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Strategy and Planning Techniques

Decision Trees

Decision Trees

The concept describes one of the most used decision-making models, a decision tree, which explores all possible decisions and their consequences and allows for comparison of such alternatives in one single pane.

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Demand Curve

Demand Curve

The concept explains the important economic concept of the demand curve. It describes various strengths and weakness for use in business and provides useful implementation advice and real case studies to illustrate its application.

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Demand-pull Inflation

Demand-pull Inflation

The concept explains how demand-pull (or demand-side) inflation arises in the economy. It uses case study examples to highlight the effects of demand-pull inflation and describes various advantages and disadvantages of the concept - it also provides success factors for calculating demand-pull inflation.

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Demerger

Demerger

Demergers can impact positively on the quality of management teams, both for the pre-existing company as well as the new one. Consideration of strengths and weaknesses, relevant case studies and practical implication steps help to inform and support decision making.

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Deming Wheel

Deming Wheel

This concept describes a Plan-Do-Check-Act wheel management model suggested by Deming. The model is used by companies to provide a systematic approach to achieving continuous improvement.

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Design of Experiments (DOE)

Design of Experiments (DOE)

Design of Experiments (DOE) provides a structured way to test multiple inputs simultaneously to understand what drives performance. It replaces trial-and-error with planned learning, enabling organisations to identify key effects and interactions and make evidence-based decisions about process optimisation.

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Diamond Theory of Competitive Advantage

Diamond Theory of Competitive Advantage

The concept examines the Diamond Theory of Competitive Advantage and explores the impact of the national environment on international competitive performance. It offers useful business evidence and lists the weaknesses and advantages of this theory, as well as professional tools that can direct you to further resources.

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Differentiation

Differentiation

The concept reviews differentiation as a marketing strategy used by companies to distinguish its product from similar offerings on the market. It describes success factors, limitation and implementation steps, as well as the most important evidence on its commercial use.

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Diminishing Returns

Diminishing Returns

The concept revises the law of diminishing returns as a tool that helps to understand and predict benefits and maximise returns. This knowledge can help business owners measure the amount of expected benefits when increasing production output.

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Diversification

Diversification

The concept describes the key marketing principle of diversification. Using real case study examples, it explains how a diversification strategy can be used to increase existing market share and penetrate new markets.

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Division of Labour

Division of Labour

Division of labour is an area of job design that is highly applicable in some factories and production line environments. Case study evidence, relevant success factors and the strengths and limitations of division of labour approaches are presented.

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Downsizing

Downsizing

The process of downsizing often involves dwindling resources and letting staff go. A well-executed downsizing strategy, however, can put an organisation on the road to financial health and stability. The concept reviews the key benefits of this strategy and outlines the four driving forces behind the decision to downsize.

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Due Diligence

Due Diligence

The concept provides convenient access to a range of information on due diligence, as well as some case evidence demonstrating how it influences organisations. It also reviews success factors and lists the main benefits of due diligence activities.

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e-Business

e-Business

This concept provides useful examples, success factors, implementation information and measures for e-business initiatives.

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