Zurich‚ Switzerland Facebook: A Case Study of Strategic Leadership April 8‚ 2012 Prepared by: Jeffrey S. Ray‚ P.E.‚ Esq.‚ PMP Doctoral Candidate‚ SMC University jeffrey.ray@student.swissmc.ch Prepared for: Swiss Management Center Learning Center – Zurich Seestrasse 463 8038 Zurich - Switzerland Tel.: +41 (0)41 500 16 22 administration@swissmc.ch http://www.swissmc.ch Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2103975 FACEBOOK: A CASE STUDY OF STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP 2 Abstract This
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Capabilities Capabilities are valuable‚ rare‚ costly to imitate and non substitutable are core competencies. Core competencies are sources of competitive advantage for the firm over its rivals. A sustained competitive advantage is achieved only when the competitors cannot duplicate the benefits of a firm’s strategy or when they lack the resources to attempt imitation. Sustainable competitive advantage results only when all four criteria are satisfied. For a capability to be a core competence
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Capabilities Analysis What is it? Capabilities analysis helps clarify the major sets of activities‚ skills‚ and resources that drive value to customers. When do we use it? Capabilities analysis can be useful at the time of strategy formulation—when firms are assessing which strategic options are currently feasible—and may be included in a broader process of determining strengths‚ weaknesses‚ opportunities‚ and threats (SWOT). In addition‚ capabilities assessment can be used as an initial
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CSAC05 1/13/07 9:21 Page 123 5 Analyzing Resources and Capabilities Analysts have tended to define assets too narrowly‚ identifying only those that can be measured‚ such as plant and equipment. Yet the intangible assets‚ such as a particular technology‚ accumulated consumer information‚ brand name‚ reputation‚ and corporate culture‚ are invaluable to the firm’s competitive power. In fact‚ these invisible assets are often the only real source of competitive edge that can be sustained over time
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andconnected.-Facebook markets themas a platform that allowsusers to connect.Google+ - An estimated343 millionmonthly activeusers.-G+ integratesyoutube andandroid to gaincompetitiveadvantage overFacebook.-Organize theworld’s informationand make ituniversallyaccessible anduseful.-G+ markets them as anextension to otherservices(gmail‚search‚videosharing youtube ‚photosharing - picasa) itprovides.So.cl Still in Experimental phase 4. 4. 3) ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS :a) Demographic trends : Facebook is free social
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1a) Dynamic capabilities are abilities which enable the organisation to renew and recreate its strategic capabilities to meet the needs of the changing environment. It is the capacity of an organisation to change which enables them to adapt more readily. Sustainable competitive advantage relies on resources‚ competencies and capabilities evolving with the dynamics of the industry. Sustainable competitive advantage is achieved when an organisation’s capabilities are of value to customers‚ unique
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3.0 Resources and capabilities This paragraph begins by laying out the theoretical dimensions: Resources and capabilities Definition of resources In order to get a deeper understanding of the concept resources‚ a definition can shed some light on this matter. While a variety of definitions of the term resources have been suggested in the literature of resources‚ this paper introduces the definition first suggested by Teece et al. (1997) who determined resources as ‘firm – specific assets that
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Strategic Management Journal Strat. Mgmt. J.‚ 21: 1105–1121 (2000) DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES: WHAT ARE THEY? KATHLEEN M. EISENHARDT* and JEFFREY A. MARTIN Department of Management Science and Engineering‚ Stanford University‚ Stanford‚ California‚ U.S.A. This paper focuses on dynamic capabilities and‚ more generally‚ the resource-based view of the firm. We argue that dynamic capabilities are a set of specific and identifiable processes such as product development‚ strategic decision making‚ and
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Conclusion……………………………………………………………………. References…………………………………………………………………….. � EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A firm that has been floating on the stock exchange has been selected and evaluated and the firm I have chosen was Facebook. In my report I have included the recent history of Facebook as to how the social networking site started and the developments from the introduction until recently. I furthermore went on to evaluate the source of finance with a brief explanation as to what source of finance is
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Safedocs is into end to end document management service and keen to deliver enhanced personalized services to its customers. This report discuss about strategic formulation process of organization. Part A of business report talks about potential documentation market in New Zealand. It depicts about micro and macro environment analysis‚ what are the strategic issues related to safedocs including market focus‚ customer identification‚ organization structure and competencies. The following Part B of
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