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The Carnival Cruise Line

not have a vision statement, however, according to their annual report they do have the aim of being the best known brand for crui...

Competitive Advantage and Technology

and Millar (1985) noted some 20 years ago that information technology ends up creating a competitive advantage by offering the bus...

United Kingdom Marketing of IKEA

had entered was one very different form the home markets and in years before the brand had become known as a young brand, but did ...

Three Articles on Competitive Analysis and the American Economy

et al, 2004). Basically, notes Osterman and his colleagues, "we lack a generally accepted intellectual and policy framework for th...

Competitive Capabilities and Canon Copiers

digital cameras, camcorders, LCD projectors, binoculars and lenses (Lower, 2004). Though its photographic business has taken a ham...

Ecommerce Business Strategies

not those finished products end up going into other goods) (Lee, 2001). But in the digital marketplace, X represents data or infor...

Case Study of Japan's Komatsu Limited

such as the "F and F" project - Futures and Frontiers. Through this project, the company asked all employees to contribute ideas a...

Low Cost Airline EasyJet

the next decade this is likely to increase to between 12% and 15% of all passenger traffic (BBC News, 2002, IATA, 1998). The ...

Travel Agency Strategy

more direct access to the holiday providers and flight companies though the internet. The main sector of the travel agents busines...

United Kingdom's Marks and Spencer Group PLC

or criticisms regarding quality when 90 percent of its products were made in the U.K. but by the time only 65 percent were made in...

Medical and Consumer Company Johnson and Johnson

story that demonstrates how J&J put ethical theory into actual practice was the Tylenol story from the early 1980s. At tha...

'Local' Global Organization Shell Oil

are continually learning how to learn together" (p. 3). The five disciplines he identifies are those which are the building block...

Case Study of Guajilote Cooperative

to use a resource that is increasing in value. There are few supplies of mahogany due to its rarity. This is a legitimate source t...

Pure Competition and Monopoly as Industry Influences

their entrance will be completely blocked (Thompson, 1998). There will also be a high degree of asymmetry of information in this m...

Competitive Advantage with Regard to McDonald's and Wendy's

allowed the competition (such as Wendys) to come in and take over? Or has McDonalds carved such a strong niche economically, that ...

Strategic Changes, the Market, and Swatch

companies into more differentiated, more narrow niche markets. Basically, in this latter regard, globalization was creating proble...

Four Seasons' Environment and Strategy

has no legal obligation to make its financial records public. Heinrich (2007), however, lists the companys one-year total return ...

Applying Concepts for Future Benefit

price down again. The key for a business is to benefit from a time where there is the access of demand over supply is to be one of...

Funding Requests

for Educators, n.d.). An example can be studying the effect of greater parental involvement on the educational outcomes of specia...

Strategy and Competitive Advantage at HP

2006, "PC sales in the US advanced just 2.6%. But in China they jumped 21%, to 23 million" (p. 42). If growth in China continues...

Motorola's Quest to Regain Market Share in China

European competition and finally local competition seriously reduced Motorolas market share. 2. What were the forces that contribu...

Uniform and Adaptive Strategies in International Business; Which is Best?

a company has made the decision to globalise there are many consideration, the decisions not enough. George S Yip outlines a pract...

Starbucks; Challenges in 2002

sales and created loyalty in the customers (Kotler, 2003). Question 2 The problem Starbucks were facing in declining customer s...

Women in Candide

social spectrum. The old womans story also charts the fall and misfortunes of an individual who was once a beautiful young woman, ...

Technology Ideas

in the US in 2005 there was a record year, a total of 409,532 patent applications were filed and 165,485 patents were issued, this...

NetFlix Case Study

less to produce, the company will have an advantage afforded by superior profits. To compete in the long term Porter has argued th...

Marketing Communications and the Selling of Financial Services

or something better is seen to come along that the customer may lapse the product. As there are not the sales of an actual physi...

Cinnabon; Competitive Analysis

the baked good market. In the US this was worth $42.9 billion in 2004, with a slow growth rate of 2.4% on 2003 (Euromonitor, 2005)...

Coors Brewery Case Study

substitute products (or services), and the power of purchasers and suppliers. Porter does not see these external factors as workin...

Frankenstein/Symbolic of Women's Fate

are equated by Frankenstein as emotionally synonymous to pursuing and conquering a woman. From this sexual conquest of nature, Fra...