pros and cons of eBay’s playbook strategy. Pros of eBay’s playbook strategy are: • Develops suggestions as to how to drive traffic to the local eBay site through ads at a country’s most popular Web sites and search engines (as stated) • Dictates that products‚ info‚ and chat groups be created by buyers and sellers in that country (as stated) • eBay becomes part of the country’s internet because of the playbook • avoids problems associated with a cookie-cutter approach (as stated) - (avoids
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Making eBay work In 2006‚ there were over 200 million eBayers worldwide. For around 750‚000 people‚ eBay (thhp://www.ebay.com/) was their primary source of income. A survivor of the dot.com bust of the late 1990s‚ eBay represents a new business model courtesy of the internet. Whatever statistics you choose-from most expensive item sold to number of auctions in any one day-the numbers amaze. “This is a whole new way of doing business‚” says Meg Whitman‚ the CEO and President since 1998. “We’re creating
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The Coher Premium 86 Harvard Business Review June 2010 1191 Jun10 Leinwand REV.indd 86 5/4/10 10:42:19 AM HBR.ORG Paul Leinwand (paul. leinwand@booz.com) is a partner at Booz & Company in Chicago. Cesare Mainardi (cesare. mainardi@booz.com) is managing director of Booz & Company’s North American business and is a member of the firm’s executive committee. ence Is your company disciplined enough to focus intensely on what it does best? by Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi
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Contents 1.0 Company Profile 4 2.0 Vision Statement & Mission Statement 5 2.1 Vision Statement 5 2.2 Mission Statement 5 3.0 External Analysis 6 3.1 PEST Analysis 6 3.2 Opportunities and Threats 8 3.3 Industry Analysis – Porter 5 Forces 9 3.4 Key Success Factor 10 3.5 External Factor Evaluation (EFE) Matrix 10 3.6 Competitive Profile Matrix 10 4.0 Internal Analysis 11 4.1 Strength & Weaknesses 12 4.2 Internal Factor Evaluation (IFE) Matrix 13 5.0 Existing Strategy and Objectives 15 5.1 Existing Long-Term
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Bibliography: Sources of theories: Kotler Philip & Keller Kevin Lane‚ 2006‚ MArketing Management 12th edition‚ New Jersey
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Marketing Analysis Your name Class Instructor Date Marketing Analysis It takes hard work to create image of the company or brand or products in a given market as noticed by a target market. Whether marketing a piece of merchandise‚ a service‚ a company or even a person‚ positioning is crucial to the success of any product. Positioning of that product is about how you get into the mind of the prospective customer. You must first get into a prospect’s mind and then occupy that
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CASE: IB-88 DATE: 01/04/10 TAOBAO VS. EBAY CHINA Ten to 15 years from now‚ I think China can be eBay ’s largest market on a global basis…. We think China has tremendous long-term potential and we want to do everything we can to maintain 1 our No. 1 position. — Meg Whitman‚ eBay CEO‚ 2004 By 2008‚ Jack Ma‚ CEO of Alibaba.com Inc.‚ was in a position to consider how to fortify Taobao’s dominant position in China’s online consumer-to-consumer (C2C) market. Ma and his company had come a long way
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EBay Bids for Structured Change. Case Study Answers EBay started out with a U form‚ or functional‚ design. What changes in that design have already occurred as a result of the company’s growth? What kind of changes seem likely for the future? • One of the first things we need to look at is what the u-form design is. The U-form organization (U stands for unity)‚ also called functional design‚ relies almost exclusively on the functional approach to departmentalization . The U-form design is used
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1.0 Executive Summary McDonald’s marketing plan is designed to complement the business plan‚ but is also a way for company officers to get a handle on the external and internal factors that will influence the company’s success in the Myanmar market. This is the first entry for Myanmar market. McDonalds follows different Political and Legal factors such as environmental certification‚ Tax regulation‚ etc. with latest Technology for preparing its products. They have continued to build on their
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The online auction marketplace eBay.com is a microcosm of e-commerce. Here it consist brief overview of eBay. This document describes how one can use eBay to get the fundamentals of e-commerce‚ using the Rayport and Jaworski 7Cs framework of the online customer interface. The elements the 7Cs framework are commerce‚ context‚ content‚ community‚ customization‚ communication‚ and connection. eBay (ebay.com) is the world’s largest auction site‚ and one of the most profitable e-businesses. The successful
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