company s sustainable competitive advantages

... Competitors analysis Entry barrier Son Thuy analysis: Business functions Competitive advantages Suppliers analysis Buyers analysis Substitution Technology I Demographic Social environment Scope of ... Managers of SMEs in Vietnam also have less habit of using those supporting institutions Moreover, under – developed business services cause difficulty Business service in Vietnam includes mainly seven ... Analyzing Son Thuy s business to find the strengths and weaknesses, Benchmarking Son Thuy strengths and weaknesses against competitors to determine the competitive advantages Recommending for Son Thuy...

Ngày tải lên: 13/04/2013, 21:58

... suggestions for the company Third, Customer s feedback about the company s products are discussed and analyzed in the form of figures and charts From this, it is also easy for us to withdraw solutions ... out solutions for promoting customer satisfaction In other word, the study seeks answers to these questions: ● How has the company implemented its product strategy recently? What are effects of ... the strategy on consumption situation of the company in the recent? ● Do the company s products satisfy customers? ● What should the company to promote customer satisfaction about its products...

Ngày tải lên: 18/04/2013, 08:24

... Honesty 180 Seven Steps to a Successful Business Plan Such discussions are not only boring, they’re very superficial This is traditional list-making Most planning teams display mild interest, ... Business Plan THE SEVEN KEY OPERATING PRINCIPLES THAT GUIDE SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSES Another key piece of the soft side of your story is your principles These are “laws of business” by which you must ... ethical standards for employees Take swift, decisive corrective actions in potentially embarrassing situations 184 Seven Steps to a Successful Business Plan We Value Our Time This means we: Don’t...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 09:20

... 150 Seven Steps to a Successful Business Plan Typically planning teams spend time discussing the current state of their business situation Equal time is spent discussing the future Almost no ... labeled the six drivers as: Players Plans Processes Products Properties Payoffs 152 Seven Steps to a Successful Business Plan THE PLAYER-DRIVEN ORGANIZATION: PUTTING EMPLOYEE OR CUSTOMER FIRST A player-driven ... his business His rationale was that the customer comes second.3 His belief was that a company that takes care of its employees doesn’t have problems with customers Putting employees first means...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 09:20

... reconfigurability The slack storage system needs to provide flexible storage capacities, permanent bend radius protection, and easy access to individual fibers Slack storage systems come in many styles and configurations ... possibilities of field-installable connectors Slack Fiber Fiber Patch Cord Slack Storage System Figure Slack Storage Systems Page Housing of Optical Equipment As networks grow and technologies ... panel Accessing these connectors should not cause any significant loss in adjacent fibers A system that allows easy access to these connectors has a much lower operating cost and improved reliability...

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 02:15

... 1996 VISION most of those statements turn out to be a muddled stew of values, goals, purposes, philosophies, beliefs, aspirations, norms, strategies, practices, and descriptions They are usually ... example, NASA s 196 0s moon mission didn’t need a committee of wordsmiths to spend endless hours turning the goal into a verbose, impossible-to-remember mission statement The goal itself was so easy to ... its credo In 1996, 3M sold off several of its large mature businesses – a dramatic move that surprised the business press – to refocus on its enduring core purpose of solving unsolved problems...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 16:15

... the forecast because of the cost of sales in actual is higher than what we expected The rationale for the loss in gross margin is the increasing in cost of sales and overheads which caused by the ... the gross margin grows up 3.69% and 0.69% The rationale for the lower gross margin than forecast is caused by the increasing in cost of sale includes of material costs, wages and closing stock ... work organizations, and the workforce also be considered as the key successful factor towards the organizations This statement also affects on and supports our company to go for a strategy from...

Ngày tải lên: 26/02/2014, 11:20

... extensive analysis of strategies to cut CO2 emissions from this sector Countries such as Holland are developing specific programs to reduce energy use and associated greenhouse gas emissions from ... the benefits and costs associated with sustainable buildings Life cycle costing, often confused with the more rigorous life cycle assessment (LCA) analysis, looks at costs and benefits over the ... warming.141 The United States is responsible for about 22% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions Of this 22%, the US building sector is responsible for about 35% of US CO2 emissions CO2 is the dominant...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20

... business activities, enterprises need to have assets, including shortterm assets and long-term assets Ensuring adequate demand for property (capital needs) is crucial issue to ensuring business ... long-term assets of the company during the year, is increased because fixed assets and long-term factors 33 are also increased The investment in purchasing a new fixed assets is reasonable because company ... expenses that company spends, are also quite high As a result, it cause the loss for this account The operating revenue factors from sales and services increased despite the financial costs and selling...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 14:20

... activities to the business strategy of 48 the organization Business strategy is the key element of business success Having the right strategy, the likelihood of success was 50% However, some Vietnamese ... honors and praises the businesses implement Corporate Social responsibility and raise awareness about the role and benefits of corporate social responsibility for sustainable enterprises In 2006, ... governments Add to that a sense, community consciousness and self-protection consciousness of the Vietnamese community is low That leads to some companies easily spleen, such as M3CPD sauce, milk...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 14:20

... ―the best interests of stakeholders will inevitably also promote the best interests of shareholders is unreasonably optimistic‖ because of the conflict of interests and ethics among those stakeholders ... the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits However, those arguments of CSR above seem to be a bias motivation towards the previous outcome of CSR – increasing corporation social ... of society 2.2 The definition of CSR The definition of corporate social responsibility is not abstruse According to Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), corporate social responsibility is...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 14:20

... forecasting (to use as the basis of business decisions).5 We will write: Yt = response of interest at time t Standard analysis of business time series involves smoothing trend assessment, assessment ... from other companies Moreover, the business results are also reviewed and assessed to show the positive and negative aspects in financial situation This research s purpose is to provide the better ... the firm is utilizing its assets to produce revenues or sales It is a measure of the dollars of sales generated by $1 of the firm s assets Generally, the more efficiently assets are used, the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 14:20

... be lined up Now it s the New Economy s turn to learn these same timetested lessons “Business doesn’t run on sales growth; it runs on cash,” Mr McGuiness writes “Business doesn’t run on even the ... quantitative measure of a business s success is not profitability—the excess of revenue over expense Instead, it is what I call cashflowability—the excess of cash flowing into the business over cash flowing ... payment is made For most businesses, though, a cash-based accounting system is far too simplistic to reflect economic realities The accrual-based accounting system presents financial results as though...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 18:20

... businesses In a service business, where there is often no gross margin per se, SG&A also includes those costs associated with providing the service that is your reason for being SG&A is generally ... be: Sorry, payment needs to be made in cash Business doesn’t run on profit; it runs on cash Business doesn’t run on sales growth; it runs on cash Your business doesn’t run on even the best and ... the business using the cash drivers as a strategically consistent set of measurable business goals centered in cash-flow dynamics Chapter 14 moves to the important link between cash flow and company...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 18:20

... happenings is that all transaction level as increases in assets and all decreases in sales and other business either liabilities or net worth between events are recorded balance-sheet dates necessarily ... considerable inventory in both short-term asset categories (such as consumables like food, sheets and supplies) and in long-term assets (such as furniture, medical equipment, vehicles and leasehold ... sheets and income statements is to consider them on a commonsized basis; one that is expressed in percentages rather than dollars The income statement thus begins with sales or revenue as 100%,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 18:20

... assets of this and other businesses are the skills and knowledge of the people who best understand the dynamics of the business and the direcThe primary issue with tions for its future success ... increased average sale size through a home-design consulting emphasis that transformed much of the company s basic sales | 64 Statements of Cash Flow & Analysis of Ratios process By 2000, Woody s ... is $500,000 Cash itself is another and total assets are $5,000,000, then item of asset efficiency return on assets is 10% If we turn this Unless there is some measure upside down, it tells us...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 18:20

... too, yields positive cash flows In short, when it comes to sustainable growth, as the song says, something s got to give Let s now look at the sustainable- growth formula It is surprisingly simple: ... business running smoothly, is a cash-conversion opportunity A company can sell any excess asset, then use the cash to finance growth beyond what is otherwise sustainable from just cash profits and ... present asset base Note that this discussion of sustainable growth implicitly assumes that the only increases in your equity are from profit retained in the business For some small companies,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 18:20

... expense Selling, general and administrative expense (SG&A) is usually the next-biggest cash driver after sales growth and gross margins In a service business especially, this is where most of ... resources is as much an operating-expense issue as it is a gross-margin issue Let s turn now explicitly to operating expense—that is, selling, general and administrative (SG&A) costs—as a cash driver ... break out cost of sales (or services) For companies that break out cost of sales (manufacturers, retailers, wholesalers and some service companies) SG&A is typically the second-biggest number,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 18:20

... must understand your business s unique patterns It is also important to be sure your banker understands such uniqueness because the cash-flow implications are so significant Banks tend to specialize ... ancillary sense It consists of items such as delivery charges or sales taxes should be reviewed at least periodically instituting a set of Aging is usually associated primarily practices to ensure ... different cost levels, the question arises as to what cost to charge to cost of sales Is it the average cost, the oldest cost, the most recent cost? Each method has its pros and cons, but the most commonly...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 18:20