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Bosch environmental / R&D investment:

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Bosch invests 50% of its R&D budget in technologies supporting environmental protection

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Bosch eXchange program:

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Bosch eXchange program remanufactures used car components, generating 23,000 metric tons less carbon dioxide annually compared to new production

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Starbucks Sustainable Coffe Challenge:

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Starbucks has committed to providing one million coffee trees to farmers as a partner in Conservation International’s ‘Sustainable Coffee Challenge’
- Plan to hire 10,000 refugees across 75 countries in the next five years

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Iceland palm oil campaign:

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Iceland announced they would stop manufacturing product containing palm oil to draw attention to tropical deforestation

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Virgin employee motivation:

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Richard Branson puts his employees over customers - he collects feedback from employees by walking around the cabin and talking directly to staff during flights
- “In the end shareholders do well, the customers do better, and your staff remains happy”

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Huawei market growth:

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Huawei’s market share reached 15% (Samsung is market leader with 17%)
- Consumers in China are turning to cheaper brands for smartphones

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Tesla customer service:

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Tesla goes to the customer’s home to fix car issues rather than making the customer go to the repair shop in their time

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Harley Davison after-sales service:

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When a customer purchases a Harley Davidson, they are encouraged to join the Harley Owners Group which connects riders and the brand and also helps with maintenance and bike issues

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Aldi sales growth:

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Aldi now have a market share of around 7.5% as opposed to 3% in 2012.

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Amazon hard HRM:

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Amazon accused of treating staff like robots as it emerged that ambulances had been called out 600 times to the UK warehouses in the past three years.

  • Employees told “it’s not what you want, it is what we decide”
  • Pregnant woman made to stand 10 hours without a chair
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Amazon R&D:

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Amazon topped the list of US company spending on R&D in 2017 with $22.6 billion to produce products such as Alexa

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Primark only selling in store:

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Primark does not sell online - their low prices means low profit margins and going online would mean absorbing shipping costs or passing them to the consumer

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Sea World reputation:

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Sea World’s public image was damaged after a documentary brought to light the conditions that they keep their Orca whales in - their stock fell 33% as a result

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Tesco quality control:

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Tesco burgers found to contain horse meat leading to their value falling by nearly £300 million

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Nike advertisement:

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Nike ‘Just Do It’ campaign resulted in their sales going from $800 million in 1988 to $2 billion within a decade
- Nike got support from athletes including Michael Jordan and turned the brand into a fashion statement rather than just sportswear

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Debenhams retrenchment:

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Debenhams plan to cut 50 stores after £492 million annual loss with up to 5,000 jobs at risk

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Unilever shareholder influence:

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Unilever cancels plans to move headquarters from London to Rotterdam due to pressure of shareholders

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Kleenex pressure groups:

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Kleenex ‘mansize’ tissue boxes renamed ‘extra large’ in response to criticism from customers and feminist campaigners

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Walmart innovation:

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Walmart applied for a patent for smart shopping carts to give store feedback about shopping habits
- Shopping carts are equipped with sensors that can read pulse, palm temperature and walking speed in order to understand how customers feel in the store

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Thomas Cook primary research:

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Thomas Cook considers introducing pre-bookable sun-beds after survey finds 1 in 10 are in favour of the idea

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Premier Inn product development:

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Premier Inn new Zip rooms that are 8.5 square metres starting from £19

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New look failed international expansion:

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New Look abandons Chinese operation as they try to find new tenants for their 130 stores in China

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Hoversurf technological change:

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Dubai Police started training on Hoversurf hover bikes, costing £114,000, to help attent emergencies quicker

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Apple product life cycle:

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Apple are no longer supporting the iPhone 5 as it is now considered vintage

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John Lewis product life cycle / technological change:
John Lewis will not longer be selling DVD players as sales of product plunged by 40% over the last year following increasing popularity of streaming services such as Netflix
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Honda JIT:
Honda Swindon assembly plant retains just an hours worth of parts at the production line - it requires 350 trucks' worth of components delivered everyday
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NHS cyber-crime:
NHS hit with a £92 million bill following fallout of the WannaCry cyber attack which disrupted services and left thousands of appointments cancelled - Health department agreed £150 million of investment in cyber security over next three years
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Dominoes market penetration:
Dominoes use notifications through e-commerce to encourage existing customers to buy more pizza
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Amazon technology creating jobs:
Amazon creates 600 research and development jobs in Manchester for workers to focus on software development
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Facebook data protection:
Facebook fined £500,000 over Cambridge Analytica scandal for breaches of data protection law - Data belonging to 87 million users were improperly accessed
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Lidl quality control:
Lidl shopper finds dead mouse in rice packet leaving house smelling of cooked mouse
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Apple soft HRM:
Apple voted best private sector firm to work for in the UK according to new survey - They employ around 6,500 people in the UK
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Amazon Herzberg hygiene factors:
Amazon warehouse workers have sent emails directly to boss Jeff Bezos urging him to restore their employee share schemes, which were cut to fund a promised pay rise. - Share scheme entitles them to one share - worth around £1,500 - for every year they work at Amazon
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WHSmith retrenchment:
WHSmith closing six stores after reporting a fall in yearly profits by £2 million - Moving staff at closing stores to other stores to prevent losses
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M&S retrenchment:
M&S total revenue for clothing and home department down 2.7% - Planning to shut 100 sites by 2022
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Ryanair ethics:
Man filmed being racist on a Ryanair flight - Ryanair should have removed him from the flight but moved the victim instead
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BBC ethics:
BBC female editor found out she was being paid two thirds less than male co-worker doing same job
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Primark environment / contingency planning:
Fashion industry is a major source of greenhouse gases and discarded clothes are piling up in landfill sites - Clothes are now being made to last and customers are encouraged to return unwanted clothes for reuse
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Healthcare Environmental Services environment / regulation:
Healthcare Environmental Services site held excess waste five times its capacity, equalling 350 tonnes including infectious fluids - HES has been served with termination notices by 15 NHS trusts
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McDonalds legislation / environment:
EU proposal to cut down on single-use plastics so McDonalds tests paper straws in Britain
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Starbucks innovation:
Starbucks opened a store in Taiwan built from 29 recycled shipping containers
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Edinburgh tax:
Edinburgh plans to introduce a tourist tax - Transient visitor levy with draft proposals suggesting visitors pay £2 a night, capped at seven nights - Could bring £11 million annually to the city
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Independent Can Co tariffs:
Trump announced steep tariffs on foreign steel and aluminium - Independent Can Co relies on tin-plated steel from Europe to make products such as biscuit tines - Tariffs expected to add about $1.5 million in expense this year
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Argos technological change:
In 2012 Argos closed 75 stores. - It changed its corporate objective in late 2012 to reinvest itself as 'a digital retail leader' - Over 2012-2013 winter season the firms 'check and reserve' ordering service grew its share of total sales from 28% to 31%, orders placed online via mobiles doubled, and 42% of Argos's business was now done online
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Scottish Power environment / USP:
Scottish Power becoming the first major UK energy company to generate its electricity from wind power instead of coal and gas - Plans to invest £5.2 billion over four years to double its renewables capacity
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Pret A Manger quality control / supply chain:
Pret A Manger accused of supplying a contaminated yoghurt suspected to have caused a death - CoYo yoghurt brand mis-sold to Pret a guaranteed dairy-free yoghurt found to contain dairy protein - Pret terminated its relationship with CoYO
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McDonalds ethics:
McDonalds refused firefighters free drinks after they were tackling a fire as they had no cash on them
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Cadbury market penetration:
Cadbury repackage their standard chocolates into Christmas selection box
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Lego market development:
Lego produce new colours of Lego to sell into female market
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HMV diversification / failed venture:
HMV diversified into the live entertainment market with £40m purchase of live music venues but exited market soon after
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Bic diversification:
Bic sell razors, pens, lighters and surfboards
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Zavvi management buy-out:
The managers of Richard Branson's Virgin Megastores bought him out to create Zavvi
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Kraft conglomerate integration:
Kraft took over Cadbury for £11.5 billion
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Facebook horizontal integration:
Facebook took over instagram for $1 billion
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Daimler and Chrysler failed merger:
$36 billion Daimler and Chrysler merger failed due to cultural differences and overestimating synergies
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Unilever corporate ventures:
Unilever invested in Brainjuicer when they had one employee - They helped them expand into new markets - When they left the company it operated in 11 countries with approximately 140 employees - Unilever achieved a 17 x growth on its initial investment
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VW cost reduction:
VW demand discounts from their component suppliers to reduce average unit cost per car
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Sainsbury's synergies:
Sainsbury's £1.3 billion takeover of Home Retail Group (parent company of Argos) - Announced the potential for an estimate of £120 million of annual synergies - £60 million from Argos concessions - £40 million from cost synergies (removing duplicate functions - £20 million from revenue synergies (selling Sainsbury's clothing through existing Argos network)
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Santander synergies:
Santander delivered £300 million of cost synergies from Abbey National which it bought for £9.6 billion
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Dyson R&D / innovation:
Dyson announced in 2014 that it would be investing £1.5 billion in long term innovation - £1 billion spent on R&D, with a further £250 million to be spent on a technology campus - Hope to launch 100 new products over the next four years - Aim to invest a third of its profits on research into new products
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GB Cycling team Kaizen:
GB cycling team used Kaizen to improve each element that goes into cycling by 1% to achieve larger gains - They won 6 gold medals in 2016 olympics
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Google patents / takeover:
In 2011, Google bought Motorola for $12.5 billion, and secured around 17,000 patents with it which it needed for the Android system - In 2014, it sold Motorola to Lenovo for $2.91 billion without the patents
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BMW counterfeits:
Chinese car manufacturer Shuanghuan launched the CEO, which is an almost identical copy of the BMW X5 - BMW brought them to court and lost the case
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Lego patent / innovation:
Lego lost the patent on the design of the bricks, allowing other companies to produce similar items. It innovated in three ways as a response: - Lego with friends range (new demographic segment) - Collaborations with brands like The Simpson's (licensing agreements) - New products such as Ninjago (original IP)
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B&Q failed international expansion:
B&Q failed in China as the tradition in China is that the business you buy the paint from then does the decorating for you - there is no concept of DIY
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Pampers failed international expansion:
Pampers disposable nappies failed in China because Chinese families have no tradition of using disposable nappies
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Tesco failed international expansion:
Tesco failed in the USA as supermarkets in the US sell a wide variety of products rather than just food
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Dyson international production / labour costs:
Dyson moved its manufacturing to the Far East with the loss of about 800 UK jobs - James Dyson said it was due to lower manufacturing costs as well as being closer to the suppliers
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Golden Wonder international production / speed to market:
Golden Wonder announced that its Pot Noodles would no longer be made in China and shipped 10,000 miles back to the UK - It moved manufacturing to Leeds creating 50 jobs - It cost £3,000 to send a container of noodles to the UK from China
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Tesco and Samsung alliance:
In 1999 Tesco created an alliance with Samsung to open 'Home Plus' - a series of supermarkets in South Korea - Tesco brought knowledge of the industry, Samsung brought local knowledge
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Aviva delayering:
Aviva removed the regional management layer from its structure - Expected to result in annual cost savings of around £100m
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Play Doh marketing / myth:
Play Doh was accidentally invented whilst trying to make a wallpaper cleaner
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Nordstrom customer service:
Nordstrom shoe store does not have a customer service department, rather it is embedded in all aspects of their culture
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Morrison changing market:
Morrison sparked talk of industry price war after it posted its lowest profit for five years and said it would invest £1 billion in price cuts over three years in a bid to recover market share lost to discount stores such as Aldi
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Nokia rate of technological change:
Nokia used to be a market leader but is battling for survival in a crisis caused by a range of factors: - Missed the smartphone revolution - Continued to focus on mobile devises rather than mobile phone applications - Intense competition
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M&S e-commerce / R&D:
M&S spent £150m improving its website in 2014
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Uber dynamic pricing:
Uber use 'surge pricing' - when demand for cars is greater than supply, prices rise to encourage more drivers to offer services
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NyQuil emergent strategy / repositioning:
When testing NyQuil, they realised the regular cold medicine kept putting people to sleep so they repositioned the product as a night-time cold remedy
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McDonalds CSR / environment:
McDonald’s Planet Champion Programme trains employees to find ways of reducing the environmental impact of the company as well as daily litter picking controls.
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Subway franchising:
Subway increased the number of its fast-food restaurants in UK and Ireland from 100 in 2002 to over 2000 by 2015 through franchising
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Amazon process innovation:
Amazon introduced Amazon Prime which provides one-day delivery for an annual fee
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Uber market share strategy:
Uber are valued at $90 billion but are yet to make a profit as they prioritise increasing market share
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WeWork flexible working / capacity utilisation:
WeWork offers shared office space allowing clients to shrink or grow their number of desks
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Beyond Meat innovation / environment / CSR pyramid:
Beyond Meat is an ethical plant-based burger business with investments from Bill Gates and Leonardo DiCaprio - they have admitted they may be unable to achieve or sustain profitability so shows that achieving ethical level on CSR pyramid is not always worth it

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