group is in Boston and employed 6200 consultants. The company was founded by Bruce D. Henderson in 1963 as a division of the Boston sage deposit and trust company. In 1975‚ Handerson arranged an employee stock ownership plan and the buyout or all shares was completed in 1979. Serving as a management consulting firm‚ Boston consulting group acts as an adviser to many businesses‚ governments‚ and institutions. The recent clients of the Boston consulting group include Google‚ IBM‚ American Airlines
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famous is the Boston Matrix. U ntil the 1960s‚ models were the impenetrable domain of economists. The man who can be largely credited with bringing business models into the mainstream was Bruce Henderson (1915-92)‚ an Australian engineer who worked as a strategic planner for General Electric. From GE‚ Henderson joined the management consultancy A rt hur D. Li tt le. In 1963‚ he announced that he was leaving to set up his own consultancy‚ the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). An engineering
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BCG MATRIX‚ GE FOR A PRODUCT PORTFOLIO ERUKULLA SURESH -138919 SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT‚ NIT WARANGAL SUBJECT: MARKETING ENVIRONMENT AND ANALYSIS ASSIGNMENT-2 SUBMITTED TO DR.RITANJALI MAJHI‚ ASSISTANT PROFESSOR‚ SOM ON 9TH OCTOBER 2013 ABSTRACT BCG matrix is a framework created by Boston Consulting Group to evaluate the strategic position of the business brand portfolio and its potential. It classifies business portfolio into four categories based on industry attractiveness (growth
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Project Outline Brief of Company Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational corporation headquartered in Finland. Nokia is engaged in the manufacturing of mobile devices and in converging Internet and communications industries. With over 132‚000 employees in 120 countries and global annual revenue of over €42 billion and operating profit of €2 billion as of 2010. It is the world ’s largest manufacturer of mobile phones with a global device market share was 31% in the fourth quarter 2010.
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BCG Matrix of KFC The need for strategy‚ in order to expand its existing product in very promising markets for KFC is very essential. KFC‚ along with McDonalds‚ and other major fast food chains have dominated the American continent as well as else where. Since the1950’s when the founder of KFC had a dream‚ of building an empire in the fast foodmarket‚ the company has undergone lots of changes. The company has changedownership; it has taken over from Pepsi and passed over to Tricon‚ which owns
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Limitations of the BCG model. The BCG model is criticised for having a number of limitations (Kotler 2003; McDonald 2003): ➢ There are other reasons other than relative market share and market growth that could influence the allocation of resources to a product or SBU: reasons such as the need for strong brand name and product positioning could compel resource allocation to an SBU or product (Drummond & Ensor 2004). ➢ What is more‚ the model rests on net cash consumption or generation as the
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and to create value and make a difference”. Vision The vision of the Coca Company according to its website‚ “Guides every aspect of the business by describing what needs to be accomplished in order to continue achieving sustainable‚ quality growth”. The vision according to the website includes: People: The Coca Cola Company envisions being a great place to work where people are inspired to be the best they can be. Portfolio: It would like to bring to the world a portfolio
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when they become pregnant and there is no freedom of association. This research focuses on Nokia and aims to find out whether the conclusions of the SOMO report and the publicity that followed afterwards had any harmful effects for the reputation of Nokia among consumers in The Netherlands. The target groups of this research are consumers and potential consumers of Nokia between the age of 18 and 65. Nokia is the largest supplier of a wide range of mobile phones and its goal is to have the best quality
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1. What Nokia should do next http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=2&sid=a1606512-2fe5-4502-b82f-c6387f85f619%40sessionmgr10&hid=21&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=a9h&AN=90188081 In the end‚ I decommissioned my £10 Nokia 1100 out of vanity three years ago. It had survived countless mishaps‚ including one memorable death-defying dive into a cup of hot tea. Unlike my iPhone‚ its battery could trundle along for at least a week and no app could be more useful than its built-in torch
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In may 1992 the finnish company Nokia started to focus on telecommunications‚ and they are selling the first GSM-mobilephone. The companies goal in 1994 was to sell about five hundred thousand mobile phones. The goal was pulverised by selling more than twenty million mobile phones. Today‚ Nokia is a world leader in digital technologies‚ including mobile phones‚ tele-communications networks‚ wireless data solutions and multimedia terminals. In 2007 Nokia was worlds number one manufacturer
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