Products and services: WestJet started its services in 1996 with just 3 aircrafts and landing rights to five destinations in Canada. By the end of 2011‚ WestJet had become one of the leading airlines in Canada‚ by providing services to a total of 76 destinations within continent North America. The airline currently offers scheduled services‚ international charter services and Trans-border services to the United States‚ the Caribbean‚ Mexico and Canada. As per the annual report of 2011‚ WestJet currently
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Case 2.4 Coke and Pepsi Learn to Compete in India BRIEF SUMMARY OF CASE CONTENT: This is a detailed and comprehensive case describing the market entry of two global consumer product companies‚ PepsiCo and Coca-Cola Corporation into a Big Emerging Market (BEM)‚ India. It traces the history of the challenges encountered by these two companies in the developing country environment of India from the late 1980s to the present time. Emphasis is placed on lessons learned by the two companies as they
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Product and Service design plays a strategic role in helping an organization achieve its goals. A good product or service design can ensure customer satisfaction‚ quality and production costs. On the other hand‚ if an organization is offering poor product or service‚ customer’s feedback in the form of lack of interest will result in poor sales. Also quality and production costs are affected by poor design of the product or service. Some key reasons to design or redesign a product are simply. They
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40542_03_p41-76 8/13/01 6:55 AM Page 41 C H A P T E R Product Design and Process Selection 3 B e f o r e s t u d y i n g t h i s c h a p t e r y o u s h o u l d k n o w o r‚ i f n e c e s s a r y‚ r e v i e w 1. Differences between manufacturing and service organizations‚ Chapter 1‚ pp. 4 – 6. 2. Differences between strategic and tactical decisions‚ Chapter 1‚ pp. 6 – 8. 3. Competitive priorities‚ Chapter 2‚ pp. 28 – 33. LEARNING OBJECTIVES After completing this chapter you should
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The Coca-Cola Company Struggles with Ethical Crises I. Summary: Incepting in the late 1800s‚ Coca-Cola has been famous worldwide in beverage industry. Some widely recognized products are Coke‚ Diet Coke‚ Fanta‚ Sprite‚ Virgin Cola‚ etc. CocaCola dominated over PepsiCo in the US in 1993‚ leading in global soft-drink market and was the most-recognized trademark in the world. Its strong reputation was reinforced with philosophic practice‚ philanthropic initiatives‚ international market orientation
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factors that could make service design much different from product design. Please describe in your own terms your rationale. Organizations should define their product and service designs to convey the importance of the goods or services they offer as well as present the structure their organizations represent. Product and service designs bear many similarities‚ including their intentions‚ goals‚ and the driving forces that influence them. Conversely‚ service design and product design differ for a number
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A guide to effective product design One of the outputs of the Good Design Practice program is a booklet entitled A Guide to Effective Product Design . This gives background information on a number of topics related to product design and development‚ describes some essential tools and techniques‚ and provides suggestions for further reading. Topics covered include: • What is good design? • How do we take advantage of good design? • How do we choose the right projects? • How important
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The paper is inspired on the reading “Why Consumers Don’t Buy: The Psychology of New Product Adoption” (Courville‚ 2004). BTS consists of an application for smartphones which enables clients watching a film or TV program to identify products placed within the scenes‚ select the product from the screen‚ E.G. by touching them‚ in order to finally land in a separate menu which allows the customer to buy the product online. This would allow an adept fan of James Bond‚ immediately after have been struck
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Industrial design and product relations 1995 -1997‚ created the Apple personal computer company in the stock market continued to decline times‚ too‚ were several acquisitions. Companies had requested the original Apple CEO Steve Qiaobusi back. 1998 Apple computer company officially launched a brand-new release of the Apple iMac computer concepts‚ the traditional separation between the server PC‚ monitors and integrated box‚ and discarded the rice yellow line frames‚ with translucent warrants‚
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Francho Garza Güell 27/12/2012 PRODUCT DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING PROCESS INDIVIDUAL EVALUATION 1. EDM (Electrical discharges machine ) and WEDM ( Wire Electrical discharges machine). • Fundamentals of process; Principles of EDM Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) is a controlled metal-removal process that is used to remove metal by means of electric spark erosion. In this process an electric spark is used as the cutting tool to cut (erode) the workpiece to produce the finished part to the
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