‘Strategic Cost Management and the Value Chain’ Every business‚ whether it be a production or service entity has an underlying goal in maximizing revenue whilst keeping the costs of sales low‚ inevitably to increase profits from year to year. American Professor Michael Porter developed a concept called the value chain‚ hence creating value chain analysis. A value chain can be defined as‚ the linked set of value-creating activities beginning with basic raw material sources through
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PANKAJ GHEMAWAT AUGUST 2007 STEVEN A. ALTMAN Industry Case Study: The Indian IT Services Industry in 2007 “Many years ago‚ there was an industrial revolution; we missed it for reasons beyond our control. Today there is a new revolution – a revolution in information technology‚ which requires neither mechanical bias nor mechanical temperament. Primarily it requires the ability to think clearly. This we have in abundance. We have the opportunity to participate in this revolution on
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Managing the International Value Chain in the Automotive Industry Strategy‚ Structure‚ and Culture Stefan Schmid‚ Philipp Grosche Table of contents Foreword Authors Acknowledgments International value chains: Current trends and future needs‚ as exemplified by the automotive industry 1. Internationalizationofthevaluechainintheautomotiveindustry 2. Configurationandcoordinationascrucialdimensionsinshapinginternational valuechains 3. Bestpracticesandoptionsformanagingtheinternationalvaluechain
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Amazon Your Industry: Extracting Value from the Value Chain "Way cool" Web sites and measures of "hits" and "eyeballs" are clearly driving revenue in the dot-com world. To date‚ these metrics have provided the basis for the extraordinary market valuation of the new generation of Web retailers. In the near term‚ most "e-tailers" must focus on surviving the incubator phase of the Internet retail industry by gaining enough market shares to become a sustainable player. "Efficiency and productivity lie
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Airlines PEST Analysis: The Indian Airline Industry A PEST analysis is an analysis of the external macro-environment that affects all firms. P.E.S.T. is an acronym for the Political‚ Economic‚ Social‚ and Technological factors of the external macro-environment. Such external factors usually are beyond the firm’s control and sometimes present themselves as threats. For this reason‚ some say that "pest" is an appropriate term for these factors. Let us look at the PEST analysis of the Indian aviation
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Supply Chain and Value Chain Supply chain is a network of distribution and facilities options that performs the function of procurement of materials‚ conversion of these materials into intermediate and finished goods and the supply of these finished goods to the ultimate consumers‚ for e.g. for a single product‚ supply chain consists of flow of raw material from vendors‚ transformation into finished goods i.e. interflow of materials‚ transportation to distribution centers and supply activities for
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Industry Analysis of the Airline Industry An Industry in which I have a potential future interest for an entrepreneurial venture is the ever changing airline industry. Although facing tough numbers after the 9/11 attacks‚ I have always held an interest for this industry. There are several basic economic characteristics for this industry. There are many opportunities‚ there are also many threats. The airline industry was heavily regulated by the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) for close to
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Question 1 a) Financial report audit is to provide a reasonable assurance in dependence on a framework of financial reporting‚ and it is also to check out if the financial report is prepared or not in all important aspects (Robyn M.‚ 2011‚ pp. 6-7). Environmental audit refers to the kind of an important tool that manages or measures the environmental regulations according to make a review of facilities and current operations‚ internal policies and practices‚ records‚ waste-handling procedures
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It is truly amazing how jam-packed full of nutrients the Moringa Leaves‚ Pods and Flowers are. If every household had access to Moringa then malnutrition would be wiped out. Wealthier Households would have no need to purchase artificial supplements. MORINGA LEAVES Dr. Frank Martin states in ’Survival and Subsistence in the Tropics’ that "among the leafy vegetables one stands out as particularly good‚ the Horseradish Tree. The leaves are outstanding as a source of Vitamin A and‚ when raw
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Current Scenario of the Indian Aviation Sector 6 Challenges Faced by Airline Industry 10 Future Trends 11 Opportunities 12 References 14 Introduction The Airlines is one among the inventions that had changed the way how people live and experience the world. In due course of time it has now become impossible to imagine business and leisure travel without air travel. The airline industry exists in an intensely competitive market. In recent years‚ there has been an industry shakedown‚ which is expected
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