CASE 3: IKEA PROBLEM STATEMENT: How could IKEA sustain and build competitive advantage to improve its profit margin and to expand its marketing coverage? ANALYSIS: The SWOT Analysis would be appropriate for this case because it analyzes the Strength to develop more; the Weakness to improve; Opportunities to grasp; and Threats to control. STRENGTH: IKEA’s greatest strength would be its innovative ways and ideas to get buyers to buy their furniture. Starting-off with their concept “democratic design”
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IKEA SWOT analysis Strengths Weaknesses 1. Customer knowledge 2. Constantly using innovations to drive costs down 3. Supply chain integration 4. Brand reputation and market presence 5. Diversified product portfolio 1. Negative publicity 2. Decreasing quality 3. Standard products Opportunities Threats 1. Further expansion into developing economies 2. Growing online sales 3. Expansion to growing grocery market 1. Intensifying competition 2. Growth of average consumer income 1. Customer knowledge
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Supply chain strategies. 1.1. Packaging concept. The flat packaging is known of its IKEA which is very effective for transporting products because more products can be shipped at the same time. Consequently‚ transportation cost will be cheaper. Furthermore‚ the flat packaging reduces some materials usage. However‚ it has some weak areas to work on such as protection and unitization. 1.2. New unit load carrier. IKEA has created new carrier which is called “Loading ledge”‚ is a flexible unit load
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REACTION OF IKEA After the publication of the documentals that showed and proved that IKEA used children labor for the production of it’s company in India IKEA was forced to react‚ to try to stop the media crisis and to be concerned and active to stop children labor in non-developed countries like India. The first reaction when all the information appeared was to deny it‚ saying that IKEA never contract companies that use children labor to do their products‚ but they accepted the possibility
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Paper in ENGN12A “CHILD LABOR” Dinoy‚ Dion Janel Macaraeg‚ Reina Marie C. INTRODUCTION Today‚ throughout the world‚ around 215 million children work‚ many full-time. They do not go to school and have little or no time to play. Many do not receive proper nutrition or care. They are denied the chance to be children. More than half of them are exposed to the worst forms of child labor such as work in hazardous environments‚ slavery‚ or other forms of forced labor‚ illicit activities
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How can Americans help to end child labor? Well first I think it’s important to know what child labor is. Child labor is the use of children in industry or business‚ when illegal or considered inhumane. It is also work that harms children or keeps them from school. Underage children work all different kinds of jobs all over the world‚ usually because they are extremely poor. Large amounts of children work in commercial agriculture‚ manufacturing‚ mining‚ and domestic service. Some children work
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1. INTRODUCTION "Child labour has serious consequences that stay with the individual and with society for far longer than the years of childhood. Young workers not only face dangerous working conditions. They face long-term physical‚ intellectual and emotional stress. They face an adulthood of unemployment and illiteracy." - KOFI ANNAN Child Labor began to be considered a human rights issue and became an issue of public dispute‚ when the foundation of universal schooling was laid. Historically
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CHILD LABOR: Causes of Child Labor Among Third Year Male Students of Baclaran National High School SY 2012-2013 A Research Paper By: Ma. Nelfa B. Durana IV-Newton January 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Background of the Study ……………………………………………………….. Assumptions ……………………………………………………………………. Statement of the Problem ………………………………………………………. Hypothesis ……………………………………………………………………… Significance of the Study ………………………………………………………. Scope and Limitations of the Study …………………………………………
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January 2015 Rhetorical Analysis: Child Labor Child labor was once a prevalent issue in the United States – a combination of cruelty‚ coercion‚ and abuse characterizes its entirety. Fortunately‚ many organizations‚ such as the National American Woman Suffrage Association‚ made attempts at alleviating the issue in hopes of eliminating the institution. Surprisingly‚ it was mutually beneficial to the organizations and the child laborers in that in order to help child labor‚ women needed to work for their
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Child labor is not an easy issue to resolve. Many of these children are from very poor families and work to pay for their family and/or their education. Deprived families are lacked income which has led to some children seeking different‚ lower paid work‚ selling drugs and even prostitution in some cases. Other ways with schemes to help children would likely be needed so that this labor can be phased out. Child Labor Past: The worst took place in the 1800’s and early 1900’s when such industrialization
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