Strategic Management – trategic Industry Analysis Assignment SUBMITTED TO PROF. S. SRIRAM SUBMITTED BY APARNA PARTHASARATHY Aparna Parthasarathy PGXPM -05 –Term 5 05 10/1/2009 Strategic Management – Industry Analysis Assignment 2009 INSTRUCTIONS FROM PROF. SRIRAM PDF of INDIAN TV Industry is circulated as a sample for your reference. The take home assignment for the SM course is as follows: 1. Please do a analysis of your Industry using the five force framework. 2. Identify a cost leader/differentiator
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* Example: * Let’s take the Sky TV case as a typical example of penetration pricing. Sky TV is launched with a very low price‚ when many companies started using them‚ their prices continued to climb‚ however the product offered is good‚ so it continues to be used. This example also means that when Manac applies this method for their customized product‚ they need to concern more about after-sale service. * For instance‚ Manac is specializing in electrical goods‚ thus‚ the safety as well as
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Bargaining Power of Suppliers In the apparel industry‚ commodities and undifferentiated products‚ such as cotton‚ are purchased in the manufacturing of goods sold to customers. Also‚ cheap labor is abundant overseas for manufacturing needed products. Switching costs are low for this industry‚ allowing firms to easily pick and choose which suppliers they would like to do business with since suppliers offer very similar products‚ which gives suppliers in this industry low bargaining power. Price
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Porter’s Five Force Competitive Model for FMCG Industry: 1. Rivalry among Competing Firms: In the FMCG Industry‚ rivalry among competitors is very fierce. There are scarce customers because the industry is highly saturated and the competitors try to snatch their share of market. Market Players use all sorts of tactics and activities from intensive advertisement campaigns to promotional stuff and price wars etc. Hence the intensity of rivalry is very high. 2. Potential Entry of New Competitors:
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Five forces : New Entry (Low to Medium) * New entrants will have to deal with high and large fixed cost * incentive because of profitability of zara * newest fashion at an inexpensive price * Zara as part of the Spanish Inditex Group‚ can benefit from the micro-economic concept of the Economies of Scale. Hence it gains cost advantages as production (scale) increases * Zara is operating within the market of “fast fashion” hence size as well as economic efficiency matter. Inditex’s
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The role of market orientation on company performance through the development of sustainable competitive advantage: the Inditex-Zara case Andres Mazaira  University of Vigo‚ Oureuse‚ Spain E. Gonzalez  University of Vigo‚ Oureuse‚ Spain Ruth Avendano Ä University of Vigo‚ Oureuse‚ Spain Keywords Market orientation‚ Competitive advantage‚ Clothing industry‚ Organizational culture Abstract This paper has been developed as a part of research seeking to verify the effects of organisational
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Marketing and distribution The Company distributes its products principally through third-party computer resellers. The Company is also continuing its expansion into new distribution channels‚ such as mass merchandise stores‚ consumer electronics outlets and computer superstores‚ in response to changing industry practices and customer preferences. The Company’s products are sold primarily to business and government customers through independent resellers‚ value-added resellers and systems integrators;
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Threat of entrants • High entry cost because of great capital is need for start up the business • Difficult for the small sized companies to enter the market‚ i.e. the top brands are well established company linked to multi-production. • Operating the business is challeging because of costly machiery repairing and professionally quality control is weariness. • Market maturity and saturation which exiting nearly 100 brands and numourous little brands in the market • Entrants are still willing
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Assignment 1 Describe Porter’s Five–Force model and how it is helpful when developing one’s international strategy. Do you see any limitation to Porter’s modeling techniques? Michael Porter ’s Five-Force model‚ as described and illustrated in “Porter’s Five Forces: A Model for Industry Analysis (Article from QuickMBA.com)”‚ goes beyond the traditional industry competitive analysis that would just compare Rivals‚ both current and potential‚ to include Suppliers and Buyers and also Product or Service
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These five forces are empirically derived‚ e.g. by observation of real companies in real markets‚ rather than the result of economic analysis. Porter’s five forces is a useful generic structure for thinking about the nature of industries. The understanding of the structure of an industry is the basis for formulation of competitive strategy. The work of Porter provides an analytical framework for the analysis of the structural factors that condition competition within an industry and suggests several
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