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17. Disruptive Innovation by Clayton M. Christensen. How to cite in your report. A disruptive technology or disruptive innovation is an innovation that helps create a new market and value network, and eventually goes on to disrupt an existing market and value network. The term is used in business and technology literature to describe innovations that improve a product or service in ways that the market does not expect. Although the term disruptive technology is widely used, disruptive innovation
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be a major factor in any job situation and not only is it an issue of how an individual handles stress, but also how an employer combats stress in the workplace through different protocols or benefits provided to the employees. The focus of this paper will be stress in our workplace environments. Causes There are many causes of stresses (or stressors) in the workplace, no matter what trade, industry or profession one considers. The stressors however will be specific to the job. There can
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FORE School of Management A DISSERTATION REPORT ON Impact of Basel III norms on select Indian & European banks Submitted By: DEEPANSHU CHANDRA, 053009 FORE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, DELHI A Report submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirement of Post Graduate Diploma Program in Management SUBMITTED TO: Faculty Guide: Prof. Sanghamitra Buddhapriya FORE School of Management 1 FORE School of Management CERTIFICATE This is to certify that Mr. Deepanshu Chandra has completed
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CHAPTER 1 Marketing: Managing profitable customer relationships Marketing is managing profitable customer relationships. The goal of marketing is to attract new customers, to grow current customers by delivering satisfaction and to provide goods and services at profit. Marketing specialists must satisfy their customers’ need in a socially responsible and ethical manner The marketing process 1. Understand the marketplace and customer needs and wants Humans have 3 needs * Physical
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whose intangible products are difficult to evaluate prior to their consumption. When WOM becomes digital, the largescale, anonymous, ephemeral nature of the Internet induces new ways of capturing, analyzing, interpreting, and managing online WOM. This paper describes online interpersonal influence, or eWOM, as a potentially cost-effective means for marketing hospitality and tourism, and discusses some of the nascent technological and ethical issues facing marketers as they seek to harness emerging eWOM
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WHITE P APER Sponsored by: Compuware David Tapper January 2013 THE CHANGING ENTERPR ISE Today's enterprises are under tremendous pressure to keep pace with a rapidly changing marketplace while supporting employees, customers, and consumers who are using an entirely new set of capabilities to meet their needs. Capabilities such as social media, cloud services, analytics, and mobility are enabling users and buyers to localize and personalize specific needs to do a variety of tasks, whether for
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bodies/associations that gather and compile generic industry-level information, which is then used by the members of the association to chart out the course of their businesses. This industry-level information, along with the independent sets of market research data, is then analysed to ascertain all related information, such
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Troy Rock Florida Institute of Technology Research Paper Supply Chain Process in the Oil and Gas Industry. MGT 5069 June 18, 2016 Introduction The definition of supply chain management, it is described as being the set of processes in a firm that are implemented to maximum customer satisfaction while operating at a lowest cost possible to achieve maximum profits. In the oil and gas industry supply-chain, the profitability of a firm is hinged upon its upstream suppliers and its
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