P1 Marketing is perhaps the most important activity in a business because it has a direct effect on profitability and sales. Larger businesses will dedicate specific staff and departments for the purpose of marketing. It is important to realise that marketing cannot be carried out in isolation from the rest of the business. For example, the marketing section of a business needs to work closely with operations, research and development, finance and human resources to check their plans are possible
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Platform is one of the business model patterns. Multi-sided Platform brings together two or more distinct but interdependent groups of customers. Such platforms are of value to one group of customers only if the other groups if customers are also present. The platform creates value by facilitating interactions between the different groups. A multi-sided platform grows in value to the extent that it attracts more users, a phenomenon known as the Network Effect. * Network effects and Positive feedback
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McDonalds Influences and Project Management In any organization there will be many influences that impact on the way that the firm operates and the way that they undertake operations and manage projects are influences by these factors. Looking at a large firm, such as McDonalds there are many internal and external factors. McDonalds is operating in a complex environment with a number of different legal, social and economic influences. McDonalds has to comply with a range of local laws for
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According to (Martins, n.d.) there are five business challenges women entrepreneurs face and how to overcome them. 1. Cultural Value • The first entrepreneurial challenge women entrepreneurs face is that of cultural value or tradition. This challenge is more profound on women entrepreneurs in Africa; where the cultural value
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between a firm and its customers which in turn enhance customer loyalty. The constructs of CE vary in valence as it could be positive, negative, shorter live experience without much reflection and some are longer effect. Thus, long lasting experience sticks in consumer memory and should
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CORE NEGOTIATION CONCEPTS Rex Mitchell Opportunities and requirements for negotiation (and persuasion) are everywhere, everyday Negotiation: * Conferring with another so as to arrive at the settlement of some matter (dictionary) * Negotiation is a basic means of getting what you want from others. It is back-and-forth communication designed to reach an agreement when you and the other side have some interests that are ...opposed. (Fisher & Ury) Negotiation myths (first four from
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gamers, 3d animation users and professional video editors. These guys need the fastest machines available to make their processor-hogging routines running faster and faster.2. super-budget users. You can get a nice desktop for $500 nowadays. nice laptops go for about $1000+.That leaves the rest of us. And that's a large group. Laptops offer a freedom that no desktop (or even an iMac) can offer: Portability. Use the laptop on the couch while watching TV. Use it at your desk to get serious work done. Use
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benchmarking process: (1) Planning: Prior to engaging in benchmarking, it is imperative that corporate stakeholders identify the activities that need to be benchmarked. For instance, the processes that merit such consideration would generally be core activities that have the potential to give the business in question, a competitive edge. Such processes would generally command a high cost, volume or value. For the optimal results of benchmarking to be reaped, the inputs and outputs need to be re-defined;
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JOB DEVELOPMENT ESSENTIALS Laura Wyckoff Carol Clymer a guide for job developers Second Edition A PUBLICATION OF PUBLIC/PRIVATE VENTURES JOB DEVELOPMENT ESSENTIALS A Guide for Job Developers Second Edition Laura Wyckoff Carol Clymer Second Edition © copyright 2005. Public/Private Ventures. All rights reserved. 2 JOB DEVELOPMENT ESSENTIALS Acknowledgments .............................................................................. 6 Developers, Writers, and Funders....
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News Towards a Healthy News Diet By Rolf Dobelli Prologue This article is the antidote to news. It is long, and you probably won’t be able to skim it. Thanks to heavy news consumption, many people have lost the reading habit and struggle to absorb more than four pages straight. This article will show you how to get out of this trap – if you are not already too deeply in it. of what we are designed to handle. This leads to great risk and to inappropriate, outright dangerous behavior. In the past
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