GENERIC STRATEGIES: A firm positions itself by leveraging its strengths. Michael Porter has argued that a firm’s strength usually falls into one of two headings: • Cost advantage • Differentiation By applying these strengths in either a broad or narrow or narrow scope‚ three generic strategies result: • Cost leadership • Differentiation • Focus These strategies are applied at business unit level. They are called generic strategies because they are not firm or industry dependant. Cost Leadership:
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Marketing strategy is defined by David Aaker as a process that can allow an organization to concentrate its resources on the optimal opportunities with the goals of increasing sales and achieving a sustainable competitive advantage. Marketing strategy includes all basic and long-term activities in the field of marketing that deal with the analysis of the strategic initial situation of a company and the formulation‚ evaluation and selection of market-oriented strategies and therefore contribute to
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MANAGING STRATEGY QUESTION 1 The Porter’s generic strategies and the Strategy Clock have a common purpose; they both focus on how a firm can create competitive advantage over its competitors. The purpose of the models is to create a common understanding about position of the current strategies and options for the new strategies if need be. These strategies can be used by companies to analyse its competitive position in comparison to the offerings of competitors
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One of the main reasons behind companies performance success in any market is that they possess a “Sustainable Competitive Advantage” ( Baraskova‚ 2010). As per Porter (2003) the concept of Sustainable Competitive Advantage is related to “Strategic positioning” that considered to be as a source of competitive advantage. Companies that located at top competitive level are those which make high returns and profitability. Hence‚ to allow a company to make higher performance in a competitive
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Netflix: Strategic Analysis Strategy I – Winter 2012 Basic Information & Assessment of Strategy Netflix is a U.S provider of on-demand Internet streaming media. Launched in1997‚ it originally offered DVD rental on a pay-per-use basis. In 1999‚ the company moved to a subscriptionbased model. In January 2008‚ Netflix began offering unlimited steaming content. Initial approach aimed to position the company as a low-cost video rental service competing with the brick and mortar stores and movie
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International Strategy Internationalization has been the most important force to reshape the competition and industry profitability in the last half-century. It still remains an appealing strategy for firms to lower cost‚ expand market and achieve better performance. This essay will first discuss the patterns of internationalization in general‚ and then move on to analyze the reasons why firms internationalize‚ among which the establishment of competitive advantage is crucial. More attentions will
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Promotion strategy Promotion is to attract customers to purchase‚ and it involves communicating information between distribution channels. Promotion Objectives There are three promotion objectives which are inform‚ persuade and remind (MKT303 Lecture notes‚ Sem.3‚ 2008‚ P.14-9). Since there are existing competitors to produce safety cars‚ Toyota should use persuade objective to show customer Prius is better than other brands cars. Factors that affecting Promotion Mix • Nature
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Team: Strategies 1. Broad Cost Leader 2. Broad Differentiator 3. Niche Cost Leader (Low Technology) 4. Niche Differentiator (High Technology) 5. Cost Leader with Product Lifecycle Focus 6. Differentiator with Product Lifecycle Focus 12.1 Broad Cost Leader A Broad Cost Leader strategy maintains a presence in all segments of the market. The company will gain a competitive advantage by keeping R&D‚ production and material costs to a minimum‚ enabling the company to compete on the basis
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STRATEGY & TRANSFORMATION FINAL ESSAY Topic: When A Company Likely To Choose Related Diversification and When Is It Likely To Choose Unrelated Diversification? Introduction First of all‚ “corporate strategy is what makes the corporate whole add up to more than the sum of its business unit parts” (Porter‚ M. E.‚ 1987 cited in Mintzberg et al 2003‚ p.451). In this regard‚ corporate-level strategy is concerned with two related issues; “first one is what businesses a corporation should compete
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Study B: Southwest Airlines Strategy (Captain Marvel) The Success of the Southwest Airlines Strategy Whiteboard • “How successful has Southwest’s strategy been?” o Southwest market cap > total of all other airlines § By being UNIQUE! Notes • • Southwest has been the only consistently profitable airline since deregulation‚ and it has implemented none of the standard tactics. If the answer to its success is not the industry‚ it must be the strategy. Industry Analysis Case B
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