transactions‚ selling nearly 48 million IPhone units in its fourth quarter. (c) Does Apple have any sustainable competitive advantages? If so‚ what are they? Yes Apple has sustainable competitive advantages such as the innovative styles of the IPad‚ IPhone and IPod all featuring touch screen and numerous downloadable applications. Brand loyalty‚ recognition and great customer service has also made Apple a very successful company. (d) Which of the five strategic approaches in Chapter 1 does Apple employ
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Tammy Adams March 28‚ 2011 MAR Professor C. Dix Strategic Audit of Crowley Maritime Corporation Crowley Maritime Corporation is a U.S. owned and operated marine solutions‚ transportation and logistics company providing services in domestic and global markets through six operating lines of business: Latin America liner services; logistics; marine contract solutions; deep sea petroleum transportation; Puerto Rico/Caribbean liner services and petroleum transportation‚ distribution
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Tutorial 1 (page 78) 1. Why has strategic management become so important to today’s corporations? Strategic management is a set of managerial decisions and actions that determines the long-run performance of a corporation. Importances of strategic management include: 1) Strategic management develops and provides a clear direction‚ guideline towards the corporations’ goals in an effective and efficient manner. It takes consideration between vision and mission of the corporation
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advice would you give them on analyzing the results of the SWOT analysis? • Does the SWOT relate to strategic assessment? How? It is important for a company to routinely evaluate its’ image and purpose. Failure to do so may result in decreased revenue and clientele. An acronym for strengths‚ weaknesses‚ opportunities‚ and threats‚ SWOT analysis became one of the most popular tools for strategic planning. (Lu‚ 2010). It is commonly adopted for the analysis of internal and external situations‚ in
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Case Study 1: It’s Not Easy Being Indie 1. Using the strategic planning process discussed in this chapter‚ what was the core problem to be solved by Millennium? What were all their potential alternative solutions to that problem? Millennium Music was faced with what many in the retail music business were being challenged with in an industry that is continuously growing and changing due to new and improved technology. Although I believe Millennium was faced with this challenge
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Strategic Marketing Lauren Hartshorn Grand Canyon University: LDR 620 October 31‚ 2012 Strategic Marketing A successful strategic marketing process must be thoroughly developed prior to implementation. A strategic marketing plan according to Vega & Rojas (2010) is “to assign and to coordinate effectively the marketing activities and resources in order to achieve the company’s goals or strategic mission" (p. 3). The strategic plan must include target goals consistent with the company’s
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Strategic management Name: Course: College: Tutor: Date: Introduction For a company to succeed in its businesses‚ strategic management must be its main agenda. Managing multinational companies can be a hectic job and can end up in disarray if not well structured. Strategic management is based on a company’s top brass of management. The top management of the company is always at the center of decision making process on behalf the real owners of the company. This
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Strategic Alliance In today’s ever changing environments strategic alliances have emerged as a driving force behind the success of many business ventures. Strategic alliances allow companies to expand their reach without having to maximise their risk or commit themselves beyond their core business. Throughout this paper I will be examining the driving forces behind strategic alliances looking predominately at the motivations behind the formation of a strategic alliance and the idea of a multi company
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Running Header: Strategic Plan Part II Strategic Plan Part II – Environmental Analysis and Setting Strategic Goals HCS 586 March 5‚ 2012 Strategic Plan Part II – Environmental Analysis and Setting Strategic Goals Strategic planning can dictate the success of any organization if properly planned as well as the failure of an organization if not implemented as planned. Strategic planning is all about making choices. It is a process designed to support leaders in being intentional about
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explain how you would create appropriate strategic marketing objectives for a market Following on from the above 2 points‚ here you need to select a particular market – ideally the one that your own organisation operates in – and describe how you would create appropriate strategic marketing objectives (not actions) aimed at achieving success in that market. Section 4 Demonstrate how you would respond to changes in the marketing environment report on the impact of changes in the external environment
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