Those did not have much power on the manufacturer, however, the consumer were rather sophisticated, so maintaining the high quality standards was crucial.
Substitutes. After the trade liberalization, Phillips had an enormous pressure from Asian companies that managed to copycat its products and the price performance of the substitute products was net superior.

Supplier power. The suppliers did not have high bargaining power. The high tech industry in Europe and U.S. was quite developed and the number of suppliers was big.

Rivalry determinants. Those determinants refer to product differentiation, where Phillips was standing out in the industry and manufacturing costs, where Phillips was overrun by Asian counterparts. The fact that Phillips' products were easy to imitate, made its innovation advantage weaker than the Asians' cost advantage.

PEST Matsu*****a

Political factors. The political context from home helped a lot the company's evolution. The Japanese government was in favor of intensifying business activity with low wage…...

This means that even though the University deemed it necessary for a student like Helen to disclose her incident of victimization, she still opted to keep her privacy, preferring confidentiality and anonymity in order to protect herself from being involved in a sensitive issue such as sexual harassment. Helen's actions may be construed as her own way of avoiding the stigma that inevitably results out of her being a victim of sexual harassment.
Options

Evidently, Helen had valued her privacy greater than following University rules concerning disclosure. Her action is understandable: in most of the extant organizations' Code of Ethics, the welfare of the patient/client is foremost than the issues of disclosure. Thus, the preferred course of action in Helen's case is to agree with her decision to seek student counseling. The University could try to convince Helen to disclose the details of her victimization, but the University must ensure her…...

Nuclear Decommissioning Authority: Case Study Analysis
Hoover Dam

The objective of this study is to conduct research and provide a case study of a human-made system and to report on that system. This work will cover technical and operational details and relate these case study specifics to the course content.

It was reported in April 2006 that the United Kingdom had established the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) and that this agency had set out its strategy on how it would address historic nuclear installations in terms of the cleanup and decommissioning of those sites, which includes 20 civil nuclear sites. (Nuclear Engineering, 2006) The strategy was reported to state key principles that included the "accelerated decommissioning wherever feasible and a schedule to create a strong competitive market that aims to achieve value-for-money for the taxpayer." (Nuclear Engineering, 2006) The publication makes identification of increases that are significant in nature of the "estimated total…...

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References

Current Dam Decommissioning Activities: The Importance of Making Connections. Dam Decommissioning Workshop, Traverse City, MI. April 2006. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Retrieved from: http://www.crrel.usace.army.mil/sid/Dam_decom/pdfs/Overview_Dam_Decommissioning.pdf

Chapter 8 Dam Decommissioning and Sediment Management. Retrieved from: http://www.usbr.gov/pmts/sediment/kb/ErosionAndSedimentation/chapters/Chapter8.pdf

McCully, P. (1996) Getting Old: Dam Ageing and Decommissioning International Rivers. Excerpt from Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams, Zed Books, London, 1996. Retrieved from:  http://www.internationalrivers.org/node/1463 

Pacca, Sergio (2007) Impacts from Decommissioning of hydroelectric dams: a lifecycle perspective. Climatic Change (2007) 84:281 -- 294. Retrieved from: http://www.hydroreform.org/sites/www.hydroreform.org/files/Pacca-%20Impacts%20of%20decommissioning%20of%20hydroelectric%20dams.pdf

SWOT of King Edward Hospital NHS Trust.
The trust had already developed benchmarking practices to evaluation of its hospital' systems, so that data germane to the new initiative was supported by an existing pilot, Hospital Emergency Care Collaborative (HECC), a target study of discharge procedure, and particularly informative to interpretation to the delineation of points where 'value' disappeared during the course of the patient journey. As a 'transfer initiative' modeled after Social Service program assessment, HECC was refocused as a Premier Project with risk reduction to finance and patients in mind. Incorporation of the SWOT and known assessment criterion from the HECC informs the PESTLE organizational analysis in Table 3.

Table 3

PEST / PESTLE Analysis of King Edward Hospital NHS Trust, UK

Date of Analysis 10.11.2010 view

PESTLE Analysis factors

Your notes

Potential Impact:

Implication and importance

eview of feasibility and implementation of the admission-to-discharge case at King Edward Hospital NHS Trust, UK.

The following is intended as…...

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References

Aziz, a.M., 2009. Variations in aseptic technique and implications for infection control. British Journal of Nursing 18.1, pp. 26 -- 31.

Barsoux and Gilmartin's, 2007. Leading Hospital Change: Improving Hospital Performance. London: Insead.

Goffee, R. And Jones, G., 2000. The Character of a Corporation: How Your Company's Culture Can Make or Break Your Business. London: HarperCollins Business.

Kotter, J.P, 2002. The heart of change: Real life stories of how people change their organizations. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.

Drycleaner Case
Talent Drycleaners: Case Study Analysis

The following contains an analysis and recommendations of problems facing a new entrepreneurial drycleaning business in Lagos. Despite years of experience working in the industry with a large and respected drycleaning concern, Patrick Eze is experiencing significant problems trying to establish and grow his business. Problems identified in the case include Eze's lack of experience organizing and running a large-scale operation, a lack of financial awareness and expertise that creates current operational problems and makes future growth highly unlikely, and environmental changes that increased competition and eliminated much of Eze's identified market. ecommendations for making the business and differentiating form competition, while also gaining more direct knowledge and control, are given.

Background

Patrick Eze started his business, Talent Drycleaning, after fifteen years of experience working for one of Lagos' most experienced and successful drycleaners. Having developed a strong rapport with many of his clients and with a…...

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References

Adebamowo, M. (2011). The Implication of Global Economic Recession on Sustainable Housing in Lagos Megacity. International Business Research 4(1): 167-75.

Ojadi, F. (2007). Talent Drycleaners. Lagos business School.

Sorin, D. (2008). Stages of Entrepreneurial Growth. Accessed 10 May 2012. http://www.entrepreneursmentor.net/2008/02/stages-of-entre.html

GE-Case Study
Case Study Analysis on GE:

In this analysis we have used the strategy of Porters generic Model. This model assists us in critically analyzing the performance of General Electric's. This model gives an in depth analysis of the internal performance of the organization. The generic Model of Michael Porter consists of focusing on three main areas; Cost leadership, Differentiation, focused differentiation. It analysis competitive advantage an organization possess. Every organization is unique in its way and adopts different strategies according to their requirement. Similarly GE has adopted a strategy that best fits the organization. Competition plays a vital role in an industry especially for GE. The main issue that is being faced by GE is that of competition. If competition is handled in a positive way it can result in ample amount of success and GE can capture the market share.

Generic Competitive Analysis

General Electric is a growing organization that needs…...

BIDDY'S BAKEY CAPACITY NEEDS
Case Study Analysis: Biddy's Bakery Capacity Needs

The challenge facing the Biddy's Bakery is excess capacity caused by a low production capacity than what is optimal for the bakery and its resources. This implies that the demand for Biddy's products in the market is below what the bakery can potentially supply to the market. The excess capacity arises from management's decision to buy a larger production capacity to accommodate its growing production needs. However, the new production facility is in excess than the bakery's current production rate and market demand for goods. This excess capacity is causing inefficiencies and making the bakery incur extra costs and loses in its market share.

This problem arose from Elizabeth's decision to move the bakery and its operations to a larger facility following the bakery's outgrowth of its previous capacity. The management made this decision from the presumption that the new facility would…...

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References

Ananth, V.I., & Jain, A. (2004). Modeling the impact of merging capacity in production-inventory systems. Management Science, 50(8), 1082-1094.

McLennan, P. (2004). Service operations management as a conceptual framework for facility management. Facilities, 22(13), 344-348.

Vakili, J.Q.H.P., & Huang, L. (2004). Capacity and production management in a single product manufacturing system*. Annals of Operations Research, 125(1), 191-204.

Espresso Maker Case Study Analysis
How would you describe the target segment? What do you think were their needs? (the WHO)

Having successfully segmented the lucrative coffee and specialty drink market during the early 1980's, through the perfection of "instant" -- or soluble -- Nescafe-brand coffee, the Nestle company achieved a dominant position in terms of market share. Despite this accomplishment, however, members of Nestle's executive management structure soon recognized that the market was poised to undergo a significant shift in terms of demographic expansion. According to the case study, "cafes and coffee bars were growing in popularity across Europe and the U.S., beyond their traditional geographies (Italy, Spain and France) & #8230; (and) high-end consumers required a foamier coffee, achievable only with the use of pressurized water" suggested that inexpensive "instant" coffee drinks were being replaced by the growing Espresso trend. With expanded economic standards becoming the norm as the American…...

Yes - Salesforce.com in the area of CM; NPDI by SAP on their OnDemand platform

Group communications and the ability to have a conference meeting anytime, anywhere; critical in new project development

Collaboration

Low-end: Web Conferencing)(High End: Product development team globally)

Yes - Many vendors have SaaS-based solutions in this arena.

Analyzing data from website traffic, including trending on click-through data and visitor's unique attributes

Analytics (Google has a trial version of this today; yet could go up-market with this into web traffic analytics)

Yes - Several; yet no one has perfected optimization of Google AdWords yet or AdSense; these will be the most likely services Google will launch in Analytics first on a fee basis.

Security of websites, data storage and Internet traffic

Security and Enterprise Scalability

Google has extensive internal knowledge in these areas and can easily create new services based on their lessons learned. Google is considered to have one of the best internal technologies for managing…...

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References

Google Labs (2007) - Research papers on Natural Language Processing. Indicates focus of Latent Semantic Indexing. Accessed from the Internet on June 4, 2007 from location: http://labs.google.com/papers.html#category9

Personal Philosophy of Leadership and Innovation1. Description of your leadership philosophya. Fundamental leadership conceptThe main emphasis emerging from the transformational leadership concept is for nursing leaders to produce not just constructive but also valuation challenges for their subordinates and followers for the realization of the established organizational objectives. Based on Damirch, Rahimi, and Seyyedi (2011), the famous James MacGregor Burns created this design when researching governmental leaders; nevertheless, its good effect traversed to other fields and areas. In my situation, the importance given to the transformational leadership idea is related to its development of a higher-performing, dedicated personnel when used in health-care institutions. In medical centers as well as other treatment institutions, transformational leadership could be carried out within any institutional system or department like worker groups, divisions, sectors, as well as at the top leadership (Choi, Goh, Adam, And Tan, 2016). Essentially, this idea improves not just the inspiration…...

Google Case Study Analysis
Google Inc. is one of the major internet companies worldwide. The multinational firm is predominantly involved in providing online advertising and search engine services. Other products and services provided by the firm include cloud computing services, enterprise services, mobile payment services, as well as consumer services and electronics. The provision of consumer electronics under the Nexus brand represents one of the firm's latest expansions of its product portfolio, largely seen as a move to reduce its reliance on online advertising revenue. With reference to the relevant tools and frameworks, this paper provides a strategic analysis of Google, particularly in relation to its consumer electronics segment. First, an analysis of the internal and external environment is provided. Next, attention is paid to the firm's current strategy diamond. Finally, strategic recommendations based on the analysis are provided.

Internal Environment

The VINE model provides an ideal framework for examining the firm's internal…...

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References

Alphabet Inc., 2015. Annual Report 2015. [online] Available at: [accessed 10 January 2017]

Barney, J., 1995. Looking inside for competitive advantage. The Academy of Management Executive, 9(4), pp. 49-61.

Carpenter, M. and Sanders, W., 2009. Strategic management: a dynamic perspective, concepts and cases. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.

Dobberstein, N., Narasimhan, S. and Aggarwal, S., 2013. Boosting telco's smartphone sales in developing markets. [online] Available at: [accessed 10 January 2017]

Frito-Lay/SunChips Case Study Analysis
Introducing a new product of any kind is risky at best. However, introducing a new snack product to a finicky public could be considered crazy. Frito-Lay, a leader in the snacking industry, was not afraid of that risk. In late October 1989, a team lead by Dr. Dwight R. Riskey, VP of Marketing Research and New Business at Frito-Lay, introduced SunChips to a test market in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota for ten months. Following is an analysis of the case study describing SunChips performance and potential actions that team could take in moving forward with the product.

Characterizing the snack chip category and Frito-Lay's competitive position

The snack industry recorded sales of $37 billion in 1990 which was a five percent increase over the previous year. Of those sales, $9.8 billion are attributed to snack chips which also show a five percent increase. The industry is obviously growing significantly. This…...

intersection of ESL learners and ESL teachers, both of whom have specific needs that have to be met in order for a positive and productive interaction to take place.
Educators of a high percentage of English Language Learners (ELLs) students are faced with financial concerns as the cost of training has increased significantly in recent years (PS, 2015) while students are impacted by the pressure of needing to become proficient in academic English in order to be prepared and to excel at secondary studies. Furthermore, neither of these situations is static but rather is dynamic and affects each other, as needs change on an individual basis. Moreover, the new ESL curriculum places new demands on both, further affecting the issue. The problem is how to measure the effect that the two (student and teacher) have on one another in terms of impacting preparation and effectiveness.

The research question is two-fold and…...

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References

Baxter, P., Jack, S. (2008). Qualitative case study methodology: Study design and implementation for novice researchers. The Qualitative Report, 13(4): 544-559.

Creswell, J. W. (2007). Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing among

Five Approaches. CA: Sage.

Lin, C. (2013). Revealing the "Essence" of Things: Using Phenomenology in LIS

Google in China Case Study Analysis
When Google detected an extremely high level of attempted hacking on its computer systems, it issued an online memo that indicated its possible exit from the Chinese market. The Wall Street Journal captured this adequately in its headline for its edition on 13th January 2010 as, "Google warns of China Exit after Hacking." Based on proof gathered from the same, it seemed that the attacks had been directed at gaining access to the email accounts of human rights agitators from China. According to Google, the attacks had been unsuccessful. The company, however, indicated the balancing act that they had to engage in ever since coming into the Chinese market. The Chinese market had required a lot of thought being put into the information availed to the Chinese people, as there was a lot of censorship and limitations on the information that they could access.

Quelch and…...

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Reference

Quelch, J. A., & Jocz, K. E. (2010). Google in China. Harvard Business School

Organizational Change and Development at Valley Wide Utilities Company
Developed by management expert Peter Drucker in the mid-20th century, management by objective (MBO) has demonstrated efficacy in a wide range of organizational settings (Allvin and Aronsson 2011). The use of MBO in certain situations, though, is not always appropriate or the effectiveness of the strategy as a management tool can be limited if certain factors are not taken into account, especially in sectors where people's welfare and even lives are at stake such as utility companies. One company that learned this lesson the hard way was Valley Wide Utilities, a privately owned utility company that implemented MBO in an effort to improve the evaluation process for customer service representatives, engineering department managers and sales engineers. This paper provides a review of a case study concerning this company and relevant literature concerning MBO, including areas for a systematic literature review of the…...

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References

Allvin, M and Aronsson, G 2011, Work without Boundaries: Psychological Perspectives on the New Working Life, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

Heitzmann, R 2008, 'Case Study Instruction in Teacher Education: Opportunity to Develop Students' Critical Thinking, School Smarts and Decision-Making,' Education, Vol. 128, No. 4, pp. 523-525.

Essay Topics Related to Case Study

Case studies offer rich and complex insights into real-world phenomena, making them valuable tools for research and analysis. Here are some essay topics that explore various aspects of case studies:

Effectiveness and Impact of Case Studies

Evaluating the effectiveness of case studies as a research method
Assessing the impact of case studies on policy and decision-making
Exploring the limitations and challenges of case study research

Methodological Approaches in Case Studies

Comparing different methodological approaches to case study design
Analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods approaches
Examining ethical considerations in case study research

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Essay Topic 1: The Evolution of Computational Photography and Its Impact on Digital Camera Development

Advancements in computational photography and image processing algorithms
Integration of AI and machine learning for enhanced image quality
The blurring line between smartphones and dedicated digital cameras

Essay Topic 2: The Rise of Mirrorless Cameras and Their Disruption of the DSLR Market

Advantages of mirrorless cameras over DSLRs in terms of size, weight, and versatility
Impact of mirrorless cameras on the professional photography industry
The future of DSLRs in the face of mirrorless camera innovation

Essay Topic 3: The Emergence of Computational Photography as a Separate Art....

Psychological Safety at Work: Essay Topics

Psychological safety in the workplace refers to an environment where individuals feel comfortable taking risks, expressing their thoughts and ideas, and challenging the status quo without fear of negative consequences. It plays a crucial role in fostering innovation, creativity, and open communication within organizations. Here are several essay topics that explore different aspects of psychological safety at work:

1. The Impact of Psychological Safety on Team Performance:
- Examine the relationship between psychological safety and team cohesion, collaboration, and outcomes.
- Analyze how creating a psychologically safe environment can enhance communication, reduce conflict, and improve problem-solving.

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1. The impact of childhood trauma on mental health and development: A case study analysis
2. Exploring the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy in treating anxiety disorders: A case study approach
3. Understanding the role of attachment theory in shaping interpersonal relationships: A case study examination
4. Analyzing the psychosocial factors contributing to addiction: A case study evaluation
5. The influence of cultural factors on mental health outcomes: A case study exploration
6. Investigating the development of personality disorders in early adulthood: A case study analysis
7. The relationship between childhood abuse and self-esteem: A case study investigation
8. Exploring the role of genetics in mental health....