Statement of the purpose of the book: “Blue Ocean Strategy” Blue Ocean Strategy (BOS) is the result of a decade-long study of 150 strategic moves spanning more than 30 industries over 100 years (1880-2000) by authors Kim‚ W. C.‚ Mauborgne‚ R. BOS is the simultaneous pursuit of differentiation and low cost. The aim of BOS is not to out-perform the competition in the existing industry‚ but to create new market space or a blue ocean‚ thereby making the competition irrelevant. BOS offers a set of
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Last week lesson‚ we talked about the difference of Red Ocean strategy and Blue Ocean strategy. Red ocean is all about competition‚ companies in Red Ocean have to squeeze profit margin in order to survive in their industries. There is no one market that is never saturated‚ once more and more competitors approach to the market and share the pie of profit; profit margin of each company would goes down. Then‚ company may have to cut cost or lower product selling price to sustain profit‚ besides consumers
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Blue Ocean Strategy While traditional approaches to corporate strategy‚ such as those presented by Porter‚ Oster‚ and Duggan emphasize victory through direct competition in existing markets‚ blue ocean strategy stresses the avoidance of conflict as key to long term commercial prosperity. By creating new demand rather than battling for existing market space‚ a firm can position itself for rapid growth‚ profitability‚ and dominant brand equity. While certain organizational traits ease the implementation
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global strategy in branded footwear or a strategy that varies significantly from geographic region to geographic region? If the latter‚ what are the specific strategy differences from region to region? Our company employs global strategy. 3. Is your company employing a global strategy in private-label footwear or a strategy that varies significantly from geographic region to geographic region? If the latter‚ what are the specific strategy differences from region to region? Same strategy in this
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CHAPTER 11: FORWARD AND FUTURES HEDGING‚ SPREAD‚ AND TARGET STRATEGIES END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS AND PROBLEMS 1. (Short hedge and long hedge) Another type of hedge situation is faced when a party plans to purchase an asset at a later date‚ such as a bread maker. Fearing an increase in wheat prices‚ the bread maker would buy futures contracts. Then‚ if the price of wheat increases‚ the wheat futures price also will increase and produce a profit on the futures position. That profit will at
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CEMEX: Rewarding the Egyptian Retailers - R.Sathyanarayanan S Santhosh Kumar Shriram V Mohan Prasanth Subramaniam Goutham Raju To extend its global presence‚ CEMEX entered the Egypt market through acquisition of Assiut Cement Company CEMEX – Company background • CEMEX was founded in 1906 under the name Cementos Hidalgo • Purchased Mexican Cement producers and expanded into petrochemicals and tourism • Initially it was a domestic firm with 90% of revenues from Mexico • In 1992
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marketing clearly focused on how companies can survive in a highly competitive market‚ for example by a choosing a strategy of differentiation or cost leadership. The authors of the book Blue Ocean Strategy argue‚ however‚ that intensive competition will only lead to bloody red oceans in which companies find themselves fighting over an ever-shrinking profit pool. Blue Ocean Strategy‚ on the other hand‚ is a very practical book that dares to deviate from this path by challenging and motivating companies
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06 Internal Analysis In this part‚ the report will briefly illustrate the result from analysing the internal environment of CEMEX by supply chain analysis and resources and competences framework and VRIO model. 6.1 Value Chain Analysis Activities | Resources | Competencies | PrimaryActivities | Supply chain management | | * Good relationships with products suppliers and transportation companies | | Operations | - Internal design | - Import products from Vietnam | | Distribution
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unified perspective. Journal of Business Research (58)‚ 726-735. * Nissui (2011). Annual Report 2010. Retrieved from http://www.nissui.co.jp/english/ir/financial_information/annual.html * Porter‚ M.‚ (2008). The five competitive forces that shape strategy. Harvard Business Review‚ January 2008‚ 79-93 * Sanford (2011). Sanford‚ the home of sustainable seafood. Retrieved from http://www.sanford.co.nz/ * Sealord (2011). Sealord‚ about us. Retrieved from http://www.sealord.co.nz/xml/default.asp *
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Journal of Small Business Management 2006 44(3)‚ pp. 407–425 Entrepreneurs Use a Balanced Scorecard to Translate Strategy into Performance Measures by Andra Gumbus and Robert N. Lussier Although 50 percent of Fortune 1000 companies currently use a balanced scorecard (BSC)‚ few small businesses are using a BSC. A review of the literature finds no BSC papers in leading small business/entrepreneurship journals. This article begins with a discussion of the BSC and why a small business should
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