COMM 103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1&4: Non-Renewable Resource, Energy Intensity, Customer Retention

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Commerce
• Course: COMM 103
• Professor: Gary Bisonnette

Document Summary

3 characteristics used to assess efficient and effective operating platform: commercial endeavours. Reflection of complexities of business activities which circulate within org. Development of infrastructure and transaction processes: e. g. Developers, engineers, etc. to develop goods and services. Server farms, managerial hierarchy, and operating, decision- making and communication processes. Interdependency of strategy and tactics: well-directed and positioned strategy + efficient and effective tactics execution = business growth and profitability. 7 key factors impacting energy supplies: current supply development constraints. Production, transportation and refining constraints that impace. Growth + economic growth, resource depletion accelerates: this section is pretty common sense imo delivery of final product to users, political impact factors. Political, legislative/environmental action which constrains ability of companies and organizations to proceed with supply development. E. g. feed-in tariff: rate of new discoveries. Identify new sources of fossil fuels: decrease in current production. Decrease in current supply volume due to energy sources drying up/taken offline: immediate access to additional capacity.