To begin with‚ BCG is the acronym for Boston Consulting Group—a general management consulting firm highly respected in business strategy consulting. BCG Growth-Share Matrix (see figure 1) happens to be one of many of BCG’s strategic concepts the organisation developed in the late 1970s‚ and is being taught at leading business schools and executive education programmes around the world. It is a management tool that serves four distinct purposes (McDonald 2003; Kotler 2003; Cipher 2006): it can
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Assignment 1: Procter & Gamble Company (A) Case Analysis (Submitted in fulfillment of the assignments for Marketing Management) Indian Institute of Foreign Trade‚ Delhi Table of Contents Assignment ..................................................................................4 Executive Summary .....................................................................4 2.Analysis ......................................................................................6 Recommendations ......
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The company I chose to conduct my BCG Matrix on was Wal-Mart‚ because this company has become one of the largest and most successful companies within the United States. Wal-Mart started out as a small retail business in 1962 in Rogers‚ Arkansas by Sam Walton. Today Wal-Mart has more than 10‚000 stores in more than twenty eight different countries. In 2012 Wal-Mart gained revenue of $421‚849 million dollars‚ which was an increase of 3.4% from the previous year. (www.topics.nytimes.com>Business>Companies
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The Transformation of Procter & Gamble into a Sustainable Serial Innovator A New CEO It is June 6‚ 2010. A few minutes before a business meeting in California A.G. Lafley‚ Procter & Gamble´s President – Global Beauty Care and North America receives a phone call from John Pepper‚ Chairman of P&G. John Pepper gets right to the point: “Are you prepared to accept the CEO job at P&G?” Durk Jager who has been P&G´s CEO resigned the day before after 30 years of service for P&G. Without too many questions
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BCG MATRIX CASE STUDY OF NESTLE BCG Matrix(Boston consulting Group ) • In the late 1960s the Boston Consulting Group‚ a leading management consulting company‚ designed a four-cell matrix known as BCG Growth/Share Matrix. This tool was developed to aid companies in the measurement of all their company businesses according to relative market share and market growth. Conti… • The BCG Matrix made a significant contribution to strategic management and continues to be an important strategic
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BCG ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC BANK The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) matrix is a tool that used to evaluate strategic business units. It is organizes business by two dimension‚ the business growth rate and market share. The growth rate is use to show how rapidly the entire industry is increasing and the market share is whether a business unit has a larger or smaller share than its competitors. The combination of market share and business growth rate have provides four categories to determine the SBUs
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Procter & Gamble Co. (P&G) P&G – Procter & Gamble is a consumer product company founded and headquartered at Cincinnati‚ Ohio in 1837 by Mr. William Procter and Mr. James Gamble. It is now led by Mr. Alan.G.Lafley whom rejoins the company in 2010. P&G success was contributed to the heart of its business model – Innovation; and that is not just for newly invented product or service‚ it was for the goal of recreating needs for the improvement of consumers’ living. And it is a very long culture started
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Abstract The purpose of this research paper is that to present the difficulties Procter & Gamble faced in the early 1980¡¦s due to a correlation between the company¡¦s Rely tampon and the disease Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS). Also‚ how the company handled the findings before and after new laws were passed by Congress giving the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the authority to regulate medical devices‚ which included tampons. Thereafter‚ I will analyze the ethical issues relevant to this case within
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PROCTER & GAMBLE GLOBAL BUSINESS SERVICES: A CASE STUDY A Time to Make a Change at P&G Some of the signs and signals experienced by an organization which indicates that it is time to make a change are: experiencing rapid growth or a decline in growth‚ a decline in productivity‚ a decline in resources‚ stakeholder pressures on management‚ environmental crises‚ sociopolitical influences on the organization‚ environmental turbulence and changes to customer expectations and behavior. The highly
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The BCG Growth-Share Matrix The BCG Growth-Share Matrix is a portfolio planning model developed by Bruce Henderson of the Boston Consulting Group in the early 1970’s. It is based on the observation that a company’s business units can be classified into four categories based on combinations of market growth and market share relative to the largest competitor‚ hence the name "growth-share". The growth-share matrix thus maps the business unit positions within these two important determinants of profitability
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