century‚ the world’s needs for digital content have expanded significantly‚ and Akamai took the effort to benefit from this trend. The Porter’s analysis is a powerful tool to identify the company’s current competitive position and determine whether the business has the potential to be profitable in the future perspectives. According to the Five Forces Analysis‚ there are five factors that can determine Akamai’s competitiveness. Let us look at them in detail. Threat of Substitution: Akamai is the leading
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Student Name: Ngo Si Hien Student ID: 1106/8578 Submission Date: 7th May 2012 Word count: 2‚519 words Table of contents I. Industry background and five force model 3 a. Company’s product and segment of industry 3 b. Demand elasticity of various products 3 c. Cost structure of the Company‚ economy scale. 4 d. Five forces model 5 The threat of entry 5 The bargain power of suppliers 6 The threat of substitutes 6 Bargaining power of customers
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Porter’s Approach is taken from his 1980 book “Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors. Porter’s theory has often been used by many people to understand more about a company’s structure and the method or plan used to run its business. In his book‚ Porter identified 5 external forces that will affect an industry or a market. The type of forces can help us to understand or to analyze how a company makes its profits‚ or how it could attract others to do business
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Awareness of the five forces can help a company understand the structure of its industry and stake out a position that is more profitable and less vulnerable to attack. 78 Harvard Business Review | January 2008 | hbr.org STRATEGY STRATEGY by Michael E. Porter Peter Crowther SHAPE THE FIVE COMPETITIVE FORCES THAT Editor’s Note: In 1979‚ Harvard Business Review published “How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy” by a young economist and associate professor‚ Michael E. Porter
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Porter’s Five Forces Model Porter’s Five Competitive Forces model is a framework made by Michael Porter that is used by businesses when thinking about business strategy and the impact of Information technology. This model can help a business decide whether to‚ enter an industry or expand your business in the industry you are already working on. The five forces in the model are the following: 1. Buyer Power 2. Supplier Power 3. Threat of substitute products or services 4. Threat
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NUCOR AT A CROSSROADS CASE ANALYSIS NUCOR’S SUSTAINED PERFORMANCE RECORD PORTER’S 5 FORCES ANALYSIS • Supplier Power: With the eventual exit of integrated steel companies from buying scrap‚ the options available with suppliers to sell‚ reduced. Nucor started several small plants that were close to suppliers & customers‚ thereby reducing transportation costs. Also‚ the sites chosen had inexpensive electricity. Their employee-centric policies resulted in them having lowest attrition levels
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Porters Five Force Analysis‚ Industry: Casinos The purpose of this analysis is to determine the attractiveness of the Casino industry by investigating five specific forces that have the potential to drive down profitability. The Casino industry is composed of firms operating primarily in providing gambling activities and games to consumers while also supplying hotel services and other commodities. Firms that exclusively operate non gambling resorts were not directly included in this profitability
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The Six Forces Model developed by Porter is a tool that determines the competition level in any industry and the attractiveness of the industry. The six Forces are: • Competition – this parameter is determined by the number of the competitors and their aggressiveness. If in your industry you have many competitors‚ and your competitors might be drawn into price wars‚ this will cause the profit rate to drop towards a competitive level (perfect competition) • New Entrants – if your industry is highly
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.......................................................................................6 Competitive Analysis........................................................................................................................7 Overview..........................................................................................................................................7 Porter’s Five Forces.....................................................................................................
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Porter ’s five forces is a framework for the industry analysis and business strategy development developed by Michael E. Porter . It draws upon Industrial Organization (IO) economics to derive five forces that determine the competitive intensity and therefore attractiveness of a market. Three of Porter ’s five forces refer to competition from external sources. The remainders are internal threats. It is useful to use Porter ’s five forces in conjunction with SWOT analysis (Strengths‚ Weaknesses
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