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MARKETING Competencies: 3013.1.1: Marketing Function - The graduate analyzes the global market to identify opportunities to gain competitive advantage through marketing activities. 3013.1.2: Customer Relationship Management - The graduate recommends customer relationship management practices for maximizing customer satisfaction and loyalty. 3013.1.3: Evaluating Feasibility and Profitability - The graduate evaluates the feasibility and profitability of new products and services within the organization
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CHAPTER 1 Costs Costs can be defined as the resource expended towards the accomplishment of a specific objective. Costs are usually measured in monetary terms being the amount that has to be paid for goods and services, usually raw materials and labor. Costs are broadly classified into actual and budget costs. Actual costs are historical while budgeted are projected to occur in the future. Costs are either direct or indirect. Direct costs are costs that can be traced directly to the cost object
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The Strategic Management Frameworks Arnoldo Hax Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Management The Frameworks for Competitive Positioning Porter Resource-Based View of the Firm • The Delta Model • • Porter’s Framework for Explaining the Profitability of a Business Competitive Positioning Achieving sustainable competitive advantage Industry Structure Factors affecting industry profitability Strategy Formulation and Implementation Defining and executing the managerial tasks Elements
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BarCharts, Inc.® WORLD’S #1 QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE DEFINITIONS Strategic Management is a process for conducting the entrepreneurial activities of a firm for organizational renewal, growth, and transformation. The major tasks are: (1) set a mission and goals, (2) assess the environment, (3) appraise company capabilities, (4) craft the strategy, (5) implement the strategy, and (6) evaluate and control the strategy. Business Policy is a set of prescribed and discretionary statements, limiting
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organization. Cost management is the development and use of cost management information. A strategic understanding of cost management is so important that many senior financial managers are coming back to school to learn more about strategy, competitive analysis, and new cost management techniques. Knowing how to do the accounting alone, no matter how well you do it, is by itself no longer sufficient. 1.2 Purpose of Writing The general purpose of writing is to complete the final task of the subject
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competitive advantage, if a firm is to maintain sustainable competitive advantage, it must control a set of exploitable resources that are valuable and can be substituted easily. False; Moderate 5. Firms that build an imitation-resistant value chain develop a way of doing business that others find difficult to replicate. True; Easy 6. Firms like Google, Hotmail, Facebook, and Skype have built multimillion member followings mainly due to aggressive spending on advertising and branding
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outlining the analysis and evaluation of HMV Group plc’s environmental and strategic position, giving suggested new organisational strategies and plans. Environmental and Organisational Audit Environmental and organisational audits are used to discover a company’s position in their market and environment, and the company’s physical position. Two possible environmental audit techniques that can be done on a company like HMV Group plc are Porter’s 5 Forces and PESTEL analysis. Porter’s
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| 3. | HMPRBA 303 | Corporate Governance | 4. | HMPRBA 304 | Management of Public & Private Participation | 5. | HMPRBA 305 | Marketing Research | 6. | HMPRBA 306 | Financial Management | 7. | HMPRBA 307 | Operations & Supply Chain Management | 8. | HMPRBA 308 | Innovation Management | 9. | HMPRBA 309 | Current Business Affairs & Soft Skills | 10. | HMPRBA 310 | Minor Project (8 weeks) & Viva - Voce | HMPRBA-301: Strategic Management The objective of this
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hierarchical regression analysis using data from a sample of 200 manufacturing plants. Findings: CI alone is not enough to guarantee cost reductions because a fast supply network structure acts as a moderator of the CI-efficiency relationship. The role of this moderator is twofold. On the one hand, it interacts with CI, strengthening the positive impact of CI on efficiency through a positive complementary effect. On the other hand, if the supply network structure is not intended to support fast lead times
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