Building brand identity in competitive markets: a conceptual model

The purpose of this conceptual paper is to identify important elements of brand building based on a literature review and case studies of successful brands in India. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is based on a review of the literature and takes a case study approach. The paper suggests the framework for building brand identity in sequential order, namely, positioning the brand, com…

3 Information Systems

Organisations can exploit information to do better at planning, monitoring and controlling their business activity. However, it is easy to drown in a sea of data. People can best understand and use information when it is organised and presented in the ways that are most useful to them. Powerful PCs, servers and networks provide new tools and systems to process information. This improves how peo…

Innovative Business Practices

This chapter proposes a theoretical analysis framework to highlight the challenge of the knowledge transfer between headquarter and subsidiaries and how the intra-organisational hybridization could overcome the limits of the top-down transfer. By highlighting the added value of local subsidiaries, this chapter focuses on the features of the knowledge hybridization as a new managerial practice t…

BUSINESS BUILDER 1 HOW TO DEVELOP AND USE A BUSINESS PLAN

For any business to be successful, it must be started and operated with a clear understanding of its customers, its internal strengths, its competitive environment, and a vision of how it will evolve to compete in the future. A business also needs money to start, to operate, and to grow. By expending the effort to develop a comprehensive business plan, you will have a powerful tool for attracti…

Business Development Management

The speed of change in virtually all industries has increased exponentially over the past decades – and conventional wisdom proves that the trend will continue. In this fast-paced global business environment, the ability to possess fact- based strategic foresight, deliver systematic exploration of new growth opportunities and to institutionalise a continuous drive to improve internal business…

Business Development for the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industry

What is ‘business development’? This is usually the first question I have to answer whenever I’m asked what I do for a living by people outside the pharmaceutical industry. The answers I try to give are oen tailored to the audience and what they are likely to quickly understand from their own experience. However, as few people have any idea that such a role exists beyond some hazy idea …

Reinventing the Company

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Case Analysis of Barnes & Noble

Barnes and Noble have three main issues of concern. First, Barnes and Noble is unable to find sufficient leadership in its boardroom. Leadership is struggling to deal with the ongoing issue of selling the company. An agreement to specific terms of selling the company will never be achieved unless the company hires a third party consultant to mediate the issue. A third party consultant will …

Competitive advantage and internal organizational assessment

It is generally agreed in the strategic management literature that internal organizational assessment is less developed theoretically and practically than other areas of situation analysis. This paper presents a four stage approach to analyzing a firm's internal strengths and weaknesses and illustrates how the technique can facilitate strategy formulation through the integration of value chain …

PRODUCT AND SERVICE DIFFERENTIATION AS COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES IN CHINA’S CO…

The Asian Banker is the region’s most authoritative provider of strategic business intelligence to the financial services community. The Singapore-based company has offices in Singapore, Malaysia, Beijing, Manila and Dubai. It has a business model that revolves around three core business lines: publications, research services and forums.

Building Competitive Advantage Through Human Capital

This paper reconsiders influence of intellectual capital on competitiveness of a company (micro- competitiveness) and national economy (macro-competitiveness). Bearing in mind that competitiveness of national economy has been dominantly defined by competitiveness of its companies, this research focuses on analysis of different aspects of intellectual capital in the light of micro-competitivenes…

Thinking Like Your Client

ALM Legal Intelligence white paper sponsored by LexisNexis. ALM Legal Intelligence gathered data, conducted interviews, and administered the online survey. Cathy Lazere wrote the report and Jennifer Tonti conducted the survey and was the report editor. We would like to thank all those who participated in the survey and agreed to be interviewed for this report.

A NEW AGENDA FOR FOREST CONSERVATION AND POVERTY REDUCTION

The future of the world’s forests and the future of millions of the world’s poorest people are inextricably linked. Rural poverty is concentrated in many areas where the world’s biodiversity is most threatened. More than a billion people now live within the world’s 19 forest biodiversity “hotspots” and population growth in the world’s tropical wilderness areas is 3.1 percent, over…

Gaining Competitive Advantage through Innovation Strategies: An Application i…

In today’s highly dynamic business environment, organizations need to develop new competitive advantages to keep up with the speed of change in technology, customer demands and global competition. In this difficult task, organizations can benefit from innovation strategies and tools more than ever, as it helps companies to optimize their competing power by increasing their performance and eff…

Cannibals with forks The triple bottom line of 21st century

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21st Century Skills, Education & Competitiveness

in an economy driven by innovation and knowledge … in marketplaces engaged in intense competition and constant renewal … in a world of tremendous opportunities and risks … in a society facing complex business, political, scientific, technological, health and environmental challenges … and in diverse workplaces and communities that hinge on collaborative relationships and social networki…

From Strategy to Business Models and to Tactics

The notion of business model has been used by strategy scholars to refer to “the logic of the firm, the way it operates and how it creates value for its stakeholders.” On the surface, this notion appears to be similar to that of strategy. We present a conceptual framework to separate and relate business model and strategy. Business model, we argue, is a reflection of the firm’s realized s…

Competitive Advantage Through the Employees

In today’s fast-paced economy competition is an issue of services and products. Much attention has been directed to a better service and the best product and how this can be achieved through utilising the human resources. This research paper identifies the competitive advantage concepts and models, competitive strategies and the main human resource practices that have a significant impact o…

Negotiating for Success: Essential Strategies and Skills

We all enter into contracts on a daily basis without engaging in negotiation. We usually do not negotiate when we buy food, drink, apps, books, clothing, electronics, pet supplies, office products, household goods, toys and sports equipment. What would happen if we decided to negotiate when purchasing these items? This is an assignment I give to my students at the University of Michigan. I ask…

Digital Quality of Life

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REGIONAL ADVANTAGE: CUL'ITIRE AND COMPETITION IN SILICON VALLEY AND ROUTE 128

Similar battles of change have been fought before as new technology insinuated itself into peoples' lives, from basic labor-saving devices such as the washing machine, to innovations with radical cultural consequences like the automGbfle. We take almost for granted the inexorable march of progress toward these seemingly indispensable, ubiquitous tools, not stopping to remember that they replace…

Design for Hackers Reverse Engineering Beauty

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Advances in human - Computer Interaction: Human Comfort & Security

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USING THE BALANCED SCORECARD AS A STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

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The Challenge of Congressional Representation

There are numerous reasons why political scientists might be interested in the individual, as well as the collective, activities of our elected poli- ticians. Whatever the reasons might be—theoretical or practical—our interest in their collective behavior patterns has dominated contempo- rary political science research. In our work on Congress, studies involv- ing career patterns, roll call…

Information Security: Lessons from Behavioural Economics

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Why Poverty Persists

A decade ago, around the time the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC) was conceived, I co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies with John Hoddinott entitled ‘Poverty dynamics and economic mobility in developing countries’ (Baulch and Hoddinott, 2000). This issue, which subsequently became a book, contained a collection of six studies on poverty dynamics drawn fro…

STANDARDS OF HUMAN COMFORT: Relative & Absolute

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Urbanisation in South Asia

South Asia is on the move. Having remained dormant for about three centuries, it has picked up speed, and is on the way to recovery. If the current development trajectory is any indicator, it is destined to become one of the most dynamic regions of the world in not too distant a future. Much, however, depends on how fast it forgets its divisive past, and transcends the narrow national interes…

C++ Programming From Problem Analysis to Program Design

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