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STRATEGY, ETHICS & SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
STRATEGY, ETHICS & SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
*Shanmukha Rao. Padala **Dr. N. V.S. Suryanarayana
INTRODUCTION:
The earlier days’ concept is, the managers focused on ‘today’s decisions for today’s business’. However, the rapid change experienced by companies has made the managers to anticipate the future and prepare for it. They have prepared systems, procedures and manuals and evolved budgets and planning and control systems, which included capital budgeting and management by objectives. The inadequacy of these techniques has led to the emergence of long range planning which in turn gives rise to strategic planning and subsequently to strategic management.
Strategic management deals with decision making and actions which determine an enterprise’s ability to excel survive or die by making the best use of firms’ resources in a dynamic environment. The main purpose of study of strategic management is to examine why some organizations succeed while others fail and yet others completely change. Before going to discussing about strategic management, it is necessary to point out on ‘Strategy’ in this chapter.
Strategy is the overall plan of a firm deploying its resources to establish a favourable position and compete successfully against its rivals. Strategy describes a framework for charting a course of action. It explicates an approach for the company that build on its strengths and is a good fit with the firm’s external environment. It is basically intended to help firms achieve competitive advantage. Competitive advantage allows a firm to gain an edge over rivals when competing. Competitive advantage comes from a firm’s unique ability to perform activities more distinctively and more effectively than rivals. A firm’s distinctive competence or unique ability here implies, those special capabilities, skills, technologies or resources that enable a firm to distinguish itself from its rivals and create competitive advantage (such as superior quality, design skills, low-cost manufacturing, superior distribution etc.).
The term ‘terrain’ is highly relevant in explaining the concept of strategy more clearly. From a business sense, terrain refers to markets, segments and products used to win over customers. The essence of strategy is to match strengths and distinctive competence with terrain in such a way that one’s own business enjoys a competitive advantage over rivals competing in the same terrain. The basic premise of strategiy, as things stand now, is that an adversary can defeat a rival- even a large, more powerful one- if it can manoeuvre a battle or engagement on to a terrain favourable to its own capabilities. The term ‘Capability’ refers to the ability or capacity of a bundle of resources deployed by a firm to perform an activity.
7 Things Every Home Business Entreprenuer Needs To Know
Looking back on many unsuccessful attempts at home business, we wish we had received guidance from someone who had already been down the road we wanted to travel. We had so many failures that we were starting to doubt that success in a home business would ever happen for us.
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Thankfully, we didn’t give up and through perseverance we were able to achieve the success that had eluded us for years. Along the way we discovered many things that we wish we had known when we started this journey.
Our success has literally transformed our lives. We believe that to whom much has been given, much is required. Consider this information our gift to you. If we can be of assistance please, do not hesitate to fill out the contact form at TheHomeBusinessPodcast.
1. Success doesn’t happen overnight.
For some reason people think that they should become rich in a few months with their new home business and some people believe success should happen within weeks or days! We introduced a man in his early 50′s to our business and he was excited. When we first met he complained that he had been working hard for more than 30 years and he was broke.
He said he never had any time for himself or his family. We told him what it would take to become successful and he agreed to do it. Then, he disappeared. A few weeks later he called to tell me that he was quitting. He hadn’t even started and here he was ready to give up.
We asked him if he would be better off quitting his full-time job and keeping his home business! Of course, we didn’t really mean that he should quit his job, but he had been working full-time for more than 30 years and he was still broke. He started his home business just a few weeks earlier and he never gave it a chance.
Why is it that so many people think that they should become wealthy in a few weeks? The answer probably lies in all the get rich quick schemes that are so prevalent in our society today. You’ve seen the emails or read these lines in your junk mail. No Selling, We Do All The Work For You, Make ,000 in 90 days and on and on.
Career Advice
Career Advice
The modern time is very challenging, giving a lot of depression and failures to the jobseekers in most sectors of job. A good career advice can help these candidates make their career dazzling with number of job opportunities. Although, career and job and are two different things, but the former basically involves painstaking diligence while the latter one is all about being zealous for the responsibility you need to undertake for the granted job position. It is that special boulevard where you find good opportunities to prove yourself as an important asset by demonstrating your key skills and utmost diligence. Yet, if you are stuck about which career stream to pursue, seeking a career advice from a professional consultant is a brilliant step to determine your goals that will lead you to the path of success.
For a beginner, to pursue a viable career can be somewhat challenging, as their knowledge about this is either void or negligible. Yet the issue can be resolved readily if you come over to the point what hobbies or interests were of immense liking to you. And once employing them in your career hub, you can seriously start making money. Those avocations that have now turned into your profession are honestly the first springboard in providing you guaranteed success.
Being a beginner, you may not have that special skills or knowledge required to expand your potential plans and without these elements, finding a relevant job is seemingly possible. Therefore, the second important career advice portrays to go back to the past while you were in school or you can undergo some specific training that can hone your ability and skills. To be precise, you need to determine an institution where you can earn a degree/diploma/license of the stream of your best liking. This will encourage you to keep to your studies.
Ultimately, when you get a desired job, be sure to negotiate your salary. This will help catering your most needs; thereby, leading you to sustain a standard lifestyle. Then, strongly analyse the high, average and low income for your career so that you can clearly know what salary will suit to your skills and experience. If you have strong skills, there are maximum chances the salary will be decided in your accordance. But remember, while negotiating your salary, don’t be overconfident about yourself. Being patient and meek in your attitude, you can start earning money which you truly deserve and desire.
Oracle Advertising – putting together better marketing solutions
Oracle Advertising is one of the growing marketing companies in the UK that enables its customers to gain and achieve their marketing goals. The company caters to all from small to mid range business to large ones. Oracle has been successful in delivering superior quality service to its clients with innovative methodologies and strategic formation.
Oracle Advertising attributes its marketing success to the strong workforce that applies every thought to get into the books of the customer. The study of market before hand and how to penetrate accordingly is some of the issue it focuses. The unique thing about Oracle Advertising is they do not always follow the traditional way to marketing, but instead practices some out of the box methods, which most of the companies abstain from. Ali Mir, the Ceo of Oracle Advertising, enusres that their marketing campaign solely depends on customer demand and products, and they have successful history of marketing with more number of clients in their list.
The company has been successful in rendering its service to almost every sector of business like; technology, service, finance and manufacturing. Marketing should always be a joint strategy of methodology and technology, and Oracle has proved this when they see their client’s business share increase and they are able to retrieve their return on investment (ROI)
The ever growing market habit has always been a challenge for every company, but Oracle Advertising are habituated to such situation and put in place the practices that are most likely to fit the demand. Oracle’s well studied methodologies allow companies to estimate and check on rising cost of delivery. The company in no way compromises with the quality of the product just to enhance sales and effect their brand reputation. The company has dedicated resources that constantly monitors on how to better implement strategies and churn out better solutions through proper planning and communication.
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