...CURRICULUM VITAE FRANCIS MURIITHI MURIUKI MT.KENYA UNIV. Bsc. Business Information Technology A. PERSONAL INFORMATION |FRANCIS MURIITHI |Nationality: Kenyan | |ID: 28989938 |Languages: English and Kiswahili | |Email: francmuriithi@gmail.com |Age: 23 years | |Cell Phone: 0719688118 |Gender: Male | |P.O. Box 1070 -10300 |Marital Status: Single | |Kerugoya, Kenya | | B. CAREER OBJECTIVES To provide excellent services in the ever dynamic information technology field, and be able to utilize acquired skills and abilities to contribute towards achievement of the organization’s goals to correspond with the global new technologies. To acquire and enhance my working knowledge, appreciate dynamics of Computing and IT as well as gain competency in a challenging environment. To improve on my I.T knowledge and knowhow and gain experience in hardware, software, web...
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...How does international business achieve its internationalisation objectives in the present-day context? 2. Write a brief overview of the organisation and its mission/objectives related to international business(maximum 500 words for this section) . Brief overview of Zara >>>> International business refers to a broad spectrum of business activities undertaken across national borders.This essay will discuss the international business and internationalisation objectives of Zara in the contemporary context with focus on the business done in the USA. The 1975 established, Spanish based, fashion retailer is a subsidiary of the parent company Inditex. Zara operated in 87 countries by 2014, having 45 stores in United States alone(http://www.inditex.com/en/our_group/international_presence). Zara’s Mission/objectives >>>> (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_Zara_mission_and_vision?#slide=1). Continuous design, production and distribution is Zara’s objective with a quick turnover maintained through updating stock twice a week (http://www.slideshare.net/shaheen1934/zara-the-inditex-group). The rapid turnover of new inventory allows Zara’s consumers to have access to the most trendy fashion available within the shortest time, this is one of the factors that distinguishes Zara apart from other fashion retailers (http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/bitstream/2438/2003/6/Internationalisation%20of%20Zara.pdf). Zara’s Business Model >>>> In order to better understand Zara’s international...
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...Memorandum To: Paula Wagner VP CC: Executive Leadership From: Portfolio Management Team Date: February 8th 2016 Subject: Portfolio Management Process Our organization has crossed boundaries and together we have achieved many goals. Although as we all know we are in the business of expanding on opportunity. Today, we are fazed with the challenges of taking advantage of those opportunities due to a lack of control system to ensure the company pursues opportunities that align with our strategic business goals. The primary goal of portfolio management is to prioritize projects, allocate resources to projects, and identifying which projects to initiate, reprioritize, or terminate. A key focus is ensuring that the overall collection of projects creates the greatest possible value by supporting the objectives of the enterprise. In conjunction to the implementation of an analytic hierarchy process; the implementation of AHP and the use of weighted criteria provide the ability to not only weight benefits but also project risk. Fist, we establish a project selection criterion; * Contributes to expansion goal * Expansion of current services provided to current customers (new product lines) * Increase Revenue * Increase Customer Satisfaction * Reduce cost of operations * Reduce overhead and warehousing cost. Upon receipt of a proposed project all proposals will be measured against the project selection criteria by making the determination if the proposed project meets...
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...ABSTRACT Growing liberalization and internationalization has led the firms to a race for expansion. Firms are more enthusiastic to trap new market segments than ever before. Expansion is an unpredictable, high-stacks game. The paper puts forth a Corporate Expansion Strategy to deal with such a scenario . Case studies have also been used to understand the expansion phenomenon. Efforts have been made to take a generic view of expansion which is independent of line of business, market segment, or type of expansion. Expansion and investment are compared to have a clear understanding of how expansion for a firm and investment for a individual are similar to each other and how they differ with each other. INTRODUCTION Firms are attracted to capture the new liberalized market segments to pronounce their global existence and enhance their customer base. The literature emphasizes the points that should be discussed and resolved ,before making any decision regarding expansion. It is a design process for building a new set-up. Expansion involves various critical factors to be considered e.g risk of market, return from a new set-up, risk estimation, opportunity cost, expansion revision analysis , resource availability, dominant market study etc. Expansion decision is a strategic decision which is related to firm's objectives and mission. To quantify the expansion benefits is a very complex process as analysis involves various intangible variables like brand-value, employment generation...
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...The Process of Expanding a Business into a New Region Author’s Name Institutional Affiliation The Process of Expanding a Business into a New Region Business expansion gets defined as the process of enlarging the operations of an enterprise either by launching new products or building more branches. Each year, thousands of companies consider exploring new markets by expanding their operations into new geographical locations. According to Awe (2006) the drive to enjoy high-profit returns, and economies of scale are some of the primary reasons why companies keep migrating from one region to another. Stiff competition within the domestic markets may also force some firms to seek alternative markets. Given the importance of this process to the future of an expanding company, it is critical for the firm to take into account a number of the factors. This research investigates the importance of political forces, socio-cultural variables, and economic factors in the expansion process. The role of politics in promoting economic growth cannot be overlooked. Kay (2013) compared the economic performance of different countries with their levels of political democracy. The survey established that countries characterized by high degrees of political stability, goodwill, and democracy had better economic development statistics. In particular, the study compared the economic performance of Ukraine (a politically unstable country) and Uzbekistan (a stable country) over the last...
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...Overview Two business proposals from the Production division of the New Heritage Doll Company are being considered for submission to the capital budgeting committee. Only one proposal will be submitted. The proposals are: Match My Doll Clothing Line Expansion and Design Your Own Doll. A systematic process will be used to determine which proposal to recommend. Criteria Include: 1. Comparison of the business cases 2. NPV analysis 3. IRR and payback period analysis 4. Analysis of additional information 5. Recommendation Comparison of the Business Cases Most Compelling Business Case Match My Doll Clothing Line Expansion Match My Doll Clothing Line Expansion is the the most compelling opportunity. This initial recommendation is based solely on a qualitative comparison of the cases and the financial exhibits provided by the brand managers. A SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, & Threat) analysis was used to aid the decision process. See Tables 1 & 2 for SWOT analysis. Benefits of the Match My Doll Clothing Line Expansion: * Success of the original line of business * Utilization of the businesses existing strengths * Long term ability for the product to stay up to date and drive business Concerns for the Design Your Own Doll: * High risk associated with developing a proprietary software system * Complexity of manufacturing * High break-even sales volume Overview Business Case 1 – Match My Doll Clothing Line Expansion The proposal...
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...Saved Papers Search Home page » Business and Management New Heritage DollIn: Business and Management New Heritage Doll New Heritage Doll Company: Capital Budgeting MGT 6060 20 September 2011 Overview Two business proposals from the Production division of the New Heritage Doll Company are being considered for submission to the capital budgeting committee. Only one proposal will be submitted. The proposals are: Match My Doll Clothing Line Expansion and Design Your Own Doll. A systematic process will be used to determine which proposal to recommend. Criteria Include: 1. Comparison of the business cases 2. NPV analysis 3. IRR and payback period analysis 4. Analysis of additional information 5. Recommendation Comparison of the Business Cases Most Compelling Business Case Match My Doll Clothing Line Expansion Match My Doll Clothing Line Expansion is the the most compelling opportunity. This initial recommendation is based solely on a qualitative comparison of the cases and the financial exhibits provided by the brand managers. A SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, & Threat) analysis was used to aid the decision process. See Tables 1 & 2 for SWOT analysis. Benefits of the Match My Doll Clothing Line Expansion: * Success of the original line of business * Utilization of the businesses existing strengths * Long term ability for the product to stay up to date and drive business Concerns for the Design Your...
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...September 2011 Overview Two business proposals from the Production division of the New Heritage Doll Company are being considered for submission to the capital budgeting committee. Only one proposal will be submitted. The proposals are: Match My Doll Clothing Line Expansion and Design Your Own Doll. A systematic process will be used to determine which proposal to recommend. Criteria Include: 1. Comparison of the business cases 2. NPV analysis 3. IRR and payback period analysis 4. Analysis of additional information 5. Recommendation Comparison of the Business Cases Most Compelling Business Case Match My Doll Clothing Line Expansion Match My Doll Clothing Line Expansion is the the most compelling opportunity. This initial recommendation is based solely on a qualitative comparison of the cases and the financial exhibits provided by the brand managers. A SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, & Threat) analysis was used to aid the decision process. See Tables 1 & 2 for SWOT analysis. Benefits of the Match My Doll Clothing Line Expansion: * Success of the original line of business * Utilization of the businesses existing strengths * Long term ability for the product to stay up to date and drive business Concerns for the Design Your Own Doll: * High risk associated with developing a proprietary software system * Complexity of manufacturing * High break-even sales volume Overview Business Case 1 – Match My Doll Clothing Line Expansion The proposal for the Match My...
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...Introduction The vision and strategic planning of owner of the Cardboard Box Company Peter Street has been successful to turn CBC into a profitable business without prior experience with the industry. The revenue of the business surged since he was in charge about 15 years ago with the new capital he invested for the company in order to provide high quality packaging service in a competitive market. The company is also innovative with unique selling point of 24 hours delivery as well as having new model of machinery allow the company to take complex orders which makes it a high regarded firm. Although CBC has already got established network overseas with overseas clients, the firm is looking for further expansion and transforming the company on a global platform. In order to expand globally, careful planning and strategic analysis is needed to carry out to foresee potential opportunities and risks as the implications not only may affect on a global level but also has influence on the domestic market. There are three types of global strategy to be applied in general which is international strategy, multinational strategy and global strategy which is useful to distinguish from company’s resources, capabilities and current global position. Strategic analysis of expansion to new market There are a few basic steps to be carried out in order to profoundly write a comprehensive strategic analysis. First thing first, a concise goal has to be set in order to help to guide the effort...
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...been through several changes that influenced the business model during its timeline in the case, during the changes the I.T of CDnow was aligned with CDnow business model. L.M Applegate defines a business model as “A business model defines how an organization interacts with its environment to define a unique strategy, attract the resources and build the capabilities required to execute the strategy, and create value for all stakeholders.” (Applegate et al., 2009). Applegate highlights three important areas in a business model that is Strategy, Capability and Value. The business model can simply be considered as how the company makes money. The strategy is what opportunities the company will take, capabilities are how the company will execute the strategy and value is what is returned to the company. To see if the business model of CDnow is aligned with their I.T, the business model will be broken down into strategy, capabilities and value. CDnow is an e-commerce business that sells music products. To sell the music products online, CDnow has to depend on technology for the business to operate and provide value. The diagram below shows CDnow’s timeline. 1994 In 1994 CDnow was launched, it was an online retailer that made used of technology specifically databases to store information that will help the customers’ when purchasing a CD. The strategy of CDnow can be broken down to market positioning, product positioning, business network positioning and boundary positioning. ...
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...Starbucks Case Study Contents Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 3 Background information and industry analysis ........................................................................ 4 Development and expansion strategies .................................................................................... 6 Internal environment analysis ................................................................................................... 8 SWOT analysis ............................................................................................................................ 9 Strengths .............................................................................................................. .... ............... 10 Weaknesses ............................................................................................................................... 11 Opportunities ............................................................................................................................ 11 Threats ....................................................................................................................... . ............. 11 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................. 12 References........................................................................
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...begin the process at the end - the development of the legal agreements. Presented with a lengthy questionnaire by their legal counsel, they are asked to provide information necessary to prepare franchise agreements and disclosure documents. The problem, though, is that the questions are often their main guide to how their franchise system should be structured. As a potential franchisor you may not fully understand all of the questions or have an independent frame of reference to know what all your available options truly are. The attorneys, knowledgeable in the law and prior agreements, often will provide you with advice and direction. However, without the benefit of being able to evaluate business alternatives, conduct research, and fully explore the strategic considerations that most of these decisions require, the franchise system will often end up operating as a legal vehicle for expansion rather than what it truly should be, a business structure for expansion. Since the franchising process began with the development of legal documents, new franchisors may view their franchise system as a legal device governed primarily by the rule of law. Experienced franchisors understand that while the law is an element of franchising, it truly is a minor portion of the way franchisors manage their business, make decisions on its direction, or how they interact with their franchisees. If you think about legal agreements taking the lead in the franchise development process, it would be...
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...its network and business relationships is understandable, given that Delta as Technology Company and Beta as bank. The partnership with foreign IT firms in the case of Delta are significant in delivery IT services such as in Cisco, Infosys and Infosys as one means of achieving its proficiency in IT service delivery. Delta foreign expansion, however, was a result of its technological expertise, business networks with foreign IT firms, business relationships with its large corporate customers, knowledge and experience of the...
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...RUNNING HEAD: EXPANSION AND MERGER Expansion and Merger ECO 550 – Managerial Economics and Globalization Xiaodong Wu Ph.D., Instructor August 26, 2012 Expansion and Merger The essence of retail marketing is developing merchandise and services that satisfy specific needs of customers, and supplying them at prices that will yield profits. Competition in the today's business marketplace often demands that organizations merge with each other to remain competitive and increase revenue, profits and market share. Others may be looking to consolidate their operations to achieve economies of scale and standardization of processes. Mergers and acquisitions occur when a company buys, sells, or combines with another company within the same country or across borders (Luthans & Doh, 2009). Government regulation is constantly present in our lives. This paper is a continuation from assignment two and will look at how government regulations affect expansion and merger in the retail industry. “Mergers can be competitive strategies, or they can be attempts to create firms large enough to exercise market power” (Michaels, 2011). Successful mergers are a combination of four critical components: culture, business practices, technology, and time. Bringing...
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...Brief Facts of the Mediation Jo and Bill are partners of successful accounting firm with gross revenue of $500,000, and a net profit of $200,000 a year. Jo who was hired as a new graduate 10 years ago, made partner 5 years ago, and her share of the business profits is 40%. Recently there has been disagreements between the partners regarding the direction that the business should take. A mediation was sought to resolve some of those issues. Bill, a 65 year old chartered accountant, is very happy with the business turnover and is keen to maintain the status quo. Bill is concerned that an expansion might see him lose the business. Jo, 35 years of age, a chartered accountant with an MBA, wants to expand the business and increase the business profits. Both of the partners were able to come to an agreement at the mediation to hire a temporary employee for three months. This would free up Jo to develop new models for business expansion and a phase out plan for Bill to retire over the next five years. It was helpful to read Peter Condliffe's Conflict Management as well as Tania Sourdin's Alternative Dispute Resolution to understand the role and methods of mediations. The book covered in detail how a mediation is to be conducted as well as how to assess the strengths and weakness of a mediator. Some of the journals I've read, especially the once I've referenced below helped me understand the importance of active listening. emotions and how important it is to effectively...
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