Wikipedia: A Blue Ocean Strategy Section A: Group 4 Analysis of Wikipedia‚ as a Blue Ocean Strategy Wikipedia‚ the collaboratively edited free internet encyclopaedia is a household name. Launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger‚ it has now grown to be the seventh most visited website with approximately 365 million users worldwide. How is it that the small encyclopaedia market grew more than a hundred times in the space of 8-10 years and changed its orientation in such a path breaking
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School of Business and Law MODULE TITLE: Strategic Management PROGRAMME: MBA SEMESTER: Semester Two ACADEMIC YEAR PERIOD: August-November‚ 2012 LECTURER SETTING ASSESSMENT: - Mervyn Sookun (Module Leader) DATE ASSESSMENT SET AND LOADED ON TO STUDENT PORTAL:- 8 August 2012 DATE ASSESSMENT TO BE COMPLETED AND SUBMITTTED: • Group presentation will be held during the exam period: 29 October-9 November 2012. (You will be advised of precise date and venue) --------
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What benefits have CEMEX and the other global competitors in cement derived from globalization? More broadly‚ how can cross-border activities add value in an industry as apparently localized as cement? - Reduction of tariffs associated with exporting - Due to internationalization these companies have been able to spread their risk. Therefore‚ if one market is not performing they can rely on the other (diversification) - Talent across markets - Ability to identify new emerging markets and having
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Literature Review Most of the companies must have a strategy for competing in the markets in which they offer products or services. The strategy will either be implicit or explicit‚ and the extent to which a company is successful compared with its competitors relies on the creation of competitive advantage through the activities that it performs to design‚ market‚ deliver and support its product or service. They develop strategy at an overall company level‚ within customer sectors and for regions
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CEMENT The Pakistan Credit Rating Agency Limited CEMENT SECTOR Diminishing local demand Supply-demand imbalance 1. The cement industry in Pakistan is composed of 24 players with annual production capacity of around 40mln MT. The sector is dominated by six major players – Lucky Cement Limited‚ Bestway Cement Limited‚ D.G. Khan Cement Company Limited‚ Maple Leaf Cement Factory Limited‚ Gharibwal Cement Limited‚ and Kohat Cement Company Limited – constituting over 60% of the total production
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Self-sufficiency in cement Sarwar A Chowdhury It is hard to pinpoint where and when the uses of cement were first discovered‚ or who invented it. Some say it was in ancient Rome‚ where engineers first used concrete made from volcanic rock and ground brick or pottery. Now‚ in modern times‚ concrete is a composite construction material composed of cement and other materials. Regardless of when the use of cement began‚ cement has become the major construction material for many centuries in the world
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What benefits have CEMEX and the other global competitors in cement derived from globalization? More broadly‚ how can cross-border activities add value in an industry as apparently localized as cement? CEMEX and their competitors have realized many benefits from globalization. The first of these was a reduction on tariffs associated with exporting their product. If the manufacturer has a localized facility‚ they do not have to pay export tariffs on the delivery of cement. Next‚ transportation
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INTRODUCTION Cemex‚ the Mexico’s global giant‚ has been famous worldwide for its high quality products and reliable services in cement industry. It is the third biggest company that operates in US‚ Europe‚ Africa‚ the Middle East and Asia. The company produces and distributes cement‚ ready-mix concrete‚ aggregates and related building materials in more than 50 countries and maintains trade relationships with more than 100 nations. Cemex was founded in Mexico in 1906 but its worldwide presence
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Carol Dixon International Marketing Management – BK535-BK50HY Prof/Dr. Min H. Lu June 1‚ 2014 CEMEX - SWOT Analysis Global integration for the cement industry only began in the 1970’s‚ although the industry scores high on most of the factors that should have pushed it to globalization much earlier. These factors include large investment intensity‚ technology intensity in production‚ pressures for cost reduction‚ universal needs‚ presence of multinational competitors‚ and access to localized
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Koljatic Written assignment: CEMEX CEMEX business model will be defined with WHO-WHAT-HOW. WHO: CEMEX concentrates on customers in developing countries and emerging markets. WHAT: They sell cement directly in the country or through imports. HOW: CEMEX follows a well structured and planned geographical diversification in emerging markets with control‚ low hierarchy and the experience of lesson learnt from other penetrations of a market. With their business model CEMEX pursues a low cost strategy
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