Contrast corporate-level strategy with business-level strategy.
Tuesday 21 October 2014
Monday 20 October 2014
Blog 21 – Organizational structure
1) What role do you think organizational structure plays in an organization’s efficiency and effectiveness? Explain.
Blog 20 – Mechanistic & Organic organizational structures
1) Would you rather work in a mechanistic or an organic organization? Why?
Blog 19 – Work specialization
1) Researchers are now saying that efforts to simplify work tasks actually have negative results for both companies and their employees. Do you agree? Why or why not?
Tuesday 7 October 2014
Blog 18 – The “Bio fruit experience” failure
1) What did you learn from the bio fruit experience?
2) Why is it failed?
2) Why is it failed?
Blog 17 – The risk
Describe the genesis of risk (the market requires different product or inability of the factors of production) for the following businesses:
1) “How is made chocolate”
2) “How is made honey”
3) “How is made Pringles”
1) “How is made chocolate”
2) “How is made honey”
3) “How is made Pringles”
Monday 6 October 2014
Blog 16 – Classifying the factors of production
Classify the factors of production on the basis of the first two points listed above (tangible and intangible, mode of participation in the productive combination), for the following businesses:
1) “How is made chocolate”
2) “How is made honey”
3) “How is made Pringles”
1) “How is made chocolate”
2) “How is made honey”
3) “How is made Pringles”
Blog 15 – The phases of productions
1) Describe what are the phases of production, for the following businesses:
a) “How is made chocolate”
b) “How is made honey”
c) “How is made Pringles”
Using the logic make or buy decide which phases externalize.
a) “How is made chocolate”
b) “How is made honey”
c) “How is made Pringles”
Using the logic make or buy decide which phases externalize.
Blog 14 – The non-business organizations
1) Find out the What, How and Why of a non-for-profit organization (e.g. the Greenpeace association), using its mission
Wednesday 1 October 2014
Blog 13 – Unsustainable firms
1) Find a company that create an unsustainable profit, saying why it is unsustainable (e.g. because of the environment or society)
Blog 12 - The objective of your private school
1) You are an entrepreneur and you want to open a private high school in your City. Write the mission statement, describing separately its What, How and Why, distinguishing two cases:
a) You are an unethical entrepreneur who wants just to maximize profit
b) You are an ethical entrepreneur who wants to have profit operating ethically
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