Business Essays

The Morrisons value chain can be broken down into the following sets of processes and activities:  Inbound logistics, Operations, Outbound Logistics, Marketing & Sales, and Services. The efficient management of these processes has made Morrisons achieve a competitive advantage that other supermarket chains are only struggling to trail. The diagram below shows these processes and activities.  

This essay analyzes the view, in which business have social responsibility seems justified as the operations and the business of an organization is affecting the environment at large. An example could be of a chemical industry that is responsible for manufacturing pesticides but has to dispose of its toxic waste materials in the river nearby.

The fifth power works is not the efficient output because of the fact that the marginal benefit resulting from the fifth cracker is great than the marginal cost. The marginal benefit sum equals to $25, whereas the cost of a cracker is only $20. As a result, the value delivered by the fifth cracker is great.  

We will conduct our audit in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatements. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements.

The vision statement of Real Chocolate is to become the premier chocolatier in the United States. Its mission would be to become the leader in retail sales through providing chocolate candy products that will give its customers an experience of best taste. The company wishes to achieve this through a process of expanding its business.

Other additional supporting facilities may include a mini-library, book shop, cafeteria, sport and leisure facilities which are managed by university employees. A university can also provide first-class laboratories for university researchers so that they may undertake collaborative research with other scholars.

Advanced Driving School's strategic direction, particularly in the aspect of sales and marketing, is analysed using the "Rapid Market Penetration" model. This model is depicted as a three-phase process which involves the integration of marketing elements to come up with an effective marketing mix that takes into account the 4Ps - product, price, place and promotion.

This type of structure is assumed to exist in the private sector but not in the public sector. The implication here is that whereas the one is inherently capable of adopting such management paradigms as would facilitate the realisation of an organisation's untapped potentials, the other is not.

Fiat was affected by a microscopic strategy orientation. Fiat’s current problems can be basically attributed to its inability to identify growth drivers such as technology-driven productivity gains and capturing niche markets. This study has particularly identified Fiat’s inability to reorganize its internal and external strategic value chain.

Although there was demand, the customers were not satisfied since the company lacked the major parts in the system. The sales team was blamed for this disaster but it was the lack of a good supply chain practice that led to this. The company then realized this and adopted a better supply chain management (SCM) policy.

SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) and PESTLE (Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, and Environmental) analysis has been completed to comment critically and conclude on Danone's strategy in future activity in the beer sector.

The overall activities may include the creation of the product, its development, the production and distribution as well but the management of production may be regarded as one or the more closely in relation to such product and the management of operations may even regard as the operations that are absolutely within the organization.

According to BusinessBalls, “It's better, therefore, to focus on 'good' interview questions rather than 'tough' ones. Good interview questions encourage interviewees to think about themselves and to give the interviewer clear and revealing information as to the interviewee's needs, capabilities, experience, personality, and suitability for the job.

During the post World War II years (1945-1960), the United States cornered the market for new foreign direct investments, responsible for seventy-five percent. (Wikipedia, 2006). After the 1960s, foreign direct investments (FDI) have increased at a steady rate, with FDI stocks making up twenty percent of the world’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

An entrepreneur is a person who has possession over a new enterprise or venture and assumes full accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome. Entrepreneurship is the practice of starting new organizations or revitalizing mature organizations, particularly new businesses generally in response to identified opportunities.

Corporate scandals such as the collapse of Enron invariably turn the attention of the public to the ethical stance of accountants and the ethical values of financial analysts and evaluators as also their claim to professionalism. Professionalism is clearly associated with ethical integrity and this is especially true on the case of financial reporting and accounting.

In business, environmental analysis is an appreciation of an organizations activities vis-à-vis its environment (Lin& Lee 2006).  Such analysis has become imperatively necessary in the light of increasing competition as a present, subsequent operations and strategies direction will be dependent on the result (Lin& Lee 2006).

The fact is that that the expenses or gains reflect the total payment or the amount received for the year. But it should also include those amounts, which are not yet paid or received, and those, which are paid or received for the following year. Thus the accounts will relate to the same time period covered by the Profit and Loss Account.

As the paper outlines, corporate-level strategies are about the choice of direction that a firm adopts in order to achieve its objectives. Strategic alternatives revolve around the question of whether to continue or change the business the enterprises are currently in or improve the efficiency and effectiveness with which the firm achieves its corporate objectives in its chosen business sector.

The Information Communication Technology (ICT) is under utilized. Few managers are trained in the fine points of the ICT systems and don't realize that it can be used for remote decision-making and storing/capturing information. Staff is unhappy with the arrangement of incentive scheme and tension is running high between the local management and the sales staff.

However, the nature of the link between TC and firm strategy has not been empirically researched. This study examines the competitive environment and strategy of firms that have been defined as implementers of TC to determine if specific environmental forces coupled with firm strategy can be traced to a firm's choice to adopt the tool.

Working safely is a condition of employment for everyone who works for oil industry. The health of employees and others who work with drilling and well operations worldwide is a key consideration. A strong health and safety culture for offshore means everyone taking responsibility for their actions and playing their part (http://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/priorities.htm) For safety of the employees and their health, following regulation came into existence:

As the casinos in Nevada are public companies they are obliged to follow all the guidelines established for the public companies operating in various sectors. However, the specific nature of the gambling business with high percentage of cash transactions involved in day-to-day operations requires specific rules to be set for this particular service industry.

To start a small business, I required several office types of equipment such as computers, photocopier and several other costly facilities that could present difficulties in terms of finances since they were all needed at the same time. They were core to the performance of the business and therefore it was necessary to acquire them before starting.

The requirement of car-free Motels that need to be addressed include possibility of allowing clients to book online using their log-in, access data that would include nearest Car-free Motels on the present or existing location of client, available rooms, room type, price and available promotions.

Furthermore, the company even takes this concept one step further by also applying Return-On-Investment tools to analyze business projects as well (Obrien and Marakas). As such, the company is able to use tools in order to take an at risk analysis on every investment it makes.

The author states that the audit quality, as well as the investor confidence, was greatly affected when the audit firm Arthur Andersen seriously failed to truly represent the shareholders. One of the major causes behind the occurrence of that incidence was the uncompetitive nature of the audit market.

The irony is that hardly fifty years ago in the sixties, both countries, having just been declared independent, faced the same challenges. What has created the great disparities in their level of economic growth and development in the present day In two chapters, the paper examines what hindered Kenya's progress and what helped Singapore in building itself into a success story.

However, working women shre common bond in tht, until recently, the world of work ws primrily oriented towrd men. Historiclly, women hve been segregted into jobs tht provided very limited ccess to the top levels of orgniztions, nd this segregtion persists in mny sectors of the economy.

The international context in which organizational behavior operates is becoming increasingly important as organizations expand beyond their national boundaries. Few would question that there is now a global economy and that cultural differences must be recognized in the study and understanding of organizational behavior.

The organisation should also adopt business model which can eke the process of innovation and make the organisation enjoy hyper growth. In the paper we have studied Gurit as an innovative organisation and tried to find out the secrets of the successful innovations at the company.

The paper illustrates and justifies an appreciation of the distinctions between various strategic marketing perspectives and positions within different contexts. It further recognises and discriminates between various management, strategy and marketing philosophies and orientations.

The basic idea of the online portal www.ClothesForShows.com is an attempt to create a common platform for the clothing industry. For most people to buy or rent any clothes is a cumbersome job. This is especially difficult when it comes to the costume items.

Brewery industry has slowly but steadily, gained a substantial amount of market share in the retailing services segment and has been the market leader in this category. Marketing planning process in a brewery is concerned with the structuring of the relationship between a business and the global sector.

Mrketing nlysis includes review of Wl-Mrt's contemporry development in business emphsis on cpturing new mrkets in the world nd prticulrly the mrket in Chin followed by externl nd internl nlysis of the compny. Internl fctors of orgniztionl environment re considered by emphsizing Strengths nd Weknesses s well s externl environment is discussed by estimting Opportunities nd Threts tht Hrvey Wllbnger Popcorn fces before entering the British mrket (SWOT nlysis).

Whistleblower. Forgeries, scams and scandals are ever increasing in the corporate and non-corporate world. Whistleblowers have been instrumental in exposing these scams to the media and regulatory bodies. Whistleblower reports wrongdoing either within an organization or to some outside party such as regulator or media.

On September 25, 1973, Smith turned 18, which was the age of majority. Smith made 10 monthly payments after turning 18. He then decided to disaffirm the contract and stopped making the payments

Concurring with the aforementioned, Beer has forwarded Total Quality Management as the optimal international business management strategy. An analytical review of the root disciplines from which TQM derives validates Beer's assertion. To establish the correlation between TQM and IB, this essay will begin with a brief definition and overview of the latter.

Experts say that minority consumers show a high degree of loyalty. When a business addresses their need directly, it can have an enormous impact. The explosion of ethnic and racial populations across the U.S. has caused the business to realize that targeting minorities are a sound business practice.

Most of the people surveyed said that they used the internet from their university while a little lesser was the number of people who used it off their home and another 6 people used it from other locations, like common browsing centers, libraries, etc., Usage of internet at home and at the university is similar though there is an increased trend towards using it more at the University still continues.

The precise dictates of the territoriality principle remain in dispute. While some understand it to recognize that inevitably, a mark in one country symbolizes the domestic goodwill of the entity which stands behind the entity in that country, others interpret it merely to mean that domestic law governs the rights of domestic trademark registrants. 

On the other hand, employees face problems such as childcare costs and quality, transportation costs (gasoline, maintenance, traffic, etc.) and other issues due to commuting back and forth to their places of employment. The business case for this project involves CCL Corporation which employs 200 people.

Profitability is all about analyzing whether the business making money and earning a satisfactory return on its investment or not. The following ratios would help us better understand the profitability of the WPP PLC. Profitability is the one area where, without exception, the higher the ratios the better.

GATT 1994 Article XIII permits quantitative restrictions for industry protection purposes except in times of crisis. The article further states the application of prohibitions and restrictions on import and export between member countries and to certain commodities. However, the use of prohibitions and quotas has been emphasized by GATT. 

For several decades, corporate strategy practitioners and academic researchers have drawn widespread attention to the importance of formulating comprehensive, sound, forward-looking corporate strategies (Hall et al, 2000). The connection between formal strategic planning systems and firm performance has been studied and re-studied with little consensus regarding a correlation between the two.

Wireless service providers continue to make huge strides in competing in a growing market. Vodafone PLC is on its way to maintain its position as the largest provider in the world. The company has all the necessary resources to sustain the current growth. Its financial standing is healthy despite recording profit loss in 2006. 

Williams Company develops energy technologies, natural gas and liquids, crude oil, refined products and electricity. Also, it has been involved in FDI activity in "international energy projects located in South America and Lithuania". Some years ago, having a great potential Williams Company accepted a new business strategy aimed to penetrate into a large Energy Marketing and Trading business.

The business world today is complicated and competitive than ever before and operates in a very volatile external environment. Due to this, building healthy and strong relationships is very important for laying the foundation of the business, moreover, the long term success and growth of the business networks depend on trust and commitment.

The main purpose for companies to put businesses is for them to generate profits. Profits is defined as the difference when all income from sales of services and goods or merchandise is more than all the total costs of buying the goods and the daily operating expenses in running the business.

This article reflects on the rationalization for government participation in the economy and how preferences are made about the responsibility of the public sector and the policy implication of such in creating an argument. At the start, this paper takes an overview of the position and responsibility of the State in the economy and then utilizes economic theory and confirmation for the purpose of analyzing key areas of government policy.