the identification of ways to improve the use of technology in the business, balanced with a technology aversion among the employees. It is not only a matter of the employees not being willing to adopt technology in their work procedures, though, the issue is further complicated by the technical as well as academic illiteracy among staff members. Another central issue is the delicate balance between exploring ways to expand business and avoiding to compromise the core service. Generation and evaluation
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THE STRATEGY LENSES 21 The four lenses are introduced more fully immediately after this chapter and will provide the framework for separate commentaries on each of the three parts of this book. This section introduces them briefly as follows: ● Strategy as design. This takes the view that strategy development can be ‘designed’ in the abstract, as an architect might design a building using pens, rulers and paper. The architect designs, and then hands over the plans for the builders actually
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EXPLORING THE CHALLENGES OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING IN POST GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS ERA IN NIGERIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE NIGERIAN PROFESSIONAL BY BENNETT B. BENNETT UNIZIK/ACC/Ph.D./2011387014F DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTANCY, FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES, NNAMDI AZIKIWE UNIVERSITY, AWKA SEPTEMBER, 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS Certification Approval Declaration Acknowledgement List of Tables Abstract CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.0 Background to Study 1.1 Statement of Research Problem 1.2 Objective
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International Journal of Global Business, 7 (1), 77-94, June 2014 77 Building Global Strategic Alliances and Coalitions for Foreign Investment Opportunities Dr. Balarabe A. Jakada Department of Business Administration and Entrepreneurship Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria. bajakada@yahoo.com Abstract Global strategic alliance and coalition is a diffuse way of effective combination of strengths of companies aiming at entering new markets, exploring new technologies, bypassing government entry restrictions
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between different returns. Its management is about decisions made to change the volatility of returns a corporation is exposed to, for example changing a company’s exposure to floating interest rates by swapping them to fixed rates for a fee. Since business is about generating higher returns by undertaking risky projects, important management decisions revolve around which projects to undertake, how they should be financed and whether the volatility of a project’s returns (its risk) should be managed
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upon the experience of urban Space by evaluating human behavior and space to human relations. In addition, approaches to installation of temporary activities into the public realm and its impact that these can have upon perception, identity and activities within public space. This research explores the essential presence of temporary activities with in a city ,which requires a critical understanding of the functioning of public space .Finally this research would suggest possibilities of better
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CRH is an international building material company. “Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, CRH operates in 35 countries, employed approximately 80,000 people and its focus on three core business, primly materials, value-added building products and specially building material distribution. “(http://www.crh.ie/) CRH’s stocks are listed in both the Irish Stock Exchange and London Stock Exchange. There are two core strategies in CRH, development strategy and acquisition approach.” CRH’s approach to acquisitions
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Lean is a logical approach to minimize gap between customer’s expectation and actual outcome at the best speed with the lowest cost. Lean.org defines Lean by a succinct definition “Lean is to maximize customer value while minimizing waste. Simply, lean means creating more value for customers with fewer resources”.1 LEAN addresses new reality: 1 What is Lean? Ref: http://www.lean.org/WhatsLean/ The advent of Lean can be traced to after World War II, when Kiichiro Toyoda and other
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organizes, owns, manages and assumes the risk of a business”. On the other hand, Schumpeter (1934) argued that risk bearing is a characteristic more common in the concept of ownership and since entrepreneurs are not necessarily owners of a venture it cannot be considered as an absolute entrepreneurial trait. To conclude, although Schumpeter’s differentiation of ownership and entrepreneurship is well defined, examining an entrepreneur’s activities we could assume that the risk-bearing propensity
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Learning Styles and Strategies Family-Centered Health Promotion Amy Bell Grand Canyon University 10/18/2015 Learning style is an individuals unique approach to learning based on strengths, weaknesses, and preferences. After completing the VARK questionnaire it showed that I had a strong Aural learning style. There are many different learning styles which include visual, aural, read/write, kinesthetic and multimodal. The aural learning preference is for people who like information that
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