20101233 20054057 Assignment Title : The LEGO Group: working with strategy. Date : 03 March 2012 Programme : BTECH-MANAGEMENT IV Question 1 Explain how the development of strategy at the LEGO Group reflect the key characteristics of strategic management outlined in section 1.2 and in the model in Figure 1.4? “Strategy is the long-term direction of an organization” (Johnson‚ Whittington and Scholes‚ 2011‚ p.3). The LEGO Group started with the manufacture of stepladders‚
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relationship with the Flextronics? Expectations: a. Saving cost by outsourcing to low-cost countries: Prior to outsourcing‚ LEGO owned and operated production plants mainly in relatively high labor-cost countries‚ such as the United States‚ Switzerland and the South Korea. The main reason for this is that LEGO built plants close to its main markets to save transportation cost. But LEGO finally realized that the reduced labor cost in some labor-intensive countries outweighed the reduced transportation cost
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Executive Summary LEGO all started in the workshop of Ole Christiansen‚ who was a carpenter from Billund‚ Denmark. He began making wooden toys in 1932 and by 1934 the company LEGO was formed. LEGO expanded to producing plastic toys in 1947. By 1949‚ the infamous interlocking plastic pieces were crafted. The business of LEGO was ecstatic up until the 21st century. However‚ with an extreme focus on the interlocking brick concept‚ the wave of the internet was soon to knock LEGO off their brick reliance
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MARKET SEGMENTATION‚ TARGETING AND POSITIONING MARKET SEGMENTATION INTRODUCTION: - The market for any product is normally made up of several segments. A ‘market’ after all is the aggregate of consumers of a given product. And‚ consumer (the end user)‚ who makes a market‚ are of varying characteristics user and buying behavior. There are different factors contributing for varying mind set of consumers. It is thus natural that many differing segments occur within a market. In order to capture this
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POSITIONING STRATEGY POSITIONING Creating a unique and distinctive image for a brand relative to the competition Brand should be perceived as different from competitors by consumers EFFECTIVE POSITIONING Meaningful to consumers Credible/believable Unique to your brand Durable over time FOCUS OF POSITIONING Attributes and benefits of the product Competition Product user Product use or application Product class Cultural symbols Jet Blue Airways Focus on the benefits of Jet Blue
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Product Positioning "Product positioning" is a marketing technique intended to present products in the best possible light to different target audiences. The method is related to "market segmentation" in that an early step in major marketing campaigns is to discover the core market most likely to buy a product—or the bulk of the product. Once segmentation has defined this group ("active seniors‚" "affluent professional working women‚" "teens") the positioning of the product consists of creating
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such as The Lego Group and its’ competition‚ to give any downward variability in quality‚ price and how much their customers value their toys for entertainment. The toy industry is a very saturated market with little room for a drop off in market share. Most organizations within this industry had to find ways to cut cost through their multiple channels in order to make the largest return on the slim margins that this market has for “luxury items” such as toys. This meant that The Lego Group had to
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POSITIONING Positioning the process of designing an image and value so that consumers with the target segment understand what the company or brand stands for in relation to its competitors. It also refers to the place an offering occupies in consumers minds on important attributes related to competitive offerings. Positioning is not actually something that is done to product; rather it is something that is done to minds of consumers by marketers. It relates to now consumers perceive the product
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Positioning and repositioning Before positioning companies has to do segmentation and targeting. Segmentation is dividing the market into segments upon some set of criteria and evaluating the profitability of each segment Targeting is selecting one or more segments and going after them Positioning is how do you want your brand to be considered by consumers when compared to other competing brands. Positioning is based on product features such as color‚ price‚ fluffiness‚ quality of service
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market segmentation Market segmentation is a marketing strategy that involves dividing a broad target market into subsets of consumers who have common needs (and/or common desires) as well as common applications for the relevant goods and services. Depending on the specific characteristics of the product‚ these subsets may be divided by criteria such as age and gender‚ or other distinctions‚ such as location or income. Marketing campaigns can then be designed and implemented to target these specific
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