The importance of the blue ocean strategy is that it keeps companies looking for untapped markets, which will provide new goods and services for the consumer. A product or service that might be considered a blue ocean move can be as simple as mixing alcohol and energy drinks packaging them and selling to the public. Anheuser-Busch could do this as long as the energy drinks do not contain caffeine. Mixing alcohol and energy drinks is not a new idea, but in November of 2010 the Food and Drug Administration declared caffeine an illegal and unsafe additive to manufactured alcoholic beverages. So now breweries cannot manufactures energy drinks with alcohol.
Course Law,Ethics & Corp. Governance Test Week 11 Final Exam Part 2 Instructions This exam consists of 25 multiple choice questions and covers the material in Chapters 6 through 9. Question 1 .4 out of 4 points Correct Shareholder activism includes which of the following? Answer Selected Answer: all of the above Correct Answer: all of the above . Question 2 .0 out of 4 points Incorrect Shareholders have the ability to promote green initiatives in companies they invest it by?
CASE 6: Blue Nile Inc. in 2010 1. BACKGROUND INFORMATION Timeframe Country(s) Involved Key Individuals & Titles Company Type & Size 2. BRIEF SUMMARY OF CASE SITUATION Business or Industry Description Blue Nile’s Current Situation 3. INDUSTRY AND COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS Industry Macro-Environmental Characteristics Strategic Group MAP Industry Driving Forces Competitor Strategies Industry’s Key Success Factors Summary of Industry Attractiveness 4. BLUE NILE’S ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS Blue Nile’s Strengths Blue Nile’s Weaknesses Blue Nile’s Current Strategy Blue Nile’s Business Model Overall Organizational Assessment of Blue Nile 5.
Working capital is defined as a measure of both a company’s efficiency and its short-term financial appraisal. Working capital equals the current assets minus the current liabilities. Not the total liabilities and assets but the current ones. The working capital is used for whether a company has enough short-term assets to cover its short-term debt. Looking at the balance sheet for Competition Bikes Inc. we see that in year 6 our total current assets were $1,029,303 and our total current liabilities were $105,080.
The Mustang GT’s 4.6L SOHC V8 is no competition for Chevrolet’s 5.7L LS1 V8. The LS1 V8 first appeared in the fifth generation Chevrolet Corvette, America’s best sports car, in 1997. The only modifications from Corvette specifications for the Camaro Z28 were made for packaging reasons. The Camaro Z28 is rated at 310 horsepower @ 5200 rpm and 340 lb.-ft. torque @ 4000 rpm. That’s a 50 horsepower advantage and 38 lb.-ft. torque advantage over the Mustang GT.
Understandably, there is a need for nuclear power plants and the benefits they possess, but more power plants are not the answer needed to solve today’s environmental threats. In the article written in 2009, called Nuclear Power Is an Environmentally Unsound Way to Reduce Pollution, it states “no new nuclear plants could be completed before 2014 according to government estimates, and plants with genuinely advanced designs no earlier than 2025.”(Union of Concerned Scientists, 2009, p. 1) Building nuclear power plants also brings many other risks, such as where to store the radioactive waste and terrorist threats. The radioactive waste and terrorist threats are the same because the refined byproduct of radioactive
“Additionally, the impending controlling weights of firm strategy and the environment on the outsourcing-performance relationship were studied. The results revealed there was no substantial direct effect of outsourcing on the business operation, both strategy and environmental drive arbitrated the relationship between outsourcing and operation” (Gilley & Rasheed, 2000). The findings indicate some research by companies before making the outsourcing decision are necessary to protect the company’s assets and
In her Forrester Research report released Monday, Epps argues that when Amazon releases its tablet on the market, it has the potential to become the top competitor to Apple's iPad. The reason? It likely will be marketed at a significantly lower price. "If Amazon launches at a price point significantly lower than competing tablets--some sources suggest that it may be able to launch a 9-inch LCD touchscreen tablet for as low as $299--and has enough supply to meet demand, Forrester estimates that Amazon could sell as many as 3 million to 5 million tablets in Q4 2011 alone," Epps says--meaning Amazon's offering would leapfrog over competeting devices that have been on the market much
The experiment when great even though we did have an error with which type of milk to use, but now we know not to use store bought milk next time. The blue sky is a
The interoperability was never put into place for reasons that can only be speculated on. There are assumptions that Grant Holcomb the architect of the proposed system had a conflict of interest that may have profited him. There are also allegations that Greg Meffert, Nagin's chief technology officer, stated that the technology wouldn't work. Many controversial issues of being unethical by several parties involved in this system caused a delay that unfortunately wasn’t in play for Katrina. Interoperability is dangerous to the concept of Federalism because although New Orleans was granted money to fund the system by the national government, at the state level, it was never implemented.