Marketing Critique: BCG Matrix Your Name Here Table of Contents Introduction 3 Concept Overview 3 Functional Critique 5 Intellectual Critique 6 Ethical Critique 7 Political Critique 8 Conclusion 8 Bibliography 9 Introduction This paper will attempt to provide a broad critique of the Boston Consulting Group Matrix in light of the ideas of Hackley (2009). In his book Marketing:A Critical Introduction‚ Hackley presents a framework for analysing marketing models. He suggests
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on year owing to its brand Image (made in America‚ superior quality‚ handmade) and its unique marketing idea (Bear-Gram). To better understand VTB’s current business model‚ let’s map it with the Michael Porter’s five force model in USA plush toy industry. 1. Bargaining power of suppliers: All the bears were cut‚ sewn‚ stuffed‚ and stitched in the USA except for some categories where the raw materials were purchased from all over the world. But since the USA’s strict consumer laws‚ the supplier had
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BCG Matrix of KFC KFC’s parent company is Yum! Brands‚ Inc.‚ the world’s largest restaurant company in terms of system restaurants‚ with more than 37‚000 locations in more than 120 countries and territories and employing more than one million associates. Yum! is ranked number 239 on the Fortune 500 List‚ with revenues exceeding $11 billion in 2008. Therefore‚ KFC is well-known in the world; the market growth of KFC is low which mean the market would hard to grow anymore. KFC is in the ‘Cash Cows’
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abundantly in nature. Cement is a finally powdered substance‚ which possesses strong adhesive powers‚ when combined with water. This is widely used as a material for cementing purpose in construction industry. Now a day‚ cement is considered as an important binding material due to its use in the building industry. It is used in making all types of construction/buildings‚ and its demand increases with the improvement in real income‚ urbanization and education. At the time of independence there were only
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divided as two parts---first part is to analyze Google’s businesses by using BCG matrix. [1] Then‚ another part is useful recommendations on how Google can formulate corresponding strategies to capture and sustain competitive advantage in each business. BCG matrix is commonly used to analyze business portfolio by comparing relative ratio of one’s market share to the largest competitor’s in the industry. Google’s search industry is cash cow which has high relative market share and generates large amount
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using the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) matrix. INTRODUCTION The BCG Growth-Share Matrix is a portfolio-planning model developed by Bruce Henderson of the Boston Consulting Group in the early 1970 ’s. It is based on the observation that a company ’s business units can be classified into four categories based on combinations of market growth and market share relative to the largest competitor‚ hence the name "growth-share". Market growth serves as a proxy for industry attractiveness‚ and relative market
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Stars I have categorized iPhone and iPod in Star category which means they both need further investment in product development and there are greater opportunities available in the marketfor growth. Latest figures reveal that the growth rate for iPods is currently 28% and for thoseof iPhone’s its 48%.Apple enjoys 60% more market share in iPod than its closest rivalScandisk in the market. In iPhone’s‚ Apple is not the market leader but has 28% market sharewhere manufacturer of Blackberry RIM has 41%
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any one question. ASSIGNMENT Questions 1 With the help of BCG Matrix (Boston Consultancy Group Matrix) of classifying the business of a firm into four distinct categories namely: Stars‚ Question Marks‚ Cash Cows and Dogs; please classify different products/ companies in the same industry. Questions 2 Please share the marketing strategy of any one company (including rural marketing) working under any of the following industries:
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personal computer revolution. In 2007‚ Apple Computer‚ Inc. changed their name to Apple‚ Inc. They made this change because they shifted their focus from only producing computers to producing other products for industries such as entertainment and mobile telecommunications. BCG MATRIX iPod iTunes iPod iTunes iPhone iPad iPhone iPad Mac Mac QUESTION MARK Mac * The Mac software in the Question Mark category shows their potential to either gain market
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B rajdeep Singh Table of content INTRODUCTION OF TWO WHEELER INDUSTRY • • • Global two wheeler market – 2009 Two-wheelers Purchase Trend Two-wheelers on a roll INTRODUCTION OF TV Sundaram Iyengar and Sons Limited (TVSs) OPERATIONS REVIEW • • • • Quality TQM Cost management Going forwardSuzuki sees TVS Motor as main competitor TVS Motor Company – Mission Vision Statement TVSM – Strategy for growth BCG MATRIX • • • • Cash cow Star Question mark dog ANSOFF MODEL :• Market
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