Chapter 12 suggested answers 1. It has been said that Porter’s five-forces analysis turns antitrust law on its head. What do you think this means? Antitrust laws are intended to protect‚ promote competition and to push industry profits towards competitive floor in order to resist market dominance. Porter’s five forces model reflects that an industry has absolute market power if threat of entrants and substitutes are low along with weak bargaining power among suppliers and buyers‚ and if industry
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Tows mtrix Characteristic . TOWS analysis is an algorithm of the strategic analysis process‚ involving systematic and comprehensive assessment of external and internal factors that determine current condition and growth potential of the company. It is based on a simple classification scheme: all of the factors influencing the current and future position of the organization is divided into: External and internal to the organization‚ Having negative and positive impact on the organization. The intersection
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managers who expect you to convince them that the model can and should be used in their business by you‚ by giving them the relevant principles and especially examples of how to apply the principles to one of their SBU’s. Right now they use Porters five forces model quite well so there is no need to deal with that in depth – instead you need to discuss issues of how to identify an industry’s strategic groups‚ industry drivers and key success factors. Write down your structured notes for the presentation
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Chapter 1 Apple-Merging Technology‚ Business‚ and Entertainment 1. What might have happened to Apple if its top executives had not supported investment in iPods? Apple was lacking creativity and innovation before the iPod came along. Due to Porters’ Five Forces had they not introduced the iPod; rivalry amongst competitors would have allowed for Microsoft to introduce Zune first‚ and apple would not have the reputation it has now for portable music. The threat of new entrants could have also allowed
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1. What is the relationship between management information system and information technology? Management Information Systems (MIS) is the study of people‚ technology‚ organizations and the relationships among them. MIS professionals help firms realize maximum benefit from investment in personnel‚ equipment‚ and business processes. Business intelligence (BI) is collective information about your customers‚ your competitors‚ your business partners‚ your competitors‚ your business partners‚ your competitive
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Five force model of PIXAR Threat of new entrants: High Advanced technologies make it difficult for new competitors to enter the market because they have to develop those technologies before effectively competing. The requirement for advanced technologies positively affects PIXAR. The PIXAR has a high level technology development department‚ so the threat of new competitors is the technology. Threat of substitute products or services: Moderate I consider substitute products to be theater or
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Business review demonstrates that there are a few investigations of components or factors that impact the business performance of telecommunication companies in the region. However‚ there is no effort at a comprehensive study of the telecommunication organisation in Malaysia. Thus‚ this study endeavours to discuss and dedicates to critical assessment and evaluation of business performance of Digi Telecommunications. The review of related literature is fundamental in order to provide a comprehension
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Porter’s five forces framework. Porter identified five competitive forces that help shape every industry and market place in the global economy. These competitive forces play a pivotal role in analyzing everything from the profitability and attractiveness of an industry to the intensity of the competition in a particular industry. Figure one below shows the relationship between the different competitive forces according to Porter. Figure 1: Porter’s five competitive forces Porter’s Five Forces
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CASE STUDY Business Applications in Engineering . The first section of this report deals with the “Macro Environment”. This consists of broad environmental factors that impact almost all organizations. Here the PESTEL framework can be used to identify how future trends in the political‚ economic‚ social‚ technological‚ environmental and legal environments might effect on organizations. The following PESTEL analysis provides broad data from which to identify key drivers of change. Many of these
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rivalry Entry Substitutes and compliments Supplier power Buyer power 4. Limitations and extensions of porters five forces 5. value net 6. conclusion 7. recommendation 8. References Executive Summary Industry analysis is guide to know the profitability of the fast food industry by as assists us in 1. Understanding the competitive forces in the industry. 2. Assessing the attractiveness of‚ and growth opportunities within‚ a new industry
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