Learning outcome (LO1): Understand the relationship between organizational structure and culture. Deadline: Saturday – Oct‚ 26th 2013 Task-1 1.1-Evaluate‚ analyze‚ compare and contrast the structure and culture for both organizations: Toyota and Google. Guidelines of task-1: 1. Draw the organizational structures for both organizations - You should be able to see the differences of the two organizational structures: Tall and short hierarchical structure‚ narrow and wide span of management‚ specialization
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Strategic Management Analysis of Child and Family Services of Timmins and District Word Count: 2‚494 November 8‚ 2009 Tracy Hillier Table of Contents Introduction............................................................................................3 External Situation...................................................................................3 Internal Situation....................................................................................5 Five Forces Analysis............
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1.“Value chain analysis (VCA) is a process where a firm identifies its primary and support activities that add value to its final product and then analyze these activities to reduce costs or increase differentiation.” 2.“Value chain represents the internal activities a firm engages in when transforming inputs into outputs.” The Internal Analysis of strengths and weaknesses focuses on internal factors that give an organization certain advantages and disadvantages in meeting the needs of its target
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Boeing Internal Analysis Purpose This report discussed the components of internal analysis‚ competitive advantage‚ and strategic competitiveness of Boeing Company. This is done by analyzing the tangible & intangible resources‚ capabilities‚ and core competencies in order to clarify Boeing’s strengths and weaknesses. Resources Exhibit 1 Tangible | Intangible | Manufacturing plants | Boeing’s digital design software | Composite and metal materials | Dynamic assembly line | Headquarters
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The internal environment: * Strategic competitiveness and above – Average returns result when Internal organization (What a firm can do : function of resources‚ capabilities‚ and core competencies) matches External environment ( What a firm might do : function of opportunities in the firm’s external environment → Competitive Advantage * Competitive advantage key points: * No competitive advantage lasts forever. * Over time‚ rival use their own unique resources‚ capabilities‚ and
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Google upholds the position as the dominant search engine in the world‚ with 65 percent of the total search market‚ according to Hitwise. To maintain Google’s competitive advantage‚ the company has developed an infrastructure that guarantees a fast and efficient search engine‚ as well as branching out their efforts in other directions beyond search. Let’s first examine the speed of an average Google search. Any random search takes between 0.06 to 0.12 seconds (Gigaom). Google’s competitive edge
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higher profits. 2. What are the various directions for innovation to take? Can a mature firm in a stagnant industry pursue innovation? How successful is this likely to be? The search for new opportunities can be desirable for any industry or firm. For Google innovative thinking is very
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Growth “Though stubbornly high unemployment and continued uncertainty over the prospects for job growth will continue to dampen the outlook for industry retail sales growth in 2012‚ the retail industry will still grow at a rate faster than many other industries. This year‚ retail industry sales will rise 3.4 percent to $2.53 trillion*‚ according to the National Retail Federation – slightly lower than the pace of 2011‚ in which sales grew 4.7 percent. Many economists estimate that real U.S. GDP will
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early search engines in accuracy‚ just as Google did. Google’s original home page was almost as revolutionary as PageRank‚ simply because it was…simple. Not much more than a logo‚ a text field‚ a Search button‚ and and I’m Feeling Lucky one. It was a major part of why Google took off originally‚ and while nearly every major search engine ended up shamlessly copying it‚ I think it’s possible that nobody else would have been daring enough to try it. Once Google had been successful with Web search‚ it
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ingrained in all fields: business‚ government‚ economic‚ social. Google began in 1996 as a project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Larry and Sergey were both studying at Stanford University California. In their research project they came up with a plan to make a search engine that ranked websites according to the number of other websites that linked to that site (and ultimately came up with the Google we have today). Before Google‚ search engines had ranked sites simply by the number of times the
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