1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY3 2. TATA NANO: LESSONS FROM AN INNOVATOR4 History of Tata Motors4 The Indian Automotive Industry 5 The Origin of the Nano 7 Tata’s Unique Business Model 8 Activities at Tata Motors 11 Effects on India’s Ecology and Economy 12 Risk of Imitation 13 Sustaining Competitive Advantage 13 3. REFERENCES16 4. EXHIBIT 117 1. ------------------------------------------------- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY After years of research and development‚ Tata Motors stunned the worldwide automotive
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"mixer of ingredients". The ingredients in Borden’s marketing mix included product planning‚ pricing‚ branding‚ distribution channels‚ personal selling‚ advertising‚ promotions‚ packaging‚ display‚ servicing‚ physical handling‚ and fact finding and analysis. E. Jerome McCarthy later grouped these ingredients into the four categories that today are known as the 4 P’s of marketing‚ depicted below: [pic] These four P’s are the parameters that the marketing manager can control‚ subject to the internal
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To: Board Directors of Daimler Group 2012 Financial Analysis: A comparison between Daimler Group and BMW Group Abstract In this report‚ we calculate and compare the financial performance between Daimler Group and BMW Group in two financial years 2010-2011. The objective is to analyse the financial performance of both groups and identify our company’s position‚ thus suggesting the potential areas for improvement for our company. I) Introduction In this report‚ we analyse and compare
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Company Activities TATA Docomo is Tata Teleservices Limited’s (TTSL) Telecom services on the GSM platform arising out of the TATA group’s alliance with Japanese telecom NTT Docomo. Tata Telecom Services (TTSL) is the pioneer of CDMA1x technology platform in India. The company has earmarked an investment of $2 billion on its pan-India GSM network rollout. This new pricing strategy changed the rules of GSM game‚ which was dominated by Airtel and Vodafone. Tata Docomo launched its first mobile handset
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scenarios currently is that the expectations from the bottom end cars are rising. The owners of Tata Nano expect enhancements in terms of design and Maruti 800 owners expect better servicing‚ according to the survey. Alto scored 91 points whereas Nano got only 70 and was placed last. Macroeconomic Picture As the Nano was evolving around 2003‚ the Indian economy was on a boom‚ also leading
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Timothy May Global Business Dr. Mona Bahl Tata Nano 1. How would you segment the Indian automobile industry? Where will Nano have the best appeal? The automobile market in India shows that two-wheelers and three-wheelers in India vastly outsell four-wheeled cars. The graph below shows a good representation of how the market was segmented during the time of the case. This makes it easy to see that most mobile persons were buying motorbikes‚ scooters‚ and things of that sort. A subdivision of
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CASE STUDY ON TATA NANO TATA MOTORS HAS UNVEILED THE WORLD’S CHEAPEST MOTOR NANO CAR The case discusses the making of Tata Nano‚ the world’s cheapest car‚ manufactured by India based Tata Motors. On March 30‚ 2009‚ Tata Nano was launched with an ex-factory price tag of INR 100‚000 (about US$ 2000). The case explains the design and development process of TataNano. The car was the result of a five year research and development project carried out by Tata Nano development team. While developing
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Tata Motors was founded in 1945‚ as Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company to manufacture locomotives and engineering products. In 1945‚ Tata began production of steam road rollers with the collaboration with UK manufacture Marshall Sons (Gamble‚ Peteraf‚ & Thompson‚ 2015). In 1994‚ Tata Motors began a joint venture with Damier-Benz/Mercedes Benz to manufacture Mercedes-Benz passenger cars in India (Gamble‚ Peteraf‚ & Thompson‚ 2015). In 2003‚ Tata Engineering changed its name to Tata Motors Limited
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Q1. What were the key challenges facing Tata Motors in the process of moving to produce passenger cars from successfully producing commercial vehicles? The major challenge for the company was the market competition which is a part of Industry Environment that plays a important role in strategy formulation. At the beginning Tata motors had mostly focused on the domestic market mostly demand driven and there was a lack of competency. But when Indica was launched there were three dominant players who
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2. Some of the growth of knowledge management systems in TCS and how the sytems helped its business are listed as below: KBASES AND GROUPWARE It is a knowledge repository in the corporate and branch servers accessible to all employees through the intranet. It contained wide range of information regarding processes‚ line of technology and the line of business. The groupware was a body which automated various in house systems such as training and many other functions. CLOSELY KNITS COMMUNITIES
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