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Refreshed and updated PowerPoint resources aimed at assisting teachers with the delivery of the Cambridge International A-level Business specification. These slides are designed to support the delivery of 9.3 Operations Strategy. The presentation starts with an examination of the influence of human, marketing and finance resources on operational decisions.  It then assesses the changing role of information technology and artifical intelligence upon operations management.  The concepts of flexibility and innovation are analysed next with a focus upon volume, delivery time and specification and the development of new ways of producing products.  It concludes with an examination of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and how it can be used to help improve business efficiency.  The slides contain the Quick Fire Five questions and also a practice essay (both with solutions). NB.  Lean production and operations planning are examined in separate presentations.

Refreshed and updated PowerPoint resources aimed at assisting teachers with the delivery of the Cambridge International A-level Business specification. These slides are designed to support the delivery of 9.2 Quality Management. The presentation starts with an examination of the importance of quality and how it is used in meeting customer expectations. The methods of quality control and quality assurancen are then analysed, before it then assesses the impact of total quality management (TQM) upon a business. The presentation concludes with a brief assessment of the role and impact of benchmarking and its importance with regards to quality management. The slides contain the Quick Fire Five questions and also a practice essay (both with solutions).

Refreshed and updated PowerPoint resources aimed at assisting teachers with the delivery of the Cambridge International A-level Business specification. These slides are designed to support the delivery of 9.1.2 Scale of Operations. The presentation starts with an examination of the factors that influence the scale of a business before it then considers the causes and examples of internal and external economies and diseconomies of scale. It concludes with a look at the links between economies and diseconomies of scale and unit costs. The slides contain the Quick Fire Five questions and also a practice essay (both with solutions).

Refreshed and updated PowerPoint resources aimed at assisting teachers with the delivery of the Cambridge International A-level Business specification. These slides are designed to support the delivery of 9.1.1 Location. The presentation starts with an examination of the factors that determine location and relocation decisions.  It then looks at the differences between local, national and international location decisions, taking into account the impact of globalisation.  Next it concludes with a consideration of the reasons and impact of offshoring and reshoring decisions. The slides contain the Quick Fire Five questions and also a practice essay (both with solutions).

Refreshed and updated PowerPoint resources aimed at assisting teachers with the delivery of the Cambridge International A-level Business specification. These slides are designed to support the delivery of 4.3 Capacity Utilisation and Outsourcing. The presentation starts with an examination of the meaning and measurement of capacity utilisation and includes a practice calculation question. It then examines the impact of operating at over or under maximum capacity and the main methods of improving levels of capacity utilisation for a business. It concludes with an analysis of the role and impact of outsourcing upon a business. The slides contain the Quick Fire Five questions and also a practice essay (both with solutions).

Refreshed and updated PowerPoint resources aimed at assisting teachers with the delivery of the Cambridge International A-level Business specification. These slides are designed to support the delivery of 4.2 Inventory Management. The presentation starts with an examination of the purpose of inventory (raw materials, work-in-progress and finished goods), before then considering the costs and benefits to a business of holding inventory. It then examines simple inventory control charts, including a look at buffer levels, lead times and re-order levels. The importance of supply chain management (SCM) is then analysed in detail before it moves on to consider the impact and implications for a business of both just in time (JIT) and just in case (JIC) inventory management systems. The slides contain the Quick Fire Five questions and also a practice essay (both with solutions).

Refreshed and updated PowerPoint resources aimed at assisting teachers with the delivery of the Cambridge International A-level Business specification. These slides are designed to support the delivery of 4.1 The Nature of Operations. The presentation starts with an examination of the transformational process, the role of factors of production and the ways of adding value to products via the operations function.  It then examines efficiency, effectiveness, labour productivity and sustainability, including the calculation of labour productivity and ways of improving levels of productivity within a business.  Next capital and labour intensive operations are assessed before the presentation concludes with a detailed look at the various operational methods of production including: job, batch, flow and mass customisation.  The slides contain the Quick Fire Five questions and also a practice essay (both with solutions).

Refreshed and updated PowerPoint resources aimed at assisting teachers with the delivery of the Cambridge International A-level Business specification. These slides are designed to support the delivery of 8.2 Marketing Strategy. The presentation starts with an examination of how a business plans their marketing strategy using the marketing plan, with a particular focus upon its objectives, resources, research and marketing mix. It then considers the benefits and drawbacks of market planning before considering the difference approaches to marketing strategy. It firstly examines the need for the marketing strategy to be consistent across the market, business and product. It then examines the need for the strategy to be both coordinated and focused. The presentation concludes with an assessment of the changing roles of IT and AI systems in the role of marketing. The slides contain the Quick Fire Five questions and also a practice essay (both with solutions).

Refreshed and updated PowerPoint resources aimed at assisting teachers with the delivery of the Cambridge International A-level Business specification. These slides are designed to support the delivery of 8.2.3 Strategies for International Marketing. The presentation starts with an examination of the implications for marketing of increased globalisation and economic collaboration before then assessing the importance of international marketing for a business. It then considers the identification, selection and entry process into international markets. Next it examines whether a business should adopt a pan-global marketing strategy or adopt a more localised (glocalisation) approach. It then considers how a business chooses which strategy to use to enter global markets before concluding with an assessment of the factors that impact upon the chosen method of entry. The slides contain the Quick Fire Five questions and also a practice essay (both with solutions).

Refreshed and updated PowerPoint resources aimed at assisting teachers with the delivery of the Cambridge International A-level Business specification. These slides are designed to support the delivery of 8.1.3 Sales Forecasting. The presentation starts with an examination of what is meant by sales forecasting and its role and importance in business decisions.  It then proceeds to analyse the forecasting method of time-series analysis with a focus upon the four-period moving average and also the calculation of seasonality.  It concludes with an assessment of qualitative sales forecasting methods such as the delphi method, intuition, oracle method and brainstorming.  The slides contain the Quick Fire Five questions and also a practice essay (both with solutions).

Refreshed and updated PowerPoint resources aimed at assisting teachers with the delivery of the Cambridge International A-level Business specification. These slides are designed to support the delivery of 8.1.2 Product Development. The presentation starts with an examination of what is meant by product development before analysing the various stages involved the development of a new product.  It considers the main sources of new product development ideas and also examines the importance and role of research and development in the success of a business.  The slides contain the Quick Fire Five questions and also a practice essay (both with solutions).

Refreshed and updated PowerPoint resources aimed at assisting teachers with the delivery of the Cambridge International A-level Business specification. These slides are designed to support the delivery of 8.1.1 Elasticity. The presentation starts with an examination of what is meant by the concept of elasticity before it then focuses in-depth upon the topics of price, income and promotional elasticity.  It includes an analysis of each type of elasticity, an assessment of how they impact upon business decisions, as well as several practice calculations and answers.  It concludes with a brief assessment of the limitations of the various types of elasticity.  The slides contain the Quick Fire Five questions and also a practice essay (both with solutions).

Refreshed and updated PowerPoint resources aimed at assisting teachers with the delivery of the Cambridge International A-level Business specification. These slides are designed to support the delivery of 3.3 Marketing Mix: Place (Channels of Distribution). The presentation starts with an examination of place’s role and impact within the marketing mix.  It then looks at the different types of distribution channels ranging from the zero-level model through to the two-level distribution channel and the role of the various intermediaries such as retailers and wholesalers.  It then examines the impact of the internet upon distribution and the growth of digital channels before concluding with a look at the need for a coordinated marketing mix.  The slides contain the Quick Fire Five questions and also a practice essay (both with solutions).

Refreshed and updated PowerPoint resources aimed at assisting teachers with the delivery of the Cambridge International A-level Business specification. These slides are designed to support the delivery of 3.3 Marketing Mix: Promotion. The presentation starts with an examination of the objectives and usefulness of promotion before then proceeding to analyse the concepts of advertising, sales promotions and direct promotions.  It then examines developments in digital promotion including SEOs and social media.  It concludes with an assessment of the roles of both packaging and also branding in the promotional mix. The slides contain the Quick Fire Five questions and also a practice essay (both with solutions).

Refreshed and updated PowerPoint resources aimed at assisting teachers with the delivery of the Cambridge International A-level Business specification. These slides are designed to support the delivery of 3.3 Marketing Mix: Price. The presentation starts with an examination of what is meant by price and its role within the marketing mix before than assessing the different types of pricing strategies and methods. These include: price discrimination, cost-based pricing, price skimming, penetration pricing, dynamic pricing, competitive pricing and psychological pricing. The slides contain the Quick Fire Five questions and also a practice essay (both with solutions).

Refreshed and updated PowerPoint resources aimed at assisting teachers with the delivery of the Cambridge International A-level Business specification. These slides are designed to support the delivery of 3.3 Marketing Mix: Product. The presentation starts with an examination of what is meant by the marketing mix before it looks at the key differences between goods and services and the intangible and tangible aspects of products.  It then looks at the role of differentiation and the creation of USPs before examining the product life cycle and extension strategies.  It concludes with an examination of the Boston Matrix and the impact of these concepts upon marketing decisions. The slides contain the Quick Fire Five questions and also a practice essay (both with solutions).

Refreshed and updated PowerPoint resources aimed at assisting teachers with the delivery of the Cambridge International A-level Business specification. These slides are designed to support the delivery of 3.2 Market Research. The presentation starts with an examination of the purpose of market research and the identification of the main features of a market and characteristics of consumers.  It then looks at primary and secondary forms of research and assesses their relative strengths and weaknesses before examining the concept of sampling with a look at random, stratified and quota sampling techniques.  It concludes with an assessment of the reliability of data, an examination of quantitative and qualitative research and finally the different formats that information might be presented in e.g. pie charts, histograms and bar charts.  The slides contain the Quick Fire Five questions and also a practice essay (both with solutions).

Refreshed and updated PowerPoint resources aimed at assisting teachers with the delivery of the Cambridge International A-level Business specification. These slides are designed to support the delivery of Demand and Supply (3.1 The Nature of Marketing). They analyse and explain the concepts of supply and demand, the influences acting upon each, what is meant by the equilibrium, the importance of supply and demand in the market, how a change in demand and supply can impact on price and quantity demanded and how to construct and interpret supply and demand diagrams. The slides contain the Quick Fire Five questions and also a practice essay (both with solutions).

A new range of PowerPoint resources aimed at assisting teachers with the delivery of the Cambridge International A-level Business specification. These slides are designed to support the delivery of 3.1 The Nature of Marketing. The slides commence with an analysis of marketing objectives and how they help in the achievement of the wider corporate objectives.  It then examines the many different types of market including consumer, industrial, local, national and international before assessing ways of measuring market share and market growth and their importance to a business.  The features of mass and niche markets are then analysed before the presentation examines the role and importance of market segmentation and the three techniques of geographical, demographic and psychographic segmentation.  It concludes with an assessment of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and the importance of building relationships and developing customer loyalty. The slides contain the Quick Fire Five questions and also a practice extended answer question (both with suggested solutions). *Note:  The topic of supply and demand is looked at in a separate presentation.