head: Strategic Issues Paper Strategic Issues Paper University of Phoenix November 3‚ 2008 Strategic Issues Paper In today’s business environment‚ an effective strategy is critical for an organization to attain its vision. A company must reflect upon internal strengths and weaknesses‚ external opportunities and threats‚ and consider the associated trends using benchmarked companies. One company who’s made this recognition is Starbucks. The company recognizes the major strategic issues involved
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eBay and Amazon. The problem is that small share gains over time (for new entrants) could potentially pinch margins at both Amazon and eBay. That is why eBay has to improve its competitive strategy. What I recommend to the company is to think about strategic collaboration with global social networks such as Facebook and Twitter in order to create more efficient and effective communication -and thus improve its brand image. The company may develop a discussion forum where customers can communicate the
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Question: 1.2‚ Review the issues involved in strategic planning (((The Author Paul Stuart Kregor is a Director of the MSI Consultancy Ltd Article originally publised in Pharmaceutical Marketing‚ June 2007))) Every year at about this time or a little earlier‚ we start the process of ‘strategic’ planning. The annual planning process‚ for all its focus on analysis‚ or template completion‚ can easily fall into the apparently comfortable tactic of merely updating the activity from last year’s plans
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In the clinical oncology field‚ there are “hot” problems that are being encountered such as‚ inadequate management of pain for cancer patients in pain‚ and management of pain is an important aspect in the care of cancer patients. There is also an inadequacy in pain assessment and pain management which can contribute as an important barrier to cancer pain control‚ knowledge deficits in cancer pain management among medical professionals is also a problem which can result in unmanaged pain for the patients
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MANAGEMENT ISSUES IN LARGE ORGANISATIONS- In the corporate world‚ all business-running-individuals should know that‚ in order to bulk up and fortify their businesses‚ the company or corporation must adapt to every perspective‚ every unusual environment and people with bizarre personalities or they are at a risk to fail or being overwhelmed by other competitors. Hence‚ a change is usually recommended to alter and fix the problems faced by an organization. Nevertheless‚ there are always issues that goes
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Identifying strategic issues It is important for an organisation to identify strategic issues in order to show that the strategy of the business is adequately addressing the issues facing the organisation and if the business is to meet its objectives. The responses to the strategic issues will be incorporated into the themes of the businesses strategy‚ but there is not necessarily a one-to-one relationship between strategic issues and the themes of the business strategy‚ since themes will
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Memorandum TO: Barry Landers‚ CEO FROM: Marlena McWilliams & Randolph Scrapper DATE: February 21‚ 2000 SUBJECT: Natureview Farm Key Issues or Problems Natureview is a natural organic Brand Name for yogurt. Since its inception it has relied on its uniqueness of taste‚ texture‚ long shelf life‚ and low cost marketing to grow to a 13 million dollar company. Currently it sells yogurt products only in the natural/organic food channels like Whole foods and Wild Oats‚ which in 1999 controlled
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discover the unique thermal properties that keep coffee hotter on the inside‚ while the outside remains cool to hold. So in this case‚ the organisation needs to educate the customer about the purpose of the mug. Perhaps it doesn’t matter who defines the ‘Purpose’ so long as both sides eventually understand and agree with it. Without alignment between organisation and customer‚ meaning agreement with the ‘Purpose’‚ there will be no business transaction. The following two excerpts have not been
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To be effective‚ remuneration systems should be based on sound understanding of the motivation of people at work. However‚ this has proved to be an extremely complex topic‚ and very often reward systems used by employers have been based on simplistic motivation theories and they have failed. In this article I describe the most significant contributions to the theory of motivation‚ leading up to a review of current understanding of this complex subject. This leads us into examining strategies for
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increased collaborative working there are many issues and problems that have to be addressed in order to realise the creative and positive effects’. The use of Instant Messaging (IM) systems in the workplace has brought with it new legal and security issues that need to be considered. Industry analysts estimate that unauthorised IM use in the workplace is between 75% and 90%. This indicates that nearly everyone using IM in any given organisation is doing so without the manager’s knowledge. This
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