- An undercover reporter posed as a police officer and recorded a video making allegations of sexism, misconduct, and corruption within the Leicestershire Constabulary police department.
- The PR campaign's objectives are to restore community faith in the police department, apologize, and show improvements are being made.
- The target audience is the local community and anyone questioning the police department's credibility. Tactics will include addressing the issues in local and mainstream media, admitting faults, and highlighting honorable officers.
This document advertises various loan services including home loans, business loans, personal loans, and loans for problematic credit files. Loan amounts range from 500,000 rupees to 50 crore rupees for home loans, and 500,000 rupees to 3 crore rupees for business loans. These loans can be obtained from Punjab National Bank and Axis Bank at interest rates starting from 9.55%. Chartered accountants and agents are welcome to share leads for a brokerage.
The document discusses competition and cooperation in market systems. It explains that people in market systems relate through both competition and cooperation. There can be both good and bad forms of competition and cooperation. Effective market system performance involves ongoing upgrading, more inclusive benefit flows, and benefits that are mutually reinforcing between social and economic areas. The degree of effectiveness of competition and cooperation depends on factors like relationships, rules, and interconnected systems. Overall, the document advocates for competition that drives improved performance and cooperation that leads to win-win outcomes and addresses systemic constraints.
The document provides tips and strategies for improving customer service and response times. It emphasizes that fast customer service leads to more revenue through quotes, bids, sales, and customer retention. It recommends tracking response times, streamlining processes, and giving partial responses to customers. Additional tips include using customers' preferred communication methods, building rapport, handling complaints effectively, underpromising and overdelivering, and finding ways to add value for customers. The overall message is that fast, friendly, and helpful customer service is key to business success.
Chamber Customer Service August PresentationTheChamber
The document discusses the importance of fast customer service and response times for generating revenue. It provides tips for streamlining processes, giving partial answers to customers, tracking response times, and eliminating roadblocks to provide fast customer service. It also covers best practices for interacting with and serving customers, including using clear language, bending policies respectfully for good customers, and building rapport to turn difficult customers into loyal buyers. The overall message is that fast customer service response times are important for revenue and that focusing on continuous improvement can help organizations provide better service.
The document discusses the importance of targeting the right prospects in sales. It describes four types of prospects categorized by their profit potential and maintenance level. High profit/low maintenance prospects are the most desirable as they will provide significant business and referrals with little effort. The document provides a step-by-step process for prospecting, which includes securing business goals and referral sources, qualifying prospects, designing an approach letter, setting appointments, and following up. Following this process helps salespeople increase earnings without increasing hours by aiming for the most profitable prospects.
Increasingly, marketers are using the RFP process when selecting an agency. And that can be a big hassle. Yet many excellent long-term agency/client relationships are still forged without RFPs..
Here are some thoughts on minimizing RFP frustrations.
The document discusses the growing use of RFPs (requests for proposals) by marketers when selecting advertising agencies, and some of the issues and alternatives to this approach. It notes that while RFPs give marketers control, they provide little information about client needs and can be an impersonal process. Agencies often spend significant time and money responding without knowing if they are a good fit. The document suggests that agencies could minimize RFPs by clarifying their unique brand, focusing on strengths, being financially stable, and selectively pursuing the right opportunities where there is a clear fit. Well-branded agencies with strong client relationships may still attract clients without needing to rely primarily on RFPs.
- An undercover reporter posed as a police officer and recorded a video making allegations of sexism, misconduct, and corruption within the Leicestershire Constabulary police department.
- The PR campaign's objectives are to restore community faith in the police department, apologize, and show improvements are being made.
- The target audience is the local community and anyone questioning the police department's credibility. Tactics will include addressing the issues in local and mainstream media, admitting faults, and highlighting honorable officers.
This document advertises various loan services including home loans, business loans, personal loans, and loans for problematic credit files. Loan amounts range from 500,000 rupees to 50 crore rupees for home loans, and 500,000 rupees to 3 crore rupees for business loans. These loans can be obtained from Punjab National Bank and Axis Bank at interest rates starting from 9.55%. Chartered accountants and agents are welcome to share leads for a brokerage.
The document discusses competition and cooperation in market systems. It explains that people in market systems relate through both competition and cooperation. There can be both good and bad forms of competition and cooperation. Effective market system performance involves ongoing upgrading, more inclusive benefit flows, and benefits that are mutually reinforcing between social and economic areas. The degree of effectiveness of competition and cooperation depends on factors like relationships, rules, and interconnected systems. Overall, the document advocates for competition that drives improved performance and cooperation that leads to win-win outcomes and addresses systemic constraints.
The document provides tips and strategies for improving customer service and response times. It emphasizes that fast customer service leads to more revenue through quotes, bids, sales, and customer retention. It recommends tracking response times, streamlining processes, and giving partial responses to customers. Additional tips include using customers' preferred communication methods, building rapport, handling complaints effectively, underpromising and overdelivering, and finding ways to add value for customers. The overall message is that fast, friendly, and helpful customer service is key to business success.
Chamber Customer Service August PresentationTheChamber
The document discusses the importance of fast customer service and response times for generating revenue. It provides tips for streamlining processes, giving partial answers to customers, tracking response times, and eliminating roadblocks to provide fast customer service. It also covers best practices for interacting with and serving customers, including using clear language, bending policies respectfully for good customers, and building rapport to turn difficult customers into loyal buyers. The overall message is that fast customer service response times are important for revenue and that focusing on continuous improvement can help organizations provide better service.
The document discusses the importance of targeting the right prospects in sales. It describes four types of prospects categorized by their profit potential and maintenance level. High profit/low maintenance prospects are the most desirable as they will provide significant business and referrals with little effort. The document provides a step-by-step process for prospecting, which includes securing business goals and referral sources, qualifying prospects, designing an approach letter, setting appointments, and following up. Following this process helps salespeople increase earnings without increasing hours by aiming for the most profitable prospects.
Increasingly, marketers are using the RFP process when selecting an agency. And that can be a big hassle. Yet many excellent long-term agency/client relationships are still forged without RFPs..
Here are some thoughts on minimizing RFP frustrations.
The document discusses the growing use of RFPs (requests for proposals) by marketers when selecting advertising agencies, and some of the issues and alternatives to this approach. It notes that while RFPs give marketers control, they provide little information about client needs and can be an impersonal process. Agencies often spend significant time and money responding without knowing if they are a good fit. The document suggests that agencies could minimize RFPs by clarifying their unique brand, focusing on strengths, being financially stable, and selectively pursuing the right opportunities where there is a clear fit. Well-branded agencies with strong client relationships may still attract clients without needing to rely primarily on RFPs.
The document summarizes research conducted on two Chinese herbal shops in Malaysia - Wan Choon Tong in Seremban and Toon Choon Tong in Semenyih. Interviews were conducted at each shop to understand their history, operations, customers, competitors and challenges. Both shops have been in business for decades and largely serve middle-aged and elderly customers. While Wan Choon Tong faces more local competitors, both shops rely on building trust with customers through affordable prices, friendly service and herbal expertise. The research provides insights into running a successful herbal business over generations in Malaysia.
Why Compliance Culture is Vital for Your Cannabis BusinessJohn Jezzini
Every business and industry faces risks, but cannabis is one of the riskiest businesses to operate in the U.S. and abroad. Compliance culture is necessary to follow state and federal laws, build loyalty within the staff and build a solid reputation with the public. These steps are required to operate a successful cannabis company.
This document provides information about the benefits and disadvantages of Amway, as well as strategies for success. In 3 sentences:
Amway allows individuals to own a business selling quality products through a multi-level marketing structure, but it can be difficult to sustain due to high costs and an overreliance on recruiting new members. The document outlines solutions such as sponsoring committed individuals, focusing on personal and professional development, and implementing a system that encourages monthly bonus goals to build a team over time with minimal risk.
Imagine improving your money, time and health freedom through the Happy Life Project and loving every moment of it.
Visit http://www.slimhealthysingapore.com/happy-life-project/ for more information.
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This document provides guidance on developing a business plan to convert ideas into a business. It emphasizes that a business plan is important to think through your business concept and gather important facts. Developing a business plan will reveal gaps in your knowledge about the industry and help you fine-tune your product or service based on customer needs. The document then outlines key sections to include in a business plan such as value proposition, revenue model, competitive environment, marketing strategy, management team, and financial planning. Market research including creating customer profiles and surveys is also recommended to inform the business plan.
This document contains information about assignments for MGT 434 related to creating sections of an employee handbook, analyzing employee safety and welfare laws, and discussing topics related to labor unions, affirmative action, and other workplace issues. It includes details of assignments on drafting privacy, testing, and performance evaluation policies for an employee handbook. It also provides information on analyzing the Family Medical Leave Act and Occupational Safety and Health Act, and discussing issues like unionization efforts and handling problematic employee situations while avoiding legal issues.
This document contains information about assignments for an MGT 434 management course. It includes instructions for a Learning Team assignment to create sections of an employee handbook addressing privacy, testing, and performance evaluations for a fictional company. It also includes instructions for an individual assignment analyzing the Family and Medical Leave Act and Occupational Safety and Health Act, and discussion questions about issues like employee drug use and unionization.
This document provides guidance on developing a business plan to convert ideas into a business. It recommends:
1. Creating a business plan to think through your business ideas and gather important facts. The plan will reveal your knowledge and help fine-tune your product for customers.
2. Including key elements in the plan like your value proposition, revenue model, competitive environment, competitive advantages, marketing strategy, organization details, management team, fundraising strategy, and shareholders agreement.
3. Conducting market research like creating customer profiles and surveys to deeply understand customers' needs and pain points. The research will help design a product that customers will value.
The document discusses the challenges facing pharmaceutical companies in developing long-term relationships (LTRs) with customers and patients. It notes that traditional pharmaceutical marketing techniques may no longer be sufficient, as information is now more readily available to empowered patients and doctors. Pharma companies must adapt to new media and communication tactics or risk patients not wanting an LTR. Developing LTRs may require targeting and empowering more demanding stakeholder groups like empowered patients and doctors.
This document discusses fraud risk management and its relationship to anti-corruption and FCPA compliance in Asia. It outlines common internal fraud risks like shell company schemes and tender rigging. Effective fraud risk management programs include pre-employment screening of staff, knowing your business partners through vendor screening, having a strong code of ethics, and FCPA compliance measures. Such programs help detect fraud and ensure no improper payments are made to foreign officials, reducing corruption risks. Cultural objections to screening are dismissed, and integrating fraud risk management into an FCPA compliance program is presented as an effective strategy.
The document provides a framework and 5 step process from King Consulting to help businesses define their culture, align employees' roles to the company mission and culture, and implement policies and procedures to comply with fair work regulations in order to improve performance, reduce staff management needs, encourage self-managing teams, and increase profitability. The process involves defining the company culture and values, communicating them, integrating them into employees' roles and performance reviews, and creating employment documents to protect both the business and employees.
The document summarizes the roles and responsibilities of the Chicago Federal Reserve, including conducting monetary policy, supervising banks, and ensuring price stability. It discusses how Maslow's hierarchy of needs relates to employee satisfaction and productivity. When needs are met, employees are happier and more productive, which benefits the organization. While the Chicago Fed values both production and employee concerns, its responsibilities require a high focus on productivity. Effective management balances these two priorities.
Agriculture Financial Services Corp interview questions and answersretmarga810
This document provides sample answers to common interview questions for a position at Agriculture Financial Services Corp. It includes answers addressing career goals, reasons for wanting to work at the company, knowledge of the company, why the applicant should be hired, what they can offer the company, salary expectations, and questions for the interviewer. Additional tips and materials for the interview are also referenced, such as common interview questions, types of interviews, and thank you letters.
Social Media can be a powerful marketing tool for your law firm. But without a macro strategy in place or an understanding of the ethical implications of posting online, you may find yourself losing money or even violating statutory prohibitions.
Salespeople must balance various ethical responsibilities toward themselves, their companies, and customers. They may encounter situations requiring ethical decisions regarding expenses, reporting, gifts, confidentiality, and more. Various factors like personal codes, laws, and company policies influence ethical sales behavior. Salespeople must also avoid illegal practices such as misrepresentation, reciprocity agreements, price discrimination, and interfering with competitors. Understanding applicable legal guidelines is crucial for salespeople to conduct business appropriately.
Ethical and unethical business practicesPooja Lilani
An Infosys employee provided testimony to a US Senate subcommittee alleging unethical practices by Infosys related to visa fraud. The employee accused Infosys of intentionally violating visa and tax laws to increase revenues. Specifically, he said Infosys used B-1 visas to bring relatively inexperienced Indian workers to the US for projects instead of H-1B visas. Infosys then charged US client rates but paid the workers lower Indian salaries without paying US taxes. Infosys denied the allegations. The testimony has led to a probe by US authorities into Infosys' visa practices.
7 Types of Prospect. One Can Explode Your Business. If you're struggling in network marketing and need serious advise to keep going, this will definitely help. Thank you for reading and please share this, because it will help everyone in the profession.
This document provides a guide for staffing suppliers to transition from transactional providers to strategic partners. It recommends that suppliers conduct research on their customers, which include both the end client and any third-party staffing companies. Suppliers should find an advocate within these companies and ask how they can add value. The guide also suggests suppliers clearly communicate their unique value proposition and capabilities. It advises suppliers to focus on consistently meeting customer needs and being proactive, flexible partners to strengthen relationships over time.
The document discusses a presentation being given to the MAP team about conceptualizing the Western Region as a system and addressing systemic constraints to inclusive growth. It identifies national issues like the devolution of government functions to county governments that create uncertainty, differing priorities, and lack of clarity and capacity. It outlines opportunities and threats for MAP, and proposes a MAP-wide response to strengthen enabling environments through better rules and support for weak system functions. Teams would brainstorm contributions and future plans to improve the enabling environment across sectors. The goal is an inclusive and resilient system driven by evidence, participation, and multi-stakeholder processes to achieve MAP goals at scale.
The document discusses strategies for MAP to accelerate inclusive growth through its portfolio. It aims to:
1) Take stock of progress to date by reviewing MAP offers and comparing expected vs. actual results to formulate a scale-up plan.
2) Formulate a 12-month scale-up plan by assessing drivers for scale, identifying strategic options to accelerate it, and setting targets for more system breadth and depth.
3) Provide guidance on framing effective offers by considering who the offer is aimed at, why actors should want it, what they would get, and what MAP expects to get in return.
The document summarizes research conducted on two Chinese herbal shops in Malaysia - Wan Choon Tong in Seremban and Toon Choon Tong in Semenyih. Interviews were conducted at each shop to understand their history, operations, customers, competitors and challenges. Both shops have been in business for decades and largely serve middle-aged and elderly customers. While Wan Choon Tong faces more local competitors, both shops rely on building trust with customers through affordable prices, friendly service and herbal expertise. The research provides insights into running a successful herbal business over generations in Malaysia.
Why Compliance Culture is Vital for Your Cannabis BusinessJohn Jezzini
Every business and industry faces risks, but cannabis is one of the riskiest businesses to operate in the U.S. and abroad. Compliance culture is necessary to follow state and federal laws, build loyalty within the staff and build a solid reputation with the public. These steps are required to operate a successful cannabis company.
This document provides information about the benefits and disadvantages of Amway, as well as strategies for success. In 3 sentences:
Amway allows individuals to own a business selling quality products through a multi-level marketing structure, but it can be difficult to sustain due to high costs and an overreliance on recruiting new members. The document outlines solutions such as sponsoring committed individuals, focusing on personal and professional development, and implementing a system that encourages monthly bonus goals to build a team over time with minimal risk.
Imagine improving your money, time and health freedom through the Happy Life Project and loving every moment of it.
Visit http://www.slimhealthysingapore.com/happy-life-project/ for more information.
The Secret Thing That Is Holding You Back In Your Nonprofit Career Bloomerang
https://bloomerang.co/resources/webinars/
Mazarine Treyz will talk about exactly how to build trust and make your fundraising office even more effective.
This document provides guidance on developing a business plan to convert ideas into a business. It emphasizes that a business plan is important to think through your business concept and gather important facts. Developing a business plan will reveal gaps in your knowledge about the industry and help you fine-tune your product or service based on customer needs. The document then outlines key sections to include in a business plan such as value proposition, revenue model, competitive environment, marketing strategy, management team, and financial planning. Market research including creating customer profiles and surveys is also recommended to inform the business plan.
This document contains information about assignments for MGT 434 related to creating sections of an employee handbook, analyzing employee safety and welfare laws, and discussing topics related to labor unions, affirmative action, and other workplace issues. It includes details of assignments on drafting privacy, testing, and performance evaluation policies for an employee handbook. It also provides information on analyzing the Family Medical Leave Act and Occupational Safety and Health Act, and discussing issues like unionization efforts and handling problematic employee situations while avoiding legal issues.
This document contains information about assignments for an MGT 434 management course. It includes instructions for a Learning Team assignment to create sections of an employee handbook addressing privacy, testing, and performance evaluations for a fictional company. It also includes instructions for an individual assignment analyzing the Family and Medical Leave Act and Occupational Safety and Health Act, and discussion questions about issues like employee drug use and unionization.
This document provides guidance on developing a business plan to convert ideas into a business. It recommends:
1. Creating a business plan to think through your business ideas and gather important facts. The plan will reveal your knowledge and help fine-tune your product for customers.
2. Including key elements in the plan like your value proposition, revenue model, competitive environment, competitive advantages, marketing strategy, organization details, management team, fundraising strategy, and shareholders agreement.
3. Conducting market research like creating customer profiles and surveys to deeply understand customers' needs and pain points. The research will help design a product that customers will value.
The document discusses the challenges facing pharmaceutical companies in developing long-term relationships (LTRs) with customers and patients. It notes that traditional pharmaceutical marketing techniques may no longer be sufficient, as information is now more readily available to empowered patients and doctors. Pharma companies must adapt to new media and communication tactics or risk patients not wanting an LTR. Developing LTRs may require targeting and empowering more demanding stakeholder groups like empowered patients and doctors.
This document discusses fraud risk management and its relationship to anti-corruption and FCPA compliance in Asia. It outlines common internal fraud risks like shell company schemes and tender rigging. Effective fraud risk management programs include pre-employment screening of staff, knowing your business partners through vendor screening, having a strong code of ethics, and FCPA compliance measures. Such programs help detect fraud and ensure no improper payments are made to foreign officials, reducing corruption risks. Cultural objections to screening are dismissed, and integrating fraud risk management into an FCPA compliance program is presented as an effective strategy.
The document provides a framework and 5 step process from King Consulting to help businesses define their culture, align employees' roles to the company mission and culture, and implement policies and procedures to comply with fair work regulations in order to improve performance, reduce staff management needs, encourage self-managing teams, and increase profitability. The process involves defining the company culture and values, communicating them, integrating them into employees' roles and performance reviews, and creating employment documents to protect both the business and employees.
The document summarizes the roles and responsibilities of the Chicago Federal Reserve, including conducting monetary policy, supervising banks, and ensuring price stability. It discusses how Maslow's hierarchy of needs relates to employee satisfaction and productivity. When needs are met, employees are happier and more productive, which benefits the organization. While the Chicago Fed values both production and employee concerns, its responsibilities require a high focus on productivity. Effective management balances these two priorities.
Agriculture Financial Services Corp interview questions and answersretmarga810
This document provides sample answers to common interview questions for a position at Agriculture Financial Services Corp. It includes answers addressing career goals, reasons for wanting to work at the company, knowledge of the company, why the applicant should be hired, what they can offer the company, salary expectations, and questions for the interviewer. Additional tips and materials for the interview are also referenced, such as common interview questions, types of interviews, and thank you letters.
Social Media can be a powerful marketing tool for your law firm. But without a macro strategy in place or an understanding of the ethical implications of posting online, you may find yourself losing money or even violating statutory prohibitions.
Salespeople must balance various ethical responsibilities toward themselves, their companies, and customers. They may encounter situations requiring ethical decisions regarding expenses, reporting, gifts, confidentiality, and more. Various factors like personal codes, laws, and company policies influence ethical sales behavior. Salespeople must also avoid illegal practices such as misrepresentation, reciprocity agreements, price discrimination, and interfering with competitors. Understanding applicable legal guidelines is crucial for salespeople to conduct business appropriately.
Ethical and unethical business practicesPooja Lilani
An Infosys employee provided testimony to a US Senate subcommittee alleging unethical practices by Infosys related to visa fraud. The employee accused Infosys of intentionally violating visa and tax laws to increase revenues. Specifically, he said Infosys used B-1 visas to bring relatively inexperienced Indian workers to the US for projects instead of H-1B visas. Infosys then charged US client rates but paid the workers lower Indian salaries without paying US taxes. Infosys denied the allegations. The testimony has led to a probe by US authorities into Infosys' visa practices.
7 Types of Prospect. One Can Explode Your Business. If you're struggling in network marketing and need serious advise to keep going, this will definitely help. Thank you for reading and please share this, because it will help everyone in the profession.
This document provides a guide for staffing suppliers to transition from transactional providers to strategic partners. It recommends that suppliers conduct research on their customers, which include both the end client and any third-party staffing companies. Suppliers should find an advocate within these companies and ask how they can add value. The guide also suggests suppliers clearly communicate their unique value proposition and capabilities. It advises suppliers to focus on consistently meeting customer needs and being proactive, flexible partners to strengthen relationships over time.
The document discusses a presentation being given to the MAP team about conceptualizing the Western Region as a system and addressing systemic constraints to inclusive growth. It identifies national issues like the devolution of government functions to county governments that create uncertainty, differing priorities, and lack of clarity and capacity. It outlines opportunities and threats for MAP, and proposes a MAP-wide response to strengthen enabling environments through better rules and support for weak system functions. Teams would brainstorm contributions and future plans to improve the enabling environment across sectors. The goal is an inclusive and resilient system driven by evidence, participation, and multi-stakeholder processes to achieve MAP goals at scale.
The document discusses strategies for MAP to accelerate inclusive growth through its portfolio. It aims to:
1) Take stock of progress to date by reviewing MAP offers and comparing expected vs. actual results to formulate a scale-up plan.
2) Formulate a 12-month scale-up plan by assessing drivers for scale, identifying strategic options to accelerate it, and setting targets for more system breadth and depth.
3) Provide guidance on framing effective offers by considering who the offer is aimed at, why actors should want it, what they would get, and what MAP expects to get in return.
This document discusses communication skills and market facilitation. It outlines six facilitator roles: communicator, relationship builder, systems analyst, coach, and innovator. As a communicator, effective messaging, active listening, and investigative reporting are key capacities. As a systems analyst, understanding industry terminology, principles, and influencers is important. The document also discusses facilitating inclusive market system change through multi-faceted interventions at different phases and making appropriate offers to different players to foster the right incentives and behavior over time through self-selection and strategic adjustments. Finally, it prompts sharing insights into managing relationships to achieve systemic goals and role playing examples.
The document discusses system dynamics and value chains. It explains that people in value chains can relate through competition or cooperation. Effective performance is defined by ongoing upgrading and more inclusive, shared benefits. Two diagrams show how competition and cooperation can be effective or ineffective in driving improvements and growth with poverty reduction over time. The rest of the document involves a group activity where participants analyze statements about relationships between actors in value chains and identify whether they describe effective or ineffective competition and cooperation.
Niana is a major producer, consumer, and importer of rice. The domestic rice market consists of a price-conscious segment consuming mainly local rice, and a quality-conscious segment consuming mostly imported long-grain white rice. Local production and milling is unable to meet demand due to low and inconsistent yields from smallholder farmers. Relationships between actors in the domestic value chain are characterized by mistrust, opportunism, and a lack of cooperation or knowledge sharing. In contrast, importers and distributors cooperate through established credit terms and information sharing to reliably supply the quality market segment. Overall, the rice sector suffers from low productivity, weak farmer organizations, and a value chain where actors primarily view each other with suspicion rather
1) The document discusses statements that different actors in the rice market system might say and provides analysis of the statements in terms of the degree and effectiveness of cooperation and competition. The actors include farmers, traders, millers, input providers, and importers.
2) Many of the statements indicate a medium or high degree of ineffective cooperation and competition among actors due to informal rules that drive short-term thinking and limit the value of commercial relationships.
3) Formal rules also contribute to ineffective relationships between actors by influencing perceptions that push inaction or unwillingness to upgrade approaches to marketing and investment.
This document provides scenarios for a charades activity involving 14 different actors in the rice value chain. Each scenario consists of a quote from one actor about their relationship with another actor or group of actors. The aim is for participants to plot the relationships described in the correct area of a matrix based on skits performed by other groups. The document would be used to select 8 scenarios for groups to perform short skits about in order to help other participants understand the relationships described.
This is a USAID handout that provides examples of the Cooperation and Competition for Upgrading. It is a framework to assess the current picture and frame a future vision for value chain upgrading.
The document summarizes the key relationships, rules, and interconnected systems that are currently working and not working in the rice value chain in 3 countries based on a matrix analysis. Some aspects found to be working include functioning wholesale and retail links for imported rice and growing domestic consumer demand. Aspects found not to be working include importers not investing in domestic production, traders taking a short-term view which pushes farmers, and weak extension services. The overall system is also found to be unwilling or unable to invest in the urban consumer market for rice.
The document provides situation cards describing various actors involved in the rice value chain in an unnamed country, including importers, traders, millers, input suppliers, farmers, service providers, and a government official. Each card describes the actor's role and challenges they face in growing their business or improving their livelihoods. Key issues that recur include lack of access to finance, unreliable supply, poor infrastructure, and weak market linkages. The cards are intended to be used in exercises to map the value chain and identify points of intervention.
This curriculum was developed by ACDI/VOCA for USAID to provide a shared understanding of a value chain systems approach to private sector development programs. The curriculum aims to explain why a systems focus is important to achieve growth with poverty reduction. It includes 4 modules that cover understanding value chain system principles and dynamics, planning a value chain system project, and managing a value chain system project effectively through facilitation.
This is part of a USAID training on facilitating value chain development. Module 1 includes an introduction to value chains (through a large group activity) and different elements of value chains
The document provides a task sheet for assessing a MAP team's coaching capacity and skills. It instructs the team to brainstorm examples of when they effectively and ineffectively performed the role of coach. The team is asked to create a role play demonstrating good and bad coaching practices from their work. They will perform the role play for judges and be evaluated on the judges' ability to identify the examples, the team's effectiveness at demonstrating coaching practices, and the quality of their performance.
The project instituted structured guidelines to better manage the many market actors and changing level of engagement over time. By basing agreements on actors' strategic interests aligned with project strategy, the project could adjust support based on actors continuing to invest in their strategies. An update is provided: most potential actors have engaged at some point, and there is more adoption of customer-oriented strategies among agro-vets, though 10% have grown consistently and 25% are struggling to manage growth issues like staffing and financial systems. The document asks if any adjustments to the project's offer should be investigated, and if so, what and why, or if not, why not, and requests consideration of any other factors for the project.
The project made changes to standardize and lower the cost of its program to support more agro-vet firms in changing their strategies. This led to 10 new firms joining within 6 months. However, 3 original firms dropped out due to illness of an owner and working capital shortages. Two of these firms rejoined after solving their financial issues. The "churning" of firms joining, slowing, dropping out and rejoining continued. By the end, 23 firms were actively engaged, 2 remained inactive, 2 had slowed down, and 4 new firms requested support while 30 had not engaged at all.
The agriculture inputs market has seen success in improving customer orientation and sales through partnerships with 50 agro-vet retailers. Support provided to initial partners covered 75% of promotional discounts and training costs. Three partners have seen excellent buy-in and increased rural sales after 6 months. Eight additional retailers now seek the same support, potentially expanding the program to 11 partners total. The task is to determine if the initial offer should be adjusted for new partners.
This document provides a task sheet for assessing a MAP team's capacity and skills in the role of relationship builder. The team is asked to brainstorm examples of when they effectively and ineffectively performed this role based on actual experience. They must then create a role play showcasing good and bad examples of exercising their relationship building role in their current work. Finally, the role play will be performed for judges and assessed based on the judges' ability to identify the good and bad practices, the team's effectiveness at demonstrating relationship building capacities, and the quality of the performance.
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1. HO3:
HAVE
YOU
HEARD
A
PROCESSOR
SAY:
1.
“I
want
to
source
more
paddy
from
small
farmers,
but
I
have
had
trouble
with
a
few
traders
thinking
short-‐term
and
cheating
me
so
I
am
not
sure
how
to
start”
2.
“I
need
to
generate
loyalty
with
my
(farmer)
suppliers
and
limit
pirate
(selling)
buying,
so
embedding
services
and
providing
performance
incentives
should
help
keep
my
mill
utilisation
rates
high”
AN
INPUT
PROVIDER
SAY:
1.“I
know
my
future
depends
on
smallholders,
but
I
don’t
know
how
to
get
to
my
future
and
it
seems
too
far
away”
2.“I
heard
another
input
firm
on
the
radio,
so
I
called
my
cousin
in
the
tax
authority
to
check
on
how
they
can
afford
advertising”
TASK:
For
each
statement
answer
these
questions:
–Who
is
the
relationship
between?
–How
would
you
describe
the
nature
of
the
relationship?
–What
does
the
statement
imply
about
the
nature
and
degree
of
competition
and/or
cooperation?
–Are
there
any
rules
(formal
or
informal)
that
may
have
influenced
the
statement?
–What
would
you
like
to
hear
more
often
in
the
future?
• Adjust
existing
statement
• Write
new
statement