FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION‚ UNIVERSITY OF OULU WORKING PAPERS ____________________________________________________________ ________ No. 29 ____________________________________________________________ ________ Tuula Lehtimäki‚ Jari Salo‚ Heidi Hiltula‚ Mikko Lankinen HARNESSING WEB 2.0 FOR BUSINESS TO BUSINESS MARKETING - LITERATURE REVIEW AND AN EMPIRICAL PERSPECTRIVE FROM FINLAND ____________________________________________________________ ________ OULU 2009 Tuula
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CH: CRM in B2B 3 kinds of relationships: Transactional (timely exchange of products and services) Value-added (falls between transactional and collaborative) Collaborative (alternatives are less‚ complex purchases and high prices) Transactional: Timely exchange of g/s in a highly competitive market in terms of prices. Autonomous‚ no/little concerns towards the need of customers or sellers. The relationship ends once the purchase is done Types of products- packaging‚ cleaning products or
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"amazing chemicals"that keep metal assemblies together. These compounds can and do replace lockwashers‚ gas~~ts‚ tape‚ rivets‚ screws‚ and other mee chanical fastenerS. The adhesives and sealants the company offers rely on the fourth generation of This case is based in part on a longer report developed in 1991 by Ramune Kubiliunasat The Freedonia Group‚ Cleveland‚ Ohio. It is also based on various Loctite publications‚ including annual reports‚ product brochures‚ catalogs‚ and journal articles. This version
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1.0 Introduction The Swedish home furnishing retailer IKEA was founded by Ingvar Kamprad in the region of Smaland in Sweden in 1943 (Hultman‚ et al.‚ 2011). It is regarded as one of the most respected and reliable companies in Sweden (Gronvius‚ Lernborg‚ 2009). Today‚ IKEA is a global company which has operations in 41 countries around the world for over six decades. It has 29 trading offices located in 25 countries and the remaining 16 countries are 11 customer distribution centers and 26 distribution
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identified that IKEA has been usingVERTICAL INTEGRATION to the Global furniture industry. Managers use corporate levelstrategy in VERTICAL INTEGRATION to identify which industries their company shouldcompete in to maximize its long run profitability. There are two types of vertical integration:1. Forward vertical integration 2. Backward vertical integration. So far we found that IKEA using backward vertical integration to expand their business and to make profit. Here are some benefits of IKEA to have vertical
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1) Looking at Ikeas challenges.. -low cost replacement for wood -global warming -deforestation - new sources of supply to support more store openings Option: Fabricating material Eco Friendly Substitute‚ still low cost… look a like 2) those countries match Ikeas target market -college students -budget -standard of living -income Challenge: -known for stylish‚ low-cost -other firms see Ikea as a threat and to compete and sustain they have developed new low cost furnishing
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consumers strategy cannot help IKEA achieve that aim. The reasons are that Scandinavian design and style is just a niche‚ that the market segmentation is narrow and that the target consumers are also just a small portion of the mass furniture buyers. These 3 aspects cannot help IKEA appeal broader consumers. So we need to reevaluate and redesign the three aspects. We can introduce more popular product and style‚ increase target market size and consumers size to help IKEA realize its aim. IKEA’s
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following is an analysis of the IKEA case study found in the Strategic Management Text book. This analyses the strategies used by IKEA to gain competitive advantage in markets outside its original area. The report begins by providing a background into IKEA. It studies International Business Level Strategy and the three international corporate level strategies. The case study goes into informing its target market and pricing strategy‚ which is already discussed. This case study further says how different
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IKEA in China (Group Project Progress) (Slide 1) Hello everybody! My name is Anastasiia and I am a presenter from Team 5. For our group project we chose IKEA Company and its market in China. (Slide 2) In today’s presentation I will talk about IKEA history and background‚ make an analysis of its current situation in the world and in China particularly‚ and then move to its current problem. (Slide 3) IKEA is a Swedish home products company that is perhaps best known for selling ready-to-assemble
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STRATEGY section 1 116 CASE£JKEA: D E S I G N AN D P RI C I N G T h e Swedish retailer dominates markets in 32 countries‚ and now it’s poised to conquer North America. Its battle plan: Keep making its offerings less expensive‚ without making them cheap. Above all else‚ one factor accounts for IKEA’s success: good quality at a low price. IKEA sells household items that are cheap but not cheapo‚ at prices that typically run 30 to 50 percent below the competition’s. While
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