A gang member was stabbed in the chest during a street fight. He was cyanotic and unconscious from lack of blood delivery to the brain. The diagnosis was cardiac tamponade. What is cardiac tamponade and how does it cause the observed symptoms? (4 points). Answer:…
This report is about the creation of the sattelite radio industry, and its only two operating companies Sirius Sattelite Radio, and XM Radio. These companies, despite obvious duopoly advantages and some early succeses, were too heavily leaden with debt, resulting in a controversial merger worth billions. Even after the merger the company struggled to cope. I chose this company because of the interesting nature of these two companies with an immediate duopoly of the newly created industry, and the controversial nature of the decision that allowed them to merge.…
Michael Dell forever defined consumer value. Michael understood that the consumer was the driving force of any successful business, and technology was no different. Often times when an organization produces a product in which there is very little contact with the customer, there is a loss of focus on the customer’s wants, needs and experience. Michael took pride in maintaining relationships with its most valuable asset, its customers. For example, as success forced the company to expand, Michael created silos (or customer teams) within the organization to maintain the personalized customer service approach. Valuing customer demand has proven to be the key contributor in the company’s success.…
As you will learn throughout this book, creating value for consumers and the firm requires that marketers…
While I believe that everyone benefits, it is clear that the Lstn Sound Co. receives the most benefits. The company is able to use their charitable donation to the Starkey Hearing Foundation to advertise their products. The idea of helping people hear is appealing to most people, especially people that listen to music. So appealing that they may buy Lstn Sounds product over a competitor, even if it costs a little more.…
3. Timbre is the tone that an instrument or a group of instruments is making. It usually determines what instrument is being played. Timbre is created due to the overtones generated by a specific instrument.…
1. Radio One’s opportunities and risks with respect to their acquisition policy We have identified four main benefits and five major risks with respect to the desired acquisition of 12 urban stations along with the nine stations in Charlotte, Augusta and Indianapolis. Potential benefits: 1. After the acquisition of the 12 urban stations, Radio One becomes the market leader in the African-American segment. The market leader is usually the most attractive negotiator for advertisement companies since it targeting the audience largely. Therefore, the acquisition can increase Radio One’s advertisement revenues. 2. Radio One describes in its strategy plan the intention to expand its business activity scope in the long run. The acquisition of the 12 urban stations provides greater opportunities for Radio One’s planned expansion into a broader scope of media, such as internet, cable radio and recording. Therefore, the acquisition affects the realization of its strategy positively. 3. The acquisition can create some synergies for Radio One since the 12 target radio stations are in the same line of business as the existing radio stations. Potential synergies can be realized by cutting costs and improve efficiencies. One straightforward way to do this is by merging some of Radio One’s departments, for instance marketing, finance, and etcetera. 4. The African-American audience can be characterized as a high growth market segment with 60% faster population growth and 150% faster income growth than the general population. The acquisition enables Radio One to provide radio services in much more markets for the African-American audience. In this way, Radio One can attract more African-Americans which will become a very…
References: Charan, R., & Lafley, A. (2008). The Customer is Boss. The Game-Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation (pp. 35-68). New York: Crown Business.…
When TV came out, it almost destroyed Hollywood because of their myopic marketing. The major problem with these industries was the issue of product orientation rather than customer-oriented. To survive, their products and services had to be marketed differently according to the customers ' needs. According to Levitt 's research, companies go out of business because they take the customer and market for granted. Businesses must not remain stagnate but must constantly change as the market and its needs change if they want to stay in business.…
Years of research and development, along with millions of shareholder dollars, have been invested in the latest technological breakthrough from Sonic. The next step for any new product on the concept-to-consumer road is the development of a marketing analysis. The following pages will provide evidence of countless hours of research the marketing team has compiled in an effort to provide the best answers to questions that will prove vital in the marketing and sales of the Sonic 1000.…
1. Based on the business philosophies of Amar Bose, how do you think the Bose Corporation goes about analyzing its competition? I feel like Amar Bose views his only competition as himself. He is not looking to come out with a better, bigger or newer invention the another firm in the same market, but to come out with a product he is proud of and is just a little better then the last version he made. 2. Which of the texts three approaches to marketing strategy best describes Boses approach? Bose uses the Intrepreneurial Marketing approach were revenue is not the main focus, but the customer is. 3. Using the Michael Porter and Treacy and Wiersema frameworks presented in the text, which basic competitive marketing strategies does Bose pursue? Bose uses the competitive marketing strategy of listening to exactly what the customer needs but producing beyond the customer expectations. This leads to new customers to incredibly impressed and look to Bose for other audio purchasing and existing customers to continually be satisfied with products coming from Bose, creating an ever-growing loyal customer base. 4. What is Boses competitive position in its industry? Do its marketing strategies match this position? Bose is not exactly competitive in the market because they are not coming out with every gadget new known to woman, but instead continuously producing high quality products with satisfaction guaranteed. Therefore Bose is sticking to the marketing strategy of being customer focused. 5.In your opinion, is Bose a customer-centric company?…
How can a business solve the dilemma to differentiate, while also leveraging maximum economies of scale in a commodity market? This case study of Google doesn’t focus on specific innovations, but instead looks at how and where Google chooses to innovate. We will explain what defines strategic value chain elements for Google, Google’s two strategies of dominating or commoditizing these elements, and how this approach affects product and service innovation as well as partnerships and strategic positioning. In our analysis we share lessons-learned of how and where telecoms can copy Google’s approach, what does not work and why, and how telecoms can leverage similar strategic approaches in their markets through orthogonal business models…
Business gurus in other industries may argue over which of two competitive paths is best - creating value by focusing leadership attention on opportunity management or creating value by continually reducing costs. But captains of consumer electronics know that to survive in this global market, companies must do both simultaneously - business opportunities & new products must wed with operational efficiencies & consolidations.…
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“Technology is creating a radical new business model that alters the whole dynamic of customer service “…