Assignment Background IKEA is a Swedish company founded in 1943. It is an international retail chain store with 160 stores located in 30 countries. IKEA’s business philosophy is to offer a wide range of home furnishings with good design and function at prices that as many people as possible will be able to afford. The IKEA store in Hong Kong is one of the franchise stores in the Asia Pacific region‚ having started business in 1975. Since then‚ IKEA has become the leader in the home furnishing
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Z Master of Business Administration IKEA Company Term Project STRA 703- Strategic Management Presented to Prof. Dr. Thomas Diefenbach by Merham Yousri ‚ Mona Mansour And Passant Fouda Table of Contents 1. Introduction about IKEA 4 1.1. How the concept IKEA Began 5 1.2. IKEA concept‚ Mission and Vision 6 1.3. The main reason behind IKEA 6 2. The Main Strategic Problem in IKEA 7 3. PESTAL Analysis of the Macro- Environment 7 3.1. Political and legal Side in
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Ikea has grown into a worldwide phenomenon with an almost like cult following and the world’s largest furniture retailer due in large part to its founder Ingvar Kamprad’s charismatic personality combined with his own philosophy of business management and the Scandinavian style of open management he has parlayed a fortune that will be left to one of his children who has proven their own business acumen by running one of his many companies profitably. According to Kamprad himself in his July 23‚ 2008
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strengths * W weaknesses * O opportunities * T threats 2.2 Case study on Strategic management process In this case‚ I have study internationally known home furnishing retailer‚ which is (IKEA) the larger furniture retailer in this world. The purpose of this case study is to analyze the objectives and strategies used by IKEA‚ SWOT analyzing and discuss major issue that the company faced. IKEA is a privately-held‚ international home products retailer that sells flat pack furniture
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a MNE The Case IKEA 1 IHRM: A Key Factor For Success Of A MNE – An Introduction 1.1 The three components of IHRM – a description 1.2 Key elements concerning IHRM – the details 1.2.1 Recruitment 1.2.2 Training and Development 1.2.3 Performance measurement 1.2.4 Compensation 2 The expansion of a Swedish MNE to China – an example 2.1 Sweden and China – a comparison 2.2 The “IKEA way” – an international company from Sweden 2.3 Changes due to an expansion of IKEA to China – the
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Leadership style: Theory and example: Employee-centered behavior: a study of foreman at the International Harvester Company identifies two dimensions of leadership behavior: employee-centered behavior and job-centered behavior. Define: focusing on relationships and employee needs. Example: boss主动say hi， 自己摆货架， deep talk This can make employee think that company cares their idea and emotion; their leaders cared on them not just on completinging job perfectly. Power theory: from John French
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customer service through Ask Anna‚ IKEA’s customer service web bot. IKEA Company apply the concept about segmentation to attract their customer. The similarity on both website are the guideline the content inside also very easy to understand. Nowadays‚ online shopping not only Youngers right many elderly start to buy online product. For the IKEA website they provide cookie in both U.K. and Malaysia website. Base on this system IKEA Company can easily statistic which group of customers have heavy user
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POM 601 Operations Management Case Study Questions Maria Yee‚ Inc. Read the case study and then spend time browsing mariayee.com. You will also need to research additional material related to Maria Yee‚ Inc.‚ as well as Ikea‚ the Forest Stewardship Council‚ etc. Answer the following questions: 1. Research and attempt to assess the corporate culture at Ikea. Does the culture at Maria Yee‚ Inc. appear to be different than the culture at Ikea‚ or are the two cultures similar? 1. Which
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Coursework 1 - An Individual Assignment I have chosen to analyse IKEA as most household are likely to have an item from this retailer. Also‚ from doing background research‚ its entrepreneurial and innovative schemes since 1943 urged me to do further research to discover how it grew and expanded to 41 different countries around the world. I have specifically evaluated IKEA UK‚ by analysing the importance of their products‚ consumers and staff members and how their drive is to give a positive equal
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Executive Summary: 2.1. IKEA Objectives: * IKEA produces cheap and affordable products for the customers. * The company wants better life for those who cannot afford expensive products. * IKEA always helps to produce right product for the right consumer. * IKEA always tries to sell their products at low prices. * The company’s global developments and its continual commitment is to have a positive impact on people and the environment. 2.2. IKEA Vision: The Vision is to
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