Porter Analysis of the Zara Fashion Chain The Zara fashion chain‚ with 546 stores in 30 countries today ?from which 340 are outside Spain- and ?2914‚3 millions of total sales in 2002‚ is undoubtedly the group?s locomotive (Inditex‚ 2003). In 2002 it represented 33% of the group?s total stores‚ accounted for 72% of the group?s total sales and contributed to the holding?s total profits for ?540.4 millions (Inditex FY2002 Results Presentation‚ 2003). Moreover‚ Zara with 75-90 new stores within 2003
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Case Study #3 Sony de Mexico It was a hot‚ dry afternoon in Mexico’s northern Sonora Desert and Rey was in a sour mood. Rey Uribe‚ the nor¬mally energetic and optimistic president of Sony de Mexico‚ had just received the news that Sony’s Mexican operations were to be shut down in a cost-cutting move. Corporate had decided that to remain competi¬tive‚ capacity should be shifted to Southeast Asia‚ where labor costs were a fraction of Mexico’s fully bur¬dened hourly labor rates of $3.50. Of course
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Strategic Resource Management The correlation’s between Kaplan and Norton’s “Mastering the Management System” and Porters “Five Competitive Forces that Shape Strategy” are significant. Managers need to have a complete understanding of their company’s surroundings in order to change their strategy. These two articles combined could be considered a 2-step process in itself. Step one‚ analyzing the environment of an industry utilizing Porters Five Forces model and step two‚ following the five stages
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Sony Eye Toy 1 G R OUP 2 : DA N I K USW A NTO ( 12 400036 7 1) DENNY J C HANDR A ( 12 40002 611 ) FR A N S I S C US A SI NG G I H ( 12 40003 71 5) S I R EG A R SI DDI K ( 12 400036 3 3 ) VI TA HEL I A DESY ( 12 40002 78 2 ) Table of Content 2 Background Business & Industry Backround Sony Eye Toy Product Analysis Concept Development Marketing Strategy Market Performance Product Development Pipeline Future of EyeToy $62 billion annual sales (2004) • Sony Computer Entertainment
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Why Sony fail? When I read “Leading Change Why Transformation Efforts Fail”‚ I directly linked Sony with the transformation fail. Sony‚ the previous electrical giant‚ announced a record annual net loss of $6.4 billion for fiscal year 2011 in May 22 2012. This marks the fourth consecutive year that Sony reported substantial losses. Transformation efforts couldn’t turnaround the bad situation of Sony due to the mistakes that made by Sony in those transformation. First‚ Sony did not establishing a
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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. It was his first HBR article‚ and it started a revolution in the strategy field. In subsequent decades‚ Porter has brought his signature economic rigor to the study of competitive strategy for corporations‚ regions‚ nations‚ and‚ more recently
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Sony TV business loses much money for the company SAMSUNG-LG-SONY(third largest) http://www.statista.com/statistics/267095/global-market-share-of-lcd-tv-manufacturers/ The TV business‚ which has racked up around 790 billion yen of losses over the past 10 years‚ has been one of the main contributors to persistent losses in Sony’s flagship electronics division Without the facility to produce its own LCD panels Sony found itself forced to buy in components from the likes of Samsung and Sharp. However
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Generic strategy The three generic strategies identified by Michael Porter‚ namely cost leadership‚ differentiation and focus are all options available to small businesses. cost leadership requires a tight set of interrelated tactics that include aggressive construction of efficient-scale facilities; vigorous pursuit of cost reductions from experience; tight cost and overhead control; avoidances of marginal customer accounts; cost minimization in all activities in the firms value chain. Differentiation
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Management Development Institute of Singapore & University of Bradford Diploma in Business Management Principals of Marketing & Production Management (DBMA9) Project Assignment November 2010 Marketing Report of High Definition Television (HDTV) Project Work by Group D Mohd Razali Mohd Sarip (16) Hamirulizam Abdul Hamid (10) Foad Khan Abdul Rahim (9) 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary…………………………………………………….. PAGE 04 Situation Analysis……………………………………………………….. PAGE 04 Political
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Sony‚ the Japan-based multinational conglomerate‚ is one of the leading manufacturers of consumer electronics devices and information technology products. Sony was responsible for introducing path breaking products like the Walkman‚ the Discman‚ and the PlayStation gaming console‚ among others. But in the late 1990s‚ it lost its leadership position in many product lines in which it was operating. Analysts attributed this to the silo culture prevailing in the organization. Each of the departments
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