A Petrinet model of a short life cycle product supply chain and deduction of its reachability matrix by simulation
Thesis - 5 pages - Management
This paper focuses on the concept of short life cycle supply chain of products where the selling time of the product is short and fixed. Based on an object events table and dynamical events occurring table a composite model of short life cycle product is created. This model is then represented by...
Marketing plan for Caudalie products in Saudi Arabia
Case study - 55 pages - Services marketing
Caudalie, founded in 1993 by two people: Mathilde Bernard Thomas and Professor Vercauteren, features products made from grape pips (from wine producer: Laffite), which are considered to be highly beneficial for the skin. Two years later, the duo launched their first range of products. Keeping in...
The features of management processes and structures in terms of Fordism and Taylorism: Why did these models come under pressure during the late 20th Century? Has there been a definitive break from them?
Thesis - 7 pages - Management
Between 1893 and 1911, F.W Taylor published a series of books about management that defines the basis of a new science: The scientific organization of work . On the one hand, he notes “the dawdling” of workers, who are at the same time influenced by their natural way to be lazy and the...
The diversification process of the Walt Disney Company
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
The first issue of the Walt Disney Company has to face concerns about diversification. It was considering the extent to which it had to diversify and whether it diversified too far. It is legitimate to consider such a question as the number of businesses Disney presents has exploded since the...
European integration process and its influence for business: Case of Danone
Thesis - 18 pages - Business strategy
Within the last decades, globalization has changed the face of the world with a shift from ‘nationalism and protectionism' to the idea of a ‘global village'. A new world economic order emerged and the regional and multinational trade agreements and free trade areas played a key role in...
Micro reactors and process intensification
Thesis - 5 pages - Physics
In recent decades there has been a significant increase in the energy efficiency of the process industry by optimization of unit operations. In many cases the limits of what can be done on a unit-operation scale have been reached. To develop chemical production routes and products...
Sales-side process automation to improve integration: An exploratory research
Dissertation - 51 pages - Business strategy
The customer has always been important. Peter Drucker, the dean of management consultants, once remarked: “Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two and only two basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results: all the...
The Lead User Method: A solution to improve new product success in rapidly changing markets?
Dissertation - 77 pages - Services marketing
Innovation, a crucial dilemma to be successful. Innovating is crucial for a company in order to satisfy its customers ‘expectations and to cope with the competition in a market place which is everyday more and more challenging. However, coping with the competition doesn't mean offering...
Supply Chain Management: Its role in improving the value of the product or service to customers
Thesis - 6 pages - Management
With growing competition among companies in the different industries, an efficient operation is essential for firms to offer quality goods and services at competitive prices. This can be made possible through the adoption of appropriate production technology, having a customer-oriented...
Business process outsourcing
Thesis - 13 pages - Business strategy
Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is generally categorized as being transactional, niche, or comprehensive. Transactions are generally sub-processes such as account payables, account receivables, journal, general, ledger, order processing, medical transcription, etc. Niche support moves...
Marketing of high technology products
Tutorials/exercises - 32 pages - Services marketing
Technology has encompassed all human activities spread from farmers in the remote areas to the human activities reaching out into outer space. Managing this tool of "Technology" which governs the future of the mankind, planet and the universe covers multiple disciplines of sciences and mankind....
Lexicology: Base-enriching word building processes
Case study - 25 pages - Literature
This chapter describes the processes through which words ‘enrich' or expand their stem or base so as to produce new words to unfold new meanings and uses (seen from the grammatical perspective). These new patterns resulting from the various types of associations are the most numerous at the...
TQM (Total quality management) and production management
Presentation - 130 pages - Management
POM is important function where vast majority of firm's workers, capital assets & expenses reside, and is responsible for production, Service & Quality of the products. However apart from their individual objectives, a coordinated effort between all the 3 business functions is a must,...
The company Renault and the consideration of environmental issues in its production
Case study - 39 pages - Business strategy
Renault was founded by Louis Renault and his brothers in 1898. It is a familial and traditional company that made a name for itself through the years, different periods and centuries. Indeed, Renault's group went thought two wars and an economic crisis, and by always adapting its strategy and its...
Optimizing Remote Work Environments: Exploring the Influence of Green Office Design on Employee Well-being and Productivity in Post-COVID Urban Settings
Dissertation - 3 pages - Ecology & environment
The pandemic triggered the revolution of telecommunication, which brought different problems with it, among which are workers' low productivity and well-being. Green office design, proactive in applying biophilic elements and sustainable features, looks likely to diminish these issues....
How firms use efficiency wages to raise employee productivity and how it explains wage stickiness in the labour market
Case study - 4 pages - Management
Some firms will attempt to increase their profits by improving their worker productivity by paying a wage that is above the wage paid by other competing firms. A well known example of the gains from this sort of wage setting is found in third world economies. At the market level wage, workers may...
General Electric's product differentiation strategy
Market study - 3 pages - Services marketing
Throughout the course of its development, General Electric has undergone a number of changes. While many of the changes have been quite overwhelming for the organization—such as when Jack Welch took over in 1980 and drastically downsized the organization—the end result has been the...
A closer look at corporate productivity: Reducing occupational stress and enhancing team effectiveness at workplace
Essay - 5 pages - Management
Developing productive workplaces has long captured the attention of many organizations. Issues such as occupational stress and lack of teamwork can, however, hinder corporate development. Occupational stress has been researched extensively within the industrial-organization psychology...
"What is queer theory and how does it explain the production of knowledge about sexuality?"
Essay - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Introduction Applied to homosexuals, queer was initially a term of homophobic abuse, and while it retains that meaning, it is also now used as a neutrally descriptive term. (As an ethnic label, black has made the same semantic journey.) Queer is also provocative: a pejorative and stigmatizing...
The current situation of small scale coffee production in Latin America
Thesis - 7 pages - Economy general
Recently, the global coffee market has fallen into a profound crisis. Prices paid to coffee producers in real dollar terms, have fallen to a hundred year low. Many families have been forced to abandon traditional farming. There is consequently an important wave of unemployment in the farming...
Business plan for product innovation: The Big Bip Company
Business plan - 7 pages - Business strategy
A problem statement is a clear concise description of the issue that needs to be addressed by a problem solving team and should be presented to them (or created by them) before they try to solve the problem. When bringing together a team to achieve a particular purpose efficiently, provide them...
How would a Restoration comedy production stage female gender in a production of The Country Wife?
Thesis - 12 pages - Arts and art history
This paper is a theatre research paper documenting the appropriate approach to staging the female gender in a restoration comedy production of William Wycherley's “The Country Wife”. The paper considers dialogue, staging, sound and costumes in addition to the historical context...
Bilingualism and product policy in Canada
Thesis - 8 pages - International relations
During my two-month internship in Canada, I had the opportunity to work for the company Yantama Services. It is an international transport and consulting company. The company is located specifically in Hamilton, Ontario, in which I had attempted to adapt and commercialize an innovative product on...
The product: Marketing management - 11th edition Kotler & Dubois
Book review - 5 pages - Services marketing
Product determinants: the unit price is rather high, the purchase decision requires research information, the financial risk is high, there is a need for a specific product for a particular purpose. (Ex: car, major appliances). Differentiation: no option because there is no picture or no...
Marketing Plan of New Innovative Product: Morgan Life car
Case study - 10 pages - Services marketing
Morgan Life car two is a product from Morgan life Car Company which is located in Malvern, Worcestershire. The company was started by Harry Frederick Stanley Morgan in 1910, and it was operated by its founder until his death in the late fifties (the company has since been then been run by the...
History of Apple products
Case study - 8 pages - Services marketing
Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, had designed the first Apple computer- Apple 1. To make it easy to use, he placed the switches on a keyboard and used a television screen to display information, rather than a series of diodes. Only 200 models were manufactured in 1976. The launch of the...
Derivative products
Essay - 5 pages - Finance
It is an indisputable fact that the present financial and economical tsunami is one of the worst slowdowns just close to the previous one, being the economic collapse in 1929. Indeed each semester previsions a particular percentage of growth. However, this foresight is depleting in terms of the...
The market of the organic products in Germany
Market study - 14 pages - Services marketing
Germany is the largest European market with 30% of the total European market in 2005 and is the second in the world behind the U.S., for organic products. Organic products accounted for a turnover of 4 billion euros or 2.9% of food consumption in 2005, which is an increase of 1.7 points compared...
Analysis of marketing of the product of Nutella
Case study - 7 pages - Services marketing
Nutella dominates the market for chocolate spreads. It is mainly used for breakfast, snacks and sandwiches, but it may also be used in some desserts (fruit, pancakes. Despite a saturated market, it represents 89% of the total sales. In France it sells nearly 88 million tubs annually.Its main...
West African Anglophone Literary Productions
Course material - 21 pages - Literature
By and large, the objective of this course is to get students in the humanities to cast a meaningful glance at the landscape of the aesthetico-social and political realities which have affected the continent, ever since slavery days through colonization up to the contemporary stage, in the prism...
