SUBMITTED TO PROF. S. SRIRAM SUBMITTED BY APARNA PARTHASARATHY Aparna Parthasarathy PGXPM -05 –Term 5 05 10/1/2009 Strategic Management – Industry Analysis Assignment 2009 INSTRUCTIONS FROM PROF. SRIRAM PDF of INDIAN TV Industry is circulated as a sample for your reference. The take home assignment for the SM course is as follows: 1. Please do a analysis of your Industry using the five force framework. 2. Identify a cost leader/differentiator in your industry and explain how they achieved it
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Introduction Gap‚ Inc. is a leading American specialty apparel retailer based in San Francisco‚ California. It sells casual apparels‚ accessories‚ and other personal care products for men‚ women‚ and children. The products of Gap‚ Inc. include denim‚ khakis‚ T-shirts‚ boxers‚ casual wear‚ and others. Currently‚ the company boasts approximately 150‚000 employees and 3‚139 stores all around the world. Gap‚ Inc. sustains a large number of brands‚ namely Gap‚ Old Navy‚ Banana Republic‚ Forth & Towne
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The threat of potential new entrants (Low) High capital is required to enter into the mobile industry. It is difficult to start up in an industry where the existing firms already operate on cost and differentiation strategies (Chan et al‚ 2011‚ p.12). However‚ with the commoditization of parts‚ finding vanilla solutions for a simple alternative product might be possible. Differentiation‚ however‚ is another story. New entrants would have issues with overcoming patent issues if they didn’t plan
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Porter’s 5 Forces Analysis of French Automobile Industry and Extent of each competitive force The five forces are environmental forces that impact on a company’s ability to compete in a given market. The purpose of five-forces analysis is to diagnose the principal competitive pressures in a market and assess how strong and important each one is. Threat of new entrants | small It’s true that the average person can’t come along and start manufacturing automobiles. There are substantial commercial
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Case Study: Smoothie King Summary Smoothie King is the original nutritional smoothie bar and health marketplace since 1987 and within one year realized the key to their success and growth would be to develop a franchise system. The Smoothie King brand has been recognized by Entrepreneur Magazine as being # 1 in the juice bar category for 15 consecutive years and has seen steady growth with approximately 610 franchised units in over 35 US states (www.worldfranchising.com). As with every franchise
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Porter’s Five Forces on Smart Phone industry Threats of New Entrants 1. The Smartphone industry is a well established market and the threats of a new entrant is low‚ as technology needed to rival the devices already available is quite advance if they want to differentiate from them 2. Barriers to entry in the mobile phone industry is high because any new entrants will need high investments in R&D‚ capital investment‚ technological investment and marketing in order to compete with the established
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The Five Forces and Microsoft Microsoft’s objectives are anything but small; as the world’s leading Software Company‚ Microsoft develops and markets a variety of products used both by consumers and businesses. At the core of its business Microsoft sells its Windows operating system and office application suite to PC manufacturers such as Dell‚ HP and countless others. Microsoft has a variety of competitors from several markets ranging from operating system and software developers to music players
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both companies. Buyer power also acts to force prices down. If beans are too expensive in Tesco‚ buyers will exercise their power and move to Sainsbury. Fortunately for Tesco‚ there are few other large supermarket companies. This means the market is disciplined the supermarkets have a disciplined approach to price setting. Discipline stops them destroying each other in a profit war. Supplier power is an important part of the Porters five forces model. Implications for Tesco are many. Supplier
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What Is It? The Porter five force analysis was formed by Michael E. Porter of Harvard Business School in the year 1979‚ this model identifies and analyses 5 competitive forces that shape every industry‚ and helps determine an industry’s weaknesses and strengths. This analysis shows the overall attractiveness of an industry meaning how profitable it is. For example an unattractive industry would be the pure or perfect competition‚ because all profits turn to normal profit in the long run which means
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Porter’s Five forces Porter’s five forces tool will assist in analysing the competitive nature of the airline industry in order to assess the position of Flyafrica. This will enable FlyAfrica to make strategic decisions in order to increase geographical presence and profitability. Entry Barriers (Threat of new entrance) Threat of New Entrants This aspect has a low threat for the Zimbabwean airline industry because there are extremely low switching costs. Additionally‚ there are no proprietary
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