...of people. In tall organizations there are many layers of middle managers between top management and employees. This can slow work down and more it overly bureaucratic. Tall structure are most commonly found in more complex or larger organizations ,when many decisions need to be taken at a lower level and executives concern themselves with only the larger decisions. Good example for tall structure is NHS. In this organization the management is on high levels, a lot of bureaucracy Reference: (http://khijji.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/tall-organizational-structures-vs-flat.html ) Flat structure- The flat structures have fewer management levels with each level controlling a broad area or group. Flat organizations focus on empowering employees. For example organizations with flat structure are Mont Rose College, Charity organizations or small companies. Centralisation and Decentralisation structures- In Centralisation and Decentralisation structures decision- making is about authority. In centralized structures need office will retain the major responsibilities and power. Conversely decentralised organisations will spread responsibilities for specific decisions across various outlets and lower level managers, including branches or units located away from head office. An example of a decentralised structure is TESCO and EBAY. Each store of TESCO has a store manager who can makes decisions in their store. Centralisation means that the Head office keeps the main responsibilities of...
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...Organizational Structure A basic review of modern corporate organizational structures can offer an insight into the origins of present day design of corporate management. By examining the predominant organizational structures in the economy today, it is clear that the growth and diversity of modern business practice has been the developmental catalyst for these individual management processes and structures Bureaucracy has a clear and definitive hierarchical structure with the authoritative mandate and directives typically led top down from senior executive leadership groups to silos containing secondary managerial structures (Ashkenas, 1999). A typical analogy of this organizational structure has been quoted as ‘the top rung of one ladder is the bottom rung of another’. Corporate operating procedures, methodologies, and policies and procedures are the foundation for a sustainable bureaucratic organizational system (Rockman, 2012). Common examples of this type of organizational structure would be large scale government or military organizations. A basic review of modern corporate organizational structures can offer an insight into the origins of present day design of corporate management. By examining the predominant organizational structures in the economy today, it is clear that the growth and diversity of modern business practice has been the developmental catalyst for these individual management processes and structures Bureaucracy has a clear and definitive hierarchical...
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...Best Buy Corporation - S. Bensen, A. El Haddi, K. Fitzsimmons, A. Hussein, H. Marotske -- UST EMBA [1] “Best Buy Corporation: Strategic Management Analysis” S. Bensen, A. El Haddi, K. Fitzsimmons, A. Hussein, H. Marotske Strategic Management University of St Thomas, College of Business Executive MBA program, Cohort 62 Abstract Best Buy’s news coverage of the last few years has been consistently negative. The company’s performance and reputation suffered greatly. Its Earnings per Share fell by more than 200% in 2012 alone. These negative events were the result of governance problems, a changing market landscape (cloud computing, music streaming, online purchasing, online gaming, etc.) and a significant leadership turnover in a period of crisis. The company’s value stream is in a state of flux and could be said to be a master of none at this time. This paper presents strategies to deal with these problems by creating a strategic road map that will first stabilize Best Buy and eventually put it on a growth path. As a result of our analysis, we recommend that the company employs new strategies that include growing its online business by capitalizing on Geek- Squad’s expertise and exploring an internal fix-it strategy with the development of a compelling mission and vision. Finally, we recommend that BB explore the formation of an alliance with its rivals and leverage opportunities presented by new markets. 1. INTRODUCTION The purpose of this paper is to examine Best...
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...NEXFLIX Overview brand& company Background Netflix, Inc. is an American provider of on demand Internet streaming media available to North and South America, the Caribbean, United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, the Netherlands, etc. and flat rate DVD-by-mail in the United States, where mailed DVDs are sent via permit reply mail. Netflix occupies a unique place in the media industry - aggregating, distributing, and recently creating its own content through an online platform that lets viewer choose when and where they want to watch television shows or movies. Subscribers pay US $7.99 per month for this right. Its disruptive business model has proven popular among younger users, whose lives are increasingly spent on their personal computers. Online streaming service and DVD delivery service are two main product lines for Netflix. History Netflix was incorporated in Delaware in August 1997 and started its subscription-based digital distribution service in 1999. It made its initial public offering on May 22, 2002 on NASDAQ under the ticker NFLX. Netflix introduced instant streaming in 2007, by 2009 Netflix was offering a collection of 100,000 titles on DVD and had 12.3 million subscribers. In September 2010, they began international operations by offering streaming service in Canada, and now offer streaming service in Latin America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Nordic countries of Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and others. Beginning the fourth...
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...Fortress, Counter Strike and Left 4 Dead and the online game platform Steam, seems to prove that this is possible. In 2012 the company had about 300 employees, and although based in Bellevue, Washington, USA, the company jokingly claimed that up to half of employees were from Australia. So how does a company with no managers operate, and how does the company structure itself? The company describes its structure as organic and flat. Nobody “reports to” anybody else. They have a founder/president in Gabe Newell, but his role is not to serve as a manager. The company tries to keep its structure flat to remove or reduce barriers between the employee’s work and customers. Valve states that they are not averse to organisational structure, but they are averse to hierarchy or codified divisions of labour created by people other than team members or divisions that last for a long period of time. They believe that those structures become self-‐serving and restrictive, thus limiting the innovation potential of talented staff. The company may not have an organisational chart, but they do have a new staff handbook. The staff handbook explains the values of the company and how the company operates without managers. The handbook explains how staff select projects to work on, how to review ...
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...The publishing industry is grappling with disruptive technologies that may transform its business models and the way we buy and read books. What is the impact of the Internet and e-book technology on book and newspaper publishing? Who will win and who will lose out, and how will the struggle play out? Newspapers are the most troubled segment of the publishing industry, due to the availability of alternatives to the printed newspaper and publishers' inability to protect valuable content from being distributed for free over the Internet. Over 60 percent of newspapers have reduced news staff in the past three years and about the same percentage report reducing the size of their newspapers. Readership has been declining for about a decade and advertising is down 15 percent a year. Alternative online sources of news such as Yahoo, Google, and blogs have become major sources of news for many Americans, especially younger readers. At first glance, the online newspaper industry appears to be a classic case of a disruptive technology destroying a traditional business model based on physical products and physical distribution. But the newspapers have much valuable content worth preserving and they have acquired a huge online audience. Next to social networks, newspapers have the largest online audience of any media, and online newspaper readership is growing by 17 percent each year. Contrary to popular opinion, they are one of the most successful forms of online content to date. The...
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...gain in January and a flat December. The February result was in line with consensus. That's a weak picture though with trend growth in nominal sales tracking at a 1% annual pace. • The detail was also patchy. Food retail rose 0.3%mth but was basically flat over Q1; clothing retailers saw a 1.4% fall; department stores had a better month but household good retailers registered a second monthly decline suggesting we may be seeing renewed caution/restraint from consumers big ticket discretionary spending. Small ticket categories continue to hold up comparatively well. • The wedge between mining and non-mining states is widening with retail sales down 0.6%mth in NSW and 0.4%mth in Vic – both states having recorded four monthly declines in the last six months. In contrast, Qld and WA continue to record solid 1%+ gains. • Notwithstanding areas of strength – the resource states and some small-ticket discretionary categories – the overall picture remains decidedly soft. Even allowing for the 'extenuating circumstances' affecting retail – online competition in particular - the message appears to be of subdued consumer demand that at the very least has extended the soft Q4 result into 2012 and may even be seeing a further weakening. Retail sales posted another disappointing month in February, albeit one that was in line with expectations. Total retail sales rose 0.2%mth to be up 2%yr. That followed a 0.3% gain January. While the two months is an improvement on the flat finish to 2011, trend...
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...Apple Inc. Management project Apple Inc. has stakes in several areas of technology including PCs, tablets, cell phones, portable media devices, and digital music distribution. There are threats from each area that Apple has to constantly monitor and overcome. Apple uses its own OS and on its own hardware which has both advantages and disadvantages. Since Apple has more control using this method their products are high-quality or sometimes referred to as premium. However there is less room for customization and the consequences can be seen on several of their product lines. One example is in the wireless market, where new cell phones are being released frequently. Apple has the iPhone and the iOS which are only updated once a year. Meanwhile there is another highly popular OS called Android and is developed by Google and given away for free. Several cell phone manufactures then create phones and use the Android OS which can be customized by the manufacture or simply left the way it is. With different manufactures, Android based phones are released more frequently and have different features which give consumers a variety of options. Features that are a direct threat to the iPhone include increased screen size, removable storage, and more options for customization. The latest iPhones always start at $199 USD with a 2-year contract and a similar Android phone is about the same. One major issue is the fact that the $199 version has 16GB of storage and for more storage (32GB)...
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...Global Business Cultural Analysis: Brazil Liberty University BUSI 604 Abstract This research paper analyzes the effect of Globalization on the country of Brazil, and how its economy compares to other South American countries and the world. This review will provide factual evidence of the integration of the Brazilian products internationally, and how its economy has evolved to compete in the international markets. A Comparative summary of evidence will be provided in this analysis between the business culture of Brazil, North American, Central America, the Caribbean, and other South American countries economic framework. The framework of the origins of Brazil, and to the progression of the nation into one of the top economies; will be discussed in this assignment. A small glimpse of the picturesque country will be provided in the form of pictures, to give the reader a greater ability to visualize this country and its inhabitance. The major elements and dimension of culture is reviewed, and these dimensions are; what the major elements and dimensions of culture are in this region; how these elements and dimensions are integrated by the locals conducting business in this region; how these cultures and dimensions compare with U.S. cultures and business; and what the implications are for U.S. businesses that wish to conduct business in that region. This paper will review some of the desires of Brazil’s government to be one of the world’s leading...
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...Best Buy Co, Inc.: Sustainable Customer Centricity Model Student’s Name Affiliation Course Date Resources (i) Tangible resources Best Buy is one of the world largest multi-channel consumer electronics retailer in the world with several stores in Mexico, US, UK, Canada and China .Tangible resources are very important to Best Buy. For example, they have right number of stores each with up to date furnishings. It’s technology oriented with consumer electronics as of one the major key resource of the company. The stores have a long supply chain of electronic devices and dominate the brick and mortar online market. TVs and Audio, Cars and GPS, Camera and camcorders, Computers, Video games and gadgets, office electronics and home appliances are some of the products of found in the outlets of Best Buy Company. The outlets also have Geek Squad capabilities to provide installation services and product repairs (Charles et al, 2012). (ii) Human resources One of the key non tangible assets of the company is the human resource. Over the past few years the company has transformed itself into a more customer centric company with more than 140,000 employees who engage with close to 1.6 billion customers in their stores, online or via mobile. Their strong brand presence has established through their knowledgeable staff, which in...
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...ventures require even more analysis. A global business venture, such as this centered on leather and leather goods, requires strong analysis of the proposed host nation for the business. The company must consider social, political, economic, health, and production factors within the host nation. This analysis ensure that the firm considers every aspect of the business so that the venture is successful. Products / Service Descriptions Starting a new venture in Brazil on leather goods, they must start looking to “take advantage of differences in the cost, and quality of production” (Hill, 2009). This organization will specialize in high quality leather material to produce different types of products. Most organizations provide a flat finish on leather materials but this organization will provide different types of leather finishes as they are ready to gratify the consumers whether they like oil based finish or waxed finishes. This organization will solely produce the best finishes on leather materials in order to produce shoes, belts, handbags, luggage, and wallets. Their services will look for ways to adopt a cleaner environmental system to reduce future environmental cost, and introduced a sustainable waste management system for leather goods. The system will detect defective sections in our leather material, and this will notify the organization not to manufacture the merchandise. Providing quality leather goods can separate their organization from the competitors...
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...Netflix Netflix was founded in 1997 in Scotts Valley, California, USA by two entrepreneurs named Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph. In its early days, Netflix offered unlimited movie rentals to its subscribers without due dates for a flat monthly fee with no per title rental, shipping or handling fees or late charge fees. In 2007, the company introduced new business model based on video on demand via the Internet, which was considered by some to be a departure from its original business model of movie rentals. With video streaming, online DVD and Blue-ray Disc rental tripod and with a global streaming subscribers of over 50 million, Netflix reported a revenue of US$4.37 billion US$112 million of which being net income and a total asset of US$5.4 billion in 2013. The company estimates its total equity to be US$1.33 billion and it has over 2000 full-time employees (www.netflix.com). Netflix’s vision as expressed by one the co-founder focuses on global distribution, licensing entertainment contents across the world, market accessibility for film makers, and finding global audience for content creators. (10K Item 1). It’s mission emphasizes growing global streaming subscription business, continuous customer experience improvement, enhancing user interface while at the same time remaining profitable. Mission. Netflix core values revolve around judgement, productivity, creativity, intelligence, honesty, communication, selflessness, reliability and passion. Tepper (2014)...
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...Netflix Incorporated, Case Study Marketing 101-H1 Assignment 2: Case Study Analysis Group 4: Jagvir Bagri, Michael Catalfamo, Tina Hoang, Jason Rudzki Submitted to Dr. Youssef Ahmad Youssef Humber College Business School September 27, 2010 Introduction In the summer of 2011, the co-founder and chief executive officer of Netflix Inc. Reed Hastings, made the decision to separate the companies online streaming service from the DVD rental service. The DVD rental services mails out DVD’s to customers one video at a time and the streaming service allows customers to watch movies and television shows via the internet. Instead of charging each customer a flat rate for both services, as it had in the past, Hastings wanted to charge consumers for each service as its own separate entity. This meant each customer would now have two accounts (instead of one), pay considerably more in membership fees and still receive that same amount of content. Shortly afterwards, on July 12, 2011. Mr. Hastings, publicly announced the changes and informed his customers that they would come into effect in that coming September. In 2010, the business reported revenues of more than two billion dollars and had approximately twenty-million subscribers. After Hastings announced the split, his stocks fell by more than fifty percent from a one time high of more than three hundred dollars per market share. Stocks in Netflix continued declining quickly and before the end of the year, they...
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...temperatures( 26-28°) and high insolation, P>E rain washes nutrients out of the soil, so nutrients may limit plant growth * Structure: amazingly high levels of biodiversity: plants compete for light thus growing tall to absorb it, so there is a multi-storey profile to the forests called stratification. Many niches and habitat for animals and large mammals can get enough food * Net productivity: produce 40% of NPP of terrestrial ecosystems. Fast rates of decomposition, respiration and photosynthesis. Biomass gain very high, rapid recycling of nutrients * Human activity: more than 50% of world’s human population live in the tropics/subtropics forests exploited e.g. nutrients quickly exhausted by agriculture, commercial logging of timber * Issues: logging, conversion to grazing and to plantations forests exploited for economic development * Examples: Amazon rainforest, Borneo rainforest Desert: * What: dry areas usually hot in the day and cold at night as skies are clear and there is little vegetation to insulate the ground. Tropical, temperate, cold deserts * Where: cover 20-30% of the Earth’s land surface, about 30°N and S of the equator where dry air descends. Most are in the middle of continents * Climate, limiting factors: water limiting, E>P, precipitation irregular, less than 250 mm per year * Structure: few species, low biodiversity. Soils can be rich in nutrients (as they are not washed away). Drought-resistant plants, animals...
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...online, there are larger competitors to consider, however, by keeping the inventory to used books, and older out of print material, Well Read is certain to have success in the online market. Well Read recognizes the larger online sellers, such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble have more access to publishing companies. These Big Name stores are not the true competition. Three similar stores offer similar shopping experiences as Well Read. Lots O’Books, Read It Again, and Read More are all small community based brick and mortar stores that have an online sales outlet. All three sellers have similar stock and customer base size. Lots O’Books has been in business 10 years with an online store for 2 years. They specialize in Historical Romance and children’s books. Their pricing structure is 75% of publisher price with a flat shipping fee that increases incrementally based on total purchased. Their customer satisfaction rating is 89% for ease of site use, and quality of merchandise. The 11% dissatisfaction rating is due to a lack of genre variety. Read It Again has been in business for 8 years with an online store for 3 years. They specialize in nonfiction history, science fiction, and children’s books. Their pricing structure is 88%...
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