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...?Answer BIC has been a flagship company in the mechanical writing instruments with leadership position in ball point pen products. The company’s major objectives are to mass manufacture and market inexpensive writing products and maintain competitive advantage through significant economy of scale. At the same time, company also believes that diversification of products would help exploit the gap in the market. The company achieves its objectives through well defined policies in the each of the major functional areas as below: a. Marketing and sales Aggressive marketing and sales campaigns of the company have been one of the strongest elements of success within the industry. It has been equally focused on all the four main areas... ...
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... Intel’s strategy in dynamic random access memory (DRAMS) was to capitalise on product design whereby it will be seen as the first to market newest products in the market. Its products were unique in that they were very complex in the technology that was used in their manufacturing. The organisation triumphed on introducing devices and process technology that was ahead of competition and would attract premium prices. The dramatic decline in Intel’s market share in DRAM market from 1974 to 1984 can be attributed to the emergency of Japanese competitors who rapidly introduced products against the backdrop of the shrinking product life cycle for DRAMS. The Japanese manufacturers of DRAMS had a strategy of investing in manufacturing... Intel’s...
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...-focused for its strategic predispositions. If a firm is operating along diverse business lines with a wide portfolio of products but not able to assure quality, even the broad line strategy fails because the proposition satisfies organization’s business and profit motives. On the contrary, if a firm operates in a single line of business and allows multiple communication streams to its customers, chances of its success are more likely on the grounds of focus on core competencies, clear vision and craving for customer loyalty by means of enhanced quality and performance every time. The strategy of Maytag matched this philosophy where its planning was aligned with supplier collaboration, involving other business entities in...
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...? Strategic leadership Answer of question no The first step that is required to survive and grow in a fast food industry is expansion through franchising. The high cost of opening new stores and the need to expand rapidly to take the control over the territory is the reason behind a company’s option of choosing a franchise for the expansion. Moreover franchise allows companies to enjoy the operating economies of scale in advertisement of the product and also in purchasing the raw materials needed for manufacturing the product. With the expansion and maturity of the franchise the chain managements often buy them or became interested in opening own stores for themselves which help in gaining a better understanding and controlling... on...
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...that vision. Kotter (2001) suggests that winning companies are those which anticipate change and react to it in time. Against this background, as an effective leader, I will seek situations that require change then do the right thing by using personal influence on the people who will be under my leadership. The basic tenet of leadership is coping with change hence I must be better positioned to engage people by working with and through them to achieve successful change. The main objectives include building a strong organisation that can readily meet the need of the people in a profitable way. The other objective is to ensure that the employees are satisfied with their work and that they meaningfully...
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...developed unique competitive advantages to propel itself to industry leadership. Some of the key drivers to its competitive advantage are as follows. Putting good-sized stores into little one-horse towns which everybody else was ignoring (Bradley & Ghemawat 3), heavy investment in Information Technology (IT), the pushing-from-the-inside-out pattern of expansion and its human resource management – characterized by empowering its employees at all levels. How have Wal-Mart's strategy and source of competitive advantage changed over time? How do Wal-Mart's costs compare to those of the industry? Please be specific. Wal-Mart’s strategy at inception was to set up stores in those small towns that were being ignored by the...
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...? Leadership Leadership Question one Path-Goal is a theory in leadership that stipulates how leaders should support and encourage their subordinates to achieve the institutions goals by ensuring the path in which their employees and follower should take, is easy and clarified. This theory encourages leaders to make sure that there are no roadblocks that might hinder their subordinates from realizing both their goals and those of the organization. It also dictates that leaders should incorporate rewards as their employees continue to reach the organizations goal. Finally, leaders should clarify what path subordinates are expected to pursue in order for them to know what is required of them. Approach of this theory hugely depends... on the...
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...Running Head: Strategic Leadership The Challenges and Opportunities of the Dynamic Business Environment for CEOs A Discussion Paper Name of Professor
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Empirical findings show that the qualities of the executive group are important determinants of organisational performance. However, none of these investigations has taken into account the challenges in making judgments about performance determinants in a dynamic business environment, or the effect of the external connections of the CEOs on firm-level outcomes (Bass, 2007... that...
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... Strategic Leadership in Criminal Justice
Introduction
The leadership dilemma being faced by Kathy Simpson is related to strategic organizational change in a specific criminal justice setting.
Description of the Leadership Dilemma
Kathy Simpson is a team leader at Pokon Correctional Facility. The organization is undergoing a restructuring as per which Kathy Simpson is required to recommend the name of ten personnel in one’s team to be redeployed, thereby reducing the number of personnel in the team from 20 to 10. The proposed change has impacted the moral of the personnel working in Kathy’s team and has led to a...
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...Review of the article “Leadership styles and burnout: is there an association?” by Anastasios Zopiatis and Panayiotis Constanti Summary The article represents an explanatory research of the interconnection between different leadership styles and burnout of managers working in the hospitality sphere in Cyprus.
The research is based on the empirical data collected from hospitality managers in Cyprus having different level of expertise, working in various divisions of hospitality management, in different types of the hotels. The surveys are being conducted, based on the existing methodology and with utilization of mix methods of survey research (the aim of utilizing mix methods was to attain higher response...
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