...What are the estimated economic benefits of the high speed two (HS2) railway and what will the impact be on the economy in the long run. Table of contents Introduction 1 Research background 1 Research aim 1 Research objectives 2 Research questions 2 Issues 2 Literature Review Revenue 3 Employment 4 Research Design Methodology 5 Sampling and Data collection 5 Justification ...
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...States. This construction project is aimed at TOPICS IN MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS creating high-speed railway networks between China, Russia, Canada and America to provide fast delivery of bulk goods and promote steady business among those countries. (Washington post, May 9, 2014) The challenges the telecommunications and system engineering teams in China will face and how they are going to convince the Chinese government to fund this project is an example of how technology is now used to solve problems in the business world in terms of speed and the challenges they succumb to in the innovation process. Sustainable infrastructure is another issue that has been looked into by the countries involved. The construction of the rail road below sea level is very demanding in terms of funds and labor force. Those issues have already been tabled and as per a report in the state-run China Daily insists “The country does have the technology and means to complete a construction project of this scale, including another tunnel that would link the Chinese province of Fujian with nearby Taiwan”. (China Daily May 8, 2014). The idea is also being analyzed and scrutinized so that a proper decision is made to ensure the undersea train project facilitates business growth. This is an indication that wise decisions are made in computer systems to take care of any emerging issues like derailment detection, tracking or scheduling. This type of project will definitely involve thousands...
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...the UK’largest surface transportation company. It has s revenues of over £ billion a year. It employs over 135,000 staff throughout the UK and 5 North America and moves more than 2.5 billion passengers a year. •First is the largest UK rail operator carrying almost 270m passengers every year. This is one quarter of the passenger network. First operates rail passenger services, which include regional, intercity and commuter services such as First Great Western, First TransPennine Express, First Capital Connect, First ScotRail and Hull Trains. •First is Britain’largest bus operator running more than one in five of all local bus services. s A fleet of nearly 9,000 buses carries around three million passengers a day in more than 40 major towns and cities, such as Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow. •The company also operates First GBRf, a rail freight business and the Croydon Tramlink network which carries almost 25 million passengers a year. •In North America, First is the largest provider of student transportation carrying nearly 3 million students every day. First is the leader in providing reliable, safe, innovative and sustainable transport services. Although First is a global business, it aims to be local in its approach. This means that local issues are dealt with by people that largely live and work in that location. This ensures a clearer...
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...The year 2009 will be remembered always for what is one of the biggest setbacks in Indian IT and services Industry – the Satyam debacle. The issue not only shook the stakeholders of the company but had far reaching implications on Indian IT/BPO sector. The case brutally exposed the manner and extent to which Corporate Governance in India is inefficient and faulty. But what we shall be discussing here, are the reasons behind Mr. Ramalinga Raju taking these steps and how ethically correct or incorrect he had been in taking them. Satyam Computer Services was established in 1987 by Ramalinga Raju and his brother Mr. B. Rama Raju. In 1991 it was listed as a Public Limited company and received its first Fortune 500 client Deere and Co. From here on there was no looking back for the company. Rising from humble beginnings it became one of fastest growing IT companies in India. The company was held in the same league as biggies like Infosys, TCS and Wipro. The rise of Satyam coincided with the rise of IT industry of India and the development of Hyderabad as one of the most prominent IT hubs in India. Over the time it won many feathers in its cap like becoming the first ISO 9001:2001 company in the world, certified by BVQI, winning the Frost & Sullivan Award for Competitive Strategy in ASP in 2001etc. Satyam became the first company in the world to start a program called Customer-Oriented Global Organization training in the year 2000. It is only ironical then, that this company Satyam...
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...HOGESCHOOL ZUYD IBMS BLOCK4.1 INTEGRATIVE CASE Table of content Preface 4 Summary 4 Company Description 5 Definition of the problem 5 Description of the procedure 7 Research 7 Suppliers and delivery problems 8 Lower demand 9 New customers – BRIC and Eastern Europe countries 9 Environment protection 11 Chapter 1 12 SWOT Analysis 12 Porter’s 5-forces Analysis 14 Value Chain Analysis 16 Strategic Logic 18 Chapter 2 22 Strategic Map 22 Chapter 3 23 Value Based Management Philosophy 23 Chapter 4 25 Risk Management Process 25 Chapter 5 27 Financial Analysis 27 Ratio Analysis 28 What is the position of the company in this situation of a financial crisis related to its main competitors? 32 Chapter 6 33 Budgeting Process in Management Control System 33 Chapter 7 34 Internal Control System 34 The alignment of the Internal Control System into the day-to-day management of performance 35 Conclusions and Recommendations 36 Bibliography 37 Closing statement 38 Preface Background We are appointed to finish the Bombardier case to give a primary analysis on the Bombardier Transportation, emphasis on the risk management of the company. Combining the subjects we have learnt about risk management and strategy management. Acknowledgement We would like to express our gratitude to all those who gave me the possibility to complete this report. We are heartily thankful to our professor, Mr. Chretien Straetmans...
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...| Logistics | summary | | Ramon Mannie | 3/13/2014 | Contents 1. Lesson 1, Introduction (chapter 1) 4 1.1. Chapter objectives: 4 1.2. Logistics 4 1.3. Operations management 5 1.4. Supply chain management 5 2. Lesson 2, Operations and supply chain strategies (chapter 2) 8 2.1. Chapter objectives 8 2.2. Relationship and difference (point 1) 8 2.3. Core competencies (point 2) 9 2.4. Strategic alignment (point 3) 9 2.5. Supply chain operations and decision categories (point 4) 10 2.6. Customer value and value index calculations (point 5) 11 2.7. Trade-offs among performance dimensions (point 6) 11 2.8. Order winners versus and order qualifiers (point 7) 12 7. Lesson 3, Supply management (chapter 7) 13 7.1. Chapter objectives 13 7.2. Identify and describe the various steps of the strategic sourcing process. 13 7.3. Spend analysis (point 2) 14 7.4. Differences between insourcing and outsourcing (point 4) 15 7.5. Portfolio analysis (point 3) 16 7.6. Multi criteria decision (point 6) 17 7.7. Negotiations and the purpose of contracts (point 7) 18 7.8. Procure-to-pay cycle (point 8) 18 8. Lesson 4 Logistics (chapter 8) 19 8.1. Chapter objectives 19 8.2. Logistics management (point 1) 19 8.3. Transportation modes (point 2) 19 8.4. Warehousing (point 3) 21 8.5. Logistics strategy (point 4) 22 8.6. Measuring logistics performance (point 5) 23 8.7. Landed costs (point 6) 23 8.8. Reverse logistics systems (point 7) 24 8.9. Weighted center of gravity method...
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...they may not be able to make certain changes may not be able to make them originally. Taxation: These are taxes which are controlled by the national government Labour, Liberal Democrats or Conservatives a good example of this would be income taxes. Local government would be business rates. Taxes are useful for the government as it help them create revenue so they can spend it on the NHS and School for example. If taxes were decrease it would have impact on all organisation, such as Merthyr Tydfil Borough Council would be that as people are putting less into them they are not going to be able to fund certain projected that they planned to do when taxes were high. The impact it would have on JLR would be that, as taxes are doing, the is less money that the government are going to give JLR compared to when taxes high when they had more disposal income to give JLR to help fund expansions and creation such as the C02 free engine. Legal Factors: The impact on JLR in the future depends on whoever is in power as the government’s manifesto changes whether they are right or left wing. This will affect JLR, depending on what the...
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...Henry: Understanding Strategic Management The General & Competitive Environment (Slides based on Chapters 2 and 3) Key concepts we will cover: • Analysing the General Environment – PEST analysis – Risk & Scenario Planning • Analysing the Competitive Environment – Porter’s 5 Forces model – Porter’s Strategic Group Analysis – Hypercompetition The General Environment • The external environment facing the organization consists of: • General environment • Competitive environment • The changes that occur in the general environment transcend organizations and industries • The competitive environment consists of the industry and markets in which an organization competes Some Interactions Between Businesses & Their Environment Customers Shareholders & Creditors National & Local Governments Media Suppliers Competitors Business Support Groups Wholesalers Public Opinion The Organisation Foreign Governments Social Activist Groups Local Communities Employees Adapted from K Davis & W C Frederick “Business and Society: Management, Public Policy, Ethics”, 5th Edition, McGraw-Hill, 1984 The General Environment • The figure shows the relationship between the organization and its external environment • Other things being equal, it is the competitive environment that has the greatest impact on the organization Figure 2.1 The General Environment • PEST analysis is useful for scanning the general environment • PEST is political, economic, social,...
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...MNGT 2001 | GROUP CASE STUDY REPORT | 4/12/2015 4/12/2015 Executive Summary The purpose of this report is to analyse and evaluate the business strategy of Singapore Airlines. The report provides an informed review of Singapore Airlines’ executive management or organisational strategic analysis, decision making, implementation and evaluation of performance outcomes. Therefore, the report will cover many aspects such as strategic analysis, strategic directions and strategic objectives key-board business-level and international strategic, strategic implementation, as well as key strategic implementation issues and strategic evaluation. The strategic analysis takes place whereby analysing two general environments of Singapore Airlines. The first environment is the external environment which consists of PESTLE model, Porter’s Five Forces plus the government model, and the competitors of Singapore Airlines. The following is the internal environment which consists of Strategy Resources and Core Competency of Singapore Airlines. According to the results received from these two environmental analysis, Singapore Airlines has adopted an unusual dual-strategy. Vision, Mission, and stakeholder theory will be covered in the strategic direction setting. This part of the report will explain all sort of stakeholders and the importance of them to Singapore Airlines. Singapore Airlines adopted dual-strategy by competency of cost-effective service excellence, enshrined in a unique...
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...This report analyses and evaluates the potential for EasyJet to continue to be competitive in the UK and Europe but also the opportunity to expand into India INTRODUCTION – THE COMPANY AN OVERVIEW Easyjet Airline was established in 1995 by Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou a Greek Cypriot as part of EasyGroup Holdings Ltd. He envisaged it as a low cost airline which could impact on the existing domestic market in the UK which was at the time dominated by large British companies such as British Airways and British Midland. The Company started with two leased airplanes and began operating from London Luton to Glasgow and Edinburgh In 1996 they began operating from Luton to Amsterdam and now in 2014, operate on 633 routes across more than 30 countries and own 217 Airbus aircraft. They employ over 8,000 people including 2,000 pilots and 4,500+ cabin crew and in 2013 they flew over 60 million passengers They now claim that “over 300 million people within a one hour drive of an EasyJet airport” (Easyjet About Us 2013) The obvious move for the airline for further growth may now be outside of Europe and India may be the best market to consider. PESTLE Analysis Political/Legal Up to April 1997 the European Airline Market was regulated strictly and each county controlled their own airline companies. After 1997 and deregulation the European market opened up for carriers and subsequently for example an Irish low cost carrier like Ryan Air was allowed to operate between two other European countries...
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...and competitive against rivals in the market. There are 3 types of strategies that are commonly used by businesses to gain and maintain a competitive advantage. These are: * cost leadership * product differentiation * market segmentationcost leadershipA cost leadership strategy is where a business aims to be the lowest cost manufacturer within its industry. The products are the basic, no-frills type with fewer features, perhaps lower quality and using low-cost packaging. Low costs can be achieved through: * economies of scale in production and distribution, * access to cheaper raw materials * exclusive access to a large source of low cost inputs * Distributing the product using dealers who work with lower profit margins.The issues that operation mangers need to be aware are: * Competitors can use the same strategy and can achieve even lower costs * The business’s product is not perceived by customers to be equal to its competitors because competitors offer better technology, features and service. * Developments in technology change consumer preferences *...
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...I. Executive Summary: CrossRoads, a partnership ltd. Company manufacturing high quality Billiard and Snooker Accessories in Bangladesh. We are the pioneer in manufacturing Billiard and Snooker Accessories in the country. The products we are manufacturing are Billiard Board, Balls, cue and range. In producing our products we are going to use the raw materials from our country. We will use Shagun wood from Sylhet which will be collected from Savar. Also we are going to use ceramics and plastics from RAK industries. Wood used in the making of table will be highly furnished so that the harsh weather of Bangladesh cannot affect any quality of the Billiard board. Our company is equally partnered. 5 members of our company each has 20% share in it. Our target market is upper and upper middle class people of the society. Our future plan is to export the Billiard board. The specialty of our product is high quality, user friendly. The establishment date of our business is 20-08-2012. Our sources of funds are personal investments and SME Loan. II. Brief Description of the business: 1. Name of the Business: CROSS ROADS Billiard Co. 2. Nature of the Business: Manufacturing 3. Sector/ Industry: Billiard & Snooker Accessories 4. Objectives: Provide quality Billiard board and Accessories to the potential customer. 5. Employment: Types of Employee | Skilled | Semi- Skilled | Unskilled | Permanent | 5 | 8 | 0 | Temporary | 2 | 2 | 3 | Total | 7 | 10...
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...DCS5138 Management Information Systems CASE STUDY 1 Flexible Scheduling Good or Bad for Employees? With nearly 1.4 million workers domestically, Wal-Mart is the largest private employer in the United States, Wal-Mart is also the nation’s number one retailer in terms of sales, registering nearly $379 billion in sales revenue for the fiscal year ending January 31, 2008. Wal-Mart achieved its lofty status through a combination of low prices and low operational costs, enabled by superb continuous inventory replenishment system. Now Wal-Mart is trying to lower costs further by changing its methods for scheduling the work shifts of its employees. In early 2007, Wal-Mart revealed that is was adopting a computerized scheduling system, a move that has been roundly criticized by workers’ rights advocates for the impact it may have on employees’ lives. Traditionally, scheduling employee shifts at big box stores such as Wal-Mart was the domain of store managers who arranged schedules manually. They based their decisions in part on current store promotions as well as on weekly sales data from the previous year. Typically, the process required a full day of effort for a store manager. Multiply that labor intensity by the number of stores in a chain and you have an expensive task with results that are marginally beneficial to the company. By using a computerized scheduling system, such as the system from Kronos that Wal-Mart adopted, a retail...
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... Running Head: Marketing The Rubrik’s Cube Marketing across cultures around the world is increasingly becoming a thriving business with the fast-speed globalization nowadays. The Four ‘Ps’ of marketing, namely product, price, place and promotion, include most of the elements of marketing decision-making. However, socio-cultural factors, in considering the combination of marketing strategies, will always run through them. Socio-cultural factors have a huge influence in people's concept of product and buying behavior. Lack of cultural awareness not only can lead to a decrease of product sales, but can even collapses the company’s whole international image. In this sense, understanding cultural differences plays an incredibly significant role in process of developing marketing strategies. The partnership should be cohesive and be aligned with one another’s future endeavors and goals. Demographics, psychographics, and data from general areas in a given target market are beneficial information that is useful in developing marketing strategies. It assists with the marketing decisions that are results of the four P’s. When deciding if a company should expand business into a global market, it is important to conduct market research. Global market research gathers and collects data and information and identifies possible issues that an organization may face. Conducting market research would be a positive step to begin a globalized marketing strategy. Economic prosperity of China...
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...Transportation & Logistics Transportation & Logistics 2030 Volume 1: How will supply chains evolve in an energy-constrained, low-carbon world? PricewaterhouseCoopers 1 Acknowledgements The editorial board of this issue of our Transportation & Logistics 2030 series consisted of the following individuals: PricewaterhouseCoopers European Business School Supply Chain Management Institute Dr. Heiko von der Gracht +49 611 3601 8800 vdgracht@supplyinstitute.org Tobias Gnatzy +49 611 3601 8800 gnatzy@supplyinstitute.org Prof. Dr. Inga-Lena Darkow +49 611 3601 8800 darkow@supplyinstitute.org Klaus-Dieter Ruske +49 211 981 2877 klaus-dieter.ruske@de.pwc.com Dr. Peter Kauschke +49 211 981 2167 peter.kauschke@de.pwc.com Julia Reuter +49 211 981 2095 julia.reuter@de.pwc.com Dr. Elizabeth Montgomery +49 89 5790 5159 elizabeth.montgomery@de.pwc.com We would like to thank the panellists who took part in the Delphi survey that underpins this report. For confidentiality reasons their names will not be mentioned. Special thanks go to Tom Gorman, CEO of CHEP EMEA and Harry Hohmeister, CEO of Swiss International Air Lines, who took the time to share their thoughts and insights with us. Finally, we would like to express our appreciation for the expertise provided by the below listed individuals: Jenny Bailey, Andreas Baur, Nicholas Bell, Thomas Brüderlin, Giorgio Elefante, Richard Gane, Martha Elena Gonzalez, Susanne Klages, Christian Knechtel, Socrates LeptosBourgi, Alexander...
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