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1. What are the strategic capabilities of IKEA? From the VIRO table (appendix 1) IKEA’s strategic capabilities are grouped into the following categories - Brand/quality reputation Financial strength Production capacity. Brand/Quality reputation IKEA operates (in 2002) 154 stores in 22 countries and serviced 286 million customers. With a 14% share of the market (in America)‚ there is huge opportunity for growth via a continued marketing campaign to leverage off its brand‚ differentiating
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In this paper‚ we will examine the video game console industry and apply Porter’s Five Force model to SONY. Sony is a big media conglomerate with businesses in the gaming‚ music‚ movies/entertainment and electronics industries. It has a strong brand image‚ a wide product range and had over $75 billion in sales in 2010. For the purposes of doing this analysis‚ we will concentrate on Sony’s performance in the video game industry‚ understand its current position with respect to its competitors and recommend
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third largest iron ore supplier for China through the competition with India‚ which will have a great influence on China’s mining machinery industry. According to Business Day Live’s report‚ the iron ore export to China from South Africa was 40.6 million tonnes in 2012‚ while Indian exports plunged nearly 55% to 33 million tonnes. It is evidently that South Africa managed to increase of its share of iron ore sales to China in the unstable economical situation. The large amount of iron ore’s import
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Lecture1 1. What do you think of Cruise Safety？ 2. What do you think of Cruise Life？ Lecture2 3. What is the advantage to develop Cruise Economy in China？ 4. What is the Challenge to develop Cruise Economy in China？ Lecture3 5. Why there is no big Cruise Company in China？ 6. How should we develop Cruise In China？ Lecture4 7. What is the Core of Cruise Products? 8. What do you think of the different product demanding of Chinese？ Lecture5 9. How can we get a cruise product in China？ 10
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Five Forces of the global Pharmaceutical industry THE CANCER MARKET Cancer is a disease which has a high disease burden throughout the world and whose treatment is notoriously difficult. The market for anti-cancer drugs can be described as being in the “growth phase” of the industry cycle. Threat of entry - MEDIUM Based on previous traditional “synthetic drug development model” for cancer‚ threat of entry has been low based on high fixed costs required for the arduous processes of drug discovery
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information ‚ Australia Port Hedland iron ore shipments in March jumped 24 percent from your past month ‚ as a consequence of ship to China and South Korea far more .mobile crushing equipment Information released by the port authority ‚ in March you’ll find more than 34.four million tons of iron ore left the Port Hedland . The port is definitely the world’s greatest iron ore harbor . Like BHP Billiton (BHP)‚ Fortescue Metals Group (Fortescue Metals Group Ltd‚ FMG) and Atlas Iron ore mining firms
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environment Porter’s Five Forces will be used. This tool is primarily used to analyze the competitive environment in terms of five main categories; the threat of new entrants‚ bargaining power of both supplier and buyers‚ threat of substitute products and how intense the current rivalry is among existing competitors. In each of the five categories there are conditions/ sources that further provide insight to each; they will be analyzed in terms the car industry. This model is very helpful in determining
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The Nickel Ore Mining Industry on Un-Kodak Zone An Industry Analysis The picture of the nickel ore mining industry—or the mining sector‚ in general—is not as impressive as the tourism‚ construction‚ and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industries. It has been sapped by social problems‚ which resulted in it being portrayed as a growth dragger rather than a growth driver. The industry players‚ particularly the large-scale miners‚ are plagued by complains and riots from natives located in the
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(such as copper carbonate) are called ‘copper ore’. Copper is extracted from copper ore by a series of chemical‚ physical‚ and electrochemical processes. Ores can be classed as ‘high grade’ or ‘low grade’ depending on the percentage of copper compounds (e.g. copper carbonate) they contain. After mining‚ the ore is crushed‚ roasted‚ smelted and then electrolysed to extract the copper. Suggested Equipment Boiling tube Samples of different carbonate ores‚ containing a range of percentages of copper
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