Cash management
Thesis - 3 pages - Finance
Similar to the absence of water to anything living, the absence of cash to the business means death—slow, torturous, physically painful, and mentally agonizing” (Managing, 2003, p.1). A flourishing business rests on sound cash management techniques with solid cash flow. One cannot...
Gap analysis: Global communications
Thesis - 4 pages - Business strategy
Global Communications failed to involve vital stakeholders in the direction of a plan for success with the company's future. The troubled company did not veritably discuss the concerns in advance with the Union. The company ignored the concerns from the collective-bargaining membership and did...
McDonaldization: Old wine new bottles
Thesis - 3 pages - Business strategy
The ubiquitous golden arches of McDonalds are recognizable worldwide and for many represent the pillars of democracy and free enterprise of America. However, in recent times, much infamy has fastened itself to the McDonalds Corporation and other fast-food chains for their steadfast adherence to...
Operations management: Kudler fine foods contracts organic produce growers
Thesis - 3 pages - Management
What makes-up the core of the American gourmet marketing business reflects various traditional European foods. Kudler Fine Foods excels in this burgeoning scene of artisans. Kudler Fine Foods' great cheeses, meats, condiments, bakery, produce, dairy and other goods (offered) impact American...
Generic strategy and technology to create business opportunities for Kudler
Thesis - 4 pages - Business strategy
Technology has revolutionized and created business opportunities for Kudler Fine Foods. Strategic information systems along with schemes that support or provide business reorganization have assisted the gourmet business to grab opportunities produced by the advent of technology and an...
Problem solution: Riordan manufacturing
Thesis - 8 pages - Management
In order for a comparison of gauging present performance with expected future performance, Riordan Manufacturing must assess the process ascertaining the discrepancy between business demands and present potentialities. As a manufacturing leader in the plastic injections molding arena with...
Efficiency analysis of conventional and Islamic banks in Indonesia using data envelopment analysis
Tutorials/exercises - 18 pages - Finance
Islamic banks have been in existence since early 1960s. The first Islamic bank was established in 1963 as a pilot project in the form of rural savings bank in a small town of Egypt, Mit Ghamr. After that, Islamic banking movement came back to life in mid 1970s. The establishment of Islamic...
Islamic banking and Muslims
Thesis - 10 pages - Finance
The development of Islamic banking in Indonesia got its best momentum in Indonesian struggle to recover the national economy from crisis. Islamic banking has been being accepted by many communities -at least as one of the alternatives, in strengthening the financial sector. Statistics of...
Delocalization: Advantages, inconveniences and consequences
Thesis - 10 pages - Business strategy
Economic delocalization is a transfer of activities, of capital and of employment in areas of a country or of the world which have competitive advantages. Delocalization consists of separating fabrication areas and transformation products areas of consummation country. The production is...
Strategic management in an organization
Thesis - 14 pages - Management
According to Johnson, Scholes and Whittington, ‘Strategic Management includes the understanding the strategic position of an organization, strategic choices for the future and turning strategy into action' (Johnson, Scholes & Whittington, 2005, p.16).There are many models and senior...
Strategic analysis of VSM (Viking Sewing Machines) group
Thesis - 9 pages - Business strategy
In 1997, VSM AB became an independent company and had been bought by an investment fund Industri Kapital. This report analyzes the strategic impact of these events in a global competition and declining market background. In order to understand the VSM case, we have analyzed the new strategic...
Danone and its strategy for the international markets
Thesis - 8 pages - Business strategy
The strategy of a firm is the base of its business model; especially if it wants to operate in international markets. Numerous strategists and economists have already written some theories about the better way for strategies to go international. Bartlett and Ghoshal are two such authors. They...
Codorniu analysis relating to a hire process
Thesis - 4 pages - Human resources
The sector of which the company is a part has always influenced its recruitment and selection process. Indeed, the sector growth defines the company's requirements in terms of the number of employees, the kind of growth, and the profile of the people they need. Moreover, the company's strategy,...
Organization of Lyon terminal inside the CNR (Compagnie Nationale du Rhône)
Thesis - 11 pages - Business strategy
The CNR or Compagnie Nationale du Rhône has several main activities: - First, it is an independent electricity producer. Thanks to its electric plants, the company produces around 16 billion kwh that have been sold directly to the European market since 2001. In order to do this, the CNR signed a...
ElBulli case: Recommended strategy for ElBulli over the next five years
Thesis - 6 pages - Business strategy
According to numerous prizes and awards won over the past few years, elBulli is recognized as the best restaurant in the world, and its owner and Chef Ferran Adrià is recognized as the best chef in the world. It is almost impossible to get a table at elBulli, since it serves 8000 dishes a year....
A study on Ikea's strategy
Tutorials/exercises - 18 pages - Business strategy
The main Ikea's service is to provide all consumer design furniture at a low price. IKEA entails a qualitative change by making design and practical products at the same price than the basic one. IKEA creates something new by creating new processes through innovative design, production,...
How to implant a French cafe in Ireland in terms of marketing communication?
Thesis - 9 pages - Business strategy
A French cafe-bar is trying to enter the Irish market. A marketing team has been taken into account for several matters, such as, the location, the café-culture, the market data and the customers' habits. To launch this cafe-bar, marketers will have to develop an integrated marketing...
The Granola project
Tutorials/exercises - 25 pages - Business strategy
The Lefèvre-Utile Biscuit Co. was a bakery and cookie manufacturer established in Nantes, France in 1846 by Jean-Romain Lefèvre. Today it is known as LU and is a part of Kraft Foods. The name LU comes from Lefèvre and his wife and who was also the first associate, Pauline Utile. Their initials...
Speed Bio: Business plan
Business plan - 19 pages - Business strategy
The concept is to launch a new type of restaurant and more precisely an organic fast food restaurant. The guarantee of our restaurant is to take care about the customer's health. Indeed, we noticed that there was no special organic fast food restaurant in France and especially in Paris. For few...
Strategic analysis of McCarthy motors limited
Thesis - 20 pages - Business strategy
McCarthy Motors Limited is owned by Bid Auto (Who Owns Whom, 2008). Bid Auto is the vehicle retail and services division of the Bidvest Group Limited, a JSE listed investment holding company. Bid Auto is one of the largest competitors in the South African vehicle retail market with more than 130...
Competitive strategy: Strategies model by Michael Porter
Thesis - 10 pages - Business strategy
The strategy has taken a big place in the firm and it has become the only way to do business. Big companies have special staff to formulate strategies, whereas in the smaller firms it is the CEO and/or the Head Officer who takes and makes the strategic decisions. Some definitions are necessary to...
Flash Travel's business plan
Business plan - 12 pages - Business strategy
The main business activity of the company is transportation of people, and handling important merchandises and mails. Indeed, even if it could be exceptional to transport merchandise (like fruit, raw materials…) or mail (like political mails or parcel), because it is currently expensive to...
Total and its corporate social responsibility
Thesis - 6 pages - Business strategy
TOTAL, the international group known worldwide, works above all, in the energy industries and also a little bit in the chemical industry. TOTAL group was created in 2003, after several mergers but it has some origin from 1923. It is a limited company. Today TOTAL is not only a multinational...
Business plan: Marriage/Wedding fairies
Business plan - 22 pages - Business strategy
In our company the Wedding Fairies is in partnership with six people who want to offer an all inclusive service for wedding planning. We believe for the wedding day nothing can be too perfect and we want to be sure that our customers get the best from us. We offer a real customized service to our...
From Eurodisney to Disneyland Resort Paris
Tutorials/exercises - 24 pages - Business strategy
Walt Disney is a famous world with lots of imagination and lots of dreams. Everybody knows Mickey, and Snow White. Every child can tell the history of Peter Pan or of the Sleeping Beauty. Some of these famous tales were created by Walter Elias Disney the creator of Mickey. The same person had the...
Managerial accounting: Decathlon
Thesis - 8 pages - Business strategy
Since 1976, Decathlon has been the largest trade name in the distribution of sport articles in France and today is one of largest in Europe. Decathlon also kept in-house control of its logistic and data-processing activities. Michel Leclercq started this company in the year 1976. In 1986,...
Ignition Systems
Presentation - 15 pages - Business strategy
Ignition systems produces about 30,000 volt spark across spark plug and distribute high voltage spark to each spark plug in correct sequence. The number of times the spark, so it occurs as piston is nearing top dead center. The battery supplies power to entire system where as the ignition switch...
An analysis of the Indian retail industry
Tutorials/exercises - 63 pages - Business strategy
The Indian retail sector is witnessing tremendous growth with the changing demographics and an improvement in the quality of life of urban people. The growing affluence of India's consuming class, the emergence of retail entrepreneurs and a variety of imported products particularly in the food...
A strategic framework for corporate crisis management as a method to resolve a specific problem in a telecommunication organization
Thesis - 2 pages - Management
For any organization it is a strategic motive to certify that its long term economic position and survivability are not at risk (Barton 256). Crisis management has been adopted by many to obtain this strategic motive because it links functions including safety management, risk management,...
Holographic storage devices and conventional storage devices
Essay - 4 pages - Management
A computer electronic memory allows it to remember how to function. There are two parts of computer memory, namely RAM (random access memory) and ROM (read only memory). The RAM stores the important programs such as the operating system and ROM stores other user data which can be retrieved and...
