Virgin Mobile Paper A Case Study Analysis Presented to: 1 I. CASE SUMMARY Virgin‚ a U.K. based company led by Sir Richard Branson‚ has had a history of brand extension resulting to 200 different corporate entities. One of which is Virgin Mobile which has decided to expand to USA based on their success in the U.K. market. Dan Schulman‚ Virgin Mobile USA CEO‚ is tasked to lead the expansion to the U.S. and has decided to focus on consumers aged 15-29 given that there is low penetration
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iv. Based on any recent service encounter for an airline of your choosing‚ draw up a flowchart for passenger pre-flight processing (assume the passenger has already purchased a ticket). Can you think of ways to make the process more efficient? More pleasant for the customer? (25 marks) To make sure that the airline service operation is fail-safed‚ efficient and more pleasant for the customers‚ we can apply poka-yokes‚ which is the procedures that prevent mistakes from becoming defects. Firstly
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potential competition which may offer a much better deal. Virgin Mobile became aware of this cellular anarchy and had to decide what pricing strategy would best attract their target niche and offer them unbeatable value so that competitors could not enter into the same market easily. Alternative 1 -Clone the Industry Prices The first pricing strategy Virgin mobile considered was to copy the current industry pricing structure. The angle was that Virgin was to offer the same prices that of their competitors
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U06A16028 SOUTHEASTERN JET AIRWAYS - TEAM: IND1-1 Simulation Summary Report Claude A. Paul ~ Charles Miller ~ Sarah Ndagire ~ Richard Redding ~ Aye Nandar Capella University Business Integration Skills MBA6028 Dr. Rebecca Snarski February 19‚ 2015 U06A16028 SOUTHEASTERN JET AIRWAYS - TEAM: IND1-1 Simulation Summary Report Factors that Influence Strategy Southeastern Jet Airways (SEJA) philosophy and vision is very simple: to be a
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1 AEM 4160: STRATEGIC PRICING PROF.: JURA LIAUKONYTE VIRGIN CELL CASE: EXCERCISES Pricing Structure from the Carrier Perspective ¨ Contracts: ¤ ¤ ¤ Annual churn rate WITH contracts Annual churn rate WITHOUT contracts The difference: =2% * 12 months = 24% (p.8) =6% * 12 months = 72% (p.8) 72% - 24% = 48% Take AT&T example: customer base = 20.5 million If AT&T abandons the contract based plan how many new customers would it need to acquire to offset customers from an
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* Introduction and statement of purpose Atlantic Computer Inc. is a large manufacturer of servers and other high end products and is presently the one of the biggest player in the computer industry. The company is planning to introduce a new product “Atlantic Bundle” into the market. The “Atlantic Bundle” consists of a new basic server Tronn and a newly developed “Performance Enhancing Server Accelerator” (PESA) software tool. Ontario Computer‚ Inc‚ which has majority revenue market share in the
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Robert Traylor and Paul Barwell are tasked with optimizing supply chain management for Cathay Pacific Airways (CX)‚ one of the most profitable and respected airlines in the world. In order to maintain its outlook on growth in this increasingly competitive industry‚ their team must reduce operating costs while improving their customers’ flight experience. Since spare components represent most of the inventory value in their supply chain‚ spare parts operations should be the key focus. From the
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Sam Yates-Smith Student ID: 000292201 CASE STUDY 6 THE VIRGIN GROUP 1. The corporate rationale of the Virgin group is to re-ignite static industries‚ with fresh ideas and developments‚ thus offering the consumer differentiation. Diversification is an extremely important attribute of Virgins rationale. Their SBU’s improve Virgin’s scope and therefore its existing markets and products. Virgin uses the ideology of ‘the corporate parent’ to add structure and guidance to its various business units
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Topic THE IMPORTANCE OF CULTURAL FACTORS IN INTERNATION BUSINESS In the process of globalization‚ the world is getting smaller. The connections and interactions between countries or international companies are easier by cultural integration. For example‚ Google’s company was a small company in California before 2000. They then expanded their company in other countries such as Germany‚ Japan and they has boosted many different language versions of the site. Google has been considered as the largest
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Vestal Virgins The Vestal Virgins were the priestesses of Vesta‚ the goddess of the hearth‚ in charge of maintaining the sacred fire within the Temple of Vesta on the Forum Romanum. Vesta symbolized collectively the hearths in citizens’ houses; she presided over the basic need of fire (Cadoux 163). The fire in the Temple of Vesta was a pure fire and was not fed with wood from dead trees‚ or any rubbish thrown upon it‚ or any impious act done in its presence. If the Vestal Virgins allowed
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