HULT INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL Google Inc. Strategic Case Analysis Fenway Cohort Team 3 Nasrat Dernaika Nikhil Srivastava Kiet Long Viktor Elkin Jorge Vilaplana March 28‚ 2012 Table of Contents 1.Google’s Early Key Success Factors 2 1.1 Innovated and Differentiated Search Engine 2 1.2 Innovated Advertising Ranking 2 1.3Expansion of Search-Related Advertising 2 2.Is Search A Winner-Take-All Business? 3 2.1 Multi homing costs 3 2.2 Strong network
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1. Makadok (2001) emphasizes the distinction between capabilities and resources by defining capabilities as “a special type of resource‚ specifically an organizationally embedded non-transferable firm-specific resource whose purpose is to improve the productivity of the other resources possessed by the firm” [4](p389). “[R]esources are stocks of available factors that are owned or controlled by the organization‚ and capabilities are an organization’s capacity to deploy resources”:[3] p. 35. Essentially
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Project Paper Summary Nucleon Inc. was founded in 1985 by Dr. Alan Ball. From 1985 until 1988 Dr. Ball and a small group of scientists researched ways of producing CRP-1 outside the body. CRP-1 is a cell regulating protein which Nucleon Inc. believed would be effective at treating burn wounds and acute kidney failure. In the field of biotechnology there was intense competition in R&D and patent protection. Nucleon believed it had a strong patent position on the CRP-1 molecule; its rights to
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University Of Anglia Ruskin Report on Google and Yahoo comparing both companies in relation to: - Organisational structure and design - Approach to management and leadership Word Count: 3000 SID: 1105684 Contents • Introduction……………………………………………………………………3 • Organisational structure and design……………………………………….4-6 • Approach to management…………………………………………………..6-7 • Conclusion……………………………………………………………………...7 • References……………………………………………………………………
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Decision Making at Google Inc. Data Google defines itself as a non-conventional company which intentionally avoids the traditional management models. “Google has been managed differently in an atmosphere of creativity and challenge.” That said by Eric Schmidt‚ CEO‚ who also affirms that the business is driven according what Peter Drucker understood as a way to manage the “knowledge workers” in 1959. The idea was first described in his book ’The Landmarks of Tomorrow’. "We know now that the source
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HR PRACTICES IN GOOGLE 1. Building innovation into job descriptions: ’20 percent time ’ Technical employees are required to spend 80% of their time on the core search and advertising businesses‚ and 20% on technical projects of their own choosing." "Employees ’ work structure follows a ’70/20/10 ’ model‚ 2. Eliminating friction at every turn: ensuring change can happen quickly and efficiently Google’s approach to innovation is highly improvisational. Any engineer in the company has a
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specialise in search engine with online advertising. It falls under the strategic group category of focused differentiator. External Analysis 1 Porter’s five forces 1 Bargaining Power of Suppliers The buying power of the suppliers is weak as Google can easily find alternative suppliers for their equipment like servers & data centres. 2 Bargaining Power of Buyers The buying power of the buyers is strong as they have low switching cost to other rivals or to other forms of advertising like
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practice and job 5 2.3 Google’s Leadership approach 7 3. Conclusion 9 References 10 Executive Summary The first part of the report will investigate some of the most relevant motivational and perceptual theories‚ which will be applied to Google case in order to understand how the company achieved its incredible success. It will be also interesting comparing the Google’s case study with another case to see how organisational behaviour theories are applied differently depending on the situation
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click-‐through rates than competing products. The company followed up with Google toolbar that further penetrated the market and expanded into the right area of search for mobile devices. 3. Quickly expanded relevant services such as Google news‚ finance‚ book search‚ gmail‚ calendar documents etc. It also
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Google is able to achieve the perfect combination of Business‚ Organizational and IS strategies. Its business strategy focuses on delivering superior technology solutions coupled with a work environment that encourages innovation. Google’s IS strategy involves building state of the art applications‚ networks and security architecture that facilitate the flow of information throughout the organization. Google is able to balance all three aspects of the IS triangle and as a result has dominated the
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