Michael Porter What Is Strategy

[Hippocrates] method is hard, persistent, unremitting labor in the sick room, not in the library ; the all-round adaptation of the doctor to his task, an adaptation that is far from being merely intellectual. The second element of that method is accurate observations of things and events, selection, guided by judgment born of familiarity and experience, of the salient and the recurrent phenomena, and their classification and methodical exploitation. The third element of that method is the judicious construction

marketing problem and the acceptable range of action, ending up with the choice of variables, the way to combine segmentation criteria, etc… ? Building segments and clusters is (wrongly) considered as the domain of statisticians and researchers. We will show that, in reality, cutting a market into groups, i.e. ‘structuring’ a market, is a fundamental act in marketing, which cannot be separated from marketing action. Going through a structuring process, with the help of segmentation and clustering, means

in number of activities that actually contribute to retain part of their users; these actions however are rarely integrated into a comprehensive marketing strategy. What interest libraries would have to establish real customer loyalty programs? Can they draw lessons from the models developed by the business sector? The purpose of this study is to demonstrate how developing loyal customers supports and reinforces the mission of the institution. Keywords : Libraries -- Marketing Libraries -- Services

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littérature. Voir aussi William S. Vickrey (1960), Benjamin Ward (1965), Sen (1966, 1969), Sen et Pattanaik (1969) et Pattanaik (1971). D’autres types de restrictions ont également été considérés pour fournir des décisions à la majorité cohérentes ; voir Michael B. Nicholson (1965), Plott (1967), Gordon Tullock (1967), Inada (1970), Pattanaik (1971), Otto A. Davis et al. (1972), Fishburn (1973), Kelly (1974a, b, 1978), Pattanaik et Sengupta (1974), Eric S. Maskin (1976a, b, 1995), Jean-Michel Grandmont (1978)

organisations à revoir leurs pratiques à ce chapitre pour demeurer dans la course! La performance humaine comme outil d’amélioration de la productivité dans les terminaux portuaires 3 Les membres de l’Association des employeurs maritimes (AEM) du Port de Montréal doivent actuellement faire face à un contexte économique difficile. Ils prévoient également le développement d’une nouvelle concurrence du côté américain, cette fois ferroviaire, qui les incite à viser une augmentation du rythme de croissance

South African Organic Market Study May 2006 EPOPA (Export Promotion of Organic Products from Africa) is a development programme initiated by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, SIDA, in 1997. EPOPA offers African smallholder farmers opportunities for improved livelihoods through the development of organic products for export. The programme has been evaluated twice and has been proven to be a valid instrument for African exporters desiring to improve their businesses and

Abstract: Although the logical strength which links the outsourcing of the accounting function up with several incentive factors is recognized by some professional studies, the absence of an empirical validation of the relevance of these factors, in particular in a Tunisian context, incited us to conduct an investigation on this subject. The objective of this study is to analyze the impact of four groups of determining factors of the decision of outsourcing of the accounting function in the

him, this time for the "wonders of wine and vine". So it is not amazing that the idea to write about "wine in China" grew and took shape. What is amazing indeed is the fact that the task he had taken upon himself kept him going, in spite of his progressing severe illness, even during many days of hospitalization. Toward the end of September 2000 Pieter remarked: "I need two more months to finish the manuscript" The last notated alteration is dated October 28th, 2000 ..... I am grateful his sons took

dos de Microsoft) et compétitif en terme de prix. La stratégie de l’entreprise a souvent été fortement contestée. La crise des années 1990 a démontré les faiblesses de l’entreprise. D’après Marc Gobe (auteur de « Emotional Branding ») « Apple is about imagination design and innovation. This business should have been dead 10 years ago, but people said we’ve got to support it ». En effet, la gestion financière au milieu des 90’s a menacé l’existence de l’entreprise. Apple a sûrement résisté