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18 Sep 2013, 05:48
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Due to the decline demand of the mining technology, all the related corporations are suffering from decline of profit and sales this year, including Blastcom Corporation. Blastcom Corporation is considering adopting one growth strategy: to shift some of the researchers from mining technology to the renewable energy technology, the demand for the renewable energy such as solar energy. Some of the prominent companies which market the renewable energy are successful in recent years. Therefore, it is guaranteed that company Blastcom will also be successful in the future by providing renewable energy
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The argument above talks about that in order to guarantee the profit and sales of Blastcom Corporation, the managers of the corporation decide to consider adopting a new growth strategy, i.e., shift some of the researchers from mining technology to the renewable energy technology, such as solar energy. Several reasons have been mentioned to support the author’s idea, first of all, the demand for the renewable energy is huge in the past, in addition, some of companies in the renewable energy have achieved success in recent years. At first glance, the argument made by the author seems convincing, however, after a careful analysis, we can identify that the conclusion made by the author is unreliable, as it suffers several logical flaws.
Most importantly, the evidence cited by the author that the Blastcom Corporation could avoid suffering from decline of profit and sales and guarantee its success by providing renewable energy. In fact, providing renewable energy may not necessarily result in the increase in the profit and sales. There are, indeed, a lot of other factors can affect the profit and sales, for instance, if Blastcom Corporation decreases the price of its product, the profit and sales might be increased. Therefore, we need to investigate what are the real reasons induce these kinds of decline.
At the same time, in the argument, the situation of some prominent companies that achieved success by the renewable energy is simply applied to that of Blastcom Corporation. Obviously, there are lots of extinguishable differences between Blastcom Corporation and the other companies, for example, the experience of these companies in the renewable energy technology should be quite different, meanwhile, the researcher of Blastcom Corporation might not be familiar with the renewable energy.
Last but not least, the evidence of the increase in the profit and sales is based on the prominent companies, which happened in the last years. In reality, even we admit that the renewable energy could be helpful in the increase in the profit in the past years, due to the potential changes in the coming years, we cannot make the conclusion that in the coming years, this strategy could work. If the market of the renewable energy is full, then, I am curious about that this strategy will make Blastcom Corporation into a much worse situation.
In a nutshell, because the author fails to provide adequate justifications to support the idea that the company should provide renewable energy to make profit, the argument made by the author may not be persuasive as it stands. Actually, it is quite crucial to consider the items I have discussed above. And of course, if we want to make this argument more reliable, we still need some more information about the Blastcom Corporation itself and its competitors. Only with more convincing evidence could this argument more than just an emotional appeal.
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The argument above talks about that in order to guarantee the profit and sales of Blastcom Corporation, the managers of the corporation decide to consider adopting a new growth strategy, i.e., shift some of the researchers from mining technology to the renewable energy technology, such as solar energy. Several reasons have been mentioned to support the author’s idea, first of all, the demand for the renewable energy is huge in the past, in addition, some of companies in the renewable energy have achieved success in recent years. At first glance, the argument made by the author seems convincing, however, after a careful analysis, we can identify that the conclusion made by the author is unreliable, as it suffers several logical flaws.
Most importantly, the evidence cited by the author that the Blastcom Corporation could avoid suffering from decline of profit and sales and guarantee its success by providing renewable energy. In fact, providing renewable energy may not necessarily result in the increase in the profit and sales. There are, indeed, a lot of other factors can affect the profit and sales, for instance, if Blastcom Corporation decreases the price of its product, the profit and sales might be increased. Therefore, we need to investigate what are the real reasons induce these kinds of decline.
At the same time, in the argument, the situation of some prominent companies that achieved success by the renewable energy is simply applied to that of Blastcom Corporation. Obviously, there are lots of extinguishable differences between Blastcom Corporation and the other companies, for example, the experience of these companies in the renewable energy technology should be quite different, meanwhile, the researcher of Blastcom Corporation might not be familiar with the renewable energy.
Last but not least, the evidence of the increase in the profit and sales is based on the prominent companies, which happened in the last years. In reality, even we admit that the renewable energy could be helpful in the increase in the profit in the past years, due to the potential changes in the coming years, we cannot make the conclusion that in the coming years, this strategy could work. If the market of the renewable energy is full, then, I am curious about that this strategy will make Blastcom Corporation into a much worse situation.
In a nutshell, because the author fails to provide adequate justifications to support the idea that the company should provide renewable energy to make profit, the argument made by the author may not be persuasive as it stands. Actually, it is quite crucial to consider the items I have discussed above. And of course, if we want to make this argument more reliable, we still need some more information about the Blastcom Corporation itself and its competitors. Only with more convincing evidence could this argument more than just an emotional appeal.
18 Sep 2013, 05:56
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JeremyW.
I would rate it to 5.
Try to write more in 3rd person. That would give you some extra bonus.
Please press KUDOS if my post helped !!
19 Sep 2013, 10:35
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I would give this essay a 4.5 or a 5. Overall the structure and organization is good. You have good points about the assumptions and your analysis is sufficient for the task. However, slightly more analysis would increase your score and help the reader to understand your points fully.
The major problem with this essay is that it contains many grammatical and idiomatic errors. in your opening sentence you write: The argument above talks about that in order to guarantee the profit and sales of Blastcom Corporation, the managers of the corporation decide to consider adopting a new growth strategy, i.e., shift some of the researchers from mining technology to the renewable energy technology, such as solar energy.
the points made in this sentence are good but would be improved if you said something along the lines of "The argument above claims that in order to..." talks about that is an improper idiom and leaves the reader with a bad impression on your first sentence. Furthermore, this sentence is quite long which makes it difficult to understand the main point and opens you up to further grammatical errors.
It seems you understand the task at hand and could greatly improve your score by improving your use of idioms. Possibly creating a template for the introduction and conclusion would help to avoid these idiom issues.
The major problem with this essay is that it contains many grammatical and idiomatic errors. in your opening sentence you write: The argument above talks about that in order to guarantee the profit and sales of Blastcom Corporation, the managers of the corporation decide to consider adopting a new growth strategy, i.e., shift some of the researchers from mining technology to the renewable energy technology, such as solar energy.
the points made in this sentence are good but would be improved if you said something along the lines of "The argument above claims that in order to..." talks about that is an improper idiom and leaves the reader with a bad impression on your first sentence. Furthermore, this sentence is quite long which makes it difficult to understand the main point and opens you up to further grammatical errors.
It seems you understand the task at hand and could greatly improve your score by improving your use of idioms. Possibly creating a template for the introduction and conclusion would help to avoid these idiom issues.
29 Aug 2022, 08:53
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Hello everyone on GMAT club, I notice that this might be a very old topic, but I'd really appreciate it if someone can check my essay for me, much thanks!!
Argument (just to repeat it again to avoid confusion):
Due to the decline demand of the mining technology, all the related corporations are suffering from decline of profit and sales this year, including Blastcom Corporation. Blastcom Corporation is considering adopting one growth strategy: to shift some of the researchers from mining technology to the renewable energy technology, the demand for the renewable energy such as solar energy. Some of the prominent companies which market the renewable energy are successful in recent years. Therefore, it is guaranteed that company Blastcom will also be successful in the future by providing renewable energy.
--------My essay starts here------------
Concerning the recent decline in the mining demand, Blastcom Corporation oughts to reallocate their researchers from the mining technology to, what the mangers believed whose market will keep growing, the renewable energy technology. Although this strategy seems at first glance to be an obvious conclusion, it is rife with holes and several unwarranted assumptions. Adopting such a new strategy may not lead Blastcom to be more successful as the company expected for the following reasons.
Firstly, the argument relies on data that focused solely on this year’s statistics, that is, there is no evidence to support that demands for mining technologies will constantly experience a downfall and will never revive again. There could be other reasons that specifically resulted in this year’s decline, for instance, the drastic drop in the aviation industry due to COVID-19 a few years ago. Additionally, just as what is missing to prove that mining technology is moving towards its end of the product life cycle, there is also no evidence that substantiates a long-term up-warding trend in renewable energy technology, especially solar energy. Hastily jumping into developing solar energy could be risky without thorough market trend research since the tendency might once again shift from one source of energy to another soon.
Secondly, it could be true that solar energy is indeed a prospective industry that foresees stable growth in the future, however, it does not necessarily mean that assigning more researchers in solar energy development would make Blastcom a master of it. Perhaps there could be some key know-how that Blastcom is currently missing, or maybe their in-house researchers are all specialists in mining technologies. In such cases, no matter how much more effort Blastcom were to make, it will all end up in vain. It is better for Blastcom to evaluate their internal strength and weaknesses in prior to deploy any human resource changes.
Finally, even if Blastcom is confident in pulling off solar energy technology projects and can actually come up with commercializable products, they are still not guaranteed of future sales or profit. If renewable energy is really in the replacement of traditional mining energy, other energy companies might as well start shifting their focus to renewable energy technologies, and this will consequently make the competition a lot more intense. Solar energy is not something novel nor is it extremely hard to replicate, thus by the time Blastcom is ready to launch its newest product, there could be a ton of competitors in the battlefield already. Commonly known, the more intense the competition is, the less likely Blastcom will succeed in the market. Unless the statement includes information regarding Blstcom’s competitive advantage or a well developed plan to market its new technology (presumably the solar energy technology is successfully developed), one cannot assert that Blastcom will certainly be successful in the future.
As it stands, the notion to allocate more resources into developing solar energy is not conceivable due to the aforementioned reasons. To survive from the recent mining technology decline and to succeed in the future is Blastcom’s intention to shift its focus to renewable strategy. Yet, if the company is to convince the decision makers to accept the proposed strategy, a stronger argument should be made. After all, these decisions requires significant organizational changes and could create a massive sunk cost if it eventually failed.
Argument (just to repeat it again to avoid confusion):
Due to the decline demand of the mining technology, all the related corporations are suffering from decline of profit and sales this year, including Blastcom Corporation. Blastcom Corporation is considering adopting one growth strategy: to shift some of the researchers from mining technology to the renewable energy technology, the demand for the renewable energy such as solar energy. Some of the prominent companies which market the renewable energy are successful in recent years. Therefore, it is guaranteed that company Blastcom will also be successful in the future by providing renewable energy.
--------My essay starts here------------
Concerning the recent decline in the mining demand, Blastcom Corporation oughts to reallocate their researchers from the mining technology to, what the mangers believed whose market will keep growing, the renewable energy technology. Although this strategy seems at first glance to be an obvious conclusion, it is rife with holes and several unwarranted assumptions. Adopting such a new strategy may not lead Blastcom to be more successful as the company expected for the following reasons.
Firstly, the argument relies on data that focused solely on this year’s statistics, that is, there is no evidence to support that demands for mining technologies will constantly experience a downfall and will never revive again. There could be other reasons that specifically resulted in this year’s decline, for instance, the drastic drop in the aviation industry due to COVID-19 a few years ago. Additionally, just as what is missing to prove that mining technology is moving towards its end of the product life cycle, there is also no evidence that substantiates a long-term up-warding trend in renewable energy technology, especially solar energy. Hastily jumping into developing solar energy could be risky without thorough market trend research since the tendency might once again shift from one source of energy to another soon.
Secondly, it could be true that solar energy is indeed a prospective industry that foresees stable growth in the future, however, it does not necessarily mean that assigning more researchers in solar energy development would make Blastcom a master of it. Perhaps there could be some key know-how that Blastcom is currently missing, or maybe their in-house researchers are all specialists in mining technologies. In such cases, no matter how much more effort Blastcom were to make, it will all end up in vain. It is better for Blastcom to evaluate their internal strength and weaknesses in prior to deploy any human resource changes.
Finally, even if Blastcom is confident in pulling off solar energy technology projects and can actually come up with commercializable products, they are still not guaranteed of future sales or profit. If renewable energy is really in the replacement of traditional mining energy, other energy companies might as well start shifting their focus to renewable energy technologies, and this will consequently make the competition a lot more intense. Solar energy is not something novel nor is it extremely hard to replicate, thus by the time Blastcom is ready to launch its newest product, there could be a ton of competitors in the battlefield already. Commonly known, the more intense the competition is, the less likely Blastcom will succeed in the market. Unless the statement includes information regarding Blstcom’s competitive advantage or a well developed plan to market its new technology (presumably the solar energy technology is successfully developed), one cannot assert that Blastcom will certainly be successful in the future.
As it stands, the notion to allocate more resources into developing solar energy is not conceivable due to the aforementioned reasons. To survive from the recent mining technology decline and to succeed in the future is Blastcom’s intention to shift its focus to renewable strategy. Yet, if the company is to convince the decision makers to accept the proposed strategy, a stronger argument should be made. After all, these decisions requires significant organizational changes and could create a massive sunk cost if it eventually failed.
