* External and Internal Analysis and Competitive Advantage In this lecture‚ we focus * Company’s present strategy * Internal strength and weakness and external opportunity and threat * Five generic competitive strategy * Competitive advantage and strategy for Diversification * External and Internal Analysis and Competitive Advantage Considerations for Present Strategy: * Cost (low cost?) * Quality (superior quality?) * Customer based (broad or narrow segment) * Product-distribution
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Costco:Internal / External Analysis Table of Contents INTERNAL ANALYSYS: • About Costco • Mission Statement • Corporate Governance & Stakeholder Management • Locations • Strategic Objective • Primary Activities • Support Activities • Costco Membership • Financial • Net Income • Net Sales • Membership Fees • Gross Margin • Selling‚ General & Administrative Expenses • Cash Flows • Expansion Plans • Conclusion EXTERNAL ANALYSIS • Demographics • Socio-cultural • Political/Legal
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The controlling function for McDonalds globalization is one of the many reasons why McDonalds has such great success. As of today‚ McDonalds is huge on globalization and they have locations in many countries. McDonalds executes the controlling function by investing and supporting initiatives to adapt their products to different locales to insure their global brand. McDonalds creates with many different ideas in order to fit all sorts of their customer’s needs and wants. They make adjustments constantly
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into the animal pharmaceutical market that has augmented sales and profitability to existing product offerings as well as allowing them to utilize excess capacity and leverage their extensive human capital to similar product offerings. Internal Analysis: Two internal strengths have been identified as key to Pfizer success; strong marketing and sales infrastructure and a massive war chest funded through successful product sales. In terms of marketing and sales infrastructure‚ Pfizer is able to reach
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Bose Corporation SWOT Analysis Strengths 1. Technology Leadership- Over the years‚ Bose has acquired ground breaking technology that has allowed them to improve the sound and quality of their speaker systems. With these technological improvements‚ they have also been able to drastically reduce the size and weight of these various units in order to make them more convenient and accessible. This technology leadership has allowed Bose to build a very strong brand image in the marketplace and has
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Internal Analysis RIM‚ one of world leaders in mobile communications market‚ stepped into the telecommunication industry with its pioneered BlackBerry products. The BlackBerry’s wireless platform and line of handhelds provides remarkable functions with fully integrated e-mail‚ browser and organizer applications which today made one of the leaders in wireless mobile communication. RIM’s Successful Strategies With worldwide demand for wireless handheld’s‚ RIM quickly identified the market potentials
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Internal Analysis Tesla motors is able to differentiate itself from its rivals by offering a product that has yet to be matched. No other automotive company has been able to produce a car that is all electric and can travel 250 miles on a single charge. In addition‚ no other company has a network of charge stations allowing Tesla owners to drive across the country if desired. Finally‚ Tesla motors has created a brand of elite cars‚ it has been said that Tesla owners may be more of a cult than that
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External/Internal Factors Dell is considered a very successful company. According to Govindarajan & Gupta (2005) one of the successes is its customer-direct concept that has been practiced since the company ’s inception. The concept involves dealing with customers directly and not through a third party‚ which helps maintain the quality of the relationship with its customers and also the products. In addition‚ this concept allows Dell to eliminate unnecessary inventories‚ warehouse space and storage
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Strategic Management: External Analysis Module 2 Case Introduction: Presently‚ the automobile industry as a whole is awash with both opportunities and threats. Toyota seems to be at the extreme end of the spectrum in both categories. While Toyota shares the same threats as most other manufacturers‚ recent problems with recalls and pending litigation have seriously damaged the company’s brand image and‚ particularly in North America‚ Japan‚ and Europe‚ consumer confidence in Toyota has taken
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Assignment 2: External and Internal Environments Monique Allen Brodnax BUS 499 Business Administration Capstone Dr. Lucinda Blue Strayer University July 28‚ 2012 Segments of the General Environment Introduction This research paper will describe Capital One’s general environment‚ technology and political and legal segments‚ forces of competition‚ Predicting and addressing
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