SALFORD BUSINESS SCHOOL International Business & Strategy by Nikolaos Athanasiou 30-March-2014 Eileen Roddy: Strategic International Business Management (CRN 33138) Nikolaos Athanasiou 2014 1 of 10 Challenging Tesco giant in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Nikolaos Athanasiou 2014 2 of 10 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Born and grow in UK‚ Tesco PLC decided in 1995 to extent its leadership in mass grocery retail market to rest of the world. By doing this at that time‚ based
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1. Business strategy analysis Strategy analysis enables the analyst to understand the underlying economics of the firm and the industry in which the firm competes. Involves 3 key steps: 1. Industry analysis What economic factors drive the industry choice? Impact on profitability? 2. Competitive strategy How has the company positioned itself in the industry? 3. Corporate strategy Can the company create value across the range of its business? (Ability to exploit synergies‚ minimisation
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IKEA The strategy of IKEA adopted was cost leadership strategy. The cost leadership strategy is an integrated set action taken to produce goods or services with feature that are acceptable to customers at the lowest cost relative to that of competitors. Firms using the cost leadership strategy commonly sell standardized goods or services to the industry’s most typical customers. IKEA sells a lifestyle that customers around the world embrace a signal they have arrived good taste and recognize
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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STRATEGY SPRING 2010 Office Phone Email Chiung-Hui Tseng 61411A (Institute of International Business) (06) 275-7575 ext.53512 ctseng@mail.ncku.edu.tw Texts Ireland‚ R.D.‚ Hoskisson‚ R.E.‚ and Hitt‚ M.A. (2009) The Management of Strategy: Concepts and Cases‚ 8th Edition‚ South-Western Press. Course Objectives In the past a few decades‚ the trend of globalization has rendered the world economies more interdependent. All businesses today (both international
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Week 4. Business Strategy Chapter 5: A Dynamic Model of Industry Structuring. Objectives: • Introduce a dynamic model of industry competition and evolution. • Offer several propositions about the way industries will evolve based on this dynamic model‚ focusing specifically on the likely actions of new entrants to an industry and the responses of incumbent firms. • Illustrate how this dynamic model can be used to analyze industries. • Emphasize the managerial implications of this dynamic model
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The Strategy of International Business Chapter Outline OPENING CASE: The Evolving Strategy of Coca-Cola INTRODUCTION STRATEGY AND THE FIRM Value Creation Strategic Positioning Operations: The Firm as a Value Chain Organization: The Implementation of Strategy In Sum: Strategic Fit GLOBAL EXPANSION‚ PROFITABILITY‚ AND PROFIT GROWTH Expanding the Market: Leveraging Products and Competencies Location Economies Experience
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Mission & Values McDonald’s brand mission is to be our customers’ favorite place and way to eat and drink. Our worldwide operations are aligned around a global strategy called the Plan to Win‚ which center on an exceptional customer experience – People‚ Products‚ Place‚ Price and Promotion. We are committed to continuously improving our operations and enhancing our customers’ experience. McDonald’s Values We place the customer experience at the core of all we do. Our customers are the reason
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On Burberry… The brand‚ the business & luxury branding #1: Brand Identity PART 1: BURBERRY’S BACKGROUND Brand Heritage Thomas Burberry was an 21 year old apprentice to the country drape when he decided to open his own store. Burberry was thus founded in 1856‚ in Basingstoke‚ Hampshire‚ England. Business thrived and by 1870 Burberry became known for it’s outdoorwear. In 1879‚ Thomas Burberry invented gabardine – a breathable fabric made using an innovative process whereby the yarn was waterproofed
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[Tangible] Baidu has a strong performance of $28.9 million in terms of return on assets (Ireland‚ Hoskisson‚ Hitt‚ p291). It was largely contributed by its strategic acquisition of businesses‚ assets and technologies that complemented its existing business. For instance‚ Baidu bought over the domain name of hao123.com. Technological resources [Tangible] Baidu focuses on searches in Chinese. This language requires two bytes to store each character as opposed to English. There is a key difference
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Group 5‚ Section 21 e-Business Strategy The emergence of e-business is radically changing almost all industries ranging from retail to media. An e-business process accomplishes a given business task by using digital technologies‚ often based on the Internet. This can be any business tasking such as procurement‚ sales‚ HR‚ or other admin tasks. An e-business is a company where a significant part of its business is based on the use of e-business processes. e-Business strategy‚ therefore‚ is any particular
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