Question 4 The first problem to be dealt with is if the investment is necessary or not, as there are advantages and disadvantages to the choice. One disadvantage is that there is a risk in the stability of the POS terminal after the OS upgrade, for the reason that the POS application runs stable on the DOS-system at the time. But, after upgrading the OS and porting the POS application, there is a risk of reducing the stability of the POS application due to bugs in the application (after porting)
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TripAdvisor, Starbucks 00.01.2014 TripAdvisor 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Why is TA appealing to consumers? Why do consumers write reviews? What do hotel owners and property managers feel about TA? How does TA manage to create the balance between consumers and hotel managers? How does TA monetize its UGC? How does it differ from other UGC sites such as Yelp? Why has TA been so successful in hotel reviews? Why is it not known for restaurants even though it has user reviews on over half-a-million restaurants
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1. Biosonics Incorporated has a few notable internal strengths. First, Biosonics seems to have capable people operating and working for them. The text claims the few employees they have can “wear many hats” although they are inexperienced at running a business. The three people that developed the idea and brought the company together seem to have more than enough experience in business, biophysics and medical research. Second, the company is starting to experience profit after two years of losses
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Assessment Activity 1. In your opinion, what decision option does IBM have in the case situation? • The main decision option on the case was to create a new business model that integrate all plants together and manage the same information. This will allow better management of the supply chain across all of its plants and quicker response in changes in the business environment. 2. What criteria are important to making this decision? • The first criteria that they need
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the international business environments Harley faces are complex and varies due to cultural and regional needs of the diverse markets it competes in. This is shown by the differences of the sales mix in U.S. and Europe as revealed in exhibit 1 of the case. For example, in 2006, custom models accounted for 47.4% in U.S., whereas it accounted for 13.4% in Europe. In the U.S., other sales of models based on different criteria such as performance, touring, and standard accounted for 15.1%, 35.5%, and 2
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1. What are the core business processes (i.e. high level; major business and financial services) performed at Bank of America as part of its product and service offerings? Core Bank of America Business Process: | Activities within the Core Process | people management | * recruiting * performance management * staff development * payroll * benefits administration | financial management | * general ledger * accounts payable * accounts receivable * reporting and compliance
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operations and especially qualified hiring. General Administration- yes General Administration makes it possible for the firm to operate in such a way that it is able to provide clients with strategic and legal advisory policies. Chapter Questions 1. Competitive advantage is essential to strategic management because businesses rely on diagnosing what will separate their product/service from their competition. Depending on what target market a company is looking to focus on. To be successful
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Chapter 11 1. I believe Zook is thinking that in order for the sales contract to be valid, there has to be both an offer and acceptance. At the time of the initial offer, there was no official acceptance. Once Radar Appliances did accept, the offer was no longer there, as Zook withdrew before there was an acceptance. And under common law contract principles, an offer may be revoked at any time before acceptance. Zook also never technically said that they would allow the offer to stand for more
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RELEVANT COST CASES: Problem 1: Judson Company Judson Company makes widgets and wangles, both of which use a polishing machine as part of production. The widgets and wangles have the following price and cost characteristics: | |Widgets |Wangles | |Annual Capacity |1,000 units |2,000 units
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As being shown in the chart above, one could find that Samsung customers were paying 34% premium over the price offered by other major DRAMs suppliers. This had made Samsung the most profitable DRAMs maker with 44% in average operating margin - far higher than its other major competitors for the period 1Q 2000 – 1Q 2004. Why Samsung customers were willing to pay that price premium? There are two possible reasons that could simply explain this - the reliability of Samsung products and the company’s
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