Online Competitors eLearning

Antitrust - Talking with the Competition ... economic activity with another party. In modern markets, competitors may decide to collaborate for a number of reasons. These include funding innovation projects, sharing marketing or distribution costs, or implementing best practices in production or services. Collaborating with a competitor can help your company to cut costs and deliver a better priced, quality product to the consumer.  more...

Antitrust - Trade Associations ...bes how such associations can avoid antitrust violations. Competitors join a trade association to pursue a common business purpose. This makes such associations especially susceptible to antitrust investigation under federal and state laws, such as Section 1 of the Sherman Act and Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act. These laws protect a competitive marketplace in which rival firms  more...

Trade Secrets ...ner, is actively protected, and is not generally known to competitors. Trade secrets are important because they provide a competitive advantage to their owners and may be the only viable form of legal protection available. They are protected under the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA), in those states that have adopted it, and by common law principles in others. Owners may take legal action if  more...

Service Strategy Fundamentals ...f challenges to maintain a strategic advantage over their competitors. Within IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL ), Service Strategy is a phase of the Service Lifecycle that helps IT organizations create value for their organizations through their service assets. This course examines how value is created through service assets, and how these service assets can perform better through service  more...

Service Strategy Processes Service Strategy Processes ITIL ITIL v3 Foundation for Service Management ITIL® v3 Foundation Syllabus v4.2 Exam In order to decide the best path for an IT service organization to grow, service providers need to develop a strategy to maintain an advantage over their competitors. This course details the processes that affect Service Strategy. This course will assist the learner in  more...

Financial Statements for Non-fiinancial Professionals ...sionals in all areas for evaluating proposals, suppliers, competitors, markets, and the general condition of the industry they operate in. This course aims to familiarize you with these three financial statements and how they reflect an organization's overall activities and performance. This course takes you through the various sections of these statements and explains how each is calculated.  more...

Analyzing Financial Statements for Non-financial Professionals Analyzing Financial Statements for Non-financial Professionals Financial statements of an organization often conceal more than they reveal. Being able to analyze them and extract meaningful information is an essential skill that financial as well as non-financial professionals should have. Ratio analysis can be used to determine relationships between two elements of the same financial  more...

SAP BusinessObjects Overview ...s, employee-related information, data gathered concerning competitors, and information pertaining to products. In order to take full advantage of its information assets, an enterprise must be able to store and utilize data wisely. The SAP BusinessObjects suite of applications provides the enterprise with a comprehensive set of reporting and analysis tools that enables timely and accurate  more...

The Balance Sheet ...ors, investors, company management, suppliers, customers, competitors, government agencies, and analysts. The Balance Sheet is closely connected to the other key financial statements the Income Statement and Cash Flow Statement. This course walks you through a Balance Sheet and its key components. It also illustrates how common transactions affect the Balance Sheet with the help of accounting  more...

Competitive Marketing Strategies Analyzing Competitors ...Competitors To formulate successful competitive marketing strategies for your organization, you need to understand your competitors. Who are your key rivals and what drives their marketing decisions? What do they do well and where do they miss the mark? Gathering and analyzing this kind of information is the starting point for developing effective strategies that can increase your  more...

Competitive Marketing Strategies Selecting Implementing Strategies ...ur organization gain market share, minimize the impact of competitors, and increase revenues. These outcomes can only be achieved, however, if organizations understand how to translate their competitive advantages into winning strategies. This course describes the different types of competitive advantages that can help an organization distinguish itself from the competition. It outlines how to  more...

The Biotechnology Industry Overview Version 1 The Biotechnology Industry Overview: Version 1 Unlocking the potential of biotechnology entails turning scientific knowledge into products that can enhance, and even transform, the conditions of life. A relatively new but growing, global industry, biotechnology involves engineering biological molecules and microbes with desirable new properties. This re-engineering of natural organisms can  more...

HR as Business Partner Using Metrics Designing Strategic Initiatives HR as Business Partner: Using Metrics & Designing Strategic Initiatives When HR aligns its initiatives with higher-level business strategy, your organization will be better positioned to achieve its goals. By becoming part of the strategic planning process, HR can help drive the future success of the company because, ultimately, all business objectives are met by the organization's people.  more...

How to Build And Maintain Rapport With Your Clients Learn how to build rapport with your clients and get beyond small talk. Whether it`s a salesperson with customer, manager with employee, teacher with student or parent with child, rapport skills are the foundation for successful communications. As we think of rapport being a degree of harmony that we have with someone, it takes on powerful dimensions in developing relationships. And when a person  more...

Accelerate your Business Growth--Instructor-Led ...s is dynamic. If you`re not able to adapt and change your competitors will. Only the innovative survive. In this course, learn to grow your business with new products and services. Professor Don Sexton of Columbia University Business School will show you how -- with real-world examples and video tutorials. Students may complete this course within a reasonable period of time. Contact Hours give  more...

Accelerate your Business Growth--Self-Directed ...s is dynamic. If you`re not able to adapt and change your competitors will. Only the innovative survive. In this course, learn to grow your business with new products and services. Professor Don Sexton of Columbia University Business School will show you how -- with real-world examples and video tutorials.Students may complete this course within a reasonable period of time. Contact Hours give  more...

Surpassing the Competition ...competitors' capabilities? Competition plays a major role in corporate success. Failure to take into account your competition's strengths, weaknesses, capabilities, and strategies can leave your company vulnerable to unexpected competitive moves. This course presents you with the tools and methods for identifying competitors; collecting competitor information; creating a competitor SWOT matrix  more...

The Food and Beverage Industry Overview Version 2 ...e marketplace, to differentiate their products from their competitors', and to expand globally. Most importantly, they must do all this while keeping operating costs low enough to generate surplus to reinvest in supply chain and infrastructure needs. This course provides a high-level overview of the food and beverage industry environment, including its relevant business and regulatory  more...

Managing and Maintaining Brand Equity ...a-Cola Classic. This is an example of how, over time, new competitors come into the market, consumer tastes change, fashions come and go and even lifestyles change. How can you respond successfully? By being ready for change and having a plan of action. This course gives brand managers, and anyone involved in marketing, an awareness of the ongoing spectrum of issues involving brand management,  more...

Financial Statements ...uickly is the organization growing in comparison with its competitors? Are there any financial danger signs? This course provides a foundation for reading the three key financial statements prepared by most corporations--the balance sheet (or statement of financial condition), the income statement (or earnings statement, or profit and loss statement), and the statement of cash flows. The course  more...

Brand Management Developing a Brand Strategy ...ng ready to report to the marketing staff on your brand's competitors and to present your analysis of the Qualera brand. In this simulation, Jennifer and Matt will brief you on their findings, and you must answer their questions about defending brand equity, and explain how a brand vision is created. Unit 2: Developing Brand Equity (0.5 - 1 hour) Identify the factors  more...

Sales Skills Developing a Winning Strategy ... learn how to research market conditions and analyze your competitors using a SWOT matrix. You will also learn the steps of the consulting strategy and what questions you should ask when planning solutions for clients. In addition, you will learn the steps to take to help clients find solutions to their needs. Learn To Complete a SWOT matrix.  more...

Strategic Management Analyzing Strategic Options ...recently come to your attention that one of your fiercest competitors, Menlow Enterprises, has gotten the jump on some new wireless application technology, and has started development on a series of new products. Icon was prepared for the introduction of this new technology, but did not expect it to be ready for commercial development for several months. You realize now that your forecasts were  more...

Competitive Intelligence Analysis Dissemination ...eps for protecting an organization's information from its competitors. Learn To Use the guidelines for performing ethical competitive intelligence. Identify four criteria that competitive intelligence should meet. Identify the guidelines for making recommendations based on competitive intelligence results.  more...

Human Resource Law Equal Employment Opportunity Law ...t Icon. Recently, Atlas Technologies, one of Icon's chief competitors, was sanctioned by the EEOC for their pre-employment testing practices. The EEOC investigation revealed that the pre-employment testing for Atlas' administrative positions was biased against women. In light of this development, Icon is working to ensure that all their human resource practices comply with EEOC regulations. The  more...

Women in Leadership Becoming a Leader ...tem that is different from previous Icon products and its competitors. In the course of creating the operating system, the development team has developed a software program that enables software created for other systems to be run on OS9. Mary and Dean disagree on how this software should be sold. You will need to use basic leadership skills to resolve the situation. If you are successful doing  more...

Value Chain Management Managing a Value Chain ... Identify steps involved in analyzing competitors. Apply ways to gain cost advantage. Identify ways of creating buyer value. Identify steps to develop a value proposition strategy. Identify ways to use the Web to create value. Simulation Overview:  more...

Conducting Meetings Managing a Meeting ...mployees to address a shake-up in the market. One of your competitors, Westport Industries, has cut its prices for a similar product model by 15%. This impromptu meeting was called to decide how the company should respond to this change. It is your responsibility to manage the meeting and control the flow of discussion. Unit 3: Eliminating Groupthink (0.5 - 1 hour)  more...

Value Chain Management Managing the Transition to a Value Chain ... Recognize challenges involved in understanding your competitors. Simulation Overview: In the simulation at the end of this unit, you will meet with Kathy Edwards, Regional Marketing Manager, and Keith Collins, Marketing Assistant at Icon International. You are about to be appointed Area Sales Manager for Icon's sales team. Icon is about to  more...

Organizational Crisis Mgmt Managing a Crisis ... it was hoped that the innovative ''Star'' would surprise competitors and reestablish Icon as a market leader. Unfortunately, an early batch of the product was contaminated in production, and consumers have been complaining that the polish is tarnishing the paintwork on cars. Icon also produces paint thinner, and it has emerged that the two lines were mixed together in an early production  more...

Team Management High Performance Teams ...velopment and release of a new product before one of your competitors unveils a similar model. You will need to help your team define and commit to its overall goal for the project. Unit 3: Resolving Conflict (0.5 - 1 hour) Understand the benefits of team conflict. Identify when conflict is unhealthy. Make conflict a  more...

Project Teams Applying Team Building Techniques ...ted software against the newer software offered by Icon's competitors. Mildred Parcells, the team leader, is trying to determine what, if anything, can be done to address Nancy's and Eric's concerns. You need to confidently and assertively communicate that you and your department have done everything in your power to address the numerous concerns and problems surrounding MECA. You will also  more...