Corporate Strategy In Corporate Strategy‚ Collis and Montgomery explain there are two kinds of diversification—linked and constrained. Companies using linked diversification enter new businesses when it relates in some way to another business they are already in (it is linked to it)‚ but does not necessarily have any connection to their other businesses. If they are using constrained diversification‚ however‚ they only enter a new business if it is based on their core resources or competencies.
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PROMOTIONAL STRATEGY There are various ways to communicate with potential customers. Promotional strategy includes a mix of advertising‚ publicity‚ sales promotions‚ personal selling‚ and public relations. Each component of the promotional mix plays a role in your effort to have potential customers learn about your business and buy your goods or services. Your promotional strategy must address the who‚ what‚ when‚ where‚ and how much money to spend. The "Who" of Your Promotional Strategy No business
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HARDBALL STRATEGIES ’Differentiation is the only route to competitive advantage in the race to attract the best people’ Ralph Tribe‚ HR director of Getty Images ’Ethical doesn’t mean soft. We’ve had 10 years of year on year profits.’ Helen Sweeney‚ HR director‚ Co-operative Financial Services It is such quotes by eminent HR specialists which makes one rethink the context HR deals with in the current day scenario. It is all very well to believe that the transition of the role of HR from
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Campaign strategy Campaign Research Starts With Strategy and Questions To develop a campaign research plan‚ you need to know two things: 1) What are the goals of the campaign? 2) What questions need to be answered to reach those goals? This is a list of general campaign questions to help start your research process. These are not research questions. Each general campaign question should generate a list of more specific research questions. For example‚ "What is the issue/problem?" could lead
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Business Strategy -Strategic Intent Introduction Hamel and Prahalad argue that western companies used to "fitting" vision to adapt its resources‚ as a result‚ they will only seek to maintain their advantages. In contrast‚ Japanese companies dedicated to accelerating the pace of organizational learning in order to maximize resources‚ and trying to achieve seemingly impossible goals (Hamel and Prahalad‚ 1989:65). They believe these Japanese companies develop “an obsession with winning” among the
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differentiation 1. The similarity of the turning points and the points of inflexion is both of them can be stationary point‚ but not all the stationary points are turning points or points of inflexion. A turning point is a point which is the point of the sign of the derivative changes. And the turning points are the local maximum and minimum where the derivative of the function changes from positive to negative or from negative to positive. When the shape of the function is smooth‚ the turning
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THEME 8: GENERIC STRATEGIES 1. Introduction. 2. The Porter’s approach: competitive strategies (cost advantage‚ differentiation advantage and specialization). 3. The Ansoff’s approach: the Growth Matrix (market penetration‚ product development‚ market development‚ and diversification). 4. An integrating approach. © Alfonso VARGAS SÁNCHEZ 1 Hope is not a strategy‚ specially when internationalizing the company is the intention 2 Strategic Analysis: Compulsory Questions What business
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Strategy & Society The Link Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility The Idea in Brief Many firms’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts are counterproductive‚ for two reasons: They pit business against society‚ when the two are actually interdependent. And they pressure companies to think of CSR in generic ways‚ instead of crafting social initiatives appropriate to their individual strategies. CSR can be much more than just a cost‚ constraint‚ or charitable
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HR STRATEGIES THAT CAN TAKE THE STING OUT OF DOWNSIZING-RELATED LAYOFFS by Franco Gandolfi Strategy | July / August 2008 Share on emailEmail Share on twitterShare on Twitter Share on facebookPost to Facebook Share on linkedinShare on LinkedIn Share on deliciousSave to Delicious Share on instapaperSave to Instapaper While the pain of downsizing-related layoffs can’t be avoided entirely‚ it can be mitigated. Anticipating the duration and depth of an industry downturn‚ for example‚ can definitely
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Co. Ltd. is a longstanding member of the home entertainment software industry that has embarked on a mission to offer the highest quality products and services while treating their customers with attention‚ consideration and respect. Nintendo’s strategy thus far has been to take advantage of their video game development capabilities; nearly 60% of games sold by Nintendo are self developed. The innovative capabilities derived from various gaming platforms have allowed Nintendo to capitalize off
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