...History: * The Yemeni Aqeeq has been extremely popular for many ages. It has reached Europe in an early age, during the era of Aristo B.C. * The oldest Greek Authors mentioned that the finest kind of Aqeeq is the Yemeni. * Yemeni Aqeeq is better than the Indian, Germany and Latin America Aqeeq. * Some of Arab scientists who studied metals in the 4th century were; Al-Hamadany Al-Beroni and Al-Tifashi. * Yemeni Aqeeq’s diverse colors are highly demanded the Islamic and Arabian countries such as: Saudi Arabia, Iran and other Gulf countries. Places where Aqeeq is found: * Aqeeq is found in Yemen in the volcanic areas * It is extracted from mountains in Anes and Ans areas, which spread in the form of strings and clusters on the insides of the rocks. * Kwalan Mountains has the most unique kinds of Aqeeq figured with drawings. * Aqeeq is extracted on the form of different masses which range between half a kilo and one Kg * Certain families in the society monopolized the production of Aqeeq. * Production of Aqeeq is confined to Old Sana'a City “Bab al-Yemen”, where there are the artisans and traders of Aqeeq and its shops are widely spread. The Yemeni Aqeeq goes through many steps of extraction: 1- It starts with extracting the raw material from the mines and then cutting it to its original shape. 2- Sealing it with damp mud before putting it under heat for 24hrs. 3- Then, they clean the pieces from their impurities. 4-...
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...ENVIROMENTAL ANALYSIS Apple Watch For describing and analyzing the enviroment that involves our new product Apple Watch we should make a study about its internal (micro) and external (macro) enviroment. First of all, we will describe what is the micro and macro enviroment analysis. The micro environment, as the name suggests, is the immediate environment that impacts a business. The micro environment includes considerations related to suppliers, customers and local stakeholders, including local government agencies or regulatory bodies. The micro environment can generally be considered the local environment where the business Macro Environment The macro-environment includes those things that may impact small businesses but which are outside of their control. It is the larger, external environment within which businesses operate from an industry or economic standpoint. For describing and analyzing the enviroment that involves our new product Apple Watch we should make a study about its internal (micro) and external (macro) enviroment. First of all, we will describe what is the micro and macro enviroment analysis. The micro environment, as the name suggests, is the immediate environment that impacts a business. The micro environment includes considerations related to suppliers, customers and local stakeholders, including local government agencies or regulatory bodies. The micro environment can generally be considered the local environment where the business Macro Environment ...
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...have taken their love for books and reading and found a way to be environmentally conscious while still creating a successful company that makes profits and bring literacy to people all over the world. Better World Books make many smart moves as a business; they invest well, and waste not. I believe that Better World Books have an ideal business blueprint that many companies can model and be financially successful while still being conscious about how you do business. 2. Analyze the ways in which BWB strives to achieve a triple bottom line. Is this business model sustainable in the long term? Why or why not? Better world books have achieved the triple bottom line approach; they have made a conscious effort to achieve a social, enviromental, and economic sustainability. It directly donated books and gave financial support to literacy initiatives worldwide. Moreover, a percentage of each sale was given separately to the individuals, libraries, or colleges as well as literacy partners chosen by them. BWB did not advertise in the media about collecting and selling...
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...5/21/2011 Strategic Planning In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. Pick a general direction and implement like hell.” Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric between 1981 and 2001 1 5/21/2011 • “We have a strategic plan, It´s called doing things.” Herb Kelleher, Cofounder and CEO of Southwest Airlines between 1971 and 2008 • “Strategy is 10 per cent vision and 90 per cent execution.” Percy Barnevik, CEO and Chairman of Asea Brown Boveri between 1988 and 2002 2 5/21/2011 Revolutionary Strategy • When Strategic Planning isn’t Strategic – It should not be just an annual ritual – It should challenge the limits of industry – It should harness the creative potential of a large portion of the organization – Planning is not the same as strategizing – Planning is programming not discovering – Strategy discovery is not incrementalism 3 5/21/2011 Revolutionary Strategy • Principle 2 Strategy Making must be Subversive – Revolutionaries are subversive and enlightened – Be a rule maker not a rule taker Revolutionary Strategy • Principle 3 The bottle neck is at the top of the bottle – the top is where least diversity of experience lives – the top is where there is greatest investment in the past – the top is where there is great reverence in industry dogma 4 5/21/2011 Revolutionary Strategy • Principle 4 Revolutionaries exist in every Company/Organization – They are the maligned middle managers – Allow them to participate in the strategising...
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...Domino’s Pizza Analysis of Marketing Strategy Prepared By: Muhammet GÜVEN 1002090089 Hanım Eylül ŞAHİN 1002090110 Esra ASLAN 1002100128 Kübra AYDIN 1002100028 Istanbul University May, 2014 ------------------------------------------------- An in depth look into the theory and outcome of Domino’s bold mea culpa advertising strategy and its potentially radical effects on transparency in the food and service industry. Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2 History 2 Industry 2 SWOT Analysis 2 Competition 3 Recommendations 3 HISTORY of DOMINO’S 3 Mission and Vision 5 DOMINO’S’ LOGO 6 PRODUCTS OFFERED IN DOMINO’S PIZZA 7 Menu 7 ENVIROMENTAL ANALYSIS OF DOMINO’S PIZZA 9 Remote Environment 9 Internal Environment Analysis 10 PIZZA’S MARKET SHARE 11 MARKETING STRATEGIES OF DOMINO’S PIZZA 11 SWOT Analysis 14 Strengths 14 Weakness 15 Opportunities 15 Threats 16 MARKETING MIX 16 CONCLUSION 18 APPENDIX 19 To: Doc.Dr.Zehra BOZBAY Subject: Domino’s Pizza Date: May 2014 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY History Starting in 1960, Domino’s Pizza, Inc. (Domino’s) was formed by two brothers from Michigan. The two started the business after purchasing a store named DomiNick’s. They converted the name to Domino’s five years later. In 1983, Domino’s went international. Today, Domino’s employs about 10,500 people between their 8,700 stores worldwide. The company has been traded on the NYSE as DPZ since 2004. Industry The pizza industry...
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...Services * Industry Life Cycle – Fig 2.8 Page 2.19 * Early stages of the Growth Cycle * Remote Environment * POLITICAL – Change in legislation – ie. Tariff attached to every purchase. Negative * ECONOMIC – Exchange rate fluctuations – most online shopping growth is coming from intl. Labour Costs – need to reduce in order to make retail shopping more competitive. Positive * SOCIAL – Better Security – with entering personal banking information for online payments. Work/Life balance – Convenience and time poor. Positive * TECHNOLOGICAL – More efficient. Very dependent on advancing technology. Cost of production is reduced as the “middle man” ie. Retailer is reduced. Positive * ENVIROMENTAL – Logistically – more trucks on the road to make deliveries. Increased Packaging. Negative * LEGAL – Actually changing the legislation – to allow companies to ship to Australia. Positive More positives than negatives – industry will grow at faster than average rates. PG 2.35 Porter’s 5 Forces 1. Threats of new entrants Industry is attractive. No significant barriers to entry. Products available to customers are not much differentiated. 2. Rivalry among existing firms Strong. Industry is growing and products being sold are not very differentiated. Try to differentiate by shopping miles, “see” the...
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...Overview Company Brief Adidas is on the move and always has been: It has had an adventurous history since it first grew out of a family business in Herzogenaurach, Germany in the 1920s. With the hostile separation of two brothers’ interests in the 1940s, nearly going bust in the 1980s and then executing two rescue operations, first by sending production offshore to Asia and then by reinventing itself into a design and marketing company, Adidas has riden the waves of change in the sports goods sector both up and down. Alongside its own brands, it owned the Saloman ski and sportswear brand for nearly a decade and now includes the Reebok, Taylormade Golf and Rockport brands in its stable. Company Highlights * BECOMING A TRUE MULTI-SPORTS SPECIALIST From Herzogenaurach to the world: the 3-Stripes kept expanding to more and more sports throughout the years. This is reflected in the broad range of athletes who trust adidas to make them better: besides the usual suspects such as the world’s best football players, like the Argentinean national team, outdoor icon Reinhold Messner climbed mountains in adidas shoes and gymnast Nadia Comaneci scored a perfect 10, repeatedly. * A COMPUTER FOR YOUR FEET, It sounds quite common today, but back in the ‘80s, a computer did not belong, much less fit, in your shoe. Didn’t stop adidas from putting it in there. An innovation ahead of its time, the Micropacer featured a system – known today as miCoach – providing performance statistics...
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...Contemporary Issues in Management Case study: Global Strategic Analysis Adidas and Reebok Merger Acquisition ABSTRACT 3 INTRODUCTION 4 LITERATURE REVIEW 5 ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS 8 VMOST 7 VISION 7 MISSION 7 OBJECTIVES 7 STRATEGIES 7 TACTICS 7 ACQUISITION 8 SWOT ANALYSIS 9 BEFORE ACQUISITION WITH REEBOK 9 STRENGTHS 9 WEAKNESSES 10 OPPURTUNITIES 10 THREATS 11 AFTER ACQUISITION WITH REEBOK 11 STRENGHTS 11 WEAKNESSES 11 OPPURTUNITIES 12 THREATS 12 CONCLUSION 13 REFERANCES 14-15 ABSTRACT The purpose of this report is to evaluate the impact of adidas pending acquisition of Reebok on the sporting goods industry in relationship to Nike position. Evaluation of background information and corporate culture combined with VMOST and SWOT analyses to helped form the arguments presented in this report and have assisted in answering the question, Will adidas forthcoming takeover of Reebok help the new company achieve sustainable competitive advantage over industry leader Nike?. This research was based on the subject that is illustrating an evaluation of the impact of Adidas from acquisition reebok. Furthermore, an investigation of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) related to companies in the sports industry was conducted. On the one hand it was found that Adidas historically grown...
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...BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT UNIT:1 Introduction Business may be understood as the organized efforts of enterprises to supply consumers with goods and services for a profit. The following essay contains some details about the business environment such as types of organisations, EU rules and regulations policies of the market control. 1.1 Identify the purposes of different types of organisation. 1. Sole traders The sole trader is a common form of business ownership and is found in a wide range of activities such as painter, plumber, cleaner. Business has only one owner who responsible for all the expenses and legal requirements. Difficult to raise finance, also owner has unlimited liability. 2. Partnership Partnership is a business with at least two or more owners up to twenty. Partnerships are particularly common in professional services such as solicitors accountant. Owners enjoy limited liability, share their skills, and work allowing them to raise capital more quickly than individuals. 3.Private Limited Company (LTD) The Company is an artificial person made by law, offers limited liability. The major private limited company’s restrictions are about the shares and shareholders. Shares cannot be sold or transferred to the public. Shareholders enjoy priority against others in buying shares within the company. Example J. Whitaker & Sons Ltd 4 Co-operative The co-operative is a group of people working together, making decisions together to reach common...
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...5/19/2012 Report By Omar Sheriff (52111617) | Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University | Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University | Strategic Analysis Report Hitachi LTD (4000 words) | 1.0 Introduction This report will conduct a strategic analysis report on Hitachi Ltd. On a famous advertistment (advertisement) about Hitachi’s smart cities and its social innovation business it suggests the following: “Even apart, we are connected. Even in absence we are still joined. Past and present connect! thus； we see the future. IT connects with infrastructure to link the world to bring better quality of life, urban planning, transport, electricity, industry, the enviroment, Hitachi’s expertise, its people, its technology are all at the service of society..... Hitachi inspires the Next ” (Hitachi, 2012) 2.0 Vision statement and report structure “The Hitachi Group is active in various fields ranging from social infrastructures to home appliances, materials, logistics, and services. Our goal is to seek constantly to breathe new life into the next era, an outlook expressed in our corporate slogan: “Inspire the Next.” We seek to become a vigorous company that will grow throughout the 21st century, contributing to society by helping to build comfort and prosperity” (Hitachi, Hitachi ltd, 2012). Above is an extract from a Hitachi advertisement derived from the Hitachi Smart city concept, that the company seems to be centrally pursuing in its global strategy via a strategy...
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...[Note: This text was originally printed as a chapter in A Primer for new Institutional Researchers and is reprinted here with permission from the Association for Institutional Research. The bibliographical citation is: Morrison, J. L. (1992). Environmental scanning. In M. A. Whitely, J. D. Porter, and R. H. Fenske (Eds.), A primer for new institutional researchers (pp. 86-99). Tallahassee, Florida: The Association for Institutional Research.] Editor's Note: The Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, published by the H.W.Wilson Company, is an index to English language periodicals of general interest available in most libraries. We consider a periodical to be readily accessible if it is indexed in the Readers' Guide. For those periodicals not included in the Readers' Guide, we provide the address and, in most cases, the phone number to guide you in your scanning. The Encyclopedia of Associations, published by Gale Research, Inc., is a guide to over 22,000 national and international organizations. Information about how to contact the organizations mentioned in this chapter is from the 1992 edition of The Encyclopedia of Associations and is available in most libraries. Publications of U.S. government agencies are indexed in the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications. Most publications included in the Monthly Catalog are available from The Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, 732 N. Capitol St., NW, Washington, DC 20401. Information:...
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...of Contents Executive Summary4 I. Introduction6 II. Research Methodology7 III. Mission and Vision Analysis8 Current Vision and Mission8 Review of the Current Vision9 Review of the Current Mission10 Proposed Vision and Mission Statements11 Review of the Proposed Vision and Mission Statements12 Communicating the Proposed Vision and Mission Statements14 IV. External Analysis15 Economic Forces15 Political Forces………………………......................................................................................... 18 Social, Cultural, Demographic and Ecological Forces 19 Technological Forces 21 Industry and Competitive Forces 22 Five Forces of Competition Model 24 Competitive Profile Matrix (CPM)28 External Factor Evaluation (EFE) Matrix 33 V. Internal Analysis39 Functional Audit39 Culture39 Management41 Operations43 Information Systems44 Human Resources45 Marketing and Hiring46 Financial Performance47 Internal Factor Evaluation (IFE) Matrix52 VI. Strategy Formulation58 SWOT Analysis58 Strategic Position and Evaluation (SPACE) Matrix 60 Internal-External (IE) Matrix63 Grand Strategy Matrix64 Summary of Matrices and Analysis65 VII. Quality Strategy Planning Matrix 66 VIII. Proposed Strategies69 Strategic Objective 69 Recommended Business Strategy: Market Penetration 69 Secondary Strategy: Market Development 71 Strategy Positioning72 IX. Action Plans74 X. Strategy Map76 XI. Balanced Scorecard77 XII. Financial...
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...Table of Contents I. Introduction 3 II. The world bank Group 3 1. The Back ground information and its power. 3 a. The World Bank Authority 3 b. The Background information 3 2. Aims & Objective 4 3. The Funding Source 5 a. Bond Flotation 5 b. Subscriptions fees 5 c. The Loans 6 4. Ownership & Organization structure 6 a. The membership of World Bank Group. 6 b. The leadership position 6 5. Recent Activities about the new president of World Bank. 7 6. The Criticism about the management of the World Bank 7 7. The restoration of Thi Nghe and Nhieu Loc canals 7 III. Bank for International Settlement (BIS) 8 1. Back ground information & Power 8 a. The background information 8 b. The BIS’s Authority 8 2. Objectives 8 3. Funding Source 9 a. Informal way of funding 9 b. The Formal ways of funding 9 4. Ownership & Structure 9 a. The Ownership 9 b. The Structure of BIS 10 5. BIS is immunity to the global regulation 10 6. Experience in Vietnam 10 IV. Asia Development Bank (ADB) 11 1. Back ground information & Power 11 a. The background information 11 b. Asia Development Bank’ power 11 2. Objective &Aims 12 3. Funding Sources 12 4. Ownership & ADB’s structure. 13 5. Recent Activities of ADB on November, 2012 and its criticism 13 6. The support of reform the state own enterprises in Vietnam 13 V. International Monetary Fund (IMF) 14 1. Back ground...
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...POLITECNICO DI MILANO Muğla Marble Quarry Project Management final work Written by: Assaf Shklar Emre Yağmurlu Ceren Bayazit Vahid Golabi Rodrigo Esteban Perez Muğla Marble Quarry Contents 1.Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 5 2.Project Charter ....................................................................................................................... 6 1.General information ........................................................................................................... 6 2.Project stakeholders ........................................................................................................... 6 3.Charter executive summary ............................................................................................... 6 4.Project purpose .................................................................................................................. 7 a.Business need ................................................................................................................. 7 b.Business objectives......................................................................................................... 7 5.Project overview ................................................................................................................. 7 a.Project description ..............................................................................
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...out to reinvent athletic footwear. Over the past decade, our drive to design and produce better, faster, lighter products has evolved into an even more ambitious agenda – to embed long term sustainability into our business. This broader vision calls for new approaches to design, management, partnership and new tools and metrics to support integration and adoption throughout Nike. Many of Nike’s http://www.managementexchange.com/story/nike%E2%80%99s-gameplan-growth-that%E2%80%99s-good-all 21/02/2013 Nike’s Gameplan for Growth that’s Good for All | Management Innovation eXchange Page 2 of 29 management innovations for sustainable growth started internally, with the Corporate Responsibility and Considered Design Teams. As internal efforts took hold, the focus expanded externally. Nike is now reinventing its supplier, industry and business relationships. It is leading industry efforts for systemic change and pursuing an agenda of truly disruptive innovation. Nike Dare to Dream video: http://vimeo.com/11680452 Moonshot(s) • Develop holistic performance measures • Make direction-setting bottom-up...
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