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In the Business section, you can find material dedicated to all things business. This section collects data on the activities of the various companies operating in markets all over the world.
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Gap Analysis: Global Communications - Communication Industry
GAP ANALYSIS: GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS Gap Analysis: Global Communications Matthew Thrasher University of Phoenix Gap Analysis: Global Communications The communication industry is experiencing unprecedented growth and Global Communications (GC) would like to be a part of this growth. In order to do so GC will need to partner with Technologies Workers Union (TWU) and face difficult decisions concerning layoffs, outsourcing and an effective strategy to pursue emerging markets within the communications industry. Situation Analysis Issue and
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Gap Analysis: Global Communications - Issue and Opportunity Identification
Gap Analysis: Global Communications In just three years, the telecommunications industry has taken a tremendous dive. Stock value has dropped by more than 50%, leaving stockholders very little hope for rebounding. The problem arose as local, long-distance, and international markets began competing for the same business and cable companies began providing complete solutions to customers, including computer, television, and telephone packages. Although the telecommunications saw little improvement with the introduction of new calling features and
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Gap Analysis: Harrison-Keyes
Gap Analysis: Harrison-Keyes Harrison-Keyes, Inc., in an attempt to maintain competitive in the publishing industry, embarked on an implementing a fresh approach. Harrison-Keyes upper management team made a decision to pursue a new electronic book publishing that promises to offer larger profit margins in the publishing industry. Harrison-Keyes is currently facing several challenges with this new strategy as the company replaces CEO, Meg McGill with William Guardo. Guardo greatly differs on his view of e-publishing
Rating:Essay Length: 482 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: January 26, 2010 -
Gap Analysis: Harrison-Keyes
Gap Analysis: Harrison-Keyes The goal of this paper is to identify the steps management at Harrison-Keye Inc. needs to take to make culture changes. The gap analysis identifies three issues that require immediate attention and new leadership. The fact that Harrison-Keyes Inc. has to stop and take stock of what they can and cannot do is critical to their success. This is due to their inherent lack of resources to implement their e-books initiative and
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Gap Analysis: Harrison-Keyes
Running head: GAP ANALYSIS: HARRISON-KEYES Gap Analysis: Harrison-Keyes University of Phoenix Gap Analysis: Harrison-Keyes Harrison Keyes a 100-year-old firm with decidedly old-fashioned ways is currently facing declining sales, decreased market share and weak profits. Harrison Keyes vision to be the world's most dynamic publishing company through outputting innovative information solutions that are essential globally led to Harrison Keyes’s mission objective to provide essential information and insight that enables individuals, markets, and societies to perform to
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Gap Analysis: Intersect Investments
Gap Analysis: Intersect Investments After September 11, 2001, the environment in which the financial services industry was operating began to change. “The volatile climate has left many financial firms struggling to keep both client’s trust and Wall Street’s credibility.” (Intersect Investment, 2007, p.1). Financial service companies operate in a global industry with increasing competition. In order to succeed Intersect must adjust quickly to customer demands and at the same time achieve differentiation to stay ahead
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Gap Analysis: Intersect Investments
Gap Analysis: Intersect Investments Being a part of America's vast business financial industry is a task for any company within the field. Due to the change in this country's economy since September 11, 2001 it has become even more difficult for the financial industry to maintain. Intersect Investments is a financial company that barely managed to prosper after "9/11". To counter this crisis the CEO of Intersect Investment Frank Jeffers, identified the following vision: "Provide
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Gap Analysis: Intersect Investments
Gap Analysis: Intersect Investments In late 2001, the financial services industry started facing problems due to external forces which were out of control from companies’ managers who can not control the social and political pressures the market is receiving from customers and Wall Street. Leaders needed to develop strategies to be able to maintain the companies competitive in the new external scenario the industry was having. Intersect Investment is a company which was not exempt
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Gap Analysis: Intersect Investments
Running head: GAP ANALYSIS: INTERSECT INVESTMENTS Gap Analysis: Intersect Investments Gap Analysis: Intersect Investments Businesses are always looking for new opportunities to make and save money. In today’s world, this increasingly means adopting more efficient ways of completing the day to day tasks related to a company’s mission. Intersect Investments Services (IIS) offers a service that has an especially important role in enabling businesses to become stronger by increasing business creditability. Frank Jeffers, IIS CEO,
Rating:Essay Length: 2,060 Words / 9 PagesSubmitted: November 30, 2009 -
Gap Analysis: Intersect Investments
Gap Analysis: Intersect Investments The Financial Industry is one that is often unpredictable. Intersect Investments has managed to survive through the instability of the industry. After experiencing a decline in sales and customer satisfaction, CEO Frank Jeffers realized the need to make a drastic change. Jeffers chose to transform the company in an effort to recover from the recent losses. The new vision is one that will expand products and services while increasing customer loyalty.
Rating:Essay Length: 1,880 Words / 8 PagesSubmitted: December 3, 2009 -
Gap Analysis: Intersect Investments
Gap Analysis: Intersect Investments The overall financial services industry has been in a state of turmoil since September 11, 2001. Several of the financial firms have been struggling to keep both their clients trust as well as Wall Streets credibility. Within the last year CEO Frank Jeffers has identified a new vision in hopes to steer the company in a new direction. This vision will hopefully improve its brand image and begin establishing long-term customer
Rating:Essay Length: 1,476 Words / 6 PagesSubmitted: December 6, 2009 -
Gap Analysis: Intersect Investments
Gap Analysis: Intersect Investments In today’s global business world business are always looking for new opportunities to make and save money. In today’s hectic and competitive business world, organizations are faced with situations that require careful evaluation, planning and implementing solutions. This means adopting more economical way of doing day-to-day business. Successful organizations are able to adapt to the ever-changing landscape of today’s business world by having strong leaders who empower the workforce, provide leadership
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Gap Analysis: Intersect Investments
Gap Analysis: Intersect Investments In the business world today many companies are undergoing changes. This may include an array of situations from mergers and acquisitions to outsourcing, organizational change, legal lawsuits and much more. Change may not always be the popular choice but does it have to be a bad one? When set in motion does change turn out to be a beneficial option for the good of the whole company? In this paper, Intersect
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Gap Analysis: Intersect Investments
Running head: GAP ANALYSIS: INTERSECT INVESTMENTS Gap Analysis: Intersect Investments University of Phoenix Gap Analysis: Intersect Investments The financial and investment industries are facing tough competition and companies like Intersect Investments are feeling its wrath. In order to stay competitive, Intersect is faced with a decision to implement a new company vision that creates organizational conflict. This paper will outline events leading up to the decision made by Intersect Investment to implement this new company
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Gap Analysis: Intersect Investments
Running head: GAP ANALYSIS: INTERSECT INVESTMENTS Gap Analysis: Intersect Investments Gap Analysis: Intersect Investments Businesses are always looking for new opportunities to make and save money. In today’s world, this increasingly means adopting more efficient ways of completing the day to day tasks related to a company’s mission. Intersect Investments Services (IIS) offers a service that has an especially important role in enabling businesses to become stronger by increasing business creditability. Frank Jeffers, IIS CEO,
Rating:Essay Length: 2,060 Words / 9 PagesSubmitted: March 12, 2010 -
Gap Analysis: Intersect Investments
Gap Analysis: Intersect Investments The financial industry is often unpredictable. Intersect Investments has managed to survive through the instability of the industry despite experiencing a decline in sales and customer satisfaction. CEO Frank Jeffers realized the need to make a drastic change which involves transforming the company in an effort to recover from the recent losses. The new vision will expand products and services while increasing customer loyalty. The new culture will be based on
Rating:Essay Length: 1,768 Words / 8 PagesSubmitted: May 5, 2010 -
Gap Analysis: Intersect Investments
Running head: GAP ANALYSIS: INTERSECT INVESTMENTS Gap Analysis: Intersect Investments University of Phoenix Gap Analysis: Intersect Investments “The Financial Services Industry is a dynamic and fast moving environment that is highly demanding and is continually pushing the boundaries to increase productivity and improve workflow to make better and faster decisions” (Microsoft, 2008, para 1). Since September 11, 2001, the financial service industry has been in a state of turmoil and has been trying to stay
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Gap Analysis: Kuiper Leda
Gap Analysis: Kuiper Leda The challenges that Kuiper Leda Inc., faces are managing the logistics of inventory management, from the raw material stage to delivery of the completed product. The ability to manage production schedules efficiently is an important component keep all deadlines and commitments with its customers, which bring into play the options of expansion to increase product production capacities. Often companies need to manage various types of inventory in a way that will
Rating:Essay Length: 985 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: December 16, 2009 -
Gap Analysis: Kuiper Leda
Running head: GAP ANALYSIS: KUIPER LEDA Gap Analysis: Kuiper Leda Bryan MBA 550 January 10, 2007 Gap Analysis: Kuiper Leda The challenges faced by Kuiper Leda are based management, stakeholders, and an expansion into increased production capacities. In order to increase production Kuiper Leda will find it necessary to put into practice a new business strategy which will include; implementing an inventory management system, better forecasting future sales, outsourcing the production of components, reduction in
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Gap Analysis: Kuiper Leda
Running head: GAP ANALYSIS: KUIPER LEDA Gap Analysis: Kuiper Leda Gap Analysis: Kuiper Leda Kuiper Leda Incorporated (KL) is a company that manufactures Electronic Control Units (ECU’s) as well as Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID Tags) for the automobile industry. Currently, they are a relatively small company that focuses on quality of their product and delivery responsiveness. Because of this, Midland Motors, a well-known large company, has chosen KL as a supplier for all of
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Gap Analysis: Kuiper Leda
Gap Analysis: Kuiper Leda Supply chain management refers to the process that aims to satisfy, with optimal efficiency, the requirements of customers through the planning, control, and implementation of supply chain operations. According to Hau L. Lee, a professor at the Graduate School of Business and the School of Engineering at Stanford, “supply chain management involves the flows of material, information, and finance in a network consisting of customers, suppliers, manufacturers, and distributors” (2000, p.
Rating:Essay Length: 698 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: May 18, 2010 -
Gap Analysis: Kuiper Leda
Table of Contents GAP ANALYSIS: KUIPER LEDA 3 SITUATION ANALYSIS 4 ISSUE AND OPPORTUNITY IDENTIFICATION 4 STAKEHOLDER PERSPECTIVES/ETHICAL DILEMMAS 7 END-STATE VISION 8 GAP ANALYSIS 9 CONCLUSION 10 REFERENCES 12 Supply chain management is the process of satisfying, with the best possible level of competence, customer requirement by means of the preparation, management, and execution of supply chain functions. Supply chain management involves exchanges between various entities, each playing a particular role, in a network
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Gap Analysis: Lester Electronics
Gap Analysis: Lester Electronics In the Lester Electronics Scenario, there are several things going on at once. Shang-Wa had already suggested a partnership to Lester Electronics, but this is now becoming more urgent due to a hostile takeover bid by TEC. In fear of losing his company, John Lin, the CEO and founder of Shang-Wa, approaches Bernard Lester, CEO of Lester Electronics with a serious proposal to form and partnership and expand the business in
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Gap Analysis: Lester Electronics
Gap Analysis: Lester Electronics Lester Electronics Inc. (LEI) is a consumer and industrial electronics parts distributing company that markets its products to small local distributors throughout North, South, and Central America and Europe. The company also markets to small to medium-sized original equipment manufacturers and repair facilities. In 1978 LEI entered into an exclusive distribution contract with Shang-wa Electronics. Lester Electronics (LEI) and Shang-wa have been close partners for nearly 35 years. LEI is faced
Rating:Essay Length: 1,602 Words / 7 PagesSubmitted: December 23, 2009 -
Gap Analysis: Lester Electronics
Running head: GAP ANALYSIS: LESTER ELECTRONICS Gap Analysis: Lester Electronics B.T.Brown University of Phoenix Gap Analysis: Lester Electronics In today’s business environment, company executives are often required to participate in a company’s capital budgeting process as the sponsor, reviewer or approving authority of investment decisions. Lester Electronics is at a tipping point of the business. Lester cannot continue to manage the business as has previously been done. Lester Electronics is a consumer and electronics parts
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Gap Analysis: Lester Electronics
Gap Analysis: Lester Electronics Lester Electronics is a distributor of electronics components in the United States. Shang-wa Electronics is a small Korean electronics manufacturer. For the past 35 years the two companies have been engaged in an exclusive supply agreement that has served both companies well. Recently there have been changes in the industry, the market, and in the personal lives of the CEO’s of the two companies that have led Lester to the decision
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Gap Analysis: Lester Electronics
Gap Analysis: Lester Electronics In looking for solutions in the manufacturing marketing, Lester Electronics, Incorporated (LEI) is looking for viable options for growth. “Whether a company chooses to make further investments in its core business or decides to expand beyond its current core, there are only three avenues by which companies can grow their revenue base: (1) organic or internal growth, (2) growth through acquisition, and (3) growth through alliance-based initiatives. This is often referred
Rating:Essay Length: 507 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: January 18, 2010 -
Gap Analysis: Lester Electronics
Gap Analysis: Lester Electronics Lester Electronics, Inc, a consumer and industrial electronics parts master distributor with distributors throughout America and Europe. The company entered into an exclusive agreement with Shang-wa Electronics, a small Korean manufacturer of capacitors, to give Lester the exclusive right to sell Shang-wa capacitors in the United States as long as the company maintained a minimum purchase of $1 million wholesale annually. Transnational Electronics Corporation (TEC) is a large manufacturer of electronics
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Gap Analysis: Lester Electronics
Running head: GAP ANALYSIS: LESTER ELECTRONICS Gap Analysis: Lester Electronics Jim University of Phoenix MBA 540 Maximizing Shareholder Wealth April 9, 2007 Gap Analysis: Lester Electronics The stockholders own the company and elect the board of directors, who then appoint the management team. Management, in turn, is supposed to operate in the best interests of the stockholders. One goal of the management is to make decisions that will maximize the value of the stock, including
Rating:Essay Length: 1,511 Words / 7 PagesSubmitted: March 31, 2010 -
Gap Analysis: Lester Electronics
Gap Analysis: Lester Electronics MBA 540 University of Phoenix December 11, 2007 Gap Analysis: Lester Electronics Lester Electronics is at a pivotal point of the business. Bernard Lester cannot continue to manage the business as has previously been done due to the changes in the industry and a possible loss of their largest vendor, Shang-wa. John Lin, founder and CEO of Shang-wa, is looking to spend less time with his business and more time with
Rating:Essay Length: 2,451 Words / 10 PagesSubmitted: April 14, 2010