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]
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.
Timothy Ferriss - The 4-Hour Workweek - Home 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.
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.
About | Peter H. Diamandis Dr. Peter H. Diamandis is an international pioneer in the fields of innovation, incentive competitions and commercial space. In the field of Innovation, Diamandis is Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, best known for its $10 million Ansari X PRIZE for private spaceflight. Today the X PRIZE leads the world in designing and operating large-scale global competitions to solve market failures. Diamandis is also the Co-Founder and Vice-Chairman of Human Longevity Inc. In the field of commercial space, Diamandis is Co-Founder/Co-Chairman of Planetary Resources, a company designing spacecraft to enable the detection and mining of asteroid for precious materials. Diamandis is the New York Times Bestselling author of Abundance – The Future Is Better Than You Think. He earned an undergraduate degree in Molecular Genetics and a graduate degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School.
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.
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%.
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Schonberger World Class Manufacturing 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]
Lean manufacturing Overview[edit] The difference between these two approaches is not the goal itself, but rather the prime approach to achieving it. The implementation of smooth flow exposes quality problems that already existed, and thus waste reduction naturally happens as a consequence. Both lean and TPS can be seen as a loosely connected set of potentially competing principles whose goal is cost reduction by the elimination of waste.[5] These principles include: Pull processing, Perfect first-time quality, Waste minimization, Continuous improvement, Flexibility, Building and maintaining a long term relationship with suppliers, Autonomation, Load leveling and Production flow and Visual control. Origins[edit] Lean implementation is therefore focused on getting the right things to the right place at the right time in the right quantity to achieve perfect work flow, while minimizing waste and being flexible and able to change. Lean aims to make the work simple enough to understand, do and manage.