School of Business BTEC HND in Management/Marketing/Information Technology Front Sheet SFU/QSF-ACD-006 Rev 001 dated 9/20/10 UNIT 7 – Business Strategy Student number/ Student name: Activity Reference: 07-01 Group: th Date due: 18 of October 2011 Assessor(s): Dr. Joel M. Balason Date submitted: Outcome / Skill Evidence 1.1 Define the contexts of business strategy Assessor’s decision 1 Feedback 1.Analyse how the business environment is considered in strategy formulation
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Markets 5 Course Introduction and Introduction to Strategy 5 Introduction to Strategy 5 Strategist’s Toolkit: Introduction Reading 5 Strategist’s Toolkit: Competitor Analysis Reading 5 Strategist’s Toolkit: Environmental Analysis Reading 5 Strategist’s Toolkit: Appendices Reading 5 Strategic Analysis 5 Strategic Analysis 5 The Strategist’s Challenge 5 Strategist’s Toolkit: Basic Tools 5 Fundamental Principle of Business Strategy 5 Competitive Markets 5 Competitive Markets
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Application Exercise (Assignment to be submitted) (180 min.) * Construct a value chain for your department/ division/ company and contrast it over time or vis a vis a competitor‚ to try and explain the business performance. | | Guidelines for the assignment * Brief introduction of your firm and division. * Draw a value chain of your division/company.(as next best choice generic chain will do) Enlist all the activities under the relevant primary and support functions. * Show
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Cadbury stakeholders conflicts Businesses can come across many conflicts between stakeholders‚ which are the people that are impacted by the business. Cadbury‚ the chocolate producer‚ has started an organization‚ worth £9 million pounds‚ to put sports equipment in school across the UK. Customers would need to save tokens from chocolate bars and give them to the schools. To get the first equipment‚ 750 tokens are needed. While to allow the school to obtain a variety of different equipment‚ it
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Business Strategy Victoria’s Secret‚ in both its’ business and e-business components use a B to C business strategy that focuses on the same market segment and economics in both channels. Strategically the company focuses on individual business processes instead of its’ business model so that it can improve upon some of them with technology as this avoids a primarily internet-driven business model which could affect the sales of their retail locations. Their business processes that support their
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.......... 5 2.3 Porter’s five forces............................................................... 6 2.4 Value chain analysis........................................................... 8 3. The strategy used by Dacia............................................................... 9 4. Strategy proposal............................................................................... 10 5. Conclusion.......................................................................................... 11
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Agenda 1. Context 2. Business Strategy 3. Generic Compe99ve Strategies 4. Interac9ve Strategies Gesa Chritstin Noelck‚ Miechele Romano 1. Context The Exploring Strategy Model: Gesa Chritstin Noelck‚ Miechele Romano 1. Context Strategic Choices Business Strategy Corporate Strategy International Strategy Innovation Strategy Acquisitions & Alliances Focus: Focus: Focus:
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orientation towards power religious An orientation towards unity External forces in the business environment (social‚ political‚ economic‚ technology) and other bodies such as the suppliers‚ creditors‚ customers‚ share holders and competitors. HIERARCHY OF OBJECTIVES MISSION: it establishes the scope of the business‚ the main concentration of the co’s effort in terms of consumer‚ product and business sphere. It provides a systematic overview of the company’s position in the competitive field
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Case Study: Cadbury Takeover Introduction: In the beginning of 2010 the US food giant took-over one of the most famous British confectionary companies‚ Cadbury‚ affectively making Kraft the largest food confectionary company in the world (Smith‚ 2010). According to Rigby and Masters (2010) the takeover “was one of the biggest – and most hotly contested – acquisitions in the UK”. The process was exhaustively followed by media‚ which criticized inability of British Government to limit takeovers
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1.0 Introduction 2.0 Liberalization and the context of business strategy 2.1 What is liberalization? Liberalization refers to the relaxing of rules and regulations or policies of a government in a country. According to the scenario‚ in 1991‚ the Indian economy has been opened as a result of liberalization. 2.1.1 How did it affect the Indian automobile industry? The Indian government continued to have a closed economy until 1991. By then
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