...Executive summary This report identifies and analyses the management challenges outlined in the case study of Service Adhesives Ltd. The research draws attention to how Service Adhesives traditional corporate structure, outdated strategies and failure to implement qualitative initiatives leant to their reclining competitive advantage in their industry and the slowdown of their profit margins. The report finds that Service Adhesives prospects in their current operations are limited but with their renewed commitment to effect radical improvements to their organisation then operational excellence is attainable. It is recommended that Service Adhesives revisits the qualitative initiative of total quality management (TQM) as this method encompasses everyone and every function of the organisation. It uses holistic approach to long term success that views continuous improvement as a process and aims to transform the organisation through progressive changes Table of Contents 1. Introduction......................................................................................................................3 1.1 Background of Service Adhesives..........................................................................3 1.2 Background of operations management..................................................................3 2. Orientation.......................................................................................................................4 2.1 Literature review...
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...Case Study: ABC Learning Background ABC Developmental Learning Centres was founded in 1988. ABC rapidly expanded, reaching 43 childcare centres by June 30, 2001. By November 2005, it had 697 Early Childhood Education centres throughout Australia and New Zealand. In March 2006, it forecast that would have 950 centres in Australia and New Zealand by June 30, 2006. It was a highly profitable company in the 2004/5 financial year, recording net profit after tax of $52.3 million from total revenues of $292.7 million. The six months ending 31 December 2005 showed no slowing in the financial momentum for the company with profit after tax reaching $38 million and revenues of $219.8 million. Trading in ABC Learning shares was suspended in August 2008 after the company failed to release its earnings for the 2007-08 financial year. Despite selling off assets, the company fell into receivership in November 2008 after increasing debt servicing obligations and its auditors were unable to sign off on its accounts. The federal government injected $22 million into the company to keep its childcare centers open until the end of 2008. The company was subsequently delisted. Creditors voted to wind up the company in June 2010. ‘Lessons to be learnt from ABC Learning's collapse’ Colin Kruger January 2, 2009 Dr Philip Ross, the head of the school of accounting at the University of Western Sydney, describes it as a "failure of regulatory and accounting processes" and says that despite...
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...Individual: Communication Paper Suzanne Beal BCOM/230 October 08, 2012 Hank Parisi First I want to take this opportunity to welcome you to ABC Accounting, Inc. I am very confident that you will follow in my footsteps to lead this team to success. I want to take this time and give you a few words of wisdom that I have acquired through the years to help you make this transition go as smoothly as possible. Your main responsibility here at ABC Accounting is to maintain a cohesive working team. One of the more challenging responsibilities will be introducing new employees to the team members. Here are some of the barriers that you could encounter and some suggestions for some possible solutions. One of the most common barriers that you will come across is what I call the no it all’s. On occasion you have someone join the team who thinks they have the answers to everything. You need to be careful with this because you do not want to deter them from sharing their thoughts neither do you want them to steal the show. Always allow them the chance to give their input because sometimes their ideas are a welcomed change. Another barrier that you may come across is personality clashes. This can be tricky because you do not want to look as though you are taking sides so give each person a chance to speak and see if you can work out the differences together. You may also encounter those who are reserved and just listen without giving input...
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...CHAPTER 4 ° SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ENVIRONMENTS 114B CASE 4-2 Disney Learns to "Act Local" on the Global Stage The Walt Disney Company, home to Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and other iconic characters, has a stellar reputation in many parts of the world for its family-friendly entertainment offerings. The company's parks and resorts division operates theme parks in five global locations, including a recent $1.8 billion park in Hong Kong. Disney's fabled studio entertainment unit has an illustrious history in both animation and live-action features. The Lion King, released in 1994, is the highest grossing animated film of all time. More recently, Disney has enjoyed massive hits with live-action features. These include Pirates of the Caribbean and its sequels as well as classic American fare such as the TV show High School Musical. However, despite high worldwide awareness levels of the Disney brand, as of 2006 only 25 percent of the company's revenues came from outside the United States. Historically, the Disney team has created products at its headquarters in Burbank, California, and then exported them to the rest of the world. Now, as the company targets China, India, South Korea, and other emerging markets, it is departing from its "one size fits all" approach. One factor driving the strategy change: the first-year visitor count in Hong Kong fell short of the target figure of 5.6 million people. This prompted company executives to step up efforts to educate the Chinese about...
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...Walt Disney Case Analysis Corporate Strategy The Disney brand is extremely well known, but most may not realize how diversified the company actually is. The company is made up of media networks, theme parks and resorts, studio entertainment, consumer products, and interactive media. Walt Disney Company’s corporate strategy involves three aspects; creating high-quality family content, exploiting technological innovations to make entertainment experiences more memorable, and internal expansion. Disney wants the whole family to be involved. Much of their success is due to targeting not just children, but the entire family. The movies and shows they release are done with family in mind. Theme parks and resorts, Disney Cruises, live performances and interactive media are all aimed at creating high quality family content. Disney acquired Pixar, Marvel, and Playdom in order to satisfy their second corporate strategy. The acquisition of Marvel and Pixar was intended to enhance Disney’s animation abilities to make experiences more memorable. Playdom gave the company new online gaming capacities that Disney hoped would help to improve its struggling interactive media division. UTV was acquired to facilitate its international expansion efforts. Disney’s international expansion strategy mainly focused on opportunities in emerging overseas markets. As of 2012 The Disney Channel was available in more than 100 countries and reached 75 percent of viewers in China and Russia. This was...
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...MG Rover case PART A: 4. SET OUT THE MAIN STAKEHOLDERS IN THE MG ROVER BUSINESS AT THE TIME OF ITS COLLAPSE. HOW WOULD YOU DETERMINE THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF THEIR STAKE? During the troubled times at MG Rover business, the main stakeholders were: BMW The UK Government Shanghai Automotive Industrial Corporation (SAIC) Employees of MG Rover, both workers as well as employees part of the supply chain. Phoenix Four and, Nanjing Automobiles. The importance of each of the stakeholders can only be a matter of one’s opinion. The Chartered Quality Institute (CQI) says that the meaning of Stakeholders normally varies and is extremely contextual in nature. (CQI, n.d.). However, CQI (n.d) adds that in business parlay, the term ‘Stakeholder’ can be equated with any third party who has an ‘interest’ in the end result. (CQI, n.d.). The six main stakeholders at MG Rover are listed above, who had a direct interest in the economic outcomes at the business. Perhaps the most important stakeholder was the several employees at MG Rover. The corporate battles and Government interventions first provided them hope of continued employment and stability, then, squashed these very hopes. The employees did not have a direct role in the fortunes of the company. They were not the people implementing the strategies at MG Rover. However, their stake in the company was beyond any comparison. Their livelihood, future and needs for basic requirements fluctuated with the fortunes of the company...
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...I decided to write my project on Ubuntu, which is a distro of Linux. Ubuntu |oǒ'boǒntoō|: Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning 'humanity to others'. It also means 'I am what I am because of who we all are'. The Ubuntu operating system brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of computers. (The Ubuntu Story) I chose Ubuntu because I have used it since 2009 and have loved it ever since then. I will be discussing the current distro which is 14.04, the next one will be 15.04 but 14.04 is the current stable version of Ubuntu or also often referred to as LTS or Long Term Support. The history of Ubuntu is quite short or at least 2004 kind of short. Mark Shuttleworth, from South Africa, started a company called Canonical which was created alongside Ubuntu. The purpose was to help it reach a wider market. They help governments and businesses the world over with migrations, management, and support for their Ubuntu deployments. They would work together with their partners, to ensure that Ubuntu runs reliably on every platform from the pc and the smartphone to the server and, crucially, the cloud. (Canonical) Ubuntu is part of a type of software referred to as open source, a development model promotes a universal access via a free license to a product's design or blueprint, and universal redistribution of that design or blueprint, including subsequent improvements to it by anyone. (Open source) The vision of Ubuntu is part social and part economic: free software, available to everybody...
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...behind ABC’s decision to close ABC shops (Battersby 2015) on the basis of strategic evaluation of both external and internal environment by applying analytical tools. The possible outcomes of this action will be critically assessed. Analysis 1. External As reported by Owens (2015), the main consideration of management is the disappointing profitability of ABC shop. Macro environment is evaluated by applying PEST and Porter’s Five Forces framework introduced by Jones (2015). PEST Political: Compared with industry-level, ABC group is facing more significant political impact at company specific level. On the one hand, the state-owned ABC benefits from large government funding as it enables ABC to carry out robust long-term strategy with clear income forecast. As discussed by McNair and Swift (2014), ABC has been acknowledged as producing good-quality news to serve public interest. On the other hand, being public means ABC suffers more political tension than private media. Especially when the Australia government announced to cut ABC funding by $ 254 million despite promising not to before the election (Hutchinson 2015), currently ABC is confronted with big challenge of delivering consistent service with less budget, keeping good relationship with successive government while remaining political-neutral in broadcasting, reminding people of its achievements and promoting public image to weather the storm. Overall, cutting funding gives ABC a hard time and enforces the company...
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...MIS-502, Fall-2015. NBA: Competing on Global Delivery with Akamai OS Streaming 1. Why is it important that all fans in the world have the same experience? A. It is very important that all fans in the world have the same experience to avoid the feeling of exclusion from the non- American fans. Akamai Company should maintain its website in an efficient manner which includes less streaming in video, RSS feeds etc. The NBA has real assets to expend itself around the world because, it contains numerous other countries players. Fans would be able to view whatever they want by using Akamai website with NBA. 2. Why is it important that individual franchise owners can build, manage, and distribute on the NBA platform their own content? A. Each team has its own franchise. Each team has to build its own image to become more powerful in franchise market. It is important that franchise owners are able to distribute the content, and publish the live events. Individual franchise owners will also able to gain exposure for their franchise with fans as well as business partners. The franchise owner is able to have access to a segment of the population that the NBA can’t reach. 3. Using the competitive forces model illustrated in Figure 2.3 of the text, analyze the NBA’s market situation. How does the use of Akamai help the NBA compete in this market? A. According to figure 2.3, there are five competitive forces which explained the E-commerce sway industry structure...
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...Roll No. Serial No. of Q. C. A. B. ≤¡ÈJ …ÂX‡Rπ› ‚¢zW : 58 ] Total No. of Questions : 58 ] [ ≤¡ÈJ ÆÂÈÈåX∆ …ÂÏ¡π› ‚¢zW : 40 [ Total No. of Printed Pages : 40 81-E Code No. : 81-E ‚¢xË∆ ‚¢zW : ê·ÂŒÈ : πÂä∆ Subject : MATHEMATICS (ߢÇYË·˜Ô ü˘Ê·Ê¢∆¬ / English Version ) [ Date : 08 04. 2013 [ Time : 9-30 A.M. to 12-45 P.M. [ Max. Marks : 100 å»Ê¢∑ : 08. 04. 2013 ] ‚ÂÆÂÈŒÈ : üúπB 9-30 ࢫ ÆÂÈ«˘ÊW„ÂR 12-45 ¬ÂÕ¬π ] …¬ÂÆÂ⁄ÕÂå˘ •¢∑π›ÂÈ : 100 ] FOR OFFICE USE ONLY Q. No. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Marks Q. No. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. Marks Q. No. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. Marks Q. No. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. Marks Q. No. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. Marks × × × × × × × Total Marks Total Marks in words 1. 2. Grand Total ✓ ✓ Signature of Evaluators Registration No. ✓ Signature of the Deputy Chief ✓ Signature of the Room Invigilator ✒ 912130 [ Turn over 81-E General Instructions : i) ii) 2 The Question-cum-Answer Booklet consists of objective and subjective types of questions having 58 questions. Space has been provided against each objective type question. You have to choose the correct choice and write the complete answer along with its alphabet in the space provided. For subjective type questions enough space for each question has been provided. You have to answer the questions in the space. Follow the instructions...
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...Summary Walt Disney Company is a global company that is a family-friendly entertainment offering. As we know, Disney is a company that well known in films and television show. Besides that, Disney started operate in resorts and also theme park. Disney wants to target their theme park to the global market and build global awareness. Their target market is China, India, South Korea and other emerging country. They want to enlarge their market share and find new potential market. First and foremost, Disney wants to educate to the Chinese about their cartoon character and also some famous stories and theme. Second, they also must learn the country’s cultures because different countries have different cultures. For example, in Hong Kong, Chinese vacationers often book package tours, so Disney can launch tour package which include restaurant, theme park and others to fit their cultures. Next, Disney must localize on the different languages from different countries. From the case, Disney provides Tamil language and Indian version in India. Because of the language localization, the customize film in Indian version is very successful in India. Besides India, Disney had localized a lot of country like Russia. In Russian market, Disney launches a Russian version of High School Musical for the local people and its work very well. Besides that, Disney also localize in color and the Chinese culture. Disney had studied the culture, belief, value of Chinese. From the case, during the year...
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...English 200 Section 049 Christopher Shipman “Too Excited To Sleep” Advertisements range from billboards to television commercials to jingles on the radio. Advertising companies have become adept at using images to grab the audience’s attention and implanting the subtlest of subliminal messages to keep the image of their products in the conscious and subconscious thoughts of the audience for extended periods of time. The Disney commercial, “Too Excited To Sleep” depicts two children that are supposed to be in bed but instead are whispering about their expectations of the trip to Disney World they are soon to take. The mother comes in and tells them to go to sleep, to which one of the children responds, “We’re too excited to sleep!” The commercial continues on to scenes of Disney World’s attractions and is concluded by the mother of the children asking the father if he’s asleep. At this point, the father responds, “No, I’m too excited to sleep.” By analyzing the use of image, humor, and fantasy in Disney’s commercial titled “Too Excited To Sleep” it is clear that the company successfully argues that Disney World is a desirable destination for adults, children, and families. In Disney’s commercial “I’m Too Excited To Sleep”, the advertisers use the imagery of fun and fantasy for all. The use of the family that is too excited to sleep gives the audience a mental image such as Santa visiting and other events that keep them awake from excitement. The scenes of exciting rides...
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...increased profits in the past decade (The Walt Disney Company, 2012). The biggest weakness that Disney has identified is that 75% of their revenue in 2011 was generated from customers in the U.S. and Canada. This is an opportunity for expansion of their operations to bring Disney entertainment to other parts of the world (The Walt Disney Company, 2012). The opportunities that Disney can develop include expanding their presence in emerging economies including Russia, China, Asia Pacific and India. Additionally, the distribution agreement they signed in 2012 with Comcast will allow them to expand their presence in the cable television market. This includes their cable network channels such as the Disney Channel, Disney Junior, Disney XD, ABC, ABC Family, and 12 unique ESPN channels (The Walt Disney Company, 2012). The threats that Disney must focus on is their steep...
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...What is Walt Disney Company’s corporate strategies? Creating high family context exploiting technology innovation to make entertainment experiences more memorable internal expansion Disney’s enhances the capabilities and resources of its core animation business with the addition of new animation skills and characters with accusations of pixar and Marvel use theme parks and resorts as a way to enter into new markets ESPN, ABC, Mirimax films, the Anaheim Angels, Fox Family Channel, Resorts and parks, Cruise lines, retail stores, interactive game division, creating new videos, Marvel, use of technology through internet and smartphone apps international expansion What is the long term attractiveness of business segments in Disney’s business portfolio? Media Network: 8.9 Attractive market projected growth rate and size, intense competition, many opportunities and threats, cross industry strategic fit, large resource requirements, seasonal changes, social, political, regulatory and environmental factors, industry profitability are all high lower industry business risk Parks and Resorts: 7.68 Attractive market projected growth rate and size, intense competition, cross industry strategic fit, seasonal changes, social, political, regulatory and environmental factors, industry profitability are all highly effective factors Moderate opportunities and threats and lower business risks Consumer Products: 6.65 Attractive High cross industry fit, resource requirements, seasonality...
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...JESSLYNE (090503322) STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENT NOKIA CASE STUDY JESSLYNE (090503322) STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENT NOKIA CASE STUDY SUMMARY Nokia, once a world leader in wireless telecommunications, has lost nearly 39% of its market share to its competitors and in some instances to no name companies. In 80s and 90s Nokia expanded through the acquisition of many other companies with various technologies. Due to this rapid expansion, Nokia lost focus of its ingenuity in wireless communications. However Nokia reorganized by selling most of its businesses which were not performing well and directed its focus once again to its wireless technologies. Acquisition of Sega in 2003 and then merger with Siemens AB in 2006 put Nokia once again in a place where it could compete its rivals. RIM’s blackberry and Apple’s iPhone are the major rivals and have a large market share from business users and consumers. * According to Nokia’s business strategy; the winning strategy is based upon the following factors. Best mobile devices regardless the price and geographical location * Provide extensive internet solutions on mobile devices * Enter into the markets by providing business mobility solutions to the corporate users Analysis: I believe that Nokia’s strategy is a winning strategy for the following reasons: * Business solutions: Innovative Business mobility solutions will attract the corporate users, since Nokia devices are based upon a very stable...
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