Leading Asia-Pacific carrier Singapore Airlines (SIA) is caught between a rock and a hard place‚ much like any other airline in this prolonged global recession. Positioned as a premium global brand‚ SIA is struggling in 2009 to offset a decline in demand in the commercial sector. This‚ coupled with losses from hedging fuel‚ higher unit costs‚ and taking delivery of five Airbus 380s by January 2010 or risk paying heavy penalties for delay‚ the airline‚ which flies to about 35 countries‚ must rely
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Strategic Discussion on U.S Airline Industry Discussion Question 1: Use the model of the general environment (Chapter 2‚ Table 2.1) to evaluate the opportunities and threats facing the U.S. airline industry and Southwest Airlines in particular. What are the key opportunities and threats? The health of the overall U.S airline industry is still tenuous in-spite of the passenger traffic volumes returning to pre-9/11 levels. A survey estimated that from 2001 through 2003‚ the US airline industry
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Capabilities Analysis What is it? Capabilities analysis helps clarify the major sets of activities‚ skills‚ and resources that drive value to customers. When do we use it? Capabilities analysis can be useful at the time of strategy formulation—when firms are assessing which strategic options are currently feasible—and may be included in a broader process of determining strengths‚ weaknesses‚ opportunities‚ and threats (SWOT). In addition‚ capabilities assessment can be used as an initial
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1a) Dynamic capabilities are abilities which enable the organisation to renew and recreate its strategic capabilities to meet the needs of the changing environment. It is the capacity of an organisation to change which enables them to adapt more readily. Sustainable competitive advantage relies on resources‚ competencies and capabilities evolving with the dynamics of the industry. Sustainable competitive advantage is achieved when an organisation’s capabilities are of value to customers‚ unique
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3.0 Resources and capabilities This paragraph begins by laying out the theoretical dimensions: Resources and capabilities Definition of resources In order to get a deeper understanding of the concept resources‚ a definition can shed some light on this matter. While a variety of definitions of the term resources have been suggested in the literature of resources‚ this paper introduces the definition first suggested by Teece et al. (1997) who determined resources as ‘firm – specific assets that
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The Differences of Strategic Positioning Between Southwest Airlines Corporation and Continental Airlines Nowadays‚ Porter’s 5 Rules of Strategic Positioning as a most common business theory plays a significant role in operating companies and planning business activities. Southwest Airlines Corporation (Southwest) proves that clearly by its success. And the year-end results of Southwest marked 29 consecutive years of making profit (Govindarajan and Lang‚ 2002). I will elaborate how the Porter’s 5
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Strategic Management Journal Strat. Mgmt. J.‚ 21: 1105–1121 (2000) DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES: WHAT ARE THEY? KATHLEEN M. EISENHARDT* and JEFFREY A. MARTIN Department of Management Science and Engineering‚ Stanford University‚ Stanford‚ California‚ U.S.A. This paper focuses on dynamic capabilities and‚ more generally‚ the resource-based view of the firm. We argue that dynamic capabilities are a set of specific and identifiable processes such as product development‚ strategic decision making‚ and
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1. Competitive rivalry – This is the rivalry with other airlines in your existing markets or future markets. Take for example of Malaysia Airlines‚ it will have to identify and segment its markets first. Probably it will come out with a cross matrix segments of: a. geographical markets b. demography c. Travel purposes. Let view one of the segment‚ geographical .. for Malaysia. Then we can see straight away the prominent competitor which is Air Asia. The competitor will be one of the considerations
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The Japan Earthquake Disaster on Friday‚ March 11‚ 2011 Impact to Malaysia Airlines Businesses Decreasing Volume of Passager For Flight Decreasing Volume of Passager For Flight Many Parts and Products from Japan are Delaying to Deliver Many Parts and Products from Japan are Delaying to Deliver Highly Demand on Air Cargo Transportation Highly Demand on Air Cargo Transportation Many Air Transport Service Will be Stopped For a While Many Air Transport Service Will be Stopped For a While Increasing
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Emirates Airlines Case Write Up Emily Hooker MGMT 4690 February 25‚ 2015 Contents I. Core Issues / Problem Statement……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….3 II. SWOT…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………3 a. Strengths……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..3 b. Weakness…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….4 c. Opportunities………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………4 d. Threats…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………4
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