“Water is more important to human life than diamonds‚ yet tap water suppliers are less profitable than those selling diamonds. Using the concepts in MCS Chapter 3 as well as your general knowledge‚ explain why this profitability difference is likely to occur.” There are a couple of factors that come to mind when answering this question. First‚ lets look at the willingness to pay factor. We know from the text book that we can think of the product’s value to the customer as the highest price he/she
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The Victor Diamond Mine When Land Can Be Worth More than Diamonds SCN1Dd Prepared by Eric Best Prepared for Mr. Grieg & Mrs. Chan March 4th 2012 The Victor Diamond Mine near James Bay in Northern Ontario rose lots of controversy over the environmental‚ economic‚ and social issues created by the mine. While the company that owns the mine‚ De Beers‚ says that the new mine will bring Canada new revenue and will boost the economy‚ the people of the Attawapiskat First Nation are in discontent
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Main Aspects of Porter’s Five Forces Analysis The original competitive forces model‚ as proposed by Porter‚ identified five forces which would impact on an organization’s behaviour in a competitive market. These include the following: • The rivalry between existing sellers in the market. • The power exerted by the customers in the market. • The impact of the suppliers on the sellers. • The potential threat of new sellers entering the market. • The threat of substitute
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Porters diamond model: The assembly industry uses the advance factors to take the advantage over the other countries. This is because they have more educated workforce‚ this will help them to do their work at more sophisticated way with better technological improvements‚ and mainly at cheaper cost which is the biggest advantage for assembly industry till now. Government investment in advance factors has also provided the industry with many educated workers‚ as result benefitting the assembly industry
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“Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors. Porter’s theory has often been used by many people to understand more about a company’s structure and the method or plan used to run its business. In his book‚ Porter identified 5 external forces that will affect an industry or a market. The type of forces can help us to understand or to analyze how a company makes its profits‚ or how it could attract others to do business with. Porter also helps to identify the specific company’s
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processing industry | MARKETING STRATEGY | HITESH VAVAIYA | Table of Contents Acknowledgement 3 Introduction of Report 3 Research Objective 4 Introduction of Food Processing Industry 4 The History of Food Processing Industry 4 Supply chain of food processing industry and factor affecting each activity 5 Agriculture 5 Food processing 5 Indian Food Processing Industry 7 History of food processing Industry in India 7 Current Market Overview 9 Indian Food Processing Industry Performance
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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 generic competitive strategies. An industry is not a closed system‚ competitors exit and enter‚ and suppliers and buyers have a major effect on the prospects and profitability of the industry. However‚ Porter points
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Describing the flaws of any character in the Nibelungenlied involves the problem of choosing one character out of a wealth of options. I will describe the flaws of the person whom I think is the hero of this story. Well‚ how can a hero how flaws ? Generally the following scene comes to mind when you think of hero ‚ “ The hero rides off into the sunset with his lady signifying a happily ever-after ending ‚ all is well in the end“ . Something seen often in Disney movies meant to be good clean fun for
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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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Automobile Air Pollution Efforts to improve the standard of living for humans‚ through the control of nature and the development of new products have also resulted in the pollution of the environment. Much of the world’s air‚ water‚ and land is now partially poisoned by pollution. Some places have become uninhabitable. This pollution exposes people all around the globe to new risks from disease. Many species of plants and animals have become endangered or are now extinct. The air pollution comes
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