generic strategies available to a firm: differentiation or cost leadership. Both strategies can be applied either into a focused market or a broad market. Do you agree that these are the only two strategies available? Are they mutually exclusive? Why or why not? Porter’s Generic Strategies Target Scope Advantage Advantage Low Cost Product Uniqueness Broad(Industry Wide) Cost Leadership Strategy Differentiation Strategies Narrow (Market Segment) Focus Strategy(low cost) Focus Strategy(differentiation)
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* High employee turnover from stress Alternative of differentiation Pros * Highlights company strengths and niches * Attract target customers * Higher revenue per transaction * Lower cost because specialized inventory needs less space Cons * Alienate customers that can’t afford higher cost of product * Higher market risk because business is less diversified Alternative of using both low cost and differentiation Pros * More customer volume * More diversified
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ADRC-TAE Issue Brief February 2007 Private Industry Lessons: Branding Concepts and Strategies for the Social Service Sector Prepared by: Gilbert Thompson The Lewin Group thanks Catherine Adams Hunt‚ Marketing Specialist at Iowa State University Extension‚ for her thoughtful review and contributions. INTRODUCTION The Aging and Disability Resource Centers (ADRC) initiative is designed to serve as a “single point” of entry to public long-term care support programs‚ benefits and resources. Its national
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Sectors contributing to India’s GDP India is a vast country‚ so the sectors contributing to the country’s GDP is also big in numbers. Various sectors falling under the India GDP composition includes food processing‚ transportation equipment‚ petroleum‚ textiles‚ software‚ agriculture‚ mining‚ machinery‚ chemicals‚ steel‚ cement and many others. Agriculture is the pre dominant occupation in India‚ employing more than 50% of the population. The service sector accounts for employing more than 25%
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Competitive Strategies Following on from his work analysing the competitive forces in an industry‚ Michael Porter suggested four "generic" business strategies that could be adopted in order to gain competitive advantage. The four strategies relate to the extent to which the scope of a businesses’ activities are narrow versus broad and the extent to which a business seeks to differentiate its products. The four strategies are summarised in the figure below: The differentiation and cost leadership
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Thesis Framework On Pricing Strategies Under different market conditions BY:- Nishant Srivastava 2007MBA30 UNDER GUIDANCE OF:- DR. DEEPALI SINGH (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR) Department of Information Technology ABV-IIITM Introduction What is Pricing ? • Pricing is one of the four major elements of the marketing
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Current Trends: Challenges faced by FMCG supply chain in India * Several layers of intermediaries does not allow the supply chain to be cost effective and efficient. * Use of IT and other systems like ERP‚RFID is not very prevalent. * Complex tax structure: High Indirect tax‚ lack of uniformity‚ high octroi and changing tax policies result in escalating prices at every level of supply chain. * Poorly developed agricultural infrastructure. * High power cost * Lack of proper
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behavior towards the new packaging of FMCG products. The importance of packaging design as a vehicle for communication and branding is growing in competitive markets for packaged FMCG products. This research utilized a focus group methodology to understand consumer behavior toward such products. The challenge for researchers is to integrate packaging into an effective purchasing decision model‚ by understanding Consumer’s behavior towards the packaging of FMCG products. When consumers search for and
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Hilton Hotels: Brand Differentiation through Customer Relationship Management Background Hilton Hotels is one of the biggest players in the US lodging industry. It contributes to about 9% of the total rooms in US lodging market. It has presence in over 78 countries with more than 2500 hotels. Lodging industry is highly capital intensive industry‚ so to reduce capital expenditure Hilton Hotels opted for self-owned Hotels as well as franchising model with the real estate owners. One of the key features
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If‚ then Squeeze Theorem Suppose‚ if‚ then If‚ then and Chapter 2: Derivatives Function Derivative Constant Rule Constant Multiple Rule Sum Rule Product Rule Quotient Rule Chain Rule / Composite Implicit Differentiation Inverse Functions Parametric Differentiate powers Trigonometry Identities Chapter 3: Applications of Derivatives I Equation of straight line: Equation of tangent line: Distance of 2 points: Parametric Equations: Properties
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