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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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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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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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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QANTAS CASE STUDY The History of Qantas Qantas is Australia’s largest domestic and international airline. Although Qantas is primarily a passenger airline‚ air freight is also an integral part of its core business. Other Qantas operations include catering‚ tourism and E-commerce devoted to transport and travel. It was founded in the Queensland outback in 1920 as the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Service (QANTAS). The company began its operations with one aircraft providing joyrides
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Volume 21 • Number 3 • July 2013 Contents The Long Haul: The QANTAS – Emirates Alliance................................................ 2-4 Introduction....................................................................................................... 2 QANTAS SWOT Analysis. ................................................................................. 2 Strengths. ..................................................................................................
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QANTAS ANNOUNCES PROFIT RESULT‚ RESPONSE TO ECONOMIC CONDITIONS Highlights: Strong portfolio performance: o Continuing record results for Jetstar and Qantas Frequent Flyer.1 o Revenue growth of 6 per cent. o Yield and unit cost improvements. o Offset by industrial action and record high fuel costs. Improvement in net operating cash flow of 5 per cent. Strategic initiatives to transform Qantas International and grow Jetstar in Asia. SYDNEY‚ 16 February 2012: The Qantas Group today announced
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. VRIO The VRIO framework is a set of four questions of: Value‚ Rarity‚ Imitability‚ andOrganization (Barney and Hesterly‚ 2006). It is a tool to analyze company’s resourcesand capabilities to discover their potential competitive advantages or to identifycompany’s internal weaknesses (Barney and Hesterly‚ 2006). The following competenceswere chosen from Nokia: quality‚ price‚ services/functions‚ and brand image. 5.1 Quality The high quality of Nokia’s products and services enables
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1. Executive Summary • Qantas is Australia’s largest domestic and international airline • Qantas was founded in the Queensland outback in 1920 and it began its operations with one aircraft carrying mail and now it has expanded to 146 planes transporting people all over the world • Qantas’ major influences they have to deal in todays market with include globalisation‚ technology and the increased cost-based competition and the strategies that they have implemented to meet these influences are
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What’s behind Qantas’ restructuring decision? 22 May 2012 Myriam Robin SHARE 3 Change is coming thick and fast at Qantas Airways. A mere day after announcing 500 job cuts‚ the airline is in the news again with an even bigger announcement. The company is splitting its domestic and international operations into two separate businesses from July 1. Each of the businesses will get their own CEO‚ and will report their financial results separately. “This change will enable a greater
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