Business Strategy HND Business (HNDBUSCoreUnit7/Jan2013/) Submission date: 11th May 2013 By: Angela McGowan Student Reference: H1301100 Case Study The company I have chosen to use for my assignment is Premier Inn. Premier Inn are a part of a multinational company called Whitbread PLC. Premier Inn started out as “Travel Inn” and the name was changed in 2007 after Whitbread purchased “Premier Lodge”. Premier Inn is now one of the largest and cheapest (budget)
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in the past. What is/was their strategy? Is/Was it a sound strategy? Do/Did they have a competitive advantage? Do/Did they have a sustainable competitive advantage? Is/Was the organization adhering to their strategy or deviating from it? Where are/were they strong? Where are/were they weak? If you were President of the organization‚ what recommendations would you make to ensure success with this strategy? NOTE: I have often heard people say‚ we need a new strategy. It is IMPERATIVE to understand
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recommended strategy 1.1 Introduction This assignment 1.2 Choose the Model for CRH Strategy literature offers many techniques and models suited for systematic strategic analysis. The SWOT analysis‚ the PESTEL analysis‚ the Five Forces analysis framework are the prime examples of techniques that can be adopted for strategic analysis. This assignment will use PESTEL and Five forces model to analysis the environment of CRH plc. PESTEL analysis is to identify and analyze the strategy and business
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A Wine of Chile 1. A. Marketing strategy * MontGras became a successful story only through their marketing strategy. It took a determined path of exporting to the top rated wine importers in the world. * Through heavily exporting to U.K and U.S‚ MontGras segmented and exposed to some of the top wine consumers in the world * MontGras has been exporting 50% of their wines to U.K‚ which is strategically a worth move according to the rate of Chilean wines that are being exported to different countries
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than £ 2‚ 5 billion in 2012. Gucci‚ Prada and Chanel gained approximately of £ 5.8‚ £ 4.95‚ and £ 4.2 billion respectively. BODY The Resource-Based View In 1990s‚ the role of resources and capabilities become known as the basic for firms strategy and the primary source of profitability coalesced has become the resource-based view.
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Global Strategy Introduction Over several decades‚ there are several forces and rapid change in worldwide businesses which have been driven companies around the world attempting to survive in this uncontrollable changing. Such factors are tariff reduction‚ non-tariff barrier‚ free trade agreement‚ maturity in domestic market‚ threat from worldwide competitors and the rise of newly industrializing counties (NICs) such as Thailand‚ Hong Kong‚ Taiwan and so on where able to back up for sophisticated
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Case 1: IT at COSCO (#9-305-080) 1. What do you think of COSCO’s past IT/ERP strategy and IT (and/or SC) capabilities? Until the 1990s COSCO did not establish any global IT / ERP strategy. With the investment in an IBM AS/400 mainframe computer in 1988 COSCO made the attempt to form a common and user-friendly IT platform. Nevertheless until 1993 every company of the COSCO group operated their own software in the following four business fields (1) scheduling‚ (2) finance‚ (3) container management
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Strategy Strategy sets the organizations direction and provides the framework that management will use to achieve to goals through strategic‚ tactical and operational planning. When developing a strategy‚ managers answer such questions as "What products should we make?" "What markets should we serve?" What operations should we use?" "How should we compete?" To effectively answer these questions‚ managers consider four elements when they create organizational strategies. STRATEGY LEVELS
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BP’s general strategy Oil companies were the worst performing brands in the world market. There was no brand in the oil industry that had created positive perception in the public. During the late 1990’s BP has decided to change this perception for their brand. The main idea was to create a symbolic capital for BP. The definition of symbolic capital is given by (Bourdieu‚ 1974/1977 sited in Holt & McNulty‚2008‚p.76) as “ the resources by which authority and credibility are established amongst
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CHAPTER Operations Strategy and Competitiveness Before studying this chapter you should know or‚ if necessary‚ review 1. 2. The role of the OM function in organizations‚ Chapter 1‚ pp. 3–4. Differences between strategic and tactical decisions‚ Chapter 1‚ 9–10. 2 LEARNING OBJECTIVES After studying this chapter you should be able to 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Define the role of business strategy. Explain how a business strategy is developed. Explain the role of operations strategy in the organization
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