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Kaplan and Norton’s Balanced Scorecard provide four perspectives that assist in creating vision and strategy as follows: Finance – Observes high level financial objectives and measures and asks how does a company look to its shareholders? Customer – Focuses on customer satisfaction and asks how do customers view a company? Internal Processes – Focuses on how well the company is run and if a company is providing what the customers want, or answers the question, what should a company be best at…

Introduction Our team was hired by upper management to manage the supply chain “Ticking Time Foam”. Our objective was to maximize the cash generated by sales in five regions, Calopeia, Sorange, Tyran, Fardo and Entworpe. Originally, Ticking Time Foam was responsible for managing the market solely in and from Calopeia. Our supply chain was then given the opportunity to expand into four additional regions by building new factories and warehouses. Our team took over management of the supply chain…

My practice negotiation was with Andrew Powelson. I was the employer and Andrew was the employee. The negotiation took place on Wednesday August, 30th 2017 in the evening through email. My BATNA was for Andrew to counteroffer with a middle tier package; that included $175k salary, 7% commission and 30 holidays. My best guess at what his BATNA was were to receive an offer including all benefits and nothing less than 7% commission. As the employer, I was prepared to send out the first offer.…

Analysis of Seven Staircases to Growth 1. Relying on the Staircases to growth paper, analyze each of the seven staircases. Which of the seven staircases is your organization using to grow? Which ones would you recommend, why? Does your organization have enough market power so that such growth strategies may help to create value? The distinctive seven staircases of growth strategies have been adopted by many successful companies, such as Walt Disney, Gillette, Johnson & Johnson, Home Depot, and…

Commercial management is the non-technical business disciplines within an organization, specifically the administration of revenue and expenses to generate a financial return.” It is the management of contractual and commercial matters connecting to the projects, from project beginning to completion (Lowe & Leiringer 2005, 2006). Commercial Management of Projects was very crucial module as a project manager point of view. It is important for a project manager to understand about the commercial…

This report provides an analysis of the distribution expansion for Tom Ford brand. The research draws attention to the fact how Tom Ford brand became global brand, growth of its retail network and distribution methods it uses on COO market and the Global market. In introduction, you will be able to read overview of the brand, and the recent successes, developments and some issues that brand has during last three years, and three-year change of the retail network. Second part is, Analysis, I’m…

Memorandum 1: On Advice to Sucha Tees: Standing and Probability of Success in Suit against BVD Partners, Bertie, TMI, and Vinnie (1) Sucha Tees v. BVD Partners, 2) Sucha Tees v. Bertie, 3) Sucha Tees v. TMI, 4) Sucha Tees v. Vinnie) I. Issue and Relevant Questions Sucha Tees seeks payment for $1000 spent on their custom t-shirts? Do all four defendants—Vinnie Pacciotto, Bertie Vastar, TMI, and BVD Partners—all assume liability for the payment? If so, how will payment be divided? If not, who…

GOPPAR is the Gross Operating Profit Per Available Room. The GOPPAR is calculated by dividing the GOP available by the size rooms multiplied by the opening days will be divided (Appendix A). The overheads management, marketing, maintenance, energy, cleaning, disposal, and other expenses, including variable and fixed cost, are also imputed to fold to the divisions. Hotelier can boost up GOPPAR by increasing the ADR. GOPPAR, in general, provides an accurate indication of profitability as well as,…

This section divided in two cases: a first case is an inventory model designed for retailer and second case is an inventory model designed for the supplier. 4.3.1 Case I: Inventory model of the first cycle (0 ≤ t ≤ T) designed for retailer At first, at t=0 retailer has his delivery and put up for sale at a stock dependent demand rate. The stock for retailer decreases due to the combined result of demand and deterioration. At t=t1 inventory becomes zero and shortages occurs during the period [t1,…

Chapter 2: Empirical Research The two cases that will be used in the empirical research, Bubble Post and Blue Gate Antwerp will be analyzed under the following categories:  Background  Characteristics and Operation  Vehicles  Financial Profile  Social benefits and  Concluding remarks. 2.1 BUBBLE POST As aforementioned material that will be used to analyze Bubble Post are from answers to questionnaire attached in the annex of this document and the following links: [1]…