Session 3 – Sep. 11 External Opportunities and Threats; Internal Strengths and Weaknesses Read: Day - Scanning the Periphery (HBR‚ Nov 05) (Reserves) Case Preparation: Netflix (Case Pack) 1. What distinctive organizational resources and core competencies has Netflix developed over the course of its existence? Which ones are most important to its survival? 2. Has Netflix developed a sustainable competitive advantage against its
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Blockbuster Declares Bankruptcy Yvonne Dedmore MGT 435 – Organizational Change Robert Hamamoto September 19‚ 2011 Shortly before their 25th anniversary‚ Blockbuster files for bankruptcy protection with a Chapter 11 petition. The failing company couldn’t compete in today’s market against Netflix‚ Redbox‚ Apple‚ and other internet-based businesses that provided mail-order rentals or digital streaming. Their business model needed to be revamped to stay competitive. This paper will take a look
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1.2 The use of PEST on Netflix Traditional Video Rental Stores involves brick and mortar stores are normally located in strategic locations and are usually staffed by around 12 employees depending on the size of the video store. These stores usually carry about 1000 titles of VHS and DVD format and most of the time requires owning all of it VHS and DVD outright. The rentals are limited to physical inventory and some titles excess inventory may be sold at a loss depending on popularity of the titles
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Video Renting Versus Video Streaming CARLOS ENRIQUE PEDINI Information Technology and Organisation‚ School of Electronics and Computer Science‚ University of Southampton‚ SO17 1BJ‚ Southampton (UK) cep302@ecs.soton.ac.uk Abstract MOVIE AND VIDEO RENTAL COMPANIES ARE THREATENED BY THE INTRODUCTION OF NEW SERVICES AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES. THE INTRODUCTION OF SOFTWARE TO DOWNLOAD MOVIES FROM AUTHORISED WEBSITES COULD BECOME A STRONG COMPETITION TO VIDEO RENTAL STORES‚ AND COULD PROBABLY STOP
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Blockbuster Video case analysis David Cook founded Blockbuster video in 1985‚ opening the first store in Dallas Texas and has grown to become the world’s number one video chain. Mr. Cook took the idea of video rental and improved it by creating the video superstore concept. Many family-owned video rental stores could not compete against Blockbuster’ stores. Blockbuster stores were highly visible stand-alone structures that appealed to customers. Blockbuster His stores had a wider selection of
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Long ago small towns across America were filled with modest video rental stores ran by moms and pops; that was until a giant by the name of Blockbuster Video came along. Once Blockbuster showed up in a town these stores had no chance of survival and ended up closing their doors shortly after‚ there was truly no one that could stop Blockbuster from beating the pulp out of the little guys. At its peak Blockbuster was operating nearly 10‚000 profitable stores around the nation and had a market value
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is used in order to increase the economic efficiency. In principle‚ the temperature sensitive vending machine is no different from any other form of price discrimination. For example‚ airlines pair daily and hourly fluctuations in demand with fluctuations in price. Moreover‚ in Japan some vending machines already adjust their prices based on the temperature outside. Increase profitability: vending machines are an extremely profitable resource and channel and have the opportunity to be more profitable
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NETFLIX OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT REPORT TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary 2 Introduction .3 Netflix Process Strategy 3 Competitive Climate ..5 Competitive Strategy .7 Inventory Management 10 Supply-Chain Management .11 Management Critique 12 Future Innovation ..14 Conclusion .16 APPENDIX Exhibit 1 Process
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This proposal consists of a DSS project in video rental industry. The project will help the video store to make their business more efficient in terms of sales. The main problem in video stores is that they do not have enough copies of certain movies(mostly new releases). This DSS project will address this problem and it will estimate the number of copies of a certain movie that a video store needs by considering theatre sales‚ ratings‚ reviews and current account holders. The user of this system
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Netflix Case In the late 1990s‚ with the booming in number of Internet users (dot-com boom)‚ investors was encouraged to invest in Internet to get in on the very profitable market that was available at that time. Netflix was one of the first Internet companies‚ which took that advantage by getting into Internet video market. By the late 2000s‚ home video rental business (Blockbuster‚ Hollywood video‚ etc.) took place in the market‚ however it
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