MICRO ENVIRONMENT/ INDUSTRY ANALYSIS The environment which is close to business and affects its capacity to work is called micro or operational environment. Industry is a group of companies which offer same or similar product or services. These products and services are close substitutes of each other. It consists of: 1 Suppliers Supplier are the people who supply raw materials and required components to the companies. Increasing prices and reducing the quality of their products are potential
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IndiGo Airlines – A Case study in International Business Strategy The right thing to do is also the smart thing to do The success of Indigo is a mix of a clear brand promise of "on time" and supported with slick branding and signage‚ smart technology support and a passionate and young work force who multi-task. About Indigo IndiGo is India’s largest airline with a market share of 29.5 per cent as of June‚2013 as well as the country’s largest low fare carrier. IndiGo is the fastest growing
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NTSB Investigating Southwest Airlines Flight 345 accident at LaGuardia Airport The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the July 22‚ 2013 nose-down landing of a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 at LaGuardia Airport in New York. The accident occurred at 5:45 p.m. after the twin-engine jet’s nose landing gear collapsed rearward and upward into the fuselage‚ damaging the electronics bay‚ which houses avionics and other equipment. The exterior of the airplane was also damaged from
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Executive Overview: Lufthansa is the largest airline in Europe in terms of passengers carried. By 2002‚ Lufthansa had become of the strongest airlines and top aviations groups in the world. Lufthansa had undergone a decade of fundamental change. Lufthansa was transformed from a state-owned‚ unprofitable national airline into one of the most profitable‚ privately owned aviation groups in the industry. The group turned a record loss of €350 million in 1992 into a pre-tax profit of €952 million in
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Porter S.W.O.T Analysis Strengths TCAA (Billy Bishop City Airport) – The location of this airport‚ combined with the TCAA/Porter strategic partnership offered significant advantages to Porter. Owning airport infrastructure allowed Porter to better handle operational coast and better control the customer experience. Fleet – Only using a single aircraft (Bombardier Q400 with 35%) resulted in cost savings in maintenance‚ training‚ employee pay rate and airport fees. Amenities – In flight and
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past and manage any such Crisis in future.? GENERAL ENVIRONMENT ANALYSIS The general environment analysis will focus on trends in the four segments of General Environment. The following table shows the changes in the general environment that are affecting airline Business on an ongoing basis. B. Industry Analysis PORTER’S FORCES Threat of new Entrants and Barriers to Entry: Following are some of the threats to enter into a Airline Industry High initial investments and fixed Costs
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Comprehensive Term Project United Airlines [pic] Prepared By: Presented to: Jeffrey R. Nystrom Management 4500 Business Policy and Strategic Management November 18‚ 2008 Table of Contents SECTION 1: CASE STUDY 1 1.1 Background / History 1 1.2 Organizational Mission 1 1.3 External Environment 2 1.4 Internal State of Affairs 4 1.5 Generic Strategy 5 1.6 Long-Term Objectives 5 1.7 Grand Strategies 5 1.8 Short-Term Objectives
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External and Internal Environmental Analysis “Environmental scanning is the internal communication of external information about issues that may potentially influence an organization ’s decision-making process” (Albright‚ 2004‚ p. 34). For organizations like Fresenius Medical Care‚ a worldwide company‚ the awareness of external environmental factors is vital to maintain competitive on the dialysis industry. Even though there are multiple external factors to analyze‚ in recent years the government
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External and Internal Environmental Analysis STR/581 March 17‚ 2014 External and Internal Environmental Analysis External and internal environmental analysis are important for a company to achieve its goals. The purpose of this paper is to complete the external environmental scan‚ and perform an internal competitive environmental scan for Designer Shoe Warehouse (DSW). This paper will identify and analyze the most important external environmental factor in the remote‚ industry‚ and external
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Chapter 2 Characteristics of the Airline Industry The real difficulty in changing any enterprise lies not in developing new ideas‚ but in escaping from the old ones. John Maynard Keynes 2.1 Introduction In recent years‚ the European airline industry has exhibited impressively dynamics. The sector has gone through a drastic change on both the supply and the demand side. Unlikely in other industries‚ the driving forces governing the recent changes do not depend mainly on technological factors
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