A Strategy For Handspring
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This 9 page paper looks at the strategic alternatives that are available for Handspring considering the company core competences and the condition of the competitive environment. A recommendation is made and then an plan for implementing that recommendation is given. The paper ends by considering control and evaluation. The paper is based in a case supplied by the student. The bibliography cites 4 sources.
Filename: TEhandspring.rtf

A Study - Low Cost Airlines vs Ferries
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This 6 page paper. Why do people choose a ferry or a low-cost airline to get to the same place? This paper offers a draft questionnaire to be administered to random passengers of a budget airline and the ferry. The paper also presents questions for semi-structured interviews of SeaCat Ferry employees for the purpose of learning how the company operates. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: PGireln.rtf

A STUDY OF THE DIAMOND INDUSTRY
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This paper examines the diamond industry, its history, costs and processes of mining and production and marketing of the gemstones. The paper also discusses the role of De Beers in the overall development of the industry. Bibliography lists 7 sources
Filename: MTdiamon.rtf

A SWOT Analysis of W H Smith PLC
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This 3 page paper performances a SWOT analysis on the UK retail chain W H Smith’s. The paper considers the strengths, weaknesses opportunities and threats the company faced in the year 2001. The bibliography cites 4 sources.
Filename: TEwhsmit1.rtf

A Virtual Team at T.A. Stearns
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A 3 page paper discussing process and quality improvement among T.A. Stearns’ offsite programmers and what the company should do about it. The group of four programmers involved appears not to trust the company to retain all of them if its senior management learns of the time savings involved. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: KSmgmtOrgBeCa.rtf

A Virtual Team at T.A. Stearns (2)
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A 3 page paper discussing process and quality improvement among T.A. Stearns’ offsite programmers and what the company should do about it. A member of a group of four programmers has developed a technique that increased the group’s efficiency to the point of needing only three programmers, rather than four. The paper recommends that Stearns move the developer of the technique to subsequent groups to seek out similar efficiency-enhancing measures, allowing Stearns to benefit from the original group’s gain in productivity without penalizing the developer of the method allowing the group’s improvement in productivity and quality. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: KSmgOrgBeCa2.rtf

A Vision of the Workplace in 2006
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A 5 page paper discussing how management, motivation, employee goals and changing behaviors might be expected to be manifest in 2006. Conditions in 2006 hopefully are such that we finally have adopted the best of each approach. Many organizations claimed in the 1980s and early 1990s that TQM could not possibly work, because they had been unable to implement it themselves. With 20 years of practice behind them, US organizations will have better chances of taking the best of both and then integrating them for maximum effect. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: KSmgWork2006.rtf