...Chapter 15—Marketing Performance Measurement MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. The balanced scorecard measures the performance of a business unit from: |a. |a customer perspective. | |b. |a financial perspective. | |c. |a learning and growth perspective. | |d. |all of the above. | |e. |(a) and (b) only. | ANS: D PTS: 1 NAT: AACSB Reflective Thinking | CB&E Model Strategy | R&D Managing strategy & innovation 2. The level of marketing control that examines whether the strategy is being implemented as planned and whether it produces the intended results is termed: |a. |strategic control. | |b. |annual plan control. | |c. |strategic component control. | |d. |profitability control. ...
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...Management: Environmental Influence | Dierdorff & Rubin: Managing strategy and innovation 2. By focusing on product innovations and upgrades of its properties, McDonald’s was able to achieve strategic competitiveness and above average returns. ANS: T PTS: 1 DIF: Medium OBJ: 01-01 TYPE: application NOT: AACSB: Business Knowledge and Analytical Skills | Management: Strategy| Dierdorff & Rubin: Managing strategy and innovation 3. Strategic competitiveness is achieved when a firm successfully formulates and implements a value-creating strategy. ANS: T PTS: 1 DIF: Easy OBJ: 01-01 TYPE: knowledge NOT: AACSB: Business Knowledge & Analytical Skills | Management: Strategy | Dierdorff & Rubin: Managing strategy & innovation 4. Part of McDonald’s strategy was the choice that it would remain involved in additional food concepts such as Boston Market and Chipotle. ANS: T PTS: 1 DIF: Easy OBJ: 01-01 TYPE: application NOT: AACSB: Business Knowledge & Analytical Skills | Management: Strategy | Dierdorff & Rubin: Managing strategy & innovation 5. Alligator Enterprises has earned above-average returns since its founding five years ago. Since no other firm has challenged Alligator in its particular market niche, the firm’s owners can feel secure that Alligator has established a competitive advantage. ANS: F PTS: 1 DIF: Hard OBJ: 01-01 TYPE: application NOT: AACSB: Business Knowledge & Analytical Skills | Management: Strategy | Dierdorff & Rubin: Managing the task environment 6. permanent. The goal of strategic...
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...ARTICLE IN PRESS Long Range Planning -- (2010) ---e--- http://www.elsevier.com/locate/lrp Complex Business Models: Managing Strategic Paradoxes Simultaneously Wendy K. Smith, Andy Binns and Michael L. Tushman As our world becomes more global, fast paced and hypercompetitive, competitive advantage may increasingly depend on success in managing paradoxical strategies strategies associated with contradictory, yet integrated tensions. We identify several types of complex business models organizations will need to adopt if they are to host such paradoxical strategies. Managing complex business models effectively depends on leadership that can make dynamic decisions, build commitment to both overarching visions and agenda specific goals, learn actively at multiple levels, and engage conflict. Leaders can engage these functions through team-centric or leader-centric structures. Ó 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Introduction By the late 1990’s, USA Today was the highest circulating national newspaper in the United States.1 CEO Tom Curley and his senior executive team had created a new category of newspapers by negotiating distribution deals with hotels and businesses to provide national news to educated and high-income business travelers, a demographic that yielded excellent advertising revenues. When widening access to the Internet and the emergence of novel news content channels such as Yahoo! and AOL promised to put the newspaper’s position under...
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... ANS: F PTS: 1 DIF: Medium REF: 36 OBJ: 02-01 TYPE: comprehension NOT: AACSB: Ethical & Legal understanding | Management: Ethical Responsibilities | Dierdorff & Rubin: Managing the task environment 2. The external environment facing business stays relatively constant over time. ANS: F PTS: 1 DIF: Easy REF: 34-35 OBJ: 02-01 TYPE: comprehension NOT: AACSB: Business Knowledge & Analytical Skills | Management: Environmental Influence | Dierdorff & Rubin: Managing the task environment 3. Demographic, economic, political/legal, sociocultural, technological, global, and physical are the seven elements comprising the industry environment. ANS: F PTS: 1 DIF: Hard REF: 38 (Table 2.1) OBJ: 02-02 TYPE: knowledge NOT: AACSB: Business Knowledge & Analytical Skills | Management: Environmental Influence | Dierdorff & Rubin: Managing the task environment 4. Firms can directly control the elements of the seven segments of the general environment. ANS: F PTS: 1 DIF: Easy REF: 37 OBJ: 02-01 TYPE: comprehension NOT: AACSB: Business Knowledge & Analytical Skills | Management: Environmental Influence | Dierdorff & Rubin: Managing the task environment 5. To successfully deal with today’s external environment and to achieve strategic competitiveness, firms must be aware and fully understand the different segments of that environment...
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...R. HOLLENBECK Michigan State University University of Wisconsin-Madison ) Cornell University McGraw-Hill Irwin ENT; Preface vi 1 Human Resource Management: Gaining a Competitive Advantage 2 Enter the World of Business: Starbucks: HR Practices Help Focus on the Brew, Weather the Recession, and Prepare for Growth 3 Introduction 4 What Responsibilities and Roles Do HR Departments Perform? 5 Strategic Role of the HRM Function 7 Demonstrating the Strategic Value of HR: HR Analytics and Evidence-Based HR 10 The HRM Profession: Positions, Education, and Competencies 11 Competitive Challenges Influencing Human Resource Management 14 Key Terms 61 Discussion Questions 61 Self-Assessment Exercise 62 Exercising Strategy 62 Managing People Skill Shortages Make It Difficult to Fill Positions and Customer Orders 63 Twitter Focus 64 Notes 64 Parti The Human Resource Environment 69 2 Strategic Human Resource Management 70 The Sustainability Challenge 14 Enter the World of Business: HP's New Strategy 71 Evidence-Based HR 24 Introduction 72 Competing through Sustainability Volunteerism and Going Green Are Reaping Dividends for Employees, Communities, and the Environment 30 What Is a Business Model? 72 GM's Attempt to Survive 73 What Is Strategic Management? 74 Components of the Strategic Management Process 75 Linkage between HRM and the Strategic Management Process 75 The Global Challenge 44 Competing through Globalization ...
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...Chapter 5 - Business-Level Strategy TRUE/FALSE 1. A business-level strategy is a “big picture,” highly-generalized action plan that will move an organization toward achievement of its general vision. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: Page 98 OBJ: Learning Objective 1 KEY: Knowledge MSC: AACSB: Analytic | Management: Strategy | Dierdorff & Rubin: Strategic & Systems Skills 2. A generic business strategy is one that can be used in all industries and by all types of firms. ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: Page 99 OBJ: Learning Objective 1 KEY: Knowledge MSC: AACSB: Analytic | Management: Strategy | Dierdorff & Rubin: Strategic & Systems Skills 3. Wal-Mart has not adjusted its business model since the mid 1990s. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: Page 99 OBJ: Learning Objective 1 KEY: Knowledge MSC: AACSB: Reflective Thinking | Management: Strategy | Dierdorff & Rubin: Strategic & Systems Skills 4. Competitive scope describes the breadth of the target market the organization wishes to serve. ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: Page 99-100 OBJ: Learning Objective 2 KEY: Knowledge MSC: AACSB: Analytic | Management: Strategy | Dierdorff & Rubin: Strategic & Systems Skills 5. In general, firms with a standardized product should narrowly segment their market. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: Page 100 OBJ: Learning Objective 2 KEY: Comprehension MSC: AACSB: Analytic | Management: Strategy | Dierdorff & Rubin: Strategic & Systems Skills 6. Typically, the customers of organizations using the cost-leadership...
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...– president and CIO of WestJet. She could take WestJet go to “next level” as soon as possible by information technology governance and corporate strategy. This report is talking about the information technology governance and corporate strategy of WestJet Airlines on Business Processes reengineering and Controls. There are four main parts in this report. IT Governance has five specific areas which are considered by responsible of managing IT, and Smith’s plan could relate to these five areas. Then, Smith advised the changes with each of the components of the AS8015 model for IT Governance. After that, list all the risks which could affect WestJet continue its IT operations, and suggest recommendation. Finally, how to Smith’s transformation be managed successfully by WestJet, and give recommendation. Q1, IT Governance Institute lists five specific areas that need to be considered by those responsible of managing IT. Considering Smith’s plan to transform IT, how do her plans relate to these five areas? IT Governance is a new business word in these few years. IT Governance means the responsibility of the CEO, directors, main shareholders and executive management. IT Governance belongs to governance, which include the processes, organizational structures and leadership, to keep and extend the corporate’s objectives and strategies (Richard 2005). On the other side, Governance is different with management about what decisions could get, it pays more attention on how made the...
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...Managing Strategy 1 Amazon STRATEGIC ANALYSIS OF AMAZON Submitted for: MBA IN MS (MANAGING STRATEGY) TUTOR: PAUL ANDERSON SUBMITTED BY: C0411672 Managing Strategy 2 Amazon CONTENTS Title..................................................................01 Contents....................................................... 02 Introduction.................................................03 Section 1 Current strategic position......................04 Macro environment.................................... 04 Micro environment......................................07 Strategic Capabilities................................10 Section 2 Current and Future strategy..................13 Bowman’s strategy clock.........................13 Section 3 Implementation issues............................... 16 Cultural web................................................16 Kotters 8 step theory................................18 Conclusion....................................................21 Reference list..............................................22 Appendix..........................................................30 Managing Strategy 3 Amazon INTRODUCTION Amazon is an e-commerce platform based organisation established in 1995 by Jeffrey P. Bezos. Amazon.com is based in Washington, United States. Amazon is recognised as customer centric e-commerce organisation giving wide varieties, low price offers and convenience to its customers by offering services virtually. ...
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...Managing the brand Even though the there has been a significant level of marketplace change within the last thirty years, the principles that involve in management have not changed. But the capacities to understand and implement the principles of companies have significantly improved. The role of the top management It is a core task of the top management to generate and maintain a culture and business atmosphere where improved understanding of the consumer is the driving force for the team entrusted with management of the brand. Managing brands for value creation According to the research which was carried out by Booz Allen Hamilton and Wolff Olins, they have found that there are three categories of companies. These companies were categorized in a way that how each company has identified the importance of brands in their success. The three types are briefly described below. * Brand-guided companies: These companies have identified that brand is so important for the success of their business and therefore to have a reasonable management of brand. They have established a common understanding of what they stands for and therefore have assigned clear brand ownership at top management level [1]. * Emerging brand companies: These companies have not yet fully recognized the importance of brands in success. They are developing a common understanding of their brands. Therefore we can expect them to be a brand-guided company over the next five years. * Brand-agnostic...
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...International Business In International Business Course is the MA course that focuses on business world to prepare student for employment or for start their own business. Basically, this programme will teach student to managing developing and understanding each parts of international business, start from basic base of the business, such as financial, human resource, global market and consumer behaviour. Then go on the complex parts as environmentally sustainable, business strategy, international trade and globalisation. There will be seven core modules, namely, Managing Business Finance, Human Resource Management, Global Markets & Consumers, Environmentally Sustainable Business, International Business Strategy, International Trade & Globalisation and Research Methods, and one optional module that student can choose from three modules which are Managing Corporate Reputation, Global Marketing Leadership, Managing Operations & Information Systems. In all of the modules, there is only one assignment to be completed and it is a case study based report or essay which is equivalent to 3,000 words except for three modules, namely, Managing Business Finance, International Business Strategy and International Trade & Globalisation. These three modules are required to do the case study based on examination in the class, still equivalent to 3,000 words. For the reading list, it is unfortunately that there are no reading lists available on York St. John website for this course, but students...
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...|Principle 1. Developing strategies to improve the performance of the organisation | | | |Indicator 1. A strategy for improving the performance of the organisation is clearly defined and understood. | |Level |Evidence requirements | |1 |1 Top managers make sure the organisation has a clear purpose and vision supported by a strategy for improving its performance. | | |2 Top managers make sure the organisation has a business plan with measurable performance objectives. | | |3 Top managers make sure there are constructive relationships with representative groups (where they exist) and the groups are consulted when developing the organisation's business plan. | |2&3...
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...Business Concepts : 'The general idea behind a project, campaign or slogan' The important things to start up a business is to look at each concept of business of small scale and large scale business. e- business also plays a vital role in business concepts. References: * Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship by David Stokes and Nicholas Wilson Chapters /topics: * Understanding small business and entrepreneurship * Creating entrepreneurial small business * Managing the entrepreneurial small business * Case studies * The Small Business Start-up Workbook: A Step-by-step Guide to Starting the Business You've Dreamed of by Cheryl D. Rickman Chapters and topics: * Where to begin-What the big idea? * What to do and sell-Opportunities, products and services * Researching your Market ,Target Audience and Opportunity * Defining your brand * Figuring Out the Finance: Costs, Funding, Grants and Loans * Marketing and Selling your products and Services * The importance of good customer Services * Planning and creating a website that works * Launching and Promoting * How to manage and grow * Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management by Steve Mariotti and Caroline Glackin Chapters/Topics: * Sources/funds debt & equity * right location & layout * Global aspects of entrepreneurship in global economy a competitor six time zones away is potentially a serious threat as the competitor . ...
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...Assessment Form F. Personnel Policy Manual Template CTION Module 1 - p 1 1. INTRODUCTION Many business owners prepare a business plan before starting their business. However, small business owners often do not include human resource planning as part of their over-all business plan. They may start out with only a few employees or none at all. Over time, it is important to properly forecast employment needs. Just as failing to address potential threats in the marketplace can jeopardize the viability of your business, failing to anticipate personnel needs can impact on overall business success. The success of a business is directly linked to the performance of those who work for that business. Underachievement can be a result of workplace failures. Because hiring the wrong people or failing to anticipate fluctuations in hiring needs can be costly, it is important that you put effort into human resource planning. Planning for HR needs will help to ensure your employees have the skills and competencies your business needs to succeed. An HR plan works hand in hand with your business plan to determine the resources you need to achieve the business’s goals. It will better prepare you for staff turnover, recruitment, and strategic hiring – and alleviate stress when you have emergency/last-minute hiring needs. This module provides a detailed outline of how small business owners can develop a human resource plan. There is...
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...Team Strategy Plan Micah Flores MGT/311 March 20, 2014 John Humphries Team Strategy Plan Both in the past and contemporary organizations have used teams in business to change or enhance their operations or production. Although times have changed the beliefs and opinions of the use of teams within the organizational structure of given companies, the debate continues over which situations are best suited for teams to benefit the organization, and the type of team to create for a given company. Strategies for the creation of teams in business vary, and each has its own strengths and weaknesses. The key for any organization in the implementation of teams is to evaluate which type of team will successfully enhance the organization in accordance with the type of work and employees to perform that work. As a superintendent for Riordan Manufacturing, Inc., I will work to determine the most beneficial type of team to maximize production of the newly designed custom heart valves at the Pontiac, MI location. There are various strategies in the formation of teams for business purposes. One such strategy is known as the problem-solving team. Teams constructed and labeled as problem-solving are usually informal in nature and do not accomplish much in the grand scheme of things organizationally. They are usually comprised of no more than 12 employees, most likely at the same pay level and from the same department within the company. The meetings between members of problem-solving...
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...Leading and managing change in organizations: Importance of human resource capacity building Term Paper (Individual Assignment) MCP 2135 – Leading and Managing Change in Organizations MBA in Human Resource Management Semester II – 2010/2012 Course Director : Prof. Sudatta Ranasinghe Professor of Management Name of the Student : Gamini Hettiarachchi Student Registration No. : 110046980 Date Submitted :16.05.2011 Word Count : 1662 words, 5 single side A4 pages Leading and managing change in organizations: Importance of human resource capacity building Term Paper (Individual Assignment) Abstract This term paper addresses human resource capacity building as a strategic instrument in leading and managing change in organizations. After describing the process and the basic steps in leading and managing change, the article has taken an effort to identify the role of leaders and the managers to derive a conceptual frame of reference to develop arguments in strategic importance of human resource capacity building in the process of leading and managing change in organization. To meet the challenges, negative as well as positive, HR capacity building is needed in most of the steps and stages in the process of leading and managing change in organizations. Further, developing human capacities has highlighted as one of the major roles and core functionalities of leaders and managers. Viewing human resources as human capital and beyond, the term paper argues that without...
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