Identify the main reasons for reviewing working methods, products and / or services in a business environment. The main reason why a business should review working methods, products and / or services are to ensure that they are keeping in line with other businesses. An example of not keeping up with the times is HMV. Change can cause added pressures to the business. However there are changes that would have a small affect on the business.
• A differentiator must control its cost structure to ensure the price of its products does not exceed the price customers are willing to pay for them • When differentiation stems from the design or physical features of the product, differentiators are at great risk of being imitated ▫ Example? • When differentiation stems from superior service or reliability, or from any intangible source a company is much more secure. ▫ Example?
Multiple methods. Competent marketing researchers shy away from over-reliance on any one method, preferring to adapt the method to the problem rather than the other way around. They also recognize the desirability of gathering information from multiple sources to give greater confidence. 4. Interdependence of models and data.
are ways to give the consumer a choice on how they want their shopping experience to go. With all the people that embrace these new technologies, there are many who would rather do business the old fashioned way, without all the bells and whistles. For this reason, companies need to accommodate all types of consumers and be sure that the technologies do not overwhelm the product. Inventory control is another important role for technology to have a place in retail management. Software that can help stores understand why they seller don't sell are important to keep costs low throughout the company.
List the reasons why BayState Realty chose to go with off-the-shelf software instead of developing their own software packages in house. Reasons | * Can negotiate favorable licensing terms with company for the initial acquisition of products * Standardize and minimize implementation costs * It can limit firm investment in ongoing
This action is a good start, so that both parties define and protect specific laws. If a legal dispute does happen both parties may wish to be aware of practical considerations before taking any legal actions. Considerations such as; the partnership, the original contract, the laws of the government that one is doing business with, future investments, and relations with the country in which the business is located. One factor that may not work in CadMex’s favor when granting the sublicensing agreement is that there is always a chance that Gentura may violate the agreement and divulge CasMex’s proprietary information to competing companies. When conducting business with foreign countries one should always be aware of the laws and customs in place of the country one wishes to conduct business with or make arrangements to do business (Delaney, 2004).
The company at hat served the public best would be favored in a competitive situation C. My opinion is that there should be a balance between competition and government involvement. A competitive situation would keep utility employees striving to satisfy the needs of their customer. Without competition some employees could become indifferent to customer satisfaction as the customer can not go anywhere else. Government involvement would be important by setting standards that must be adhered to by competing companies as far as level of service and also ensure that the competing companies can not fix pricing to consumers and artificially control what the consumer will
Task 1 The marketing mix is developed on four main elements known as Product, Price, Promotion and Place, but the marketing mix can also be extended by adding another three elements these are People, Process and Physical. Product – This is where a decision is made on what product or service should be offered to customers. This could also be improving an existing product or service, it is very important that technology based are updated as they may become out of date very quickly which would make them inferior to the competition. To create competitive advantage organisations may also use the product for brand naming, packaging and a guarantee that accompanies the product. Price – Price is a very important part of the marketing mix
The opportunity is if you change negative conversations to positive, you can change the culture for the better. However the challenges is; if you don't change the dialogs between management and the corporate culture, the culture will not change and conversations that do not support the desired changes will make progress particularly hard to achieve and (2) encourage formal and informal action-based learning. Action-based learning has become an important tool for helping employees understand the implementation of culture development. In other words, the employee studies their own actions and experience in order to improve performance. I would argue a culture of
Compromising looks for solutions that partially satisfies both parties involved in the conflict. Compromise may be appropriate to use in situations where goal are moderately important to the job role and to enable a staff team to reach a temporary settlement on complex issues. Compromise can be used as a first step when the parties involved in the conflict do not actually know each other well or they don’t have a high level of mutual trust. Compromising is also to be used when the techniques of collaboration or forcing do not work. Advantages of using compromise include faster issue resolution, so therefore may be more practical when time is a factor.