Chapter 5 Business Level Strategy Successful business model is the product of successful business level strategies. A successful business model can give a company competitive advantage over rivals. To craft a successful business model‚ strategic managers must determine three issues stated below: 1. What to be satisfied-customer’s needs: Customer needs are the wants that can be satisfied by the means of attributes of the products. Customers choose a product based on: A. Product differentiation
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Corporate Strategy for Diversified Firm: (1) selection of industries to compete in (2) how the strategies of the business unit should be coordinated HORIZONTAL STRATEGY – coordinates the goals and strategies of related business units; should exist in the group‚ sector and corporate level; bottom-up H strategy rarely happens (the B unit managers have the resources and influence interrelationships) Emerging new pattern of competition – among clusters of related B units Why H strategy? – Horizontal
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Factor Evaluation (IFE) Matrix for Apple Strengths | Weight | Rating | Wt.Score | 1. Customer loyalty combined with expanding closed system 2. As a leading innovator in mobile device technology 3. Strong financial performance 4. Powerful Brand reputation 5. Retail stores 6. Strong marketing and advertising teams | 0.120.100.090.110.090.10 | 443434 | 0.480.400.270.440.270.40 | Weakness | | | | 1. High Price 2. Incompatibility with different OS 3. Patent infringements 4. Further
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Explain your company and its business My company is a wellness business. We are into the business as a result of the need for an alternative medicine. We use touch and other therapeutics technique to effect changes in the body for relaxations and healing. What is your company’s strategic intent? The company’s strategic intent is management action plan for competing successfully and operating profitably based on an integrated array of considered choices like action to gain sales and market share
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Class Review for Test # 1 Multiple Choice Questions 1) What sociological phrase is used to describe "opening a window onto unfamiliar worlds" and "offering a fresh look at familiar worlds"? A) the sociological perspective B) the social imperative C) social integration D) social location 2) To be classified as a society‚ what are the two key qualities a group of people must share? A) a common language and a common religion B) a common culture and a territory C) a territory
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legacy AT&T Wireless by Cingular Wireless and the solidification of SBC‚ BellSouth and Cingular Wireless‚ the New AT&T mobility business unit now leads in the current market share narrowly over Verizon Wireless. Figure 1 AT&T 27.1%‚ Verizon 26.3%‚ Sprint-Nextel 23.6%‚ Other 11.9%‚ T-mobile 11.1%. Source Forrester Research December 2007. MASTER STRATEGY The Master Strategy for AT&T wireless is to be the only telecom provider their customer would ever need by connecting its customers anywhere –
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UNIT: 4 BUSINESS STRATEGY Business strategy plays a vital role in the establishment and progress of any business as it determines the long term goals‚ objectives‚ action plans and the required resources to achieve those goals. Thus a business strategy formulates an organisation’s approach to establish a market or bring out a business component. This strategy is developed by internal analysis of an organisation that what is the current situation‚ what are the strengths
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ACCT 2332 Managerial Accounting Instructor Dr. Michael Yampuler E-mail: myampuler@uh.edu Office: 380K MH Managerial accounting helps managers make decisions A company manufactures a cell phone. It uses machines‚ engineers‚ utilities‚ supervisors etc. How much is the cost of one phone? How much should we sell it for? A footwear company manufactures dress shoes‚ casual shoes‚ and sandals in the same factory. Sandals do not seem to sell well enough. Is it beneficial to discontinue
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Business Strategy Air AsiaCompany BackgroundAir Asia is one of the companies that very successful in adopting the cost leadership strategy as one of their competitive advantages. Air Asia had been established on 12 december 2001 with Dato Sri TonyFernandez as the CEO. As what the slogan says now everyone can fly which actually attract thecustomers to buy the ticket and also they offer a lot of promotions to many destinations around asia andcustomers are chasing around in getting their promotions
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STRATEGIC AUDIT WORKSHEET FOR APPLE INC. Prepared by: MGMT 4480 FALL 2009 I. CURRENT SITUATION A. Current Performance: Apple announced financial results for its fiscal 2009 fourth quarter ended September 26‚ 2009. The Company posted revenue of $9.87 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.67 billion. These results compare to revenue of $7.9 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.14 billion‚ in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 36.6 percent‚ up from 34.7 percent in the year-ago
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