COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE: CREATING AND SUSTAINING SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE Michael Porter Contents Introduction Chapter 1: Competitive Strategy: The Core Concepts 3 The Structural Analysis of Industries 4 Industry Structure and Buyer Needs 6 Generic Competitive Strategies 7 Cost Leadership 8 Differentiation 9 Focus 9 Stuck In The Middle 10 Sustainability 12 RISKS OF COST LEADERSHIP 12 RISKS 12 OF DIFFERENTIATION 12 RISKS 12 OF 12 FOCUS 12 Generic Strategies and Industry
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for the ACME “Medical Device Manufacturing Company‚ LLC‚” who main goal is to provide new state of the art medical devices for hospitals. Some of the objectives and goals that are needed to be accomplished to meet these demands by our customers “Superior Medical Devices‚ Inc‚ (SMD)” is to be able to subcontract a reliable suppliers‚ complete production engineering process at a timely manner‚ verification of product quality assurance‚ and planning both materials and resources. On another note‚ there
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Selected Answer: a stock should be purchased if it is selling near its historic low price to book ratio Question 5 0.33333 out of 0.33333 points According to the efficient market hypothesis‚ purchasing high P/E stock should not produce superior investment results. Selected Answer: True Question 6 0.33333 out of 0.33333 points According to the dividend-growth model‚ the valuation of common stock depends on 1. the firm’s dividends 2. investors’ required rate of return 3.
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position‚ due to his inability to turn around the financial hemorrhaging at the Duracell division. Suppose it is 2001 and you are a business consultant. James Kilt‚ the newly hired CEO of Gillette‚ hires you to write a 3-page and double-spaced consulting report for him. Considering what had cost his predecessor’s job‚ Mr. Kilt asks you to provide recommendations on the question: “How to turn around the Duracell division?” Grading Criteria: Your response to the question will be evaluated on the basis
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Universal Pulp And Paper: West Coast Division TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 2 PROCESS FLOW 4 CURRENT PROCESS EVALUATION 4 DECISION BASIS 6 ACTION PLAN ALTERNATIVES 6 CONCLUSION 8 APPENDIX 1 9 APPENDIX 2 10 REFERENCES 11 INTRODUCTION The West Coast Division is a paper and pulp manufacturing plant. It primarily produces newsprint for the daily newspapers which constitutes 95 per cent of the production. Its price conscious end consumers expect reasonable paper quality. Apart from
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their product and wedge their message into the homes of their unsuspecting prey. (3) This invasive tactic has been used by major corporations‚ charities‚ and even political candidates. (3) Richard Braddock‚ who heads Citicorp’s consumer banking division stated on telemarketing‚ " this technology creates the potential for invasion of customer privacy." (Quelch 477) Companies gather information about individual consumers and target their marketing to a consumer’s interests or potential interests
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"The greatest improvements in the productive powers of labour‚ and the greatest part of the skill‚ dexterity‚ and judgement with which it is anywhere directed‚ or applied‚ seem to have been the effects of the division of labour."- Adam Smith Smith is saying that the greatest improvement we have in productivity is labour‚ labour is the key of the great things we have now. I agree with the author because the workers are the people who help with the economic growth‚ and the people who make the product
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Covering makes individuals similar and appropriate identity for the related situations while flaunting emphasizes individual’s uniqueness that is essential for individuals’ characteristics and self-esteem. Amy Chua‚ in her essay “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior”‚ insists her successful Chinese parenting ideas that are considered to be tough and indifferent to children’s development by the western culture. Kenji Yoshino‚
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REGISTRATION FOR PH.D. DEGREE SUBJECT COMMERCE FACULTY OF COMMERCE 2000 Sr. Name of Students No. 1. Shri Rajesh S. Nitnaware Topic Name of Supervisor Subject “Analytical Study of Implementation of Dr. Ram Kale Reservation Polity In Central Public Sector Under Taking At Nagpur. Commerce Registration Date 22/01/2000 2. Shri Pradeep D. Kale “Disbursement And Impact Finance By Land Development Bank In The Development of Agriculture In Amravati District During The
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The media is too irascible of Amy Chua’s parenting methods. Chua’s article ‘Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior’‚ for the Wall Street Journal‚ sparked an uproar of harsh criticism from irate Western parents who are too ignorant and judgemental to comprehend the true value of the parenting ideologies Chua espouses. She has been given highly critical names since the publication of her article‚ from ‘a wimp’ to ‘the world’s most hated woman’. Asian parents like Chua are renowned not only for attempting
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