Essays on Onslaught

The key strategic issues and problems facing the company

Company’s inability for gauging the trends It is essential to refer to the fact that in the case of company’s inability for gauging the trends as well as addressing the changeable preferences of the customers in a prompt and costly effective way, there is a high risk of decreasing in the market share as well as the rates of sales. Such decreases have the potential of adverse affecting of the gross margin. It was claimed by the management of the CBA that the attention of the management as well as the costs, involved into the maintenance of ...

Discussion of the crisis issues associated with the Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster in 2004

Management in crisis is a tough enough situation. However, the horrific onslaught of a suddenly unexpected tsunami literally crashing dramatically upon one’s doorstep is simply unthinkable. The inconceivable occurred in Indonesia, when the Aceh-stimulated earthquake stirred the violent killer waves in 2004 costing the lives of 127,000 people, roughly half a million injured – leaving behind potential scores of disease-prone epidemics and mourning of loved ones (Pascapurnama, Murakami, Chagan-Yasutan, Hattori, Sasaki & Egawa 2016). One international journalist and helper in the aftermath of the Indonesian Indian Ocean Earthquake Tsunami disaster, Bill Nicol, in his book Tsunami Chronicles, described the ...