Business Essays

 Kodak and Fujifilm are both competitors in the photography industry, and both have enjoyed a successful time in the business of everything related to photography. However, in recent years, Kodak has suffered a mighty blow to its successful, picture-perfect world, because of its failure to adhere to business strategies.

This exchange of credit facilities between the European Union members forms the main the bloodstream of the economy of European Union. Due to the sovereign debt crisis in the Euro-zone, the share of international debts of the economies of European Union started to increase thereby resulting in the fall of consumption demand and subsequent fall of GDP of the member countries.

The analysis of the company is done based on the Bowman’s Strategy Clock and the Ansoff Matrix. Bowman’s Strategy Clock is one of the most used models in the analysis of the position of a company, in comparison to the services of other players. It is an extension of the generic strategies of Porter, and deals with them in a lot of detail (Ansoff, 1984).

Use of Promissory Estoppel in Business Contracts This essay discusses the concept of promissory Estoppel. It discusses the section 90 and 139 of Restatement of Contracts which form the basis of the concept of Promissory Estoppel. It also discusses the evolution of Promissory Estoppel with judicial interpretations of the concept.

During the recruitment process, a series of important observation was made. Observation on Selection of the Labors: During the selection, many migrant workers had been considered for various posts in the organization whose qualifications, talent and prior knowledge would not be acknowledged outside the United States of India.

In previous decades Private sector focus more on organizational change but now awareness increased and public sector organization also move towards organizational change. Public sector also moves towards globalization and make cultural change in their organizations.

The EU is built with a series of treaties made with its different member states. Historically, the EU was formed to promote peace and economic prosperity especially in Europe after the occurrence of World War II. Since the beginning of the 1950s, the integration of Europe has significantly augmented to entail conducting various financial activities like developing a single market in which goods, capital and people moves freely, a common trade policy, an ordinary agriculture policy, environmental policy and common currency (Euro) which is being used by 17 member states (Archick, 2013).

Article Evaluation Essay Name Institution Introduction The article “Has Apple Lost its Cool to Samsung?” talks about the recent falling profits and stock prices of apple iphone in Comparison to the growth of Samsung Smartphone’s. According to this article, Samsung profits increased in the last quarter of the year 2012 by 76% percent which is quite commendable.

In most interviews, structured questions are used to guide the interviewer in his/her quest to extract useful information from the interviewee (Denscombe, 2007). This interview in particular focuses on professional experience as well as online education. The main objective is to find out the perception of people regarding their present jobs as well as any online courses they may have studied.

Many people and businesses have been trying to perfect globalization by bringing new approaches and enhancing the strong points in establishing better markets. Some of these approaches have been successful as they have been harvesting the positivity in globalization (Hopper 21). However, some other aspects that affect globalization are not easily controlled.

The recent market conditions are seemed to be unfavorable for accounting and bookkeeping service providers due to recession and increase in unemployment rate. However, in terms of long run perspective it can be argued that the business environment is favorable for bookkeeping and accounting firms due to the presence of large number of corporate sectors and rapid business development within the country.

This SOW also covers the details of the services to be provided by the Contractor. Background The Purchaser, that is, our company is a small consultancy firm that provides marketing and management solutions like outsourcing, corporate and professional trainings and workshops in the areas of education, small and medium businesses and sales.

Arzaq started out as a private company with a very limited scope, but in its attempt to respond to the growing needs of the market, has enlarged in size and scope of work. The company is now large enough to compete with any reputable company giving services in this area, and thus requires a proper human resource department (HRD).

United Parcel Service (UPS) was founded in the year 1907 in the United States as a messenger company (UPS, 2013). UPS is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. D. Scott Davis is the current Chief Executive officer of the company. Currently, the United Parcel Service (UPS) is the largest global package company and a reputable provider of specialized transportation and logistics services.

This is due to the fact that by cutting back on investment in training sales, the firm/entity is ultimately making a long-term decision that integration with the needs of the consumer is of secondary importance to deriving immediate gains. The manager ensures a situation in which relevant information is relayed directly to the individuals.

The respondents of the survey were divided on the basis of age, department, position and tenure of the employees working for the company. The age of the respondents were divided into three groups which were from 16-21, 22-49 & 50-65. The respondents belonged to three departments namely the Human resources department, IT department and Administration.

The fact that IT department acts as a service provider to other organizational departments makes it a complicated process. This is because some of the expenditures incurred by other departments do not reflect in the IT department’s expenditure plan. Even if they were to reflect, other services provided and directly paid by corresponding departments are rarely factored in.

Concisely, a strategic plan assists an organization to know what it has to do, who it is going to do it for, and finally how it is going to excel in its motives. In this case, the strategic plan that is developed is for the public health department of Lake County, Waukegan Illinois.

Company G is one such organization that has considered expanding the business geographically. With the introduction of ChargeOn, a special water-resistant charger that charges mobile phones and smartphones completely in 30 minutes, Company G aims to cater the needs of customers in the Canadian consumer electronics market.

a. Respect Respect is an effective communication skill aimed at avoiding and defusing tension and/or disputes that may exist. Whenever individuals feel that one respects their points of view and have listened to it, then to the vast majority of people it will not matter whether they still disagree with you or not, and they will be polite about it.

It operates its business in one of the world’s premier airport location i.e. Heathrow, which is renowned as an area with relatively high amount of point to point business. It has long been serving its customers by meeting their demands regarding travel and offering various comforts during the journey.

The financial crisis that engulfed the US economy along with the entire global economy has cast the significant impact on the state of the US healthcare system. According to some researchers, the US healthcare system had started experiencing a downfall almost a decade ago and is still considered to be running in a “broken” state.

According to the paper the issue of safety in restaurants is of significant concern because of the consequences associated with food handling business. The safety of the consumer is of paramount importance because putting the health of the consumers at risk is tantamount to killing the business and the economy at large. Previous studies have raised a lot of concern over the cases of increase in food borne diseases and the associated treatment cost.

In the case of Mountain West, Evelyn Gustafson is an experienced leader who has served for a long period at Mountain West business entity. She is a focused, reliable worker who has gone through all stages of management to get to her position in the organization.

He is an investor and business magnate from England and is known best as the founder of Virgin Group. Richard was born in the year 1950 in London. Currently, he is the fourth richest citizen of England according to Forbes 2012 billionaires list. During his schooldays, he was dyslexic and had faced difficulty in focusing on studies.

The above research question will be answered by means of applying positivist and interpretivist research designs. A comparison will be made in between both of the research designs, their applications and their essential methodologies. Addressing the research question is the primary focus of any research.

The brand name of Adidas Group is a combination of the name of the founder and the company name, and is structured in three main divisions, which entail the Adidas sport performance, heritage, and sport style. For years, Adidas Group maintains its trademark as the major producer of sport products such as shoes, apparel and accessories globally.

Causes and Effect of Road Accidents in UAE Name: Professor: Subject: Date: Causes and Effect of Road Accidents in UAE Road traffic accidents are the major and increasing public health problem in the Emirates. The discovery of oil has changed many aspects of life of people in United Arab Emirates.

It is evident from the study that in order for Starbucks to sustain competition, it will have to undergo several challenges. They include the need to shorten steps currently used in preparing their espresso beverages. They are currently seven, so for them to combat competition they must come up with either five or fewer.

Based on this research the changes that Babcock came up with at Faslane worked towards the achievement of greater good. For instance, the company was able to cut costs effectively and provide effective services to their customers at the same time. Faslane was also able to meet set targets of finances without affecting the company’s operations.

Corporate social responsibility at Primark is based on the Twinings Ovaltine framework developed by its parent company, ABF. The ethical trading initiative is central to its CSR policy, which stresses on good working conditions for the employees at its supplier locations. Other initiatives related to ethical and eco-friendly business practices.

This research thus makes use of the construct of ‘success factor’, which is also mentioned in the hypothesis. The success factors themselves are qualitative because they are not quantifiable.

This company has found some young blood through its MD, 27 years old James Eden who has recently left his job and invested in the company. This has lead to some welcome changes in the business model and hence the company is surviving, infact doing better each day.

Mason and Shepherd both signed agreements with their current employer that prevent them from being able to engage in similar business. The contract was signed and dated when Mason and Shepherd started at their companies.

The business cycle therefore consists of periods of economic booms as well as periods of economic recession or decline. The measurement for the business cycle is often done by the government through the measure of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of a particular nation.

In the opinion of Trompenaars, in the 21st century, it is necessary for organisations to develop transcultural competence, which means the competence to reconcile dilemmas or to integrate opposites (Craven).

The company was started in 2002 and had a steady growth with its markets (hospitals and blood banks) in the Northern United States. A review of its successes and failures will also be done at the end. Brief details of the company: Ownership – private Number of employees Manufacturing and packing – 20 Sales and marketing – 35 Administration – 11 Product – IV blood bag (single size) @ $4/bag Incentive plan: XYZ Industries Employee Incentive Plan As introduced in January 2010 Purpose: An incentive plan is “a program established to give benefits to employees to reward them for improved commitment and performance and as a means of motivation” (BNet, 2010).

And if majority of factories and plants can be mechanized, so that frequently manual labor is substituted by technologies and innovative machines, in the sphere of services labor is considered to be the most essential factor of production. Especially human factor is indispensable in medical field, because it is well-known that nevertheless nowadays technological level allows using numerous of up-to-date advanced gadgets, still every machine needs to be controlled by people.

As of 2008, Nintendo had 3,000 employee and revenue of $16.4 billion. The company this mark with its primary business being the production of video game. The current major current force for Nintendo is the Wii video game which was over seen by Nintendo’s CEO, Iwata.

Sheehy mentions that the majority of his colleagues were students, trying to make money to use during summer. This significantly explains their attitude towards their job; they are there to make extra money and so they did not care about what happened to their jobs.

Innovation, idea, vision and strategy can be converted to money-values only when they are designed and developed with a view to discovers hidden, but seldom explored marketing opportunities. PepsiCo’s new attempt to integrate the start-up businesses should be considered as an illuminating example of how dynamically a strategy can be developed.

Customer service is viewed as an activity, although sometimes it can be a performance measure. So to say, customer service has a wide dimension and it is very complex to complete everything. Any business organization will not be complete in the absence of customer services.

Online students sometimes forget that they have a team of classmates that exist in the real world that have similar aspirations. I love the fact that the UOP online forces students to interact with each other both in the classroom participation forum and through the methodology of providing team assignment.

In the year 2003, the international retail sales were alone accounted for almost 7 trillion USD. The topmost 200 retailing organizations including Wal-Mart catered to 30% of global demand in the year 2003. The retail sales are usually determined by customer’s capacity and enthusiasm to purchase (Anand & Nambiar, n.d.).

Analysts estimate the United Kingdom’s median age to be on a steady rise, with the older population surpassing the young generation. The population of those over 60 years of age is more than that of the under 16. This phenomenon is occasioned by improvements in healthcare, while women are having fewer children.

Carmax System in China In the U.S, CarMax is an established firm with impressive performance in used car market. For example, in 2011 alone, the company posted an annual sales volume of $1 billion in car auctions, which was a 33% increase in units sold by the company (CarMax, 2012).

As such, the role of leaders and leadership within organization becomes critical factor that helps the organization to anticipate and adapt to changes. Most importantly, organizational theories throw important insight into the working of organization. They not only explain, explore and define the varying aspects of interacting elements within the organizations but also underpin the process of management.

There are major drawbacks in the existing price and R&D budget allocation strategies that have undermined the new product development cycle in the Tablet Development Corporation. In order to bring a revolution in the existing business practices of the company, it is important that a new pricing strategy is devised that is based on the strategic objectives of each product individually.

Cross Cultural Management Name: Institution: Course: Tutor: Date: Cross cultural management Difficulties of working and managing cross cultural in Australia. 1.0 Introduction Culturally and Linguistically diverse People Overseas immigration has a great and widespread impact on Australia’s economy, especially management of business and workforce operations.

Abstract Food supply chain is a complex process where farmer, supplier, producer and also retailers are involved into it. Each of the stages of supply chain is very crucial regarding the quality and the hygiene factor of factor as ultimately it determines the human health as well as occurrence different kind of disease.