The main features are that the company has a direct relationship with its customers, whether these are individual consumers or global giants. 3. What is Dell’s unique selling point? Dell’s Unique Selling Point (USP) is the ability for consumers to select and customise their computer. Customers can purchase custom-built products and services.
SWOT ANALYSIS OF ATNT: (Slide is at the end of doc) STRENGTHS: * Geographically diverse business Geographically diverse business and revenue should help shield the business from shocks in any one part of their business. Different countries or locations around the world have different characteristics. Those characteristics do not always match; therefore, a company can lower their risk by investing in part of the world with low correlations. The lower the risk, the better. This lowers risk and increases the value of the business over the long-term.
Customer loyalty programs are extremely popular among retail. The primary features in a customer loyalty program should be make it easy, make it meaningful, make it intelligent, and make it engaging. If the loyalty program is not easy, customers won’t use it. Customers need more than the occasional freebie to feel it’s worthwhile. Make it intelligent by gathering information to better serve the customer.
CanGo has very low profitability ratios, low turnover ratios and a high debt equity ratio. All these demonstrates that it’s in Cango’s best interest to take control of their financial performance, and focus on generating cash for the company, make better use of available resources and ensure that they are able to generate profit. The company should not take more debt and need to focus on how to use their existing resources to generate more cash flow to be able to operate and meet their financial obligations. Under the current operating system debt is increasingly being
This action will help the company down the road as fewer liabilities will result in less cash outflow, and place the company in a position to manage through the construction downturn. Another upside in the balance sheet was that The Home Depot has reported a $63 million dollar increase in stock holder´s equity. This information will be used by potential lenders or investors to determine if this company is worth the investment. In this case, it appears that The Home Depot would be a good credit risk, based on the latest
The links between market research and insurance policy. Finally, I am going to explain why I believe or don’t believe if the statement is to be true. What is market research? Market research is mainly used by businesses, when they collect information that will help them to provide consumers with what they want or need and whether the products will be bought. It is also aimed to reduce uncertainty and risk to the business because doing this will save money, time and all the hard work is not wasted.
Outsourcing brings proven benefits in the form of economic leveraging, increase in the quality of products and it provides a number of opportunities to less developed countries. For example in recent times, Americans are overwhelmingly supporting the major retail stores like Wal-Mart, Target and K-Mart. The reason behind this consumer loyalty is that it has become much easier to shop at these locations rather than the local mom and pop stores located on the corner of most neighborhoods. The benefit is that you can purchase everything on your shopping list from one location, saving you time, money and gasoline. In a highly competitive business world, on a firm’s priority list is the subject of increasing profit and reducing cost.
The value it provides for merchants is reaching the minimum number of customers the merchant need in order to offer a win-win deal! This avoids the risk of not getting enough customers for a certain deal. Furthermore, it gives the merchants valuable data about potential customers and their profiles. This makes it easy for them to create personalized offers to target them when necessary. The value it provides for customers is the attractive deals they find while on the go.
* It improves the relationship between Barilla and its customers by increased supply chain transparency and helps to build trust. Weakness of JITD for Barilla * Internal Business issues with sales force. Barilla’s sales force feared the risk of losing their job and another problem was that, they got incentives based on sales number which would not be possible in JITD. * Information about JITD was not clear enough
There are four key sources for Walmart’s competitive advantages: Successful Vendor relationship, efficient communication network, Value employees’ most, and efficient operation management which all leads to one thing- Low cost. Walmart is a no-nonsense negotiator and deals with suppliers who would give them goods at the lowest prices which leads to efficient purchasing. Walmart emphasizes a lot on customer and employee satisfaction which gives them the edge over their competitors, Walmart has its way of motivating its employees by sharing the financial numbers with them and its profit sharing scheme. Another important advantage Walmart has is that it believes in relentless cost control, from its top level management to its associates. Walmart has the most efficient operation management: it has a hub-and-spoke distribution network across the country and has its own warehouses