store. Procedures typically cover all activities in the store‚ from sales transactions to customer support to inventory. The development and use of SOP has various advantages for the organization. Following standard operating procedures increases
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Firms with some market power can increase profits by practicing either direct price discrimination or indirect price discrimination. Direct price discrimination arises when the market can be segmented into sub populations on the basis of readily observable characteristics. Each of the segments has a different elasticity of demand and subsequently is charged a different price. Arbitrage must be prevented for this type of discrimination to be applicable. Profits are maximized by equating the marginal
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Exchange Corp. is a company that acts as a facilitator in tax-favored real estate swaps. Such swaps‚ know as 1031 exchanges‚ permit participants to avoid some or all of the capital gains taxes that would otherwise be due. The bookkeeper for the company has been asked to prepare a report for the company to help its owner/manager analyze performance. The first such report appears below: Note that the revenues and costs in the above report are unit revenues and costs. For example‚ the average office
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THE DEGREE OF RISK REDUCTION IN DIVERSIFICATION According to Roberts (2004‚ p214)‚ diversification is when several businesses are combined under one ownership for the singular aim of reducing risk. The combination of all the businesses is less risky than individual businesses standing alone. According to Chandler (1959)‚ there are three types of diversification: 1. Full line – company manufacture‚ market and control supplies of its single line of product‚ that is‚ the company has manufacture
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services to the needs and expectations of their customers instead of those who are product oriented and focus on developing a product or service that is then marketed and hopefully sold (Grönroos‚ 2006). To achieve this customer focus‚ a firm with a high degree of market orientation cultivates a set of shared values and beliefs about putting the customer first and reaps results in form of a defendable competitive advantage‚ decreased costs and increased profits (Desphandé‚ 1999). The market orientation
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1. What should you do if the drive on which you want to install Windows Server 2012 already has a partition on it containing an operating system and data you do not need? Remove the file 2. What should you do if the Where do you want to install Windows? page appears‚ but it does not list any drives or partitions? Check to make sure that the drive is installed correctly in the pc and then if it still occurs you need to reformat the drive to work with windows server. 3. Under what conditions
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