To answer the question‚ I choose Volkswagen as the example of broad cost leadership strategy and Roll-Royce Motor Cars as the example of focus strategy. First‚ I want to talk about the Volkswagen which is a big company in the world owns VW‚ Audi‚ Porsche‚ Bentley and many other brands. Every brand has the own characteristics. Among these‚ VW produces cars that have the relatively low price because it is the low-level brand. It targets the low and middle class‚ such as Polo‚ Golf‚ Passat‚ Touareg
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POLITICAL ASPECTS • Political uncertainty in Malaysia with Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi set to step down in March 2009. • Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak is expected to take over the ruling-coalition party‚ but with a cloud of allegations. • Political unrest in Thailand recently when anti-government protesters recently blocked flights for a week at Bangkok’s main airports. • ASEAN nations have been pushing Indonesia to scrap its Rp.1 million ‘Fiscal’ charge to all Indonesian citizens and
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the low cost carrier (LCC) concept in Malaysia. The low cost concept is introduced in the year of 2001 with the belief that “Now Everyone Can Fly” by Tony Fernandes. AirAsia was first established in 1993 and began its operation on 18 November 1996. In the year 2001‚ Anthony Fernandes (or known as Tony Fernandes) bought the airline which is suffering a loss. It was re-established as the low cost carrier after the bought over. AirAsia’s vision is to be the largest low cost airline in Asia and serve
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Q1.Competitive Advantage Explain Competitive advantage Air Asia build up their competitive advantage form providing customer lowest price and omit theunnecessary service. For example‚ Air Asia install kiosks to speed up check-in. With those innovations‚ it truly making aviation become more convenient. The customers and the operations are around Asia. Air Asia use IT to connect and integrate those end-to-end support processes. As a member of the AirAsia Team have highly competitive and
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SWOT ANALYSIS FOR AIR ASIA Strengths‚ Weaknesses‚ Opportunities and Threats Analysis for AirAsia Strengths The first phase of the swot analysis is the strengths analysis for Air Asia. There are some unique strengths of Air Asia that others company could not defeat them. First and foremost‚ Air Asia has a very cooperative and strong management team with strong connections with the government and the airline industry leaders.This is partly contributed by the diverse background of
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AirAsia‚ decided to pursue his dream to start an airline with the following vision: “To be an airline that flies long-hauls with low fares with a corporate culture that is flexible and functional”. AirAsia has achieved its title as “The World Lowest Cost Airline‚” and was also one of the world’s most profitable airlines. This report provides an analysis and evaluation of internal and external of the company. Methods of analysis includes of internal and external assessment and financial analysis. SWOT
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ALBUKHARY INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION STUDIES PROGRAMME 2011-2012 ALBUKHARY INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION STUDIES PROGRAMME 2011-2012 Assessment Task: Team Project (10%) Type of assessment: Four persons in a team Starting Date: Week 5 Ending Date: Week 10 Learning Outcome tested: 1. LO1 – Explain the difference between data and information‚ the economics and problems associated with information. 2. LO2 – Distinguish between different types of technologies for acquiring
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BUS 488 STRATEGY Assignment 3 – Individual Assignment 2 Jul 2010 Semester 2010 ____________________________________________________________ ____ Completed By Woo Gim Chuan Marcus (J0704245) Name of Tutor (T01) XXX BUS 488 Strategy - T01 Question 1 AirAsia‚ which is one of the earliest low cost carriers (LCC) in Asia‚ has become a LCC since 2001. So far‚ it has expanded its network from Malaysia to Thailand to Singapore‚ Macau and even the Mainland China in 2006. In short‚ AirAsia
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Management 08 Fall AirAsia Company Analysis Background of AirAsia Company Dato’ Tony Fernandez was the entrepreneur that brought up AirAsia to be the one of the award wining the largest low fare airlines that is currently well known for now in Asia. Since then it has been flying to over 61 domestic and international destination with 108 routes‚ and furthermore it operates over 400 flights daily from hubs that are basically located in Malaysia‚ Thailand and Indonesia. Today if we look at their
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strategic plan and how have these strategies been associated with its structure and system. It further aims at assessing the sustainability of the business model and its competitive advantage. AirAsia’s performance and business process management will also be discussed in details. AirAsia- A Case Study Contents Introduction This case study aims at evaluating the rationale of AirAsia’s strategic plan and how have these strategies been associated with its
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