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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Apple Inc. Case Study # 1 iPhone [pic] Professor Chug-Shing Lee BUSA 499 Capstone October 1‚ 2008 Analysis Conducted By Apex [pic] Ryan Boykin Ashley Fiorini Lance Tanaka Matt Webb Executive Summary Apple has demonstrated that innovation can lead to market dominance with products like the iPod. With products such as this‚ Apple has developed a brand that has built a customer base with astonishing loyalty. According to Business week‚ Apple was thirty third for top
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five forces analysis is a frame work for industry analysis and business strategy development formed by Michael E Porter of Harvard business school in 1979.Five Forces model of Michael Porter is a very elaborate concept for evaluating company’s competitive position. Three of porters five forces refer to competition from external sources and the remainder are internal threats .porters referred to this forces are micro environment to contrast it with more general term macro environment. They consist
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Rivalry: In the traditional economic model‚ competition among rival firms drives profits to zero. But competition is not perfect and firms are not unsophisticated passive price takers. Rather‚ firms strive for a competitive advantage over their rivals. The intensity of rivalry among firms is very large in case of jewelry business. There are a lot of big brands and even small small jewelers are present in the market. II. Threat Of Substitutes In Porter’s model‚ substitute products refer to products
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Essex County College Porter’s Five Modules Porter’s Five Forces is a groundwork for industry analysis and business strategy development which was invented by Michael Porter in 1979. Three of Porter’s five forces relates to competition from external sources. The remaining two are internal threats. These five forces include three forces from horizontal competition such as the threat of substitute products or services
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Mokbul Hossain Student Id : 000762547 Question: As a management consultant advising a country of your choice‚ explain how u can use Porter ’s Diamond model to evaluate and improve the nation ’s competitive position. Introduction Business world is getting complicated day by day .Companies want to do business like participating in the competition for profit or market share. We are now at globalisation era where a local company is to compete with international company (Daniels et al‚ 2007)
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Describe the SWOT analysis and the VRIO model and compare them. Highlight their main similarities and differences. (25 points) (A 1½-page response is required.) Student’s Response The SWOT analysis is used to describe the Strength‚ Weaknesses‚ Opportunities and Threats that face a corporation. The purpose of this analysis is to identify the particular competencies that the corporation has as well as to identify the opportunities that they are facing but unable to take advantage of due to the
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Profit Maximization model helps to predict the price-output behavior of a firm under changing market conditions like tax rates‚ wages and salaries‚ bonus‚ the degree of availability of resources‚ technology‚ fashions‚ tastes and preferences of consumers etc. It is a very simple and unambiguous model. It is the single most ideal model that can explain the normal behavior of a firm. It is often argued that no other alternative hypothesis can explain and predict the behavior of business firms better
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A View of the Resource/Profit Model: A Non-Profit‚ Service Perspective Parents have long pursued what they consider the best education for their child(ren). However‚ horrific events like the April 1999 school shooting massacre at Columbine High School near Denver‚ Colorado or more recently‚ the March 2009 Albertville Technical High School shooting in Winnenden‚ Germany‚ which left several children dead‚ has prompted more and more parents to seek private‚ parochial‚ or Christian school alternatives
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Barney and Hesterly (2006)‚ describe the VRIO framework as a good tool to examine the internal environment of a firm. They state that VRIO “stands for four questions one must ask about a resource or capability to determine its competitive potential: 1. The Question of Value: Does a resource enable a firm to exploit an environmental opportunity‚ and/or neutralize an environmental threat? 2. The Question of Rarity: Is a resource currently controlled by only a small number of competing firms
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