The Strategy of International Business Chapter 12 © McGraw Hill Companies‚ Inc.‚ © McGraw Hill Companies‚ Inc.‚ 12-1 The Firm as a Value Chain Primary Activities: Those activities having to do with creating‚ marketing and delivering the product to customers and providing support and after-sales service. Support Activities: Provide inputs that allow primary activities to occur. An Efficient Infrastructure: helps create value and reduce the cost of creating
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Low cost strategy is one of the three generic marketing strategies. Companies use this strategy to offer low price in its products/services by focusing on various points in its value chain activities. In order to be a successful low-cost competitor in a competitive environment‚ companies focus on several issues; which all pass from the ways of margin improvement (in terms of increasing revenue and reducing cost) and asset effectiveness (in the sense of minimizing working capital and maximizing
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3 2 MODELS OF STRATEGY 4 1. Porter’s Generic Strategies 4 2. Mintzberg’s 5 P’s of Strategy 5 3 OVERVIEW OF STRATEGIC DECISIONS 7 4 CONCLUSION 8 INTRODUCTION “Decisions‚ whether explicitly or implicitly arrived at‚ precede every action.” Ansoff 1965 Our choices or decisions precedes everything‚ from day to day operations to the direction we steer our organisations in. According to Mintzberg and Walters strategy is “a pattern in a stream
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Distribution and dealer support: Recommendations: identify the company’s target customer (who)‚ what the product offering exactly is (what)‚ and how this offering will be presented to the customer (how). PORTER Generic STRATEGY: Cost Leadership Strategy (Wal mart‚ tesco) This strategy involves the firm winning market share by appealing to cost-conscious or price-sensitive customers. This is achieved by having the lowest prices in the target market segment‚ or at least the lowest price to value
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The Strategy of International Business Chapter Outline OPENING CASE: The Evolving Strategy of Coca-Cola INTRODUCTION STRATEGY AND THE FIRM Value Creation Strategic Positioning Operations: The Firm as a Value Chain Organization: The Implementation of Strategy In Sum: Strategic Fit GLOBAL EXPANSION‚ PROFITABILITY‚ AND PROFIT GROWTH Expanding the Market: Leveraging Products and Competencies Location Economies Experience
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BUSINESS LEVEL STRATEGY Any given organization may comprise a number of different businesses. Each operating in distinct markets and serving different customers. A market is defined by demand conditions and based on an organization’s customers and potential customers. Industry is determined by supply conditions and based on production technology. Business level strategy is a means of separating out and formulating a competitive strategy at the level of individual business unit. This is sometimes
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Strategy Recommendation STR/581 November 6‚ 2011 Strategy Recommendation for L.L.Bean Founded in 1912‚ L.L.Bean‚ located in Freeport Maine‚ is a global company with annual sales of $1.5 billion. In order for L.L.Bean to remain a profitable private retailer of men’s‚ women’s and children’s clothing‚ indoor furnishings‚ and outdoor gear for the avid outdoorsman‚ the company needs to continually reinvent themselves to stay ahead of the competition. L.L.Bean has remained profitable with only one
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Business strategy We focus on business strategy because we consider our organisation as a strategic business unit (SBU) which is any business that supplies goods or services to a distinct domain of activity. Porter’s generic competitive strategies A competitive strategy is concerned with how a SBU achieves competitive advantage in its domain of activity. Porter defines 3 possible generic strategies to use as a business. The cost-leadership strategy has for aim to become the lowest-cost organisation
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Ryanair and Marketing Strategy: Segmentation Introduction Ryanair was established by the Ryan family with a capital share of just £1‚ and a staff of 25. The company launched its first route in July with daily flights on a 15-seater Bandeirante aircraft‚ which operate daily from Waterford in the southeast of Ireland to London Gatwick. In order to operate in the tiny cabin of the aircraft‚ the first cabin crew of Ryanairs is less than 5ft. 2 ins. tall (Ryanair‚ n.d.). Ryanair
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effects‚ and by transferring valuable skills between their global networks of subsidiaries. In another word‚ the strategies which increase profitability may also expand a firm’s business and thus enable it to attain a higher rate of profit growth (Hill‚ 2009). When a company plan to compete in the international environment there are two crucial factors affect the firm’s choice of strategy which are strength of pressures for cost reductions versus those for local responsiveness. Firms typically choose
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