SWOT analysis A SWOT analysis, with its four elements in a 2×2 matrix. A SWOT analysis (alternatively SWOT matrix) is a structured planning method used to evaluate the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats involved in a project or in a business venture. A SWOT analysis can be carried out for a product, place, industry or person. It involves specifying the objective of the business venture or project and identifying the internal and external factors that are favorable and unfavorable to achieve that objective. Some authors credit SWOT to Albert Humphrey, who led a convention at the Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) in the 1960s and 1970s using data from Fortune 500 companies.[1][2] However, Humphrey himself does not claim the creation of SWOT, and the origins remain obscure. The degree to which the internal environment of the firm matches with the external environment is expressed by the concept of strategic fit. Matching and converting[edit] Use[edit] Strategy building[edit]
Rethinking the Role of Business Analysts: Towards Agile Business Analysts? The focus of this discussion is on business system analysts (BSAs) even though many of the issues (or flavors thereof) are pertinent to the other analyst types. BSAs typically have experience in a wide range of techniques, including interviewing, structured meeting approaches such as Joint Application Development (JAD), modeling sessions, and model reviews. Good BSAs have a good understanding of the business domain and are typically "people persons". 1. Why have many traditional organizations adopted the idea of having BSAs on staff? Developers can't elicit requirements. 2. A BSA on a traditional software development project will perform one or more of the following activities: Scope the system. 3. In theory the idea of having traditional BSAs involved with a project should work quite well, and in practice it often does. Clearly this was a step in the right direction. BSAs often lack the right skills. 4. How can BSAs become more effective? 5.
Corporate raid In business, a corporate raid refers to buying a large stake in a corporation and then using shareholder voting rights to require the company to undertake novel measures designed to increase the share value, generally in opposition to the desires and practices of the corporation's current management. The measures might include replacing top executives, downsizing operations, or liquidating the company. Corporate raids were particularly common in the 1970s and 1980s in the United States. By the end of the 1980s, management of many large publicly traded corporations had adopted legal countermeasures designed to thwart potential hostile takeovers and corporate raids, including poison pills, golden parachutes, and increases in debt levels on the company's balance sheet. In later years, corporate raiders have since turned to being "activist shareholders", purchasing equity stakes in a corporation to influence its board of directors to put public pressure on its management. History[edit] T.
Flexibility (engineering) Flexibility is used as an attribute of various types of systems. In the field of engineering systems design, it refers to designs that can adapt when external changes occur. Flexibility has been defined differently in many fields of engineering, architecture, biology, economics, etc. In the context of engineering design one can define flexibility as the ability of a system to respond to potential internal or external changes affecting its value delivery, in a timely and cost-effective manner. Thus, flexibility for an engineering system is the ease with which the system can respond to uncertainty in a manner to sustain or increase its value delivery. Flexibility has been especially thoroughly studied for manufacturing systems. These definitions yield under current conditions of the system and that no major setups are conducted or investments are made (except expansion flexibility). Browne, J. et al.
International Institute of Business Analysis | Home Gestion alternative Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Les investissements des fonds spéculatifs entre 2000 et 2007 La gestion alternative est un mode de gestion de portefeuille appliqué par certains fonds d'investissement dits « fonds spéculatifs », « fonds alternatifs », « fonds d'arbitrage », « fonds de couverture », ou hedge funds. L'investissement minimal va de quelques dizaines de milliers de dollars parfois, à plusieurs centaines de milliers plus souvent, suivant les fonds. De plus, n'étant par essence pas aussi réglementés que les fonds de placement classiques, ils ne peuvent être distribués au grand public et sont réservés à la catégorie des investisseurs institutionnels ou aux grandes fortunes. Objectifs[modifier | modifier le code] Historique[modifier | modifier le code] Grâce aux liquidités injectées par les États, les 9 000 fonds de couverture (hedge funds) pèsent 2 000 milliards de dollars en 2009 ; plus des trois quarts d'entre eux sont américains ou britanniques.
Hypercompetition Hypercompetition is rapid and dynamic competition characterized by unsustainable advantage. It is the condition of rapid escalation of competition based on price-quality positioning, competition to protect or invade established product or geographic markets and competition based on deep pockets (financial capital) and the creation of even deeper pocketed alliances. Often a characteristic of new markets and industries, hypercompetition occurs when technologies or offerings are so new that standards and rules are in flux, resulting in competitive advantages and profits resulting from such competitive advantages cannot be sustained. In order to compete irrespective of how short-term the competitive advantage is, companies can implement a strategy based on finding and building temporary advantages through market disruption rather than trying to sustain an unsustainable advantage. Cost & Quality (C-Q)-leader or follower. Plant, R. 2006.
Analyzing & Visualizing Competition Posted on October 25th, 2010 in Charts and Graphs - 5 comments Analyzing competition is one of the key aspects of running a business. In this article, learn how to use Excel’s scatter plots to understand competition. How Mobile Handset Market Changed from 2007 to 2010? [view large] Recently, Kaiser at Junk Charts pointed to a very effective business chart that shows the dynamics of competitive land scape with ease. The chart shown aside originally appeared in Asymco, shows how mobile handset market has changed between 2007 & 2010. What is so special about this chart? I like this type of chart because it clearly tells the story of what happened in mobile handset market between 2007 and 2010. The chart instantly lets me ask important questions like, “So what did Nokia do wrong?” And that is what a chart should do. How to construct similar chart in Excel? Here is how you can construct similar business chart in excel. Step 1: Get your data Step 2: Re-arrange the data, so we get first and last values
Le hedge fund Verrazzano Capital ouvre ses portes à Paris Guillaume Rambourg, l'ancien gérant star du hedge fund britannique Gartmore, va mettre sur les rails, début mars, deux fonds long/short actions: Verrazzano European Opportunities et Verrazzano European Focus. Ils seront domiciliés en Irlande. «Le premier, à faible volatilité, sera investi sur 40 à 80 positions avec un stop loss de 10% et une exposition réduite au marché. Le second, plus agressif, avec un beta potentiellement plus élevé, aura un portefeuille plus concentré autour de 20 à 30 noms. Le levier maximum autorisé sera de 250%», indique-t-il à L'Agefi.La liquidité sera mensuelle avec un préavis de 30 jours. Côté frais, la funding class, soit les 400 premiers millions de dollars, bénéficiera de frais de gestion de 1,5% et de surperformance de 15%.
Schonberger World Class Manufacturing Showing dynamics on a business chart Dave S. achieved a rare feat, which is to send in a great-looking set of charts. This post at Asymco is worth reading in its entirety; the author Horace discusses the process by which he worked through several charts, arriving at the one he's most happy with. The secret to the success here is the careful framing of the question, and the collection of the appropriate data to address that question. The question is the competition between wireless phone vendors in the last three years. It was established that the right way to view this competition is in two dimensions: share of revenues, and share of profits. Note the word "share". Needless to say, the raw data one would collect come from the financial statements of the eight individual vendors. Horace also avoided the plague of plotting all time-series data as line charts (similar to the plague of plotting all geographic data on maps). This is the final graph Horace landed on. I am not saying this is a bad chart.
Web Bot Web Bot is an Internet Bot computer program whose developers claim is able to predict future events by tracking keywords entered on the internet. It was developed in 1997, originally to predict stock market trends.[1] The creator of the Web Bot Project, Clif High, along with his associate George Ure, keep the technology and algorithms largely secret and sell the predictions via the website. Methodology[edit] Internet bots monitor news articles, blogs, forums, and other forms of Internet chatter. Predictions[edit] Claimed hits[edit] Misses[edit] A massive earthquake in Vancouver, Canada and the Pacific Northwest was predicted to occur on 12 December 2008.[7]The US dollar completely collapses, or Israel bombs Iran in 2011. Reception[edit] See also[edit] References[edit]
Project planning The inputs of the project planning phase include the project charter and the concept proposal. The outputs of the project planning phase include the project requirements, the project schedule, and the project management plan.[5] The Project Planning can be done manually. However, when managing several projects, it is usually easier and faster to use project management software. See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] Supply chain A supply chain is actually a complex and dynamic supply and demand network.[1] Overview[edit] The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals defines supply chain management as follows: "Supply Chain Management encompasses the planning and management of all activities involved in sourcing and procurement, conversion, and all logistics management activities. A typical supply chain begins with the ecological, biological, and political regulation of natural resources, followed by the human extraction of raw material, and includes several production links (e.g., component construction, assembly, and merging) before moving on to several layers of storage facilities of ever-decreasing size and increasingly remote geographical locations, and finally reaching the consumer. Guaranteeing acceptable conditions in a global supply chain can be a complex challenge. Supply chain modeling[edit] A diagram of a supply chain. Most recently the Supply Chain Roadmap has been presented. Regulation[edit]