British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB) was to be the first mover and quickly acquired a 15 year franchise for the DBS channels. BSB planned to start broadcasting by the fall of 1989‚ investing $500 million and projecting to break-even 4 years later. Sky Television a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation unexpectedly announced its entry into the satellite broadcasting market. Murdoch known for his aggressiveness aimed to start broadcasting from Sky’ leased medium powered satellite by February
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the question honestly or lie. If both answer honestly each receives $100. If one player answers honestly and the other lies‚ the liar receives $500 and the honest player gets nothing. If both lie‚ then each receives $50. a) Construct the payoff matrix Honest Player 1 Lie $100 $100 $500 $0 $500 $0 $50 $50 $100 $100 $500 $0 $500 $0 $50 $50 Honest P2 Lie b) What choice will each make? Is there a dominant strategy for either player‚ is
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one of the most ferocious competitions of the satellite TV‚ and announces a series of battles under other skies in the same industry. The situation described in the case is much to be close to a “War Game” that ends up with a takeover of one on the other . Today’s view on that situation could be biased due to the result of such game‚ but we will try to be as fair as possible with BSB management to justify their intention in that time. The task would not be easy due to the drastic changes
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Broadcasting won the bid from the British Independent Broadcasting Authority to provide commercial service on three of the five high-powered DBS channels. However‚ one of the stipulations required by the IPA was that the BSB had to use the untried transmission standard‚ the D-MAC. BSB business model: To start-up (i.e. program production and acquisition‚ marketing‚ satellite depreciation‚ and etc.)‚ BSB’s initial fixed costs were estimated at 75%-80% of its overall cost structure. In order for D-MAC
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1. BSB should have been able to identify potential competitors‚ particularly News Corporation. News Corporation was successful in US (in the US TV satellite industry)‚ had experience transmitting television programs to Western Europe with a low-powered satellite and they already had presence in the UK with newspapers‚ which could allowed Sky to realize economies of scope. These economies of scope are even more significant if we take into account that News Corporation owns 20th Century Fox Studios
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1. Does BSB‚ Inc.‚ enjoy any competitive advantages or core competencies? BSB does enjoy of certain core competencies that help the company overcome the environmental changes. Workforce: BSBs workforce is a core competency because they were flexible when Renee Kershaw made the decision to expand the menu at the grill to include pizzas. The existing workforce was trained to make pizzas and work the new equipment. This allowed BSB to respond to her market needs found with the survey results in
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_____________ Q1 The mission of BSB‚ Inc.‚ is” to provide an all-around food service to our customer’. Yes‚ BSB‚ Inc.‚ enjoys competitive advantage or core competencies. There are a few ways where BSB‚ Inc.‚ enjoys competitive advantage or core competencies. Firstly‚ BSB‚ Inc.‚ is a large internationally operated food service company and has the specialization in the universities or colleges in providing food service to the students. This can be seen where BSB‚ Inc.‚ has the contract to provide
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Case1: BSB‚ Inc.‚ the Pizza Wars Come to Campus 1. Does BSB‚ Inc.‚ enjoy any competitive advantages or core competencies? a. BSB enjoys both competitive advantage and core competencies. Their first competitive advantage is their experience. With their 10 years of service inside the university‚ they have all the knowledge with regards to their customer’s preferences and needs. Survey results also give them competitive advantage over their competitor. In terms of core competencies‚ I think they have
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Allegory of the Cave and seminal science-fiction film The Matrix at first glance seem to have nothing in common. The first is written and set in the ancient times‚ revolving around Socrates telling his follower Glaucon about chained prisoners in a primitive cave watching shadow puppets lighted by a fire burning at the cave’s opening. The latter is a futuristic story set in a world controlled by artificial-intelligent computers that created the Matrix‚ a virtual world programmed for the humans to live in
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Question 1 Characteristics of bad systems To be useful‚ the information system must possess the characteristic of reliability‚ relevance‚ understandability‚ complete‚ accurate and comparability. However‚ in order for Encik Khalid to detect problems occur with the current or new system are based on the characteristics of bad system which are unreliable‚ irrelevance‚ not understandable‚ incomplete‚ inaccurate‚ and incomparable. The first characteristic is unreliable. Encik Khalid may detect the
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