Business Generic A firm positions itself by leveraging its strengths. Michael Porter has argues that a firm’s strengths ultimately fall into one of two headings: cost advantage and differentiation which are applied at the business unit level. The two basic types of competitive advantage combined with the scope of activities for which a firm seeks to achieve them‚ lead to three generic strategies for achieving above average performance in an industry: cost leadership‚ differentiation‚ and focus
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TeleGeography | Data-driven telecommunications market research 2011) Figure 4 - Red ocean vs. Blue ocean strategies (Retrieved fromKim and Mauborgne 2012) 11 Figure 5 - Strategy Canvas (retrieved from Kim and Mauborgne 2012) Figure 6 - Strategic canvas Skype (Own illustration based on conference Jonathan Rosenberg 2012) 12 Figure 7 - Four Actions Framework (retrieved from Kim and Mauborgne 2012) Figure 8 - Skype still in the "blue ocean" (retrieved from Focus.com and CreditScore 2011) 13 Figure 9 - 3 Tiers of
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and go out of business. This industry movement has allowed many online movie companies to emerge‚ most notably Netflix which is the world’s largest online subscription service of online movie rentals. Background and History of Netflix: Netflix was founded in 1997 in California as an online video rental and streaming company. Since launching its online movie rental service in 1999‚ Netflix has experienced rapid financial growth. Netflix’s net income grew approximately 40 percent annually from 2004
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Introduction Leading mobile phone companies such as Samsung‚ LG Electronics and SonyEricsson are rushing to introduce strategic handsets‚ aiming to win a larger chunk in the market. In the fiery competition space‚ LG Electronics has introduced its first black-label (premium label) mobile phone which called ¡§Chocolate¡¨ for the competition‚ and tried to use its new marketing strategy for spreading into a new market place that no one has took up before. This report first of all will start from
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Lecture 2014-01-29 Strategy Formation Chapter outline: I. The Issue of Realized Strategy Strategy Formation Activities Strategy Activity Roles II. The Paradox of Deliberateness and Emergence The Demand for Deliberate Strategizing The Demand for Strategy Emergence III. Perspectives on Strategy Formation The Strategic Planning Perspective The Strategic Incrementalism Perspective IV. The Debate and Readings Mission – “Some task‚ duty or purpose that sends someone on their way” (DVM
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their influence on Netflix would be the technological segment and the demographics segment. The technological segment includes the institutions and activities involved with creating new knowledge and translating that knowledge into new outputs‚ products‚ processes and materials (Hitt‚ 2013). The technological segment affects Netflix because in order to keep a competitive advantage over companies such as Amazon Prime and Hulu‚ Netflix has to keep up
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risk-averse‚ however they tend to be mostly reactive and benchmarking-based aiming to confirm the theory of institutional isomorphism (Zhu et al‚ 2007). In order to assess blue oceans‚ it would be interesting to monitor red oceans which are actually the prerequisite for supply chains nowadays to think moving towards blue oceans. Despite Porter’s statement in the late 90s concerning markets’ tendency to overlook the significance of small and niche markets (Srinivasan‚ 2009)‚ at present there is the
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Federica Galfo M38/000789 Stefano La Cognata M38/000799 Tetyana Koptyayeva M38/000695 BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne “ Blue Ocean strategy” “How to create uncontested market and make competition irrelevant” BLUE OCEANS = unknown market spaces with few competitors Blue Ocean strategy VALUE INNOVATION (Differentiation) = Search for “Blue Oceans” • Exploring non customer groups • Challenging the industry’s strategic logic FOUR ACTIONS FRAMEWORK Key questions a company should
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------------------------------------------------- Case Introduction and Challenges ------------------------------------------------- Chongqing‚ a city in central southwestern China‚ had a heritage in heavy manufacturing‚ as it was one of the centers of the Chinese defense industry‚ especially for vehicles. In 1980s‚ when the Cold War slowed‚ the central government wanted to reduce defense expenditure and asked some of the state owned enterprises (SOEs) to begin manufacturing civilian products
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Corporate Strategic Tasks Arnoldo C. Hax The Central Issue for Top Management How to Add Value at the Corporate Level 1. Environmental scan at the corporate level: Assessing the external forces impacting the firm. The mission of the firm: Choosing competitive domains and the way to compete. Business segmentation: Selecting planning and organizational focuses. Horizontal strategy: Pursuing synergistic linkages across business units. 2. 3. 4. The Central Issue for Top Management (cont’d
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