Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies The Hong Kong Polytechnic University LGT3105 Operations Management 1st Semester 2013/2014 Subject Description This is a foundation subject on Operations Management (OM). It will provide students with an understanding of the strategies‚ processes‚ and analytics of OM for both manufacturing and service organizations. At the end of the course‚ students will have a fair understanding of how things should be done and the importance of these
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of directors. Evaluate the current board of Samsung Electronics. What are the strengths and weaknesses in the current board composition? How many directors can be classified as non-executive? How many can be classified as independent? What are your criteria’s for assessing director independence? Do you think changes need to be made to the current board composition? If no - why not‚ if yes - what changes would you recommend? The board of Samsung Electronics has 23 directors of which 7 are executive
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Emerging Markets Case Studies Collection Emerald Case Study: Giordano: positioning for international expansion Jochen Wirtz Article information: To cite this document: Jochen Wirtz‚ "Giordano: positioning for international expansion"‚ Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies‚ 2011 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/20450621111110500 Downloaded on: 26-03-2012 To copy this document: permissions@emeraldinsight.com Access to this document was granted through an Emerald subscription
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Strategic Positioning is defined as doing different activities than your competitors or doing the same activities differently. This is the way your company becomes a superior performer in the industry. Many people describe their positioning based on their customer base. For example‚ Burger King focuses on young adult males as their target customer. There strategy and positioning is directed to satisfy this sector of the market. Wendy’s on the other hand has a different positioning. They base
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Samsung promotion Samsung puts great emphasis on its presentation and image in public. Promotion is highly important part of marketing mix and the company sets aside a sufficient and quite large budget for making the best to promote itself. Support of selling is highly intensive and always tries to react on the competition. There are many types of promotion. Samsung uses three types of them. The first one is selective promotion. Selective promotion means that the company provides distribution
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customer needs has generated a positive synergy for Samsung allowing the company to charge a premium for their niche component architecture. This competence of creating over 1‚200 different products has given rise to a series of interrelated reactions that are hard to imitate (inimitable) by others but are continually replicated by Samsung (appropriable). In this practice Samsung has developed close relationships with customers that are relying on Samsung as a partner in the development of specific memory
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TUTOR: AUSTIN CHIA WED 1PM-3PM In Aug 2012‚ Samsung‚ the world ’s largest technology company by sales‚ is ordered to pay $1.05 billion in damages for violating Apple’s patents for the iPhone and iPad‚ "Samsung ’s strategy was to build something similar to another company ’s product but to make it better‚ faster and at lower cost"‚ is Samsung going to change its strategy to fit new conditions? Choe Sang-Hun ’s article "After verdict‚ assessing the Samsung strategy in South Korea" is a roadmap to evaluating
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Mobile Commerce Industry 2014 Trend‚ Size‚ Share‚ Growth and Forecast : Industry Analysis‚ Overview‚ Research and Development - Market Research Reports.Biz Engaging in commerce while mobile/wireless involves new technologies‚ services‚ and business models. It is quite different from traditional e-commerce. Smartphones‚ wireless tablets‚ phablets‚ wearable wireless‚ and other mobile devices impose very different constraints than desktop computers. The ecosystem and value chain for mobile commerce
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Q1. Samsung Electronics strategy has successfully achieved both low-cost advantages and differentiated products. Samsung is able to achieve and maintain its low cost position due to various factors. Samsung has always emphasized on process and production efficiency. The company places all its fab lines and R&D facility at a single site‚ so that engineers from various departments can come together to resolve any process or design issues as soon as possible. Benefiting from the collocation‚ Samsung
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Discuss how Samsung differentiates its product from its competitors. In making themselves one of the most quality and innovative brands within the electronics industry‚ Samsung strives to be sustainable and achieving a sustainable competitive advantage by ensuring it remains as the leader within the digital market. Samsung has differentiated its products from its competitors from a platform of three categories. These categories are product attributes‚ firm linkages‚ and firm-customer relationships
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