of strategic analysis‚ including PEST and/or SWOT analyses‚ and Michael Porter’s five forces model. http://www.bnet.com/topics/strategic+analysis http://www.ehow.com/about_5085518_reason-use-swot-pestle-analysis.html PEST Analysis The PEST analysis is a framework that is used during strategic analysis to scan the external macro-environment in which a firm operates in. PEST is an acronym for the following factors Political Legal Social Technological PEST factors play an important role in
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"In 1897‚ Felix Hoffmann created a new industry. He found a way of adding a cluster of two extra carbon and five extra hydrogen atoms to a substance extracted from willow bark. The result is known to chemists as acetylsalicylic acid. To everyone else it is known as aspirin. It turned Bayer‚ the dye-maker Hoffmann worked for‚ into the world’s first modern drug company." Geoffrey Carr‚ The Alchemists‚ The Economist - Feb 19th 1998 Today’s Pharmaceutical Industry is characterized by several important
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APPLE COMPUTER CASE ISSUES Core Competency (CI#1) : Apple design‚ develop and market numerous product and service lines. They sell their products to education‚ consumer creative professional‚ business and government customers. While apple seems to display numerous products and conduct business on different segments‚ it is legitimate to wonder what the company is really good at? Too much diversity is exactly what crushed Apple during the John Scully days. Cannibalization (CI#2): Through January
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I. CURRENT SITUATION A. CURRENT PERFORMANCE Wal-Mart is the world’s number 1 retailer‚ with more than 4‚800 stores‚ including 1‚475 discount stores‚ 1‚750 combination discount and grocery stores (Wal-Mart Supercenters in the US and ASDA in the UK) and 540 warehouse stores (SAM’s Club). Nearly 75% of its stores are in the US‚ but Wal-Mart is expanding internationally. Wal-Mart is the number 1 retail in Canada and Mexico. The company also owns nearly 38% of Japanese supermarket chain SEIYU. Wal-Mart
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an emerging market. For this purpose we have used India as an example‚ the first section of this report will provide a brief introduction to India and explore the viability of a multinational company entering the Indian market. In the second part a PEST analysis of India will be carried out and discussed briefly. The reports third section will see it scrutinizing the articles written by C.K. Prahalad and drawing similarities to the situation in India. The concluding part of the report will summaries
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Sharp‚ Panasonic (PC)‚ NEC‚ Casio and Sony Ericsson (a Japanese/Swedish joint venture). ( Dewiit‚ Philip Elmer cnn money article) In one of the most technologically advanced countries such as Japan it is no wonder why apple seems to be gaining so much success in a foreign market. The Japanese market is in awe of the simplicity and performance that apple product provide. In doing a PEST analysis I have come to a realization that the Japanese market wants high performance low cost technically superior
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In 2009 Russia had a dispute with Ukraine causing the gas supply to be stopped. As Ukraine was the main ‘artery’ this had an adverse effect on most of Europe’s countries. Lithuania‚ Slovakia and Bulgaria were affected 85%‚ 100% and 09% respectively (CNN 2009). Climate change has also affected energy supplies with Nuclear and renewable energy being the preferred‚ however in the UK there is a strong reserve against Nuclear power plants. Today this is an International issue as climate change affects off
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companies in the industry. The two studies that were used to examine the external factors were PEST Analysis and Michael Porter’s Five Competitive Forces. Through these two studies‚ Dish Network can have a better understanding of not only their industry factors‚ but other environmental issues that may cause a need for concern. The first study that we will discuss is the macro-environmental study PEST. This study was used to examine the four main environmental factors that could/would affect those
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Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 3 ABERCROMBIE AND FITCH 4 Pest Analysis of A&F 4 1. Political Factors 4 2. Economic Factors 5 3. Sociological Factors 5 4. Technological Factors 6 Michael Porter’s Five Force Framework 6 1. Threat of New Entrants 6 2. Substitutes 7 3. Threat of Bargain Power of Supplier 7 4. Bargain Power of Buyers 7 5. Rivalry 8 SWOT Analysis A&F 8 CONCLUSION 9 REFERENCES 10 INTRODUCTION Every business in the world has to look for different strategies that will
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produced using genetically engineering techniques. These techniques are used to ‘inactivate’ or add specific DNA traits of a certain organism to the other in order to improve it. These traits consist of increasing resistance against herbicides and pest‚ cold‚ and drought tolerance. In 1946‚ scientist discovered that DNA of organisms could be transferred between each other. The first plant that was GM was a tobacco plant in 1983. By 1994-95‚ GMO food was introduced and approved for humans to consume
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