P A R T 1 Strategic Analysis PA R T O U T L I N E 1 2 3 4 Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantages Analyzing the External Environment of the Firm Assessing the Internal Environment of the Firm Recognizing a Firm’s Intellectual Assets: Moving beyond a Firm’s Tangible Resources 1 Chapter 1 Analyzing Goals and Objectives Chapter 2 Analyzing the External Environment Chapter 4 Assessing Intellectual Capital Strategy Analysis Chapter 3 Analyzing the Internal Environment
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February 19‚ 2006 Unilever Unilever House‚ Blackfriars London EC4P 4BQ‚ United Kingdom Sent Via Electronic Mail RE: Strategy Analysis Ladies and Gentlemen: At the request of the Board of Directors of Unilever‚ we provide herein our analysis of the Personal Products Industry and a strategy analysis of both Unilever and its biggest competitor‚ Procter & Gamble. The enclosed analysis also provides recommendations for Unilever to improve its competitive advantage. Respectfully submitted‚ GSA Procter
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Strategic Marketing Management Sample Exam Questions Question 1: a. Is the PLC (Product life cycle) concept useful in developing Marketing strategies? Describe why or why not? What are the limitations of the PLC concept? A strategy is a fundamental pattern of present and planned objectives‚ resource deployments‚ and interactions of an organisation with markets‚ competitors and other environmental factors. b. What are the advantages available to Google with their Google
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1) How has IKEA succeeded in expanding across the world using a standard range of products and a standard strategy in the home furniture and furnishings industry‚ in which divergent cultural influences are likely to be at their strongest? First of all‚ seems reductive say that IKEA provides a standard range of products having regard to the incredible width of this range (which allows‚ therefore‚ to offer many variables of many types of heterogeneous products: in this way is almost completely bypassed
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fulfilling strategic roles within business and government enterprises the need for the practice of operations management cannot be forgone. Operations management is very important in business operations since it forms the heart of the organisation by controlling the system of operation. Operations management deals with the design‚ operation‚ and improvement of the systems that create and deliver a firm’s primary products and services. Like marketing and finance‚ operations management is a functional
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NOTE EVALUATING STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT The strategic management process result in decision that can have significant‚ long lasting consequences. In many organizations‚ strategy evaluation is simply an appraisal of how well an organization has performed. Strategy evaluation includes three basic activities: 1. Examining the underlying bases of firm strategy 2. Comparing expected result with actual result 3. Taking corrective action to ensure that performance conform to plan. Strategy
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operate in diverse market environments Strategy-making in a diversified company is a bigger picture exercise than crafting a strategy for a single line-of-business A diversified company needs a multi-industry‚ multi-business strategy A strategic action plan must be developed Screen graphics created by: Jana F. Kuzmicki‚ Ph.D. Troy University McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2010 by The McGraw-Hill Companies‚ Inc. All rights reserved. for several different businesses competing in diverse
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Global Strategic Management - Uniqlo 1. History 2. Context (overview of the economic‚ political‚ legal or social context in the focal country and the focal firm’s perceptions of their likely evolution over time‚ as it pertains to the evolution of the focal firm’s strategy and management practices) – Ivy and Arwa 3. Industry Analysis (both globally and in the focal national market) – Ella and Ramizah 4. Strategy (main strategy of the firm and how it compares to the competitors) – Arpita and Tomo 5
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Amazon – 2011 Forest David A. Case Abstract Amazon.com‚ Inc. is a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle‚ Washington. Amazon bursts onto the Internet retailer scene in July 1995 and today offers the biggest selection of products among all companies worldwide. Amazon.com‚ Inc. seeks to be a company where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online. The company strives to offer customers the lowest possible prices on millions of unique new‚ refurbished and used items
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Australian population to buy its products over cheap international imports. Strategic management and strategy is a key factor when trying to compete and the external and internal environment needs to be analysed to do it effectively. By using business level strategy Dick Smith can compete with its competitors and achieve its goal of being one of the main brands that Australians prefer to buy. Strategic management is defined as dealing with the major intended and emergent initiatives
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