Skills for Sustainable Growth: Strategy Document: Executive Summary

2010 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Growth Strategy ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Executive Summary

scholarly journals Analysis of the Regional Efficiency of European Funds in Spain from the Perspective of Renewable Energy Production: The Regional Dimension

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 4553
Author(s):  
Paul Mugambi ◽  
Miguel Blanco ◽  
Daniel Ogachi ◽  
Marcos Ferasso ◽  
Lydia Bares
Keyword(s):  
Smart Growth ◽  
Renewable Energies ◽  
Growth Strategy ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Investment Bank ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Spanish Regions ◽  
European Investment

During the 2010–2020 period, the European Union (EU) launched a growth strategy based on three fundamental pillars: smart growth, sustainable growth, and inclusive growth. Aiming to finance the projects related to these growth pillars, the EU used mainly the Rural Development Funds, the Structural Funds, those derived from the R&D Framework Program, the Trans-European Networks, and the European Investment Bank. This research aimed to determine whether the Spanish regions maintain homogeneous efficiency levels by using these resources to improve the levels of environmental quality related to renewable energies. A methodology that is frequently used by researchers in efficiency analyses was chosen, the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The main findings revealed that the efficiency in the use of renewable energies is very uneven among the Spanish regions and these differences are maintained throughout the period analyzed. These results highlighted the need of changes regarding the proposed criteria for allocating European resources to finance the projects presented by each Spanish region.

scholarly journals Financial Strategy considering Sustainable Growth: evidence from China and Russia gas market companies

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alina Steblyanskaya ◽  
Zhen Wang ◽  
Elena Ryabova ◽  
Svetlana Razmanova ◽  
Maxim Rybachuk
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Growth Strategy ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Financial Strategy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ambiguous Situation ◽  
Sustainable Growth Rate ◽  
Financial Growth ◽  
Gas Market ◽  
The One

Over the past ten years have seen ambiguous situation concerning China and Russia gas companies. On the one hand, companies’ reports show conservative policies and sustainable growth in the coming years, on the other hand, companies’ financial performance suggest another situation because of insufficient level of financial indexes that reflects the inconsistency of existing sustainable growth approaches. These indicates relevance of the research concerning China and Russia gas market companies’ financial sustainable growth in conditions of global economy and investment policy implementation. The main purpose of the Research is to analyze China and Russia gas market companies’ financial growth strategy by means of Geniberg Z – matrix as well as enhanced Financial Sustainability Indicators System indexes by identifying which indicators have a greater influence on Sustainable Growth Rate. It is found that ROCE, ROFA, CR, DOL, ROL influence on Russian gas market companies’ SGR, and ROCE, WACC, ROL, CG Dummy influence on Chinese gas market companies sustainable growth.

La piana fiorentina: la crescita urbana e il riassetto attorno ai nodi del trasporto collettivo

TERRITORIO ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 154-160
Author(s):  
Marco Facchinetti
Keyword(s):  
Urban Growth ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Central Area ◽  
Growth Strategy ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Transport Networks ◽  
Western Province ◽  
Collective Transport ◽  
General Plan

- This research study sought to understand the real dynamics of urban growth, the forecasts existing in local urban plans and supra-local plans, the development projects and hypotheses of growth in infrastructure networks in a limited but central area of the general plan in the western province of Florence and the province of Prato. While there has been a substantial increase in planned infrastructures, for which the programmes have been verified by research studies, there has been no equally important co-ordination of forecasts of growth, expansion or urban transformation. On the basis of these assumptions, the research conducted asked whether it was possible to design a type of development with respect to the forecasts of current plans, which attempts to reorganise the Florentine metropolitan area by means of collective transport networks. This would be done by identifying a sustainable growth strategy, by examining which urban planning model would best meet that objective and at the same time by addressing issues such as containing land use and reducing the demand for private transport by increasing densities around the nodes.

UCOOK: growth challenges faced by a small- to medium-sized South African venture

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Geoff Bick ◽  
Jeanné Odendaal
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
South African ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Growth Strategy ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Teaching Case ◽  
Post Graduate

Learning outcomes The learning outcomes are as follows: to understand how technology can be used to create innovative entrepreneurial opportunities; to develop analytical and critical thinking skills to understand organisations, industries and their dynamics; to analyse strategic options for an entrepreneurial organisations and motivate a proposed strategic direction; and to assess the inter-functional requirements for an entrepreneurship to successfully implement a strategy. Case overview/synopsis UCOOK, a successful emerging economy SME, is confronted with the threat of retail giants (e.g. Checkers and Woolworths) entering the meal kit space. No longer the only “new kid on the block”, UCOOK has to consider a sustainable growth strategy to remain competitive. The case provides the reader with a snapshot of experiences of a meal kit entrepreneurial venture and what it entails for them to grow in the South African milieu. Principally, this case is designed to impart knowledge and stimulate a practical understanding of entrepreneurship and strategic decision-making in the meal kit industry. Additionally, the purpose is to serve as inspiration for business students to see the opportunities that lie within strategically astute emerging market ventures. Complexity academic level The primary target audience for this teaching case is postgraduate business students, especially students of entrepreneurship, strategy and e-commerce. This teaching case is intended to be used as case study in post graduate business programmes such as Master of Business Administration (MBA), a specialist Masters programme such as MM (Entrepreneurship), post-graduate diploma in management (PGDip), as well as selected executive education programmes. Supplementary materials Teaching Notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or email [email protected] to request teaching notes. Subject code CSS 3: Entrepreneurship.

Dainik Jagran: sustaining leadership in the newspaper industry

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
Tirthankar Nag ◽  
Rituparna Basu ◽  
Buroshiva Dasgupta
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Online News ◽  
Growth Strategy ◽  
Product Diversification ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Media Management ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Independence Era

Subject area The subject area is strategy and business. Study level/applicability The case can be used for MBA students. This is equally effective in short courses meant for low-to-mid-level working executives. The case is suited for classes in strategy, general marketing, media management and family business courses. Case overview Dainik Jagran – a vernacular daily – is the most read newspaper in India. Under the banner of Jagran Prakashan Ltd.; which is one of the leading media houses in India, the success of Dainik Jagran has been an outcome of the strategic marketing decisions taken by its founder and his successors in the post-independence era. With extensive circulation, it created a large readership base and took bold decisions to launch multi editions to its daily through a series of acquisitions, mergers and consolidations from 1975 to 2010, enabling it to step into product diversification. Readership surveys, investments in technology, advertising, regular branding events and smart phone applications are a few tools that helped. While the group has diversified into other industries, there is an underlying anxiety about the future prospects of its newspaper business. With the onslaught of online news dailies, will Dainik Jagran be able to expand and maintain its readership base using its previous business and marketing strategies? Or is it time to change strategies for businesses in the newspaper and allied media industry in India? Expected learning outcomes The study has the following outcomes: application of value chain concept in businesses serving two-sided markets; application of environmental analysis, Porter’s five forces analysis and related strategy concepts; and learning to critically approach and develop a sustainable growth strategy framework for a successful family-run newspaper business in India. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or email [email protected] to request teaching notes. Subject code CSS 11: Strategy.

Shinzo Abe's Challenges for the New Growth Strategy and Tax Reform

2015 ◽  
Vol 07 (01) ◽  
pp. 130-141
Author(s):  
Yoshihisa GODO ◽  
Sarah Y TONG
Keyword(s):  
Tax Reform ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Growth Strategy ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Japanese Economy ◽  
Excess Liquidity ◽  
Japanese Prime Minister

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made various announcements and actions under the names of the New Growth Strategy and the tax reform in 2014. None of them, however, seems adequate to place the Japanese economy on the path to sustainable growth. While Abe now enjoys political stability in the Diet, serious risks of excess liquidity and national bankruptcy are seemingly increasing in the Japanese economy.

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF PRACTICAL APPROACHES TO GROWTH STRATEGIES IN COMPANIES’ ACTIVITY IN THE STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVE

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 116-129
Author(s):  
Natal'ya Chekashkina
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Strategy ◽  
Optimal Growth ◽  
Growth Strategy ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Evolutionary Development ◽  
Strategy Development ◽  
Growth Strategies ◽  
Organizational Growth ◽  
Strategic Perspective

The willingness of market-leading companies to have sustainable growth over the past few decades has been significantly complicated by the increasing level of uncertainty of the overall impact of environmental factors in all spheres of economic activity. Macroeconomic instability, sharp fluctuations in the raw material markets, intense industries’ competition, political instability, the multidirectional dynamics of social processes, unpredictable natural and climatic cataclysms of global proportion - all these have significantly impact that complicate the possibilities of forming market development strategies, based on traditional planning approaches that take into account mainly retrospective dynamics. Moreover, the economic instability of the last decade, caused by environments, has shown to significant part of international companies the instability of the chosen strategies for the development of the firm. The dilemma of choosing the direction of strategy is relevant for most companies of Russian and foreign business – managers face the question of choosing the direction of the corporate strategy development of the company, taking into account all the components of the business portfolio. The author studies the evolutionary development of the theory of strategic growth, presents a variety of approaches to the classification of organizational growth strategies, identifies their similarities and contradictions, and give arguments for the traditional growth strategies classification. Strategies of intensive growth, vertical integration, and diversification are attractive for development, but at the same time require certain efforts and resources. In the course of the study, the author conducted research to identify and choose the most optimal growth strategy when the company reach a certain level of stability for dynamic development, identified the basic criteria for choosing the strategic vector of the company's development.

Red & Yellow: the business of education

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Jeandri Robertson ◽  
Caitlin Candice Ferreira ◽  
Sherese Duncan ◽  
Atanu Nath
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Growth Patterns ◽  
Growth Strategy ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Executive Education ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Impact

Learning outcomes Students learn to evaluate a firm’s growth strategies with the aim of establishing long-term business sustainability. Students will examine the impact of external macro-environmental factors that influence firm growth in an emerging market context. Using this case, students will learn how to apply a resource-based view to a firm’s offering by comparing and identifying the competitive advantage of the internal resources of the firm. Using this case, students can apply the principle of strategic fit by strategically analyzing the opportunities and threats in the external environment, while taking into account the firm’s internal strengths and weaknesses. Case overview/synopsis This case outlines the strategic, macro-environmental and marketing challenges that the Cape Town-based private higher education institution, Red & Yellow Creative School of Business, faced as it entered its 25th year of existence. In 2019, Red & Yellow had its roots in industry and had done well historically to cement that bond through the creation of successful alumni and the constant innovation of its higher education offering. Two weeks before having to present a detailed five-year growth strategy plan to the board of directors, Rob Stokes, the Director and Chairman of Red & Yellow, was faced with a multitude of decisions pertaining to the sustainable growth of the school. Recent growth patterns showed that programs with lower profit margins, such as classroom-based full-time programs, had experienced double-digit growth while student numbers for higher gross profit offerings, such as online and executive education programs had started to decline. Another challenge that the school faced was the need for its students to future-proof their careers in a world where artificial intelligence and machine learning threatened their careers and jobs. As such, Red & Yellow was confronted with one central strategic problem: How to grow strategically in the short term while developing a sustainable and scalable growth strategy for the school in the long term. Complexity academic level This case could work well as part of an executive education course, as well as a strategic management course for master’s degree or Master of Business Administration students. Supplementary materials Teaching Notes are available for educators only. Subject code CSS 11: Strategy.

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