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Finance 1
Business model How you make money Dell revolutionized the personal computer business model by collecting money before the consumer's PC was even assembled and shipped (resulting in net positive working capital of seven to eight days).

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Networks
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alliances How you join forces with other companies for mutual benefit Consumer goods company Sara Lee realized that its core competencies were in consumer insight, brand management, marketing and distribution. Thus it divested itself of a majority of its mfg. operations and formed alliances with mfg. and supply chain partners.

Process 3
Enabling process How you support the company's core processes and workers Starbucks can deliver its profitable store/coffee experience to customers because it offers better-than-market compensation and employment benefits to its store workers--usually part time, educated, professional, and responsive people.

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Core processes
How you create and add value to your offerings Wal-Mart continues to grow profitably through core process innovations such as real-time inventory management systems, aggressive volume/ pricing/delivery contracts with merchandise providers, and systems that give store managers the ability to identify changing buyer behaviors in and respond quickly with new pricing and merchandising configurations.

Offerings 5
Product performance How you design your core offerings The VW Beetle (in both its original and its newest form) took the market by storm, combining multiple dimensions of product performance.

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Product system How you link and/or provide a platform for multiple products. Microsoft Office "bundles a variety of specific products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) into a system designed to deliver productivity in the workplace.
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Service How you provide value to customers and consumers beyond and around your products An international flight on any airlines will get you to your intended designation. A flight on Singapore Airlines, however, nearly makes you forget that you are flying at all, with the most attentive, respectful, and pampering pre-flight, in-flight and post-services you can imagine.

Delivery
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Channel How you get your offerings to market Legal problems aside, Martha Stewart has developed such a deep understanding of her customers that she knows just where to be (stores, TV shows, magazines, online, etc.) to drive huge sales volumes from a relatively small set of "home living" educational and product offerings.

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Brand


How you communicate your offerings
Absolut conquered the vodka category on the strength of a brilliant "theme and variations" advertising concept, strong bottle and packaging design, and a whiff of Nordic authenticity.


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Customer experience
How your customers feel when they interact with your company and its offerings Harley Davidson has created a worldwide community of millions of customers, many of whom would describe "being a Harley Davidson owner" as a part of how they fundamentally see, think, and feel about themselves.

PKMS -The Personal Knowledge Management System is on the top of my mind. I have been downloading and sorting loads of information(Data?) and processing them thru the cerebral channels and getting the best out of it. But Every Human being has his/her own unique way of retrieving the data/information. So I was thinking of how good it would be to have some thing like a Desktop Google -Where I define my keywords for a document/webpage I download from internet. So @ the time of need, I just type the keyword and the PKMS shows the related docs.

I implemented the base version of PKMS which is all about killing the Redundant files that I store. I did observe that when I save the files, the redundant factor is a significant concern and thus I implemented a small logger tool that logs all the Knowledge File titles & if a same resource is being saved, then the logger logs the file title in the redundant list and the user gets to know the redundant files and he/she can do the necessary action depending on the requirement and situation at hand.

My PKMS is being developed according to my patterns of the mind. Because there will not be another me and I should make the best of me. I observed that the time we(atleast I) take in ordering n retrieving my info takes away significant chunk of like. If we have an easy tool that apes "Our" unique way of retrieving/fishing out the info...the personal world would be jus great... Days of greatness are aprroaching soon..

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PKM_Fundas
Gross profit margin (GPM) measures the percent of revenue remaining after paying all direct production costs. This indicator is not available for banks and insurance companies.

Margin percentage change compares a company's quarterly gross profit margin for each of the last two quarters to the previous quarter.

Example:

((Q2-Q1)/Q1) * 100

The indicators are:


Gross Profit Margin measures GPM for the last calendar year.

Gross Profit Margin Last Quarter measures GPM for the last quarter.

Gross Profit Margin 12 Months measures GPM for the trailing twelve months.

Margin % Change Last Quarter compares last quarter's GPM with the previous quarter.

Margin % Change 2 Quarters Ago compares GPM two quarters ago with the previous quarter.

Relative Mode

Use GPM criteria in high relative mode to find companies that have high GPM.

Use GPM % change criteria in high relative mode to find companies whose GPM is increasing; a very positive factor.

Use GPM criteria in low relative mode to find companies that have low GPM.

Use GPM % change criteria in low relative mode to find companies whose GPM is decreasing; a negative factor.

The availability of information online- is the goal, I told myself. My family info has to be Up n Running and when I was seriously thinking about the content management and the future evolution of the site, I thought how the websites in the past have evolved.Jus a look into the past..and we find that..

Over the past decade Web design has gone through many iterations, driven by the ever-changing environment. Web browser vendors have contributed a lot of new features and functionality. The HTML specification has grown from a rigid structurally-based markup language, to an extensible HTML-XML hybrid. And CSS is now widely used to keep structure separate from presentation.

The changing landscape has led corporate Web sites to evolve from textual to multimedia, brochureware to interactive, static to transactional, chaotic to standardized, rigid to extensible, broadcasting to read-write. Web sites are no longer virtual places, they’re more like virtual agents. Today, corporate Web sites exist to serve their users and so their design must be personalized and loosely-coupled.

Web sites will continue to evolve and be products of their environment. Browser and operating system innovation (or lack of) will affect what the Web looks like in another 10 years. XML Web technologies that so far haven’t impinged much on corporate Web sites, like RSS and RDF, will force new ways of designing onto us.

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