3 2 MODELS OF STRATEGY 4 1. Porter’s Generic Strategies 4 2. Mintzberg’s 5 P’s of Strategy 5 3 OVERVIEW OF STRATEGIC DECISIONS 7 4 CONCLUSION 8 INTRODUCTION “Decisions‚ whether explicitly or implicitly arrived at‚ precede every action.” Ansoff 1965 Our choices or decisions precedes everything‚ from day to day operations to the direction we steer our organisations in. According to Mintzberg and Walters strategy is “a pattern in a stream
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Blue Ocean Strategy Paper Adel Erolsky University of Phoenix MKT/421 Ron Rosalik August 25‚ 2014 Blue Ocean Strategy Paper In today’s business world‚ competition is a big concern for nearly every corporation. The competition on the market is getting stronger and more difficult to overcome‚ in many situations corporations terminate their products‚ production‚ or their services‚ just because it is impossible to continue; the cost is too high to focus on gathering development projects in marketing
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Home Assignment Implementing the Balanced Scorecard to align IT and Business Strategy Contents 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Balanced Scorecard – an overwiev 1 1.2 Course of investigation 1 2 Balanced Scorecard for a better performance 2 2.1 Three key problems 2 2.2 System of Balanced Scorecard 3 3 Components of Balanced Scorecard 4 3.1 The purpose of the implementation 4 3.2 Four Perspectives 4 3.2.1 Customer perspective 5 3.2.2 Financial and economic perspective 5 3.2.3 Internal
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oceans of uncontested market space. Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 70 Article Summary The Idea in Brief—the core idea The Idea in Practice—putting the idea to work 71 Blue Ocean Strategy 80 Further Reading A list of related materials‚ with annotations to guide further exploration of the article’s ideas and applications Reprint R0410D Blue Ocean Strategy The Idea in Brief The best way to drive profitable
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Porter ’s Generic Strategies If the primary determinant of a firm ’s profitability is the attractiveness of the industry in which it operates‚ an important secondary determinant is its position within that industry. Even though an industry may have below-average profitability‚ a firm that is optimally positioned can generate superior returns. A firm positions itself by leveraging its strengths. Michael Porter has argued that a firm ’s strengths ultimately fall into one of two headings: cost
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blue ocean strategy ® Go where profits and growth are – and where the competition isn’t www.blueoceanstrategy.com © Kim & Mauborgne R esearching the history of blue ocean
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competitive strategy in order to survival and develop. If Red Ocean is the term used to call the traditional market‚ Blue Ocean is a new term which implies the market spaces that companies need to exploit to become a winner in the market. What are the differences between Red Ocean and Blue Ocean which the firms need to know to have a lucid choice? In this essay‚ the first part will provide an overview of Blue Ocean strategy. How to create a Blue Ocean and what a cornerstone of Blue Ocean strategy is are
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Blue Ocean Strategy MKT/421 August 11‚ 2014 Blue Ocean Strategy The Blue Ocean Strategy is a slang term for the uncontested market space for an unknown industry or innovation (Investopedia‚ 2014). Take the circus industry‚ for example‚ its appeal is in rapid decline as technology becomes more interesting than seeing chained animals perform. When the circus first came out‚ it was the 1700 where no one had ever seen performances of its kind. Now the traditional circus’s audiences are in
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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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