Business Strategy Prof. Sebastian Raisch Mr. Jonathan Schad MBA Session 2014 HEC University of Geneva RYANAIR- The Low Fares Airline: Whither Now? Student: Roi Lavi May 5th 2014 1. Evaluation of the Competitive Situation in the Industry1: 1/5 The Bargaining Power of Low-Fare flight ticket buyer is LOW-MEDIUM: The low cost airline company’s buyers are mostly individual passengers that book 99% of tickets by Internet‚ without agents or other third parties and thus there is no dominant
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Company and Product Background McDonald’s is one of the best known brands worldwide. McDonald’s first made its way to Malaysia in December 1980 when McDonald’s Corporation of USA issued the exclusive license to GOLDEN ARCHES RESTAURANTS SDN BHD or commonly known as McDonald’s Malaysia to operate McDonald’s restaurants in Malaysia. The entry of McDonald’s into Malaysia is through a Joint Venture agreement with Golden Arches Restaurants Sdn Bhd. McDonald’s Corporation of USA holds 49% equity. The
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Vodafone 4 Ps VODAFONE’S MISSION Driving a wireless world Vodafone is primarily a user of technology rather than a developer of it‚ and this fact is reflected in the emphasis of their work program on enabling new applications of mobile communications‚ using new technology for new services‚ research for improving operational efficiency and quality of our networks‚ and providing technology vision and leadership that can contribute directly to business decisions. VODAFONE’S STRATEGIES ¬ Revenue
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Place Sony has an online presence in several formats‚ for example http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/home.do provides information on products and their prices. The site also has information on corporate applications for its offerings. Sony Product distributors that sell selling to VARs + System Integrators include: ASI Corp‚ Avnet Inc. and Bell Microproducts‚ Microland Electronics Corp. Wholesale distributors of Sony Products include but are not limited to : Best wholesale co. Ltd‚ Dongsheng
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Product – Customer needs Colgate has a variety kind of toothpastes to satisfy each segment needs. For instance‚ Colgate Regular for economy segment. Colgate Tartar Control Toothpaste and Colgate Oxygen Bubbles for those who want to whiten teeth and fight cavities Colgate Sensitive Multi Protection and Colgate Pro Clinical for those who want to promote good oral health Colgate Dora the Explorer‚ Colgate SpongeBob which targeting children in regard to packaging‚ flavor and theme
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Case 5 - A Dogfight over Europe: Ryanair Key Issue: The key issue in this case is that Ryanair’s competitive advantage is based on offering customers an easy-to-imitate low price. While it may be operationally effective‚ they have no strategic positioning. Supporting Arguments: Ryanair’s low prices were not a strategy to gain market share. They were simply out of necessity to stay afloat as their sales plummeted. However‚ as their prices dropped to increase sales‚ they did manage to generate
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INTRODUCTION This critical review of the article of Briner‚ B and Conway‚ N (2006) "Protecting the psychological contract" will briefly consider the problem formulation‚ the place of the theory‚ methodology‚ Standard of analysis and presentation. The writers show that an employment contract is vital in the relationship between the employee and the organisation. That a psychological contract is as equally important but is less well known. They further highlight that the psychological contract
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of Department of Social and Welfare Development (DSWD)‚ the 4Ps is widely known to be the lynchpin of the government’s anti-poverty efforts. One of its key interventions is the provision of small cash transfers to mothers‚ as long as they commit to investing in their children‚ such as by ensuring their children to go to school‚ as well as get deworming‚ vaccination and regular health check-ups to name a few other aspects of the program. 4Ps operates in 79 provinces covering 1484 municipalities and
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1) The marketing mix consists of 4P’s. Explain how each part of the mix can be used to stimulate a response from the chosen target market. The 4P’s‚ price‚ product‚ place‚ and promotion that make up the marketing mix play a vital part in stimulating a response from the chose target market. These will ultimately be the deciding factors as to whether the target market will purchase the product or not. Although there are 4P’s‚ most companies will look a bit further to the 7P’s in order to stimulate
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Do a five forces analysis of the airline industry in 1999 with the information available in the case study - Threat of new entrants o Airport slot availability • There is limited access to airport slots as national airlines had access to the best slots in the major airport hubs and new entrants to the market would only have little success as they would be given none or off-peak slot allocations at the airports • So-called grandfather rights at certain airports. • For instance in Heathrow
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