ISCA PROFESSIONAL EXAMINATION PILOT PAPER (NOVEMBER 2013) CORPORATE AND BUSINESS STRATEGY (CBS) SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS ISCA PROFESSIONAL EXAMINATION 2013 Term 2 Corporate and Business Strategy – Pilot Paper for Nov 2013 ISCA PROFESSIONAL EXAMINATION CORPORATE AND BUSINESS STRATEGY (CBS) 15 NOV 2013 SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS I. True or False questions (Q1 to Q10) (Total: 10 marks) 1. (F) High volume/low cost different from upward differentiation. 2. (F) Also depends on settling operations
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From: Joanna Zeng‚ Senior Vice President for Sustainability at Nestlé To: CEO and the board of directors‚ Nestlé Subject: Implementing a sustainability strategy to improve corporate performance Date: April 18‚ 2013 Recommended Action: The task was to develop a sustainability strategy that Nestlé ought to implement to improve our corporate and environmental performance. And we recommend adopting “eco-efficiency” programs which focus on lowering costs and optimize organizational processes. In
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person unbolted the box from its base and took it back to the office where it was pried open. The contents were delivered the next day. It is not important whether this folktale is true or not. What is important is that this story illustrates Fedex’s corporate culture: every employee helps in the achievement of FedEx’s reputation of reliable overnight delivery. All organizations have their own folktale. What’s yours? “This is the way we do things around here.” Do you not tell this to every employee
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production of some goods (e.g. soap) served as a basis for a new business development (chemicals) and related diversification was the managerial decisions. At that time Unilever was also a huge packaging and shipping company. End of 1980s A “core strategy” was adopted. The restructuring was designed to concentrate the company in "those businesses that we properly understand‚ in which we have critical mass‚ and where we believe we have a strong‚ competitive future‚" (Unilever PLC Chairman M. R. Angus
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Corporate Responsibility and Marketing Strategies Wanda Joyce McGhee Dr. Malinda Swigart Business 508 July 13‚ 2014 Corporate Responsibility and Marketing Strategies There is no question that Apple is a remarkable company. In addition to its business turnaround‚ its innovative design‚ and its media content and apps‚ the unadulterated sexiness of all its products makes Apple hard to resist. For me‚ what isn’t hard to resist‚ is asking: How can a company that is this extraordinary in other
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Table of Contents Industry Analysis 3 Business Strategies Analysis 5 Business Strategy Evaluation & Recommendations 6 Specialization‚ Learning by doing 7 mutual adjustment 7 direct supervision 7 standardization of work processes 7 standardization of work outputs 7 standardization of worker skills 7 Coordination mechanisms 7 Coordination by plan 8 Coordination by feedback 8 Interdependence 8 Pooled Interdependece 8 Sequential Interdependence 8 Reciprocal Interdependence
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CORPORATE LEVEL STRATEGY OF APPLE COMPUTER INC. Low level of diversification (1976-1996) To examine what strategies have been used by Apple‚ we divided the period into two ages. The first age is in between 1976 until 1996 were we can observe that all the products sold by Apple were computer related. They started with Apple 1 and continuously developed their products up until the evolutionary of Macintosh. However‚ their development restrained only to computers‚ chips and software which indicates
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References: (1970). "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits." New York Time. Reprinted in Harvard Business Review: Ethics for Executives Series. (1991). "The Pyramid of Corporate Social Responsibility: Towards the Moral Management of Organizational Stakeholders". Business Horizon. August/July‚ pp. 39-48. Adam Smith (The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)‚ and‚ An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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CORPORATE STRATEGY Honda Inc. is a world-renown automobile maker that has grown over the past couple decades. In analyzing its corporate performance Honda strives on innovation and being the first in creating new high-tech‚ and environment friendly products that their customers know that they can rely on. In order for them to achieve this they must have a strong research and development center and encourage their employees to reach for the stars and strive on their imaginations. The threats
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Mary Jane Quinn BUS –421 CSA 4 TESC 0432752 Oct 2009 1. What is adidas’s corporate strategy? Was there a common strategic approach used in managing the company’s lineup of sporting goods businesses prior to its 2005-2006 restructuring? Has the corporate strategy changed with restructuring? “Adidas’s corporate strategy has been all along to improve on athletic footwear so as to give athletes an edge in competitive events (Sunset‚ 2009).” Their common approach has been to
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