Ducati is looking to continue to drive growth by taking market share from current competitor Harley Davison. The firm plans to attack the market niche of Harley Davison with the Ducati interpretation of its cruiser. This is a misguided way to drive sustainable growth in the long term. Harley Davison is a major American motorcycle manufacturer‚ and dominated the U.S. heavy weight motorcycle market. In 2000m Harley produced 204‚500 motorcycles a 15.5% increases over 1999. Relative to other major
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As is known to all‚ most successful medical equipment manufacturing companies like GE Healthcare satisfy customers ’ need as possible as they can and they are still on the way to improve their supply chains to attract more customers and make themselves more competitive. From this‚ we can see that customer value which can be defined as "the customer ’s overall assessment of the utility of a product based on perceptions of what is received and what is given" (Zeithaml‚ 1988‚ p. 14) plays a very important
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E-mail: c.amatulli@formazione.uniba.it Tiziana Caputo Research Assistant of Marketing Department of Business‚ Law and Environmental Studies‚ University of Salento Via per Monteroni‚ 73100‚ Lecce‚ Italy Tel: 39-83-273-2234 E-mail: tiziana_caputo@libero.it Gianluigi Guido Full Professor of Marketing Department of Business‚ Law and Environmental Studies‚ University of Salento Via per Monteroni‚ 73100‚ Lecce‚ Italy Tel: 39-83-233-2665 Received: November 3‚ 2010 E-mail: gianluigi.guido@unisalento
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“The New Beetle” (HBS) Case Study Analysis This case study discusses the history of Volkswagen (VW) in America and in particular the launch and relaunch of one of the most successful VW models‚ the Beetle. 1. Why would positioning the New Beetle be considered Mission Impossible? Volkswagen (VW) started their business in the US in 1949 with the very successful Type 1 or as it was know‚ Beetle. In the 80’s‚ due to several reasons from legislation to Japanese competition‚ VW had to stop its production
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Australian National University July 2009 Corporate Strategy Analysis: General Electric Co. (1981–present) Stanislav Bucifal Introduction The General Electric Company (GE) is widely regarded as one of the world’s most successful corporations of the 20th century. This paper aims to critically analyse the corporate strategy of GE during the period from 1981 to present under the leadership of two very different but equally influential CEOs—Jack Welch and Jeff Immelt. The essay is organised in four
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0 Lambin ’s Strategic Concept of Marketing. 03-04 3.0 Critical Analysis of GE (General Electric) Marketing Strategy. 04-16 3.1 Company Overview. 04-05 3.2 Marketing Philosophies of GE. 05-06 3.3 GE ’s marketing Strategy. 06-07 3.4 Analysis of GE ’s Market Driven Management. 07-09 3.5 GE ’s Competitor Analysis and Competitive Strategy. 10-12 3.6 SWOT Analysis of GE. 12-13 3.7 GE Brand Analysis. 13-15 3.8 GE ’s promotion and Selling Strategy. 15-16 4.0 Conclusion. 16-16 5.0 Appendices
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BREAKTHROUGHS : THE EVO PROJECT GE BUSINESSES JACK WELCH PROCESS ORIENTED Effective operations management Timely acquisitions and clever deal making Financially based strategies Efficiency driven JEFF IMMELT MARKETING ORIENTED Market value of technological advancements Organic growth – given top priority Technology leadership Commercial excellence Global expansion Marketing driven Long term‚ research- based approach to his tasks Immelt is transforming GE from a process and acquisition
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INTERNATIONAL MARKETING CASE STUDY ANALYSIS CASE – TOYOTA AND GENERAL MOTORS SITUATION ANALYSIS The world’s largest car manufacturers Japan-based Toyota and and US-based General Motors [GM] have joined together in Australia to create a joint venture under a new company called United Australian Automotive Industries [UAAI]. This is hoped to see replication of same success as the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc venture between Toyota and GM in California‚ but this was not to be the case due to various
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Journal of Family Business Management Emerald Article: Gender in family business management: a multinational analysis Matthew C. Sonfield‚ Robert N. Lussier Article information: To cite this document: Matthew C. Sonfield‚ Robert N. Lussier‚ (2012)‚"Gender in family business management: a multinational analysis"‚ Journal of Family Business Management‚ Vol. 2 Iss: 2 pp. 110 - 129 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/20436231211261862 Downloaded on: 02-10-2012 References:
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Name – Mamta Timane Subject – Organization Development Assignment – GE Workout Three activities are generally mentioned as being keys to General Electric’s success: process mapping‚ “best practices” benchmarking‚ and “workout” (Stewart‚ 1991). Workout is GE’s approach to intensive team problem solving. An organization contacted us with a desire to adapt a GE workout-type process for use in their organization. We believe our efforts to respond to our client’s questions and concerns about the
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