Competitive Rivalry The Competitive Rivalry in South Africa is high and will continue to increase as new Providers enter the industry. * The Competition is based on price and quality. The entry of every new Customer brings with a new set of price cuts and hence intensifies competition between cell phone provo=. Major threats currently: * Cell C‚ because they are a low cost service provider of many services‚ and this has helped Cell C to penetrate the market. * MTN and Vodacom offer
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OBS 320: Chapter 4‚ Exploring the External Environment: Macro and Industry Dynamics Leave out: The Value Curve (P. 152-156); and When industry Divide and Collide (P.163-164) 1. Explain the importance of the external context for strategy and firm performance (P. 130-132) A. The External Context of Strategy (Figure 4.1) B. The External Context of Strategy (Explained) It is crucial that the external environment is thoroughly understood in order to formulate an effective
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Will Revolutionize the Way We Buy‚ Sell and Get the Things We Really Want (Hardcover ed.). The Penguin Press. pp. 246 pages Seybold‚ Pat (2001). Customers.com. Crown Business Books (Random House) Miller‚ Roger (2002). The Legal and E-Commerce Environment Today (Hardcover ed.). Thomson Learning. pp. 741 pages Kotler‚ Philip (2009). Marketing Management. Pearson:Prentice-Hall Beynon-Davies P. (2004). E-Business. Palgrave‚ Basingstoke. ISBN 1-4039-1348-X Gerstner‚ L. (2002). Who says Elephants Can
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CHAPTER ONE 1.1 INTRODUCTION The financial services industry has undergone substantial changes from regulatory‚ technological‚ cultural and economical forces‚ among others. One of the most serious results of these changes is the need for financial service companies to be marketing-oriented. Marketing oriented companies places emphasis on their clients and customers’ needs and wants‚ and determines how these needs and wants can be beneficially served. A necessary component of marketing orientation
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refreshing piece of banking. As people who are being pursued just for political reasons can get a breather with a place to bank in total secrecy without being subjected to persecutions [as was in the case of the Nazi regime against bank accounts of Jews and other “enemies of the German state” held in Switzerland (McCreery‚ 2007)]. Because of greater privacy with offshore banking‚ people with special needs that are outside the general retail banking’s scope are catered for through private banking (Casu et al
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development of Australian society and subsequent rights given to Australian citizens‚ thus addressing the guiding question as quoted at the top of the paper. Australia is run by a democratic system at all 3 levels of government (Federal‚ State and Local). Democracy means in Greek "rule by the governed". A democrary has key fundermentals that sustains that type of leadership. In a perfect democracy every citizen has equal accessible amount of power and freedom. In Australia everyone Australian citizen
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location-specific green building practices that might be ideal in one climate or setting but not in another. Macro-Environment Analysis An enterprise successful outcome does not only rely on the effective managing methods of the organization. There are a lot of factors involved on how businesses behave on market. It is a matter considering all the possible aspects around the enterprise. The macro environment is composed of the external and uncontrollable factors that affect the performance‚ strategies and decision
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OVERVIEW AND ANALYSIS OF GENERAL MOTORS "General Motors has no bad years‚ only good years and better years" (Sloan‚ 1972). This mantra established in 1950 by former GM president Harlow H. Curtice may have been true at one point‚ but is called into question today by many‚ including Wall Street. By many standards‚ General Motors is an extremely successful company‚ though an analysis of the corporation today uncovers many troubling issues. GM is and has been the world ’s leader in automotive
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General Motor’s Strategic Analysis pressure from substitute or complementary products‚ (4) bargaining power of buyers‚ and (5) bargaining power of suppliers. 1. Rivalry between existing competitors With the rise of foreign competitors like Toyota‚ Honda and Nissan in the 1970’s and 80’s‚ rivalryin the American auto industry has become much more intense. Firms compete on both price andnon-price dimensions. The price competition erodes profits by drawing down price-cost marginswhile non-price competition
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Banking and Payments Research Shows an Industry Struggling with Change Banking and Payments Research Digest H1 2014 finds that the banking and payments markets are struggling to deal with the after effects of the downturn and the disruptive effects of technology. Recent research in the banking sector shows European banks are still recovering from the financial downturn‚ threatened by shadow banks and Fintechs‚ and attempting to redefine the role of the branch. The cards and payments market is a
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