Table of contents Business Report on Ryan Air 1. Terms of reference 2. Procedures 3. Findings 3.1 External analysis 3.1.1 Legal issues 3.1.2 Competition 3.2 Strengths 3.3 Weaknesses 3.4 Opportunities 3.5 Threats 4. Conclusions 5. Recommendations 6. Bibliography 1. Terms of reference This report is an analyse of the low cost airline Ryan Air. It is going to look at the external factors influencing the industry and analyse the internal factors using
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Macro-environmental analysis the macro-environment describes all factors which influence the company as a whole but are out of their direct control including wider social‚ political and economic factors (Hooley‚ Saunders‚ Piercy‚ 2004). The analysis of those factors is therefore often known as Pest analysis (Johnson‚ Scholes‚ 1999). Since the airline industry is very much influenced by changes taking place in the environment and has undergone rapid and dramatic changes during the last decades
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....................................................................................... 11 3.2. SWOT on Ryanair resources ....................................................................................................... 18 3.3. Ryanair value chain ..................................................................................................................... 20 3.4. Competitive position of Ryanair .....................................................................................
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the External perspective on Strategy: Entry 1. Describe Ryan Air’s entry strategy: Ryan Air started ‘small’ by initially focusing on the Dublin-London service four round trips per day with a 44-seat turboprop. At this time‚ they have yet to receive permission to fly larger jet aircraft on the route. They also focus on 2 main areas: First-rate customer service and simple‚ single-fare tickets with no restrictions. Additionally‚ Ryan Air would offer meals and amenities that were comparable to what
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Case study 2.5 –Ryan air: Flying High in a competitive Atmosphere 1. How important is the role of operation in achieving competitive advantage at Ryanair? Ryanair competitive advantage is based on cost leadership strategy‚ maintaining the lowest prices among low-cost airlines (Haberberg and Rieple‚ 2008). In 2011‚ Ryanair became the most profitable low cost carrier in the world (www.ryanair.com). How operations support competitive advantage of Ryanair is measured by five performance objectives:
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The geographic location: Ryan air has 73 operating bases‚ with major operations in secondary airports across airport. This is an important valuable resource because airports which are not usual travel destinations are always potential business opportunities thus Ryanair which has bases in many primary and secondary airports has more negotiating power with these airports when discussing slots‚ fees terms and marketing & training support for as long as 20 years with the airports. Thus operating in
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Value Chain as a Company Strategy Introduction Now a day‚ many companies are trying to improve their value chain in order to use the value chain as a strategy in the manner of meeting the customers need and satisfaction. One of the strategies they are using with value chain is to gain competitive advantages for rival among their competitors. Value chain actually can discover and fulfil what customers want and the identification of customer needs will hence become one of the ways to surpass their
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Value Chain Submitted by: ARMIE C. CACATIAN MIS Introduction A value chain is a chain of activities that a firm operating in a specific industry performs in order to deliver a valuable product or service for the market. It is a systematic approach to examining the development of competitive advantage. It helps in the identification of the core competencies of an organization. The higher education has undergone significant changes in the recent past. The notion of “business approach of education
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The brand value chain The majority of companies that still follow the main principles of the industrial economy will face great difficulties in the value economy of the future. When the company defines itself by its products‚ far too many resources will be tied up in the product system. Alarm bells should ring when investment in products‚ services‚ divisions and departments are inflated when compared to a company’s actual market access. Fortunes are spent on developing new products without taking
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Ryanair - The Low Fares Airline Strategic Analysis / 222621-0004 Strategic Management dr Maria Aluchna Ivan Martinov № 50170‚ e-mail: imartinov@gmail.com S. M. Sabbir № 50185‚ e-mail: ssmm0002@student.umu.se Assignment | 222621-0004 Strategic Management | Fall Semester 2010 | SGH Table of Contents 1. 2. Introduction ........................................................................................................................................... 3 Strategic Analysis .....
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