Section B: Strategic Management (50 Marks) Objectives: (a) To develop an understanding of the general and competitive business environment, (b) To develop an understanding of strategic management concepts and techniques, (c) To be able to solve simple cases. Contents 1. Business Environment General Environment–Demographic, Socio-cultural, Macro-economic, Legal/political, Technological, and Global; Competitive Environment. 2. Business Policies and Strategic Management Meaning and nature;
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CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination® CAPE® MANAGEMENT OF BUSINESS SYLLABUS Effective for examinations from May-June 2013 CXC A27/U2/13 Published by the Caribbean Examinations Council All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means electronic, photocopying, recording or otherwise without prior permission of the author or publisher. Correspondence related
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manage their people well, the organization's performance itself will also improve over time. But if organization wants a more tangible basis for measuring HR performance and efficiency, then here are some commonly used metrics for that purpose. HR management starts with selection and recruitment. When a company has vacant positions, it will look for applicants for that position, in the hopes of finding the best one to suit the job. The measurement dimension to look out for here then is the level of
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Instructor’s Manual Operations and Process Management: Principles and Practice for Strategic Impact Second Edition Nigel Slack Stuart Chambers Robert Johnston Alan Betts ISBN: 978-0-273-71852-9 Pearson Education Limited 2009 Contents Part 1: Teaching Guide ........................................................................................................................................ 7 Chapter 1: Operations and processes.............................................
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SAP NetWeaver ® ™ FOR DUMmIES ‰ by Dan Woods and Jeff Word SAP NetWeaver ® ™ FOR DUMmIES ‰ by Dan Woods and Jeff Word SAP® NetWeaver™ For Dummies® Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 111 River Street Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774 Copyright © 2004 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval
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professionals who ________. A) use knowledge to perform their jobs, but do not create knowledge B) create, modify, and/or synthesize knowledge as a fundamental part of their jobs C) use their skills to help others gain knowledge D) modify knowledge created by others, but do not create knowledge themselves E) work in the education industry Answer: B Page Ref: 5 AACSB: Use of IT Difficulty: Easy Objective: LO 1-1 Classification: Conceptual 2) Which of the following predictions made by Peter
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........................................................................................... 3 1.3. Budgeting and Forecasting .............................................................................................. 4 1.4. Budgeting and Management ............................................................................................ 6 1.5. Budgeting and Planning ................................................................................................... 6 1.5.1 Purposes of
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research is research that's tailored to a company's particular needs. By customizing tried-and-true approaches — focus groups, surveys, field tests, interviews or observation — you can gain information about your target market. Primary research delivers more specific results than secondary research, which is an especially important consideration when you're launching a new product or service. In addition, primary research is usually based on statistical methodologies that involve sampling as little as 1
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2 and 3ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT 20 DECISIONAL ROLES Decisional roles involve the making of strategic organisational decisions on the basis of the manager's status and authority, and access to information. (i) Entrepreneur As entrepreneurs, managers plan and initiate projects to bring about change and innovation to improve the performance of their unit and organisation. (ii) Disturbance handler As a disturbance handler role, the manager takes corrective action in response to previously
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- 4 - Organizational Structure - 5 - Tools Used For Business Analysis - 10 - SWOT Analysis - 11 - New Steps In Strategic Plan - 19 - Market Analysis: - 19 - Risk management, Contingency plan - 26 - Impact of internet on the organizational environments and strategic planning - 28 - Utilization of Information System in Strategic Plan - 31 - Management Information Systems (MIS) - 32 - Discussion of appropriate IT tools - 42 - Recruitment and Employment - 55 - Future
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