Case #14: Google’s Strategy in 2008 Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Competitive Forces 3 Force 1: Rival Sellers 3 Force 2: New Entrants 4 Force3: Substitute Products 4 Force 4: Suppliers 4 Force 5: Internet Users 5 Driving Forces 5 Key Success Factors 6 Google’s Business Model 7 Financial Analysis 8 SWOT Analysis 9 Recommendations 11 References 12 Tables 13 Executive Summary Google went from a startup company operating on a shoestring budget
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GOOGLE: Google’s mission is to organize the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Beginning in 1996‚ Stanford University graduate students Larry Page and Sergey Brin built a search engine called “BackRub” that used links to determine the importance of individual web pages. By 1998 they had formalized their work‚ creating the company you know today as Google. Our philosophy Ten things we know to be true “The perfect search engine‚” says co–founder Larry Page‚
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Google’s Strategy Identification Google’s search expertise began back in 1969 when two graduate students from Stanford University collaborated to invent a new search engine. Larry Page and Sergey Brin named their new search engine BackRub because its purpose was designed to determine the amount of back links leading to the websites. David Filo‚ a prior user of BackRub convinced Page and Brin to leave Stanford in 1998 and focus on making their search engine the best internet company of all
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16 Appendix 19 I. Background (Introduction) Google began in 1996 as a project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Page and Brin were both studying at Stanford University California. They came up with a plan to make a search engine that ranked websites according to the number of other websites that linked to that site (and ultimately came up with the Google we have today). Before Google‚ search engines had ranked sites simply by the number of times the term being searched
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Google is one of leaders in innovation management. What are some of its best practices? Google’s Executive Chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt provides us with some insights (reported in Manyika 2008): EES&OR483 Strategy and Marketing Primer (version 3.0) This set of "crib notes" is a review of marketing and strategy tools and concepts that you may find useful for your project in EES&OR 483. The intention is not to give you more work or reading material‚ but rather to provide you with
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you an inside look as to how Google Inc. has evolved into a multi-billion dollar empire since it was first developed in 1996 by two Stanford University graduates working out of a garage. The paper will also compare Google to its strongest competitors in the search engine‚ web advertising and mobile phone industries. The paper will also reveal what the key elements to success are in those industries. The paper will also detail the resources and key competencies that Google has to make them the leading
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Google Strategy in 2012 1. Use the “Five Force Model” to assess Google’s competitive environment. Rate each of the Five Forces as weak‚ moderate‚ or strong‚ and justify your ratings. I. Competitive Pressures Created by the Rivalry among Competitors sellers Google’s competitive environment regarding rivalry is strong. Google has managed to stay ahead of its
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Google Android Strategy Memo to the CEO Mahipal Raythattha‚ Joseph Moore‚ Dingchao Lu‚ and Samuel Yang March 11‚ 2009 In this paper‚ we analyze the future of the smartphone operating system market and consider strategies that Google Android can employ to survive and grow. INDUSTRY OVE ERVIEW: STATE OF THE MARKET New Entrant N ts o Smart tphones are e a growing part of the more mature cell‐phon ne market. Mobile ph hone sales d declined ove erall in 2008 8‚ but smart
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Google Strategy in 2010 Juliette Williams Baker College Table of Contents Overview 3 Company Mission Statement 4 Internal/External Analysis 5 Strategic Implications 7 Financial Goals and Objectives 8 Recommendations/Implementation 9 References 10 Overview Google Inc. (Google)‚ incorporated in September 4‚ 1998‚ is a global technology company
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SUMMARY The purpose of the project is to give information about Google Company‚ its organizational culture‚ its recruitment & selection process‚ to discuss the concept of empowerment and its relevance to Google‚ to discuss the management problems that Google faces in the coming years because of growth rate. The information about co-founders of Google is given. Their backgrounds and their experiences about how to create Google are introduced. Since a company’s organizational culture is very important
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