BHS0027: Strategic Management Hong Kong 2013/14 Written Individual report Task Using Porter’s Generis Strategies model‚ critically analyse IKEA’s competitive strategy. You must also recommend a course of action or direction that the organisation should take. Use the case study as a starting point and source relevant company information from their web site and other suitable sources. Style: report Word limit: 2500 words Deadline: 19 August 2013 Approximate weighting of marks and suggested structure:
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1. Discuss Porter’s Five Forces of industry competition‚ with relation to the entry of Southwest Airline in the airline market. The Porter’s Five Forces are as followed: Rivalry: The rivalry factors that could influence Southwest include high fixed costs‚ excess capacity‚ low differentiation‚ and price war. Fixed costs in the industry mean the costs of planes‚ fuel‚ pilots‚ flight attendants‚ and additional staff for luggage and customer service. All of these factors need to meet governmental
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INTRODUCTION A framework for diagnosing industry structure‚ built around five competitive forces that erode long-term industry average profitability. The industry structure framework can be applied at the level of the industry‚ the strategic group (or group of firms with similar strategies) or even the individual firm. Its ultimate function is to explain the sustainability of profits against bargaining and against direct and indirect competition. IN RESPECT TO THE INFLUENCE OF GOVERNMENT: Laws
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Making Business Decisions I: Porter’s Five Forces Analysis 1. There are several things to look at with Buyer Power: bargaining leverage‚ buyer volume‚ substitute’s available‚ buyer’s incentives and price sensitivity are just a few things that encourage buyers to purchase. Buyer power is high when the buyers have many choices of where and who to buy from and low when there are few choices. Broadway Café is located in downtown along with at least five other coffee shops. This means buyer power
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In which industry does P&G compete? Apply Porter’s Five Forces Model to the industry. Is this an attractive industry? P&G is one of the leading companies that are operating in the household consumer product industry. P&G’s threat of substitution is extremely high as there are many companies producing household consumer products‚ both national and international such as Clorox‚ Kimberly-Clark and Colgate-Palmolive CL. Also‚ P&G is also competing with retailers private label brands
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5 Forces Model 1. Threat of New Entrants.( LOW) a. The average person can’t come along and start up a bank‚ but there are services‚ such as internet bill payment‚ on which entrepreneurs can capitalize. Banks are fearful of being squeezed out of the payments business‚ because it is a good source of fee-based revenue. b. Another trend that poses a threat is companies offering other financial services. What would it take for an insurance company to start offering mortgage and loan services? Not
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1. Rivalry among existing firms: The rivalry among existing competitors in the automotive industry is very aggressive. Note that since the arrival of the Chinese participant Huawei‚ eventhough it still has no presence in the automotive industry‚ they already have services that will be integrated this year as both telecommunications and internet GPS for cars‚ these features were already accepted and endorsed by recognized auto manufacturers. All this has made the competition become more intense
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Introduction 2.Substitute products 3.Bargaining power of customers 4.Bargaining power of suppliers 5.Entrance barriers 6.Usefulness of the Five forces 7.Limitations of the five forces Model 8.Porter in the airline industry/Ryanair Introduction The model of the Five Competitive Forces was developed by Michael Porter in his book Competitive Strategy: "Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors" in 1980. Since that time it has become an important instrument for analyzing an organisations industry
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that impact a company via the usage of competitive advantage. Porter is a recognized leader in competitive analysis elaboration‚ who has elaborated five forces theory‚ which states that competitive advantage comes from the ability to gain profit via investment in an industry sector with higher than the average return. He is the author of main models on determination of main competitive forces and variants of competitive strategies. Porter believes that the market share‚ the profit level of a company
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Running head: PORTER’S STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK Porter Five Forces Analysis Managerial Economics – MBA 500 Instructor: Professor Franklin By: LaTonya Perryman Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Business Administration Concordia University Wisconsin November 1‚ 2011 Table of Contents Introduction……………………………………………………………………………3 Michael Porter’s Strategic Framework…...……………..……………………..………3 The Long-run Efficiency Implications of an Oligopoly……………………………
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