Question one: The most important thing when identifying strategy is to distinguish it from operational effectiveness. For the failure to distinguish between operational effectiveness and strategy is in many cases the main cause to why a company can’t sustain their competitive advantage between its rivals. The mix up is understandable; they are both essential to superior performance‚ however in the same time they work in very different ways. Operational effectiveness is performing different activities
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Blue Mountain resorts (Data collection) 1. Problem definition Blue Mountain Resorts were first built in 1941‚ and it is the largest family-operated ski resort in Canada. The major problem in this case is that the CEO of the Blue Mountain Resorts has to decide whether to install facilitates or not for the night skiing in 1979-1980 winter skiing season. Maintaining comfortable capacity at ski resort is very important in this field of market. The capacity depends on the hill size‚ hill development
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Blue Ridge Spain This case is about a joint venture between the American company Blue Ridge which is owned by Delta Foods and the Spanish company Terralumen in Spain. Problems arose because of disagreement concerning the future growth rates set by Delta which are considered as unrealistic by Terralumen. Mikael Södergran is the young VP of Europe for Blue Ridge and wants to see the joint venture perform in the short run as this is the task he was given by Delta. He is very direct‚ getting
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Crafting and Executing Strategy Jet Blue Airways case study In 2008 businesses began to cut back on employee travel‚ and consumers tried to save money and used stay-cations instead of vacations‚ during a summer the U.S. economy slowed and oil prices rose; jet fuel prices went through the roof as a result. to offset the higher fuel costs‚ airlines began increasing revenues by means such as: fuel surcharges‚ charges for the first checked bag‚ charging for blankets‚ pillows‚ and headphones‚ and
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The Mystery It was Halloween night and I was throwing a Halloween party. My two friends Ella and Rachel were staying the night. I couldn’t wait because we were going to tell scary stories. Rachel started she told the story of the hand. Ella sat a thought for a minute when it hit her the story of the girl that got murdered a hundred years ago. She told us we would have to go to the grave yard to make it fun. We arrived at the grave yard a spent a half hour looking for the grave of Mary Louise
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Picture this. The day is October 9‚ 2028‚ at 7:45pm. The St. Louis Blues are facing their long-time rival‚ the Chicago Blackhawks. Robby Fabbri is skating up the ice toward the Blackhawks’ net when Patrick Kane cross-checks Fabbri’s head into the boards. Fabbri is knocked out cold and the athletic trainer is called upon. This is the first game of her professional career for the Blue’s newest athletic trainer‚ Rylie Murray. She helps Fabbri to his feet and escorts him to the locker room for a full-body
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However in some cases these people suffered by inhumane treatments. In my first case‚ Brittany Maynard was twenty-nine years old. She had been diagnosed with an incurable brain cancer for the second time. There were no treatments that could help save her life. She wanted the right to die how she wanted to. Brittany said‚ “Who has the right to tell me that I don’t deserve this choice?” She researched for a while and finally moved to Oregon to take full advantage of the “Death with Dignity” law.
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------------------------------------------------- BLUE MOUNTAIN RESORTS: THE SERVICE QUALITY JOURNEY (Charlotte De Baere) 1. ------------------------------------------------- Service Concept of BMR The service concept of BMR is trying to cover all aspects of every facility they offer. This means not only improving the service provided in skiing facilities but in the whole ‘four season/village’ concept. Due to the wide range of services BMR provides‚ they fall short on different areas.
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CASE 2.1” ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE: Life or Death QUESTIONS: 1. What values appear to be driving the doctors and nurses in the hospitals to treat heart attack patient? To treat the heart attack patients‚ doctors and nurses need to work as teamwork because in this kind of situation‚ speed is the most important in restoring the blood flow to reduce the amount of damage to heart muscle. We are talking about people life; therefore teamwork is needed to work very fast. Flexibility‚ hard worker‚ honest
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Mini Case 1—Mystery Shopper Situation: It was a chilly night with showery rain at September 15th‚ 2011‚ Thursday. I went to Lush‚ which located in the second floor of Cherry Creek shopping center‚with two of my friends‚ Jelly and Sammie. We entered Lush at about 8:20 pm(Cherry Creek shopping center close at 9pm on Thursday). We wanted nothing particular‚ a Beauty Assistant recommended us several products and showed us how those products work. In the end‚ Jelly bought a jar of facial mask‚ a jar
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