Strategy and the Crystal Cycle John A. Mathews ne of the unexplored areas of business dynamics is how the cyclical behavior of certain important industries poses strategic issues for incumbent firms as well as challengers. All frameworks used in strategy (such as the Porter’s “competitive forces” framework) attempt to capture the decisions made by businesses in the attempt to influence their “business landscape” (to use the language of Ghemawat).1 However‚ the frameworks rarely place these business
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Chapter 1 Problems 3. An orthopedic group practice has decided to develop a pediatric sports medicine program. Identify potential target markets for this new service. Potential target markets for this service would be in an inner city community that has a concentrated amount of middle/high school consumers with multiple athletic programs. Being in the inner city‚ potential consumers would typically resort to the emergency room‚ urgent care clinic‚ or a pediatrician. Another potential target
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Making Business Decisions I: Porter’s Five Forces Analysis 1. There are several things to look at with Buyer Power: bargaining leverage‚ buyer volume‚ substitute’s available‚ buyer’s incentives and price sensitivity are just a few things that encourage buyers to purchase. Buyer power is high when the buyers have many choices of where and who to buy from and low when there are few choices. Broadway Café is located in downtown along with at least five other coffee shops. This means buyer power
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brands are critical to compete‚ then new competitors will have to improve their brand value in order to effectively compete. Strong brands positively affect Hong Kong Disneyland. … * Entry barriers are high: When barriers are high‚ it is more difficult for new competitors to enter the market. High entry barriers positively affect profits for Hong Kong Disneyland. … * Advanced technologies are required: Advanced technologies make it difficult for new competitors to enter the market
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Business Strategy Notes VRIO Framework1 The VRIO Framework and the Resource-Based View2 In the last three weeks we have looked at how firms can get a competitive advantage. Today we focus primarily on the sustainability of a firm’s competitive advantage. That is‚ what determines whether a firm’s competitive advantage will be short-lived or whether it will endure a long time? We will consider this question within Barney’s VRIO framework (outlined below) within the resource-based view. Under the resourced-based
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availability of adequate operating capital. Once in Madagascar the issues with which he must deal are numerous‚ beginning from the traffic‚ weather‚ energy‚ infrastructure‚ etc. But when we speak for a foreign market the most important issues are: Entry barriers‚ the political and economical stabilization‚ inflation‚ currency‚ foreign competition‚ legislation‚ the different culture‚ and the religion. The best method to do the market analysis is the market screening‚ which has five stages and includes
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Scanning the Marketing Environment Who are the primary competitors? How to ascertain their strategies‚ objectives‚ strengths and weaknesses‚ and reaction patterns? What are the key methods for tracking and identifying opportunities in the macro-environment? What are the key demographic‚ economic‚ natural‚ technological‚ political‚ and cultural developments? The Marketing plan Market survey Segmentation Identifying needs and wants Targeting Choosing a target market(s) Developping a market
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low switching costs and price sensitivity. Suppliers: cost leadership west jet are coming over the power of the main airports by fling out of cheaper smaller less mainstream airports‚ which fits in with its cost leadership strategy. Barriers to entry: high set up costs as the hub and spoke system incurred very high costs but they entered in a different way so they were over to overcome the hurdles so it mad perfect sense. Geographic focus: did it make sense? Yes smaller area‚ less risk in keeping
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billion to $12.6 billion. We will use Porter’s five forces to analyze the industry structure and performance which will help gauge Samsung’s growth against its competitors. Entry into the semiconductor industry can be very costly and difficult because of high barriers to entry. These barriers include‚ economies of scale‚ high entry costs‚ and the difficulty in obtaining industry knowledge. In addition‚ firms like Samsung have established a strong reputation for quality and reliable products which serve
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the incumbent companies are earning profits greater than their cost of capital. Furthermore‚ we are told that entry will occur until profits net of the cost of capital are driven to zero. Obviously‚ this view of the world is too simplistic. We can think of many examples of markets with no regulatory barriers to entry in which incumbent companies are making high profits‚ yet little or no entry occurs. For example‚ in a 1999 working paper‚ Boston University economist Marc Rysman estimates that the profits
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