AJNRR Consulting Virgin Blue Holdings A Strategic Analysis Prepared by: Andy Ley Joachim Brastein Nathan Westgarth Rishi Dave Ron Stanley * * Contents 1. Executive Summary 2 2. Virgin Blue Now 3 2.1 Introduction 3 2.2 Virgin Blue Overview 3 2.3 Virgin Blue’s Current Strategy 3 3. Outside Virgin Blue 4 3.1 Macroenvironment 4 3.2 Industry Analysis 4 4. Inside Virgin Blue 6 4.1 Resources 6 4.1 Capabilities‚ Distinct Competencies
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institutional forces of the environment which shapes‚ influences or constrains their actions. Structure of an Organization combines different ways in which labour is divided into distinct tasks to achieve coordination among the different business units. The Business dictionary defines organization structure as the framework through which roles‚ power and responsibilities are assigned‚ controlled and coordinated across the different levels of management and this depends on the objective of the organization
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Business Strategy Unit 7 EDEXEL Level 4 Tutor: Louise Penketh Manchester College 22/4/2010 By Guitola Tiny Contents Introduction 4 Introduction to Virgin Group 4 Strategy Formulation 5 Virgin Group Smart 6 Stakeholder Map 6 Virgin Group PESTLE 8 Political 9 Technological 9 Environmental 10 Virgin Group Porter’s 5-forces 11 Porter’s 5-forces analysis (Michael Porter (1947)) 11 The Treat of Entry 11 Governmental policies
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Business Communications (M1 and D1) support sheet Task 1b Individually write an informal report that: * analyses different types of business information and their sources (M1) * evaluates the appropriateness of business information used to make strategic decisions (D1) (Tip: You could structure your report with three main headings: introduction; analyses of different types of information and an evaluation of the appropriateness of business information for making strategic decisions)
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1. The corporate rationale of the Virgin group is to re-entering the inactive industries with brand new ideas and developments and offer the consumer different products. Diversification is an attribute of Virgins rationale. Their SBU’s improve Virgin’s scope and therefore its existing markets and products. Virgin uses the ideas of ‘the corporate parent’ to add structure and direction to its various business units‚ which in turn adds value due to the effective‚ closely controlled and come up to that
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Discuss how market-led strategies can help businesses to drive growth and sustain competitive advantage‚ use examples from US‚ European and/or Far Eastern businesses. Market-led strategies are utilized by the organizations which are coming into the business and which have not got many assets and resources to be used. Most of the time market led strategies are used by young or service corporations. The market led-strategies function on the market or client requirements. Businesses attempt to offer the
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Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of strategic alliances. Find examples of strategic alliances both working and not working for parties involved and explain why? Strategic alliances can contribute to the success of a business and are beneficial when maintained with efficient management. As defined in Global Business Today the term ‘strategic alliances’ refers to a “cooperative agreement between potential or actual competitors for the benefit of all companies concerned” (Hill‚ et al.‚ 2011)
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Virgin Atlantic Environment Policy A message from Virgin Atlantic’s CEO‚ Steve Ridgway: Virgin Atlantic is embedding sustainability at the core of our business. We recognise the growing impact air travel has on the environment‚ and are seeking to address this as best as we can. There are many projects in place across the business to make this a reality‚ both in the air and on the ground. Our recent commitment to invest up to $8bn in the most efficient aircraft available for our routes‚ is a
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Leadership in Virgin Established by Sir Richard Branson 22 years ago‚ Virgin Atlantic has become Britians second largest airline. It operates 37 aircraft‚ employs 9000 staff and flies more than 4.5 million passangers a year to some of the worlds major cities. After the slump in air travel following 9/11 Virgin Atlantic went through a period of rapid growth. Virgin Atlantic introduced a leadership development program that was led by business objectives rather than HR process and fitted into
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own business. After your MBA class you realized that you do not have a business continuity plan. Explain as to how you are going to delegate the work of preparation of business continuity plan for your business to your subordinate. Explain the main area you ask him to consider. We need a business continuity plan to keep the company up and running through interruptions of any kind; it may be power failures‚ IT system crashes‚ natural disasters‚ supply chain problems and more. The business continuity
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