Background Ocean Carriers Inc. is a shipping company specializing in the operation of capsizes bulk dry carriers. In January 2001‚ Mary Linn‚ the vice President of Finance for Ocean Carriers was evaluating the purchase of a new capsize carrier for a three years lease proposed by a motivated customer. The leasing contract offers very attractive terms‚ but no ship in Ocean Carrier’s current fleet met the customer’s requirements. In addition‚ this proposed contract is only for three years. Therefore
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BOOK REVIEW The book‚ Blue Ocean Strategy -How to create Uncontested Market Space and Make competition Irrelevant ‚ authored by W. Chan Kim and Renne Mauborgne is the best seller of its time. It is a widely accepted book for strategy professionals. The title indicates the theme of the book .This book promises to achieve the uncontested market space and make competition irrelevant by making the use of Blue ocean strategy. The book argues that companies in existence today should not try to beat
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What is Five Forces Analysis? Describe each in detail and use your own small example to illustrate. The Five Forces Analysis is Porter’s model and is used in a business situation. The purpose of this analysis is to diagnose the competitive pressures in a market and assess how strong and important each one is to the firm. This analysis consists of; Threat of New Entrants‚Bargaining Power of Suppliers‚ Bargaining Power of Buyers‚ Threat of Substitute Products‚ Threat of Potential New Entry‚ and
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EBAY SWOT ANALYSIS STRENGHTS | * Leading global brand for online auctions the brand name is more and more recognized around the world (brand recognition). EBay is expanding its international presence. Consequence : growth of profit * Ability to attract buyers * Volume of transactions * Selection of goods * Customer service and security * PayPal: PayPal has helped eBay to increase satisfaction among customers thanks to the services it offers. The share of PayPal in eBay’s turnover
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Income Generation SWOT analysis Oct 16th 2012 Strengths * Strong new brand/visual identity * Emotive cause with motivating stories * The hospice’s work is tangible * Local cause and money kept within S Devon * Loyal supporter base * Excellent care provided * Good awareness in Torbay * Personalised approach to donors Opportunities * Untapped potential outside Torbay * Digital marketing and social media to engage with new audiences * Corporate
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Hartadianata Harianto Aki - Yoshida Sai Revanuru SWOT Analysis for Oracle Strengths Oracle has four key strengths as a business‚ geographic diversity‚ Industry leading services and products‚ high margins‚ and an ability to generate significant cash flows. First‚ Oracle’s revenues do not solely come from the US market. Although 53% of revenues stem from the US‚ 31% and 16% come from the EMEA and Asia Pacific regions respectively. Second
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SWOT Analysis A. Internal Analysis 1) Strengths The ongoing success of the L’Oreal Group is without if not for the ingenuity of the concept of their vision as a team. The primary strength of the Company is the continuing research and innovation in the interest of beauty which assures that the L’Oreal Cosmetics offers the best to their consumers. Their dedication to their continuous research makes them the leader in the growing cosmetics industry despite the competition in the market. L’Oreal’s
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A SWOT (Strength‚ weakness‚ opportunities and threats) provides a basis for crafting a strategy that capitalizes on the company’s resources‚ while taking advantage of the best opportunities‚ and defending against the threats to its well being. The SWOT analysis for Dell is summarized below. Strengths Direct to customer business model. Uses latest technology. Dell is the market leader in personal computers. For the last couple of years it has held its position as market leader (it took it
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SWOT Analysis of Toyota We have analyzed Porter’s Five Forces of Toyota and PESTEL Model of Toyota. Thus in this post‚ I will list the SWOT of Toyota. 1. Opportunities -Recovery of auto industry: The automotive industry showed the signs of recovery‚ which is predicted to be gradual. The market will reach a volume of 129.9 million units in 2013 (Durbin‚ and Krisher‚ 2010). This provides positive information to the automotive manufacturers and stimulation to the investors. -Hybrid electric vehicles:
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SWOT Analysis Target Corporation I Introduction Target is America ’s second-largest general merchandise retailer‚ with over 1‚100 stores across the country; it employs over 220‚000 people. It has recently begun electronic marketing through its Target.com subsidiary. (Pergiovanni‚ PG). This paper is a SWOT analysis of the corporation. It concentrates on the Target stores themselves. II Strengths I ’ve scanned a listing of newspaper articles with "Target Corporation"
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