1 What is Strategy and the Strategic Management Process? Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education‚ Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall. 1-1 The Tools of Strategic Analysis Walt Disney Company 1984 Profits: $242 Million Theme Park Operations: 77 percent of profits Consumer Products: 22 percent of profits Filmed Entertainment: 1 percent of profits Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education‚ Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall 1-2 The Tools of Strategic Analysis Walt Disney Company Hired
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.... 3 2. External analysis...................................................................................................................... 3 2.1. 2.2. 2.3. 2.4. 2.5. PESTEL analysis ........................................................................................................................ 3 The industry............................................................................................................................. 4 Strategic groups..................
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telecommunication services‚ including cell phones‚ wireless‚ U-verse‚ digital TV‚ high speed internet‚ DSL‚ and home phone. The company currently has lost its exclusive i-Phone contract with Apple‚ and one of its main competitors‚ Verizon‚ has come out with the 4G network. These all cause AT&T to lost customers. Now the company is trying to acquire T-Mobile to further expand its market. The deal is valued at $39 billion. II. SITUATION ANALYSIS A. General Environment Analysis Definition: the general
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Dell is very famous for custom-built PC and other computer related products and selling them online. Dell is very efficient in terms of dealing with its suppliers and keeping the inventory near to zero level which helps the company to adapt JIT method which lowers the prices to the final user. According to common assumption‚ power is high where the brand is powerful. Therefore‚ Dell is assumed to have far higher bargaining power than the suppliers. Dell has been successfully managing its competitors
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DELL Research Paper 1. A history on the origins of the company. a. Dell was founded by Michael S. Dell in May 1984. b. Mr. Dell began the company from his University of Texas dorm room. c. He bypassed the retail outlets and sold his computers directly to consumers. This allowed him to eliminate the retail mark-up and sell his PCs at about 40% of an IBM PC. d. In 1988 the company went public and began selling to larger customers such as government agencies.
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WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES LTD - Term Project STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT Submitted to Prof. Mr. Veeresh Sharma Submitted by N S Siva Shanmuga Priya 2011012 Indus World School of Business Greater Noida Date: 12/03/2012 1 Table of Contents Content Executive Summary Vision & Mission Statement Page Number 3 4 External Audit 5 Demographic Forces Economic Environment Political and Legal Environment Technical Environment Social Environment Industry Stage Internal Audit Brief History Financials
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Richard Shim‚ Analyst‚ IDC "The old Dell was phenomenal at balancing growth and profitability. The new Dell appears to be still having to struggle" Rob Cihra‚ Analyst‚ Caris & Co. "Businesses are spending with a lot more conviction at this point in the year than they were at this point in time last year‚ We feel like we’ve been chasing demand‚ and we’re feeling like we are starting to get out in front." Michael Dell‚ CEO‚ Dell Inc. Introduction On February 18th 2010
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Porters Five Forces – Competitor Analysis Michael Porter’s five forces model is used to explore the competitive environment in which a product or company operates. In this case it will explore the competitive environment of Dell and the Tab Streak. The Five Forces Analysis looks at five key areas: | New Entrants | | Suppliers | Industry competitors and extent of rivalry | Buyers | | Substitutes | | Threat of New Entrants The computer industry is a highly competitive one with
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Dell Case Analysis 1. Perform a STEEP analysis to understand the general environment facing Dell? Social: Dell’s social effect is determined by the regions they operate in (Europe‚ North and South America‚ The Middle East‚ Asia and Africa). Their specific accounts vary from region to region. The one thing these markets have in common is that the globule trend is moving towards mobile computing. Technology: Dell needs to create a new image for their product. They need to harness the
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in the retail industry. The paper begins by using PEST analysis‚ Porter’s 5 forces analysis and Competitors’ analysis to analyse the environment of supermarket industry. The next section is to analyse the strategic capability of Aldi. The following section discusses purpose of Aldi‚ and the final section draws recommendations for improvement of Aldi’s strategy. Section 1: Environmental Analysis PEST analysis Based on using a PEST analysis‚ it is likely to recognize the core environmental influences
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