1.0 Introduction This final assignment in the Strategic Management module is going to focus on the strategic approaches taken by Boeing and Airbus. The assignment will first present a brief overview of the organisations respective histories along with an overview into both businesses’ current position in the civil aviation industry. Next there will be an examination of how the two companies are structured‚ along with their position in the market and how their presence affects the industry they
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about new-product branding‚ but as best as we could tell‚ nobody had looked closely at the issue of how to brand a successive generation‚" Gourville says. To that end‚ Gourville and Ofek teamed up with London Business School professor Marco Bertini (HBS DBA ’06) to suss out the best practices for branding next-generation products. "For managers‚ this is not a trivial decision‚" Ofek says. "Consumers don ’t necessarily read specs to learn about new features‚
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Case: Dell Computers (A): Field Service for Corporate Clients [HBS 9-603-067] 1. What are the key challenges DELL should be concerned with as it enters the large scale server market? Support service in server market is more critical than in personal computer market‚ especially when the server is a large scale one‚ since a problem in server even for a short time could cause serious problem in the customer’s business. Having realized the importance‚ competitors such as Hewlett-Packard and IBM
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Case: Mountain Man Brewing Company 1. What has made the Mountain Man Brewing Company successful? What is distinctive about MMBC’s product‚ customers and brand equity? Reasons why MMBC has been successful: * MMBC used their history and status as an independent family owned brewery to enhance the feeling of authenticity of their brand‚ which resonates with its core drinkers – blue collar‚ middle to low income men over the age of 45. * MMBC has very high brand awareness – in a recent
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To: Mr. Frame CC: Larry DuCharme From: Jason Kee Subject: Review of the Make-Or-Buy Decision for 878 Aircraft Executive Summary As per our conversation last week‚ I have calculated the cost estimates you requested regarding whether we should manufacture the new 878 body sections ourselves or purchase them from the Japanese supplier. Based on the information given to me by the various departments involved‚ I have come to a conclusion that it would be to our advantage to produce the body sections
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Introduction Benton Textiles have developed a new process‚ which can apply a special finish to certain types of textiles. The subsequent analysis will discuss two of the key questions that every company faces when it introduces a new product: Which market should the company target? And how should the new product be priced? The alternatives for Benton is either to enter the higher priced market‚ to the lower priced market‚ or to combine the two and first enter the higher priced market and then move
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1. Unfreezing a fragmented Ogilvy & Mather out of the Ice Age. Charlotte Beers tries to turn around Ogilvy by implementing a strategy based on differentiation. However‚ Ogilvy’s organisation and culture are obstacles to this process. She has therefore to unfreeze the situation first to allow change to be implemented through a communal culture and a collaborative organisation. Evidence of a crisis are numerous: Major accounts have been lost (Amex); Revenues and earnings are in decline; Agencies
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Case Study “Philip Condit and the Boeing 777: From Design and Development to Production and Sales” 12/13/2010 Contents: 1. Executive summary 3 2. Problem statement 4 3. Data analysis 4 4. Key Decision Criteria 5 5. Alternatives Analysis 6 6. Recommendations 7 7. Action and Implementation Plan 7 8. Conclusion 9 Executive summary The case study „Philip Condit and the Boeing 777: From Design and Development to Production and Sales“ deals with the launch and
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Overview William Boeing founded the Boeing Company in 1916 in Puget Sound‚ Washington. William had modest goals as a young Yale engineering graduate‚ first making it big in the timber industry. When the Wright bothers showed the world the idea of flight‚ William was intrigued. He then decided that it was time that he should enter into the field of aviation. Boeing and his friend Conrad Westervelt teamed up to create a more practical plane after witnessing the Wright brother’s creation and further
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1. What are the problems? Market leadership and technological innovation have marked Sealed Air’s participation in the U.S. protective packaging market. Several small regional producers have introduced products‚ which are less effective than Sealed Air’s but similar in appearance and cheaper. The company must determine its response to this new competition. The company is faced with a difficult choice of choosing from a range of feasible options ranging from doing nothing to introducing a new product
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