Machael Porter’s Value Chain SUPPORT ACTIVITIES Support activities assist the primary activities in helping the organisation achieve its competitive advantage. They include: Procurement: This department must source raw materials for the business and obtain the best price for doing so. The challenge for procurement is to obtain the best possible quality available (on the market) for their budget. Technology development: The use of technology to obtain a competitive advantage is very important
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Profile of company HSBC has got over 7.500 offices in 87 countries. It is very widespread and has around 220.000 shareholders in 124 countries and territories. HSBC provides a full range of financial services being Personal Financial Services‚ Commercial Banking‚ Corporate Investment Banking and Markets Private Banking. HSBC is mainly operating in Europe‚ Hong Kong‚ Asia-pacific region‚ Australia and America. HSBC is interested in the emerging markets of Asia-Pacific region and is continuously
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Value Chain Analysis Inbound Logistic 1. Farm : Coffee Bean begins at the farm on coffee trees. After trees are planted‚ it takes between one and three years for the trees to bear coffee "cherries". Than the farmer will harvest the coffee trees to get cherries. After that‚ they will use coffee mills to process the product from cherry to bean. 2. Exporter : The coffee export process varied greatly depending on origin country and buyer. In some countries‚ beans were exported through government
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Strategic Value Chain Analysis Wednesday‚ December 04‚ 2013 8:48 AM "Competitive Advantage" 1986 Companies are not groups of people‚ they are sets of activities. There are 2 sets of activities: Cost and willingness to pay (WTP) PRIMARY: In-bound / raw material ==> Process ==> Marketing ==> Service SECONDARY: Accounting‚ Exec Management‚ CIA Cost of distribution drivers (for cinnamon buns): # of stops (greater # raises cost) # of packages they drop per stop (greater # lowers
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In 1865‚ Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) was founded to meet the demand for local banking facilities in Hong Kong and on the China coast. The increasing and frequent trade was undertaken between Europe‚ India‚ and China‚ which contributes to the extension of the bank. HSBC now is one of the world’s largest banks with extensive international operations. Although the bank rapidly expanded across the globe‚ HSBC retained a clear focus on China market. In view of these changes of HSBC’s
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HSBC: The world’s local bank Written by James Gregory on February 03‚ 2009. HSBC’s print ads are easily identifiable – a solid red border‚ a repeated image‚ and a strong one-liner that embodies their brand. HSBC’s ad campaign utilizes several strong and effective tactics to gain attention. A majority of the ads involve a single image‚ copied three times‚ with a different value printed over each copy of the image. HSBC’s tagline gives the impression HSBC understands different people and locations
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Quantitative Technique in Business Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction 4 1.1 HSBC 4 1.2 LLOYDS TSB 4 1.3 Sample Characteristic 5 2.0 The conceptual model used for analysis 7 2.1 The conceptual Model 7 2.2 Justification for the selection of variables 8 3.0 Regression Analysis 8 3.1 Regression Analysis for Entire Sector ( Both HSBC & LLOYDS TSB) 8 3.2.3 Interpretation of the model coefficients – HSBC 9 Focusing on the reasons showing significance‚ it can be observed that X4 and
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Organizations‚ like HSBC‚ who have recognized this‚ have invested resources to evolve their economic development over time. HSBC developed their organizational-driven growth model to successfully create a model for long-term sustainability‚ growth and profitability. The model is shown below: Figure: The HSBC organizational-growth model (Image source: Deans & Kroeger 2004) HSBC was founded by Thomas Sutherland in 1865 in Hong Kong and for many years was a small-sized bank that operated in Asia
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negative beta implies that security A would stabilize the returns on a portfolio since the returns on A are negatively correlated to the market. The riskiness of a portfolio is determined by its beta value. Security A has a negative beta (-0.5)‚ which makes it less risky when compared with positive beta value for security B (0.5). In addition‚ if we consider a standalone risk‚ standard deviation plays an important role. It is used as an indicator of risk‚ security A has 30% standard deviation which
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CHAPTER – 1 INTRODUCTION Market penetration is one of the four growth strategies of the Product-Market Growth Matrix as defined by Ansoff. Market penetration occurs when a company enters/penetrates a market in which current products already exist. The best way to achieve this is by gaining competitors ’ customers (part of their market share). Other ways include attracting non-users of your product or convincing current clients to use more of your product/service (by advertising etc.). Ansoff
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