Disintermediation: Elimination of intermediaries in the supply chain
Thesis - 7 pages - Management
The world today is witness to intelligent customers and consumers. People who no longer take the marketer's claim as sacrosanct and are thinking people. These are the new takers of products and services that today's business folk have to offer. For the action of consumption to be effective and...
A look at American Depository Reports
Thesis - 15 pages - Finance
Since 1980, the value of U.S.investment in non- U.S.equities has grown approximately 100-fold to $1.9 trillion .The first ADRs were introduced in the United States in 1927 when JPMorgan issued receipts for the British retailer Selfridges. Prior to the 1980s,ADRs primarily were used by foreign...
Employee retention: Myths and methods
Tutorials/exercises - 35 pages - Human resources
Human resource management (HRM) is the strategic and coherent approach to the of management an organization's most valued assets - the people working there who individually and collectively contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the business. The terms "human resource...
Knowing more about electronic banking
Thesis - 27 pages - Finance
Electronic banking, also known as electronic funds transfer (EFT), is simply the use of electronic means to transfer funds directly from one account to another, rather than by cheque or cash. Internet banking system is a method by which a personal computer is connected by a network service...
Overview of the IPCL (Indian Petrochemical Corporation Limited)
Dissertation - 49 pages - Business strategy
IPCL, Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited, is a pioneering petrochemicals company in India and was incorporated on 22 March 1969. It is a leading integrated manufacturer of polymers, synthetic fibers & fiber intermediates & chemical products from hydrocarbon feed stock. They also...
A brief overview of job costing
Thesis - 7 pages - Accounting
Job costing is one of the methods of counting costs & is used when job orders are undertaken in a factory or a workshop or contracts are taken out to build houses, construct roads, bridges etc. Many companies manufacture goods against orders. They are what is known as “jobbing type”...
All you wanted to know about Six Sigma
Tutorials/exercises - 39 pages - Business strategy
Six Sigma can be used to create a brand new business process from ground up. Six Sigma strives for perfection. It allows for only 3.4 defects per million opportunities for each product or service transaction. Six Sigma relies heavily on statistical techniques to reduce defects and measure...
Virgin Mobiles
Thesis - 9 pages - Business strategy
In the mobile market, Virgin mobile is a unique player based on its business model and strategy. It is the only service provider which does not hold any bandwidth and mobile setup infrastructure but uses Tata Teleservices spectrum and is penetrating the market based totally on its branding and...
Indian pharmaceutical industry
Market study - 9 pages - Business strategy
The Indian Pharmaceuticals sector has come a long way, being almost non-existent during 1970, to a prominent provider of health care products, meeting almost 95% of country's pharmaceutical needs. London research company Global Insight estimates that India's share of the global generics market...
Research on customer satisfaction for the services of Hutchison-Essar
Case study - 25 pages - Business strategy
After the globalization of the Indian economy in 1991 the tele communication sector remained one of the most happening sectors in India. The recent years witnesses rapid and dramatic changes in the field of tele communications. In the last few years more and more companies both foreign, domestic,...
An overview of the Indian cigarette industry
Market study - 29 pages - Business strategy
The Cigarette Industry is one of the oldest industries in India (almost 100 years old). It is an important agro-based industry. It is highly labor intensive and provides livelihood to about thirty million people directly and indirectly. India's tobacco industry is one of the largest in the...
The Indian television broadcasting industry
Market study - 43 pages - Business strategy
The Indian Entertainment and Media Industry has out-performed the Indian economy and is one of the fastest growing sectors in India. It is rising on the back of economic growth and razing income levels that India has been experiencing in the past years. This is significantly benefiting the...
The impact of FIIs on Indian National stock exchange and how effective the Government is in Liberalizing and controlling the National Stock exchange?
Dissertation - 40 pages - Finance
The intention of this research was to examine the impact of Foreign Institutional Investors (FII) on the Indian National Stock Exchange (NSE). To achieve the aims, the following objectives have been determined to study how FII plays an important role in National stock exchange; to study the...
The concept of loyalty and identifying the relationship between customer satisfaction and customer loyalty (Tesco)
Dissertation - 75 pages - Business strategy
Traditionally, marketing has focused on market shares and customer acquisition rather than on retaining existing customers and on building long-lasting relationships with them (Kotler, 2003). More recently, however, market share has been gradually losing its revered status as marketing's holy...
Distribution structure of Nestle
Thesis - 10 pages - Management
Properly planed distribution is always the quintessential factor when a company needs to reach its customers in all parts of the world therefore this paper will take a look at how the company Nestle distributes its products and where all does it face challenges and, finally, how it can counter...
Examining e - banking
Thesis - 33 pages - Finance
The acceleration in technology has produced an extraordinary effect upon our economy and, in general, has had a particularly profound impact on expanding the scope and utility of financial products over the last ten years. Information technology has made possible the creation, valuation, and...
Customer Relationship Management and the call centers
Tutorials/exercises - 60 pages - Management
Before we begin to examine the conceptual foundations of CRM, it will be useful to define what CRM is. CRM stands for "Customer Relationship Management." CRM is a business strategy and a collection of technologies that enable seamless coordination between sales, marketing, customer service, field...
The changing face of consumer behavior in response to organized retail markets in India
Tutorials/exercises - 33 pages - Business strategy
The retail sector in the developing countries is witnessing a huge revamping exercise as traditional markets make way for new formats such as departmental stores, hypermarkets, supermarkets and specialty stores. Rated the fifth most attractive emerging retail market, India is being seen as a...
Looking at how and where CRM can help an organization
Thesis - 26 pages - Business strategy
CRM is an integrated effort to identify, maintain, and build up a network with individual consumers and to continuously strengthen the network for mutual benefit of both sides, through interactive, individualized and value-added contacts over a period of time. The core theme of all CRM is its...
A study on customer relationship management
Tutorials/exercises - 58 pages - Business strategy
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is one of those magnificent concepts that swept the business world in the 1990's with the promise of forever changing the way businesses, small and large, interacted with their customer bases. In the short term, however, it proved to be an unwieldy process...
Standard Chartered mutual funds
Thesis - 24 pages - Finance
Mutual funds are a topic, which is of interest to both investors and academicians all over the world. Mutual Funds as a medium-to-long term investment option are preferred as a suitable investment option by investors. However, with so many market entrants and a plethora of schemes available to...
Innovations in the restaurant business
Thesis - 29 pages - Business strategy
The paper deals with the brand related issues in the restaurant industry and is an attempt to highlight the image and identify trends in the restaurants industry. It highlight the various efforts and initiatives taken by restaurants worldwide to improve on their brands to remain competitive....
Systems audit: Bombay Stock Exchange
Case study - 36 pages - Finance
Indian capital markets have witnessed radical transformation during the short period of a decade. There is hardly any country in the world which has witnessed such massive changes in its capital market during such a short period. During the early part of the 1990s, ranking of the Indian capital...
Banking and insurance: The money market
Case study - 26 pages - Finance
The money market is a market for financial assets that are close substitutes for money. It is a market for overnight to short-term funds and instruments having a maturity period of one or less than one year. It is not a place (like the Stock Market), but an activity conducted by telephone. The...
Market analysis of IPO business in India
Market study - 27 pages - Finance
Like several other goods, which require a market place for buyers & sellers to come together, shares, too need a market where they can be sold & bought. The markets where shares are sold bought are either primary market or secondary market. The primary stock market is the place where the new...
Reva: An alliance between Maini Group and AEV LLC Inc.
Thesis - 38 pages - Business strategy
REVA electric car company is a joint venture between the Bangalore based Maini group and AEV LLC Inc. of USA. Other companies, world leaders in their respective fields, have also partnered with Maini and AEV LLC Inc to design and develop key components for the REVA. Today the Maini Group has on...
Overview of supply chain management
Thesis - 7 pages - Management
Supply chain management (SCM) refers to the management of activities that procure raw materials, transform those materials into intermediate goods and final products, and deliver the products through a distribution system to the end-user. There are numerous key factors that play an important role...
Managing the global supply chain: A risk measurement perspective
Dissertation - 43 pages - Management
The end of the last millennium and the beginning of the new millennium has seen supply chain management emerge as a new management paradigm and a source of competitive advantage. This is especially true in a global marketplace where "getting the right goods at the right place at the right time...
Mutual funds and other investment opportunities: Franklin Templeton Investments
Case study - 38 pages - Finance
Savings form an important part of the economy of any nation. With the savings invested in various options available to the people, money acts as the driver for growth of the country. Indian financial scene too presents a plethora of avenues to the investors. Though certainly not the best or...
An in-depth project on Barclay's Finance
Thesis - 14 pages - Finance
A financial system is the most important institutional and functional vehicle for the economic transformation of any country. Banking sector is reckoned as a hub and barometer of the financial system. As a pillar of the economy, this sector plays a predominant role in the economic development of...
