Organizations that fail to innovate find themselves in a situation where they have to restructure themselves to stay afloat.
Choose 1 of the companies listed below. Use the provided articles to support your understanding of the company’s situation.
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Based on your chosen company, discuss how reorganization of its business structure would or would not have helped them meet new market challenges. In your response, address the following:
Refer to the 2017 annual report of JB Hi-Fi Limited on its website, www.jbhifi.com.au and answer the following questions:
Assignment: Using the telecommunication industry, design a Strategic Group Map. Then, apply the Five Forces Model to the telecommunications industry. Identify which of the five competitive forces is strongest? Which is weakest? What competitive forces seem to have the greatest effect on industry attractiveness and the potential profitability of new entrants? Include rationale. Determine whether the strength of the five competitive forces, overall, will allow for you as a new entrant to introduce a new telecommunication product. Upload the Strategic Group Map and Porter’s Five Analysis.
No Plagiarism. Using easy vocabulary is enough.
At the simplest, acquisition management can be viewed as:
a. inventory management plus contract management
What is the relationship between social marketing and consumer perceptions of healthcare, and how does this relationship improve patient quality and safety?
How do you see social marketing strategies impacting quality and safety initiatives in your current (or a former) healthcare organization?
The Technology Development (RD) Stage-Gate process involves:
4 gates and 3 stages, including technology validation
5 gates and 4 stages, including project scoping
5 gates and 4 stages including detailed investigation
4 gates and 3 stages including technical assessment
4 gates 3 stages including commercial viability
A company contracts with a marketing firm to construct software and create a business website. A quote is requested and accepted. Sometime later, the business asks for updates and revisions but fails to request a quote. The business subsequently refuses to pay for the changes, claiming no contract was formed under the requirements of the offer under the UCC. The marketing firm then took the website down for nonpayment. The marketing firm then sued for nonpayment of its invoice; the company countersues on the tort of conversion for the loss of the website. This intriguing case offers up several questions, the first being whether this dispute even falls under UCC subject matter. The second is whether the claim of conversion will lie. [
Reggie went to the Napa Valley Harvest Festival, when he stopped at Tracy’s booth where she was selling paintings of vineyards. Reggie admired a painting of vineyards that did not appear to be for sale. Reggie said to Tracy, “I will give you $200 for that painting right now.” Tracy said nothing in response but she gave Reggie the painting, and Reggie gave her $200 in cash. This is an example of a contract that is now
The next two questions draw on the following hypothetical scenario:
Pills & Co., one of the top-five
pharmaceutical companies globally, is pursuing an ambitious project (the “Gamma Project”). It is essentially an aggressive acquisition program in which Pills & Co. will fully acquire two of its biggest direct rivals within two years. It also plans acquisitions of one large and two mid-sized Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) companies. A big part of the Pharmacy Benefit Management business is managing prescription drug costs for health plans and insurers; PBMs do it by buying patented drugs from the drug manufacturers on behalf of the health plans.
For the purposes of this exam, let’s define the pharmaceutical industry so that it includes all patented pharmaceutical incumbents worldwide, such as Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb and others like them. They discover new drug targets through extensive R&D, patent them, obtain necessary approvals, manufacture and sell drugs. Most important supplier groups for the industry are workforce (scientists, support staff, manufacturing staff), commodity chemicals producers, laboratory and scientific equipment manufacturers, IT and other professional services suppliers, including marketing agencies. Let’s exclude from the industry definition the companies that mostly manufacture and sell non-patented (generic) medications, like Teva Pharmaceuticals. Please note that you will not need any additional knowledge about the pharmaceutical industry or PBM to answer the next two questions – you should be able to fully answer them using the information contained here, even if you have had no prior familiarity with the industry.
Question 16: If the Gamma Project is fully implemented, how will it affect the industry for the patented pharmaceuticals?
a.It will significantly increase the rivalry
b.It might decrease the bargaining power of the buyers
c.It might decrease the barriers to entry
d.It will dramatically increase the bargaining power of suppliers