Information technology as an enabler of sales and distribution
Dissertation - 47 pages - Business strategy
A competitive edge in sales and distribution network provides much needed muscle to the companies to compete in market place as has been epitomized by companies like HLL, Marico & ITC etc. Use of IT in sales and distribution promises to provide a consistent source of competitive advantage that...
Analysis of the funds and cash flow in the electronics industry in India
Thesis - 26 pages - Finance
Electronics with its wide and varied applications have attained the status of an all pervasive industry today. The world electronics scene has undergone profound and breathe taking changes, it has penetrated every field in consumer and capital goods. From fan regulators to airplane...
Business strategy: How Dell Computer uses technology to gain competitive advantage and keep its leader position on the PC market ?
Case study - 22 pages - Business strategy
When Dell's CEO, Michael S. Dell and President, Kevin B. Rollins met in the fall of 2001, they were confident that the company was recovering from the global crash of personal computer (PC) sales. In fact, Dell is the master at selling PCs directly and bypassing middlemen and thus delivers PCs...
Analysis of the European automotive industry through the expansion of Japanese cars in order to emphasize the major automotive strategy trends of the future
Market study - 26 pages - Business strategy
Automotive industry has realized that UK is an important location. A number of companies have set up production bases in UK. The Asian, American and European constructors have proved that UK occupies an important place in the automotive industry. However, the Automotive...
Renewable Energy and the Hotel Industry: A Perfect Fit?
Case study - 27 pages - Psychology
Renewable energy is one of the fastest growing sectors in today's energy market. Energy from solar, wind, hydro power, tidal energy and biomass sources is being harnessed to provide energy that is both environmentally friendly and secure from the fluctuations of the international fossil fuel...
The French motor industry in the world
Essay - 37 pages - Economy general
Since more than half a century, the motor industry has represented, in most of industrialized countries a floret of the industry. In spite of the expansion of the service sector, the French motor industry occupies a very great place in our country. The manpower mass has...
The Google case: Who can dethrone this leader of the industry?
Case study - 17 pages - Business strategy
We begin by studying the situation of the e-services in Google and a thorough analysis of its business model to explain its success. Secondly, we examine the leading position of Google, particularly by analyzing the strategic map of this industry, to examine the limits of this leadership...
Evolution of the ski market from 2000 to 2006: Industry of winter sports and Alpine skiing
Dissertation - 73 pages - Services marketing
The main objective of this study is to trace all the developments experienced by the alpine ski market between 2000 and 2006. The underlying objectives often are of one general point of view: To present a thorough analysis of the characteristics of the alpine ski market and its trends. Thus,...
Limited perspectives for electric cars: Auto industry facing new challenges
Case study - 12 pages - Business strategy
The Earth is warming up. This assessment has been highlighted by numerous scientists for several decades and is currently one of the main concerns all around the world. Even if the causes are not objectively acknowledged, the fact is unquestionable: During the 20th century, the average...
The case of disruptive technology
Case study - 10 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
There are more people who are listening to music. Nowadays it is everywhere and every when: you are going to take your bus, you are traveling from a country to another, you are making sport... Each reason is the right one to listen to music. It is true that with the development of new...
Radio frequency identification implementation in the supermarket industry
Essay - 6 pages - Services marketing
This paper discusses the implementation of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in the supermarket industry. RFID is based on the transmission of radio frequency waves by RFID tags to RFID readers. The RFID tags are attached to products or pallets and can be embedded with a wide variety...
Economic activity, investments and technological policy
Essay - 7 pages - Finance
The concept of competitiveness of the national economies and the viability of the national productive systems in the context of globalization focuses on the role of innovative competitive advantages, which are related to the technological know-how. The competitive advantages of low production...
Evolution of success in the Japanese automotive industry
Essay - 8 pages - Management
“The work of helping Toyota grow and of helping Toyota's people realize their ambitions has for me been a kind of mission. Yet I also realize that a corporation is just one part of society, that Japan is just one society in the world, and that the pursuit of only Toyota's interests would be...
How do Toy industries react about the problem of counterfeiting & product piracy?
Essay - 9 pages - Business strategy
The fight against counterfeiting is a battle which requires an approach on many levels. It is estimated that counterfeit toys account for 12 per cent of the European toy market. Counterfeiting is a danger for the health of the consumer whose undermines industries and makes criminal organisations...
An overview of the organic semiconductor industry
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
In the late 1970s, three researchers published a groundbreaking paper on the discovery that certain classes of plastics were capable of being modified to enable them to function as a poorly conducting metal. So groundbreaking and significant was the discovery that in 2000 the Nobel Prize for...
Genetics: Case France and bio-technologies (business model)
Essay - 15 pages - Business strategy
Agricultural chemical industry has always been considered to be all but environmental friendly. Nevertheless it is also one of the industries trying to find out solutions to population's growth, overpopulation and their calamitous consequences on the environment -air, water and soil...
The car industry: A move to concentration
Essay - 7 pages - Economy general
The motor industry is over 100 years old and has an interesting history and uncertain future. It provides an interesting example of an industry that had to quickly evaluate due to constant evolution of technologies employed. This evolution was so money-demanding that it caused a...
Marketing techniques in the energy Industry
Thesis - 8 pages - Services marketing
The objective of this analysis is to evaluate the functional areas of marketing, financial resources, human resources, technology, operations and research and development relative to how they influence the success of companies within the global gas and petroleum energy production...
History of technology
Essay - 5 pages - Journalism
When people think about technology from a contemporary perspective, they often think about all the gadgets and devices that are common-place in our lives. For example, only ten years ago we were watching movies on VCR's and were talking on cell phones that would be unrecognizable compared...
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...
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...
Entrepreneurship and the Indian retail industry
Thesis - 26 pages - Business strategy
In India the retail industry is large, and it will continue to grow. The industry has a huge appetite for investments and is already seeing a lot of action on that front. A large number of global retailers are eyeing to get a share of the Indian retail pie. This report aims to aid...
Marketing of the hotel industry
Case study - 36 pages - Services marketing
The good times that began for the hotel industry, with the opening up of the economy at the start of the decade, seem to have ended. The industry has had its ups and downs and come a full circle in the last ten years. As with the broad economy (until this fiscal), the hotel...
Six case studies on usage of technology in relation to the philosophical, social and ethical factors in modern education system
Dissertation - 71 pages - Educational studies
The following are the case studies discussed in this paper. 1. The misuse of e-Mail technology has created ethical problems. Some critics think that technology tends to remove students from the moral implications of technology. Issues at stake include respect for privacy,...
Chocolate industry in India
Dissertation - 49 pages - Business strategy
Chocolates began during the times of the Mayas and the Aztecs when they beat cocoa into a pulp and made bitter frothy chocolate out of it. They first became popular in Europe in a highly unrefined form. Then the Hershey Food Company was the first to bring out chocolates in the currently popular...
Major trends in the domestic mid - sized car industry in India
Dissertation - 38 pages - Business strategy
The global automobile industry is undergoing dramatic change in recent times. There has been enormous consolidation, both amongst vehicle manufacturers and component vendors to achieve economies of scale product synergies and strong and presence. By contrast, there has been little or no...
A look at the small scale industries
Thesis - 22 pages - Business strategy
Small scale industry is widely recognized as a powerful instrument for socioeconomic growth and balanced sectoral development. One of the distinctive characteristics of small scale sector is that the development of these industries would create broader employment opportunities assisting...
Risk management in the asset management industry (risk measurement techniques): An evaluation of 'value at risk' tools
Tutorials/exercises - 112 pages - Finance
This Report is divided into two parts. Part I is introductory in nature containing brief profiles of global and Indian mutual fund industries, risk and the mutual fund industry, theoretical aspects of risk management process and various concepts associated with measurement of risks...
Network technologies for cluster computing
Thesis - 12 pages - Computer science
A broad and growing range of possibilities are available to designers of a cluster when choosing an interconnection technology. As the price of network hardware in a cluster can vary from almost free to several thousands of dollars per computing node, the decision is not a minor one in...
Global marketing strategies for iron and steel industry
Thesis - 20 pages - Services marketing
Marketing planning helps you decide what products or services are required in your market, then how to sell them and what price to put on them. There are two primary methods of making steel, differing in terms of the process and raw materials used: the blast furnace route (BF) and the electric...
