2008 | hbr.org STRATEGY STRATEGY by Michael E. Porter Peter Crowther SHAPE THE FIVE COMPETITIVE FORCES THAT Editor’s Note: In 1979‚ Harvard Business Review published “How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy” by a young economist and associate professor‚ Michael E. Porter. It was his first HBR article‚ and it started a revolution in the strategy field. In subsequent decades‚ Porter has brought his signature economic rigor to the study of competitive strategy for corporations‚ regions
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Assignment 2 Q1: Analyze the environment in which tele-shopping was attempted. Ans1: First let us know what is teleshopping - "The basic concept of telemarketing is that you should be offering what is not available in the retail market. With the growing popularity of satellite and cable television in the late 1990s‚ changes in lifestyle and a general improvement in the standard of living‚ teleshopping picked up momentum. By 2001‚ the total teleshopping network business in the world amounted
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Introduction and Background Faced with sales growth stagnation in the late 1980s‚ MEM Company has to develop a strategy to remain competitive in the toiletries industry. As of 1980‚ there were as many as 60 companies and 200 brands in the industry highlighting the highly competitive rivalry in the market and the abundance of substitutes due to lowly differentiated products . Faced‚ with two options either to introduce a new brand‚ Cambridge‚ or to expand distribution into food stores. We have decided
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Case Study: Launching Inspired Dining Experiences at The Bay‚ Canada’s Iconic Department Store It was an inspired afternoon that had our Strategic Objectives team revelling in just how delectable our job can be. After setting Canadian foodies all a-Twitter in early 2011 with the announcement it was re-imagining its foodservice options from coast to coast‚ The Bay‚ Canada’s leading department store finally opened its first two new dining destinations‚ Bannock and Foodwares Market‚ at its flagship
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Jaypee Business School A constituent of Jaypee Institute of Information Technology (Declared Deemed to be University u/s 3 of UGC Act) A-10‚ Sector 62‚ Noida (UP) India 201 307 www.jbs.ac.in ECONOMICS OF STRATEGY - 13MCEC05 PORTER FIVE FORCE ANALYSIS – TEXTILE INDUSTRY SUBMITED BY Page Submission date – September 13‚ 2013 Word count – 3804 1 Five Forces Analysis Template 1) Factors Affecting Rivalry among Existing Competitors To what extent does pricing rivalry or non-price
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This report is on preparing Uniqlo’s first global flagship store in Singapore by introducing and implementing new recruitment and selection strategies for the two positions which are marketing manager and accountant. Job design and job specifications for these two job positions will be stated in the report. These new strategies for recruitment and selection will enables Uniqlo to achieve their mission‚ vision and co-operate objectives which are “Made For All”‚ “We will become the world’s number
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activity is concerned with human activity and so is business. From this perspective bad ethics is bad business – customers‚ suppliers and employees ultimately all leave. Ethical business would consider the following issues while pursuing business strategy; involvement in the community‚ honesty‚ truthfulness and fairness in marketing‚ use of animals in product testing‚ agricultural practices e.g. intensive farming‚ the degree of safety built into product design‚ donation to good causes‚ the extent
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management and operations strategy are two very important undertakings for any company that is involved in the production of products and services. This is because operations management ensures that raw materials are successfully converted to finished goods‚ while operations strategy makes sure that whichever goods or services produced have a competitive advantage over similar products offered by rival companies. It is from the business strategy that the operations strategy is derived‚ but all the
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Executive Summary What are the secrets of India’s success in information technology? By using Porter’s Diamond Model‚ this article tries to answer that question. Based on the analysis‚ it seems the only determinant in the Porter’s Diamond that creates India’s success is Factor Condition (i.e. the Indian intellectual capital and “Indian connection” in Silicon Valley). The supporting determinant outside the diamond is the outsourcing trend in current global competition‚ which can be considered as the
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US Airline Industry – Porter’s Five Forces The year 2011 was another dismal one for US airlines in terms of financial performance. Despite an increase in both passenger numbers and revenues for the year‚ profits were down on 2010. In total‚ US airlines earned net profits of about $0.4 billion‚ representing a net margin of less than 1%. The dire financial state of the industry was underlined by AMR (the parent of American Airlines) entering Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November 2011. This ended AMR’s
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