Carnival Corporation Growth Strategy Academic Report on Strategic Management by Diana Romanova 100878 Strategy & Communication EHM3.SC-02 December 10‚ 2012 Abstract The purpose of the report is to discuss the current strategy of the Carnival Corporation‚ the world leader in the cruise industry. Based on the external and internal situation analysis the new growth strategy is formulated. The recommendations on the strategy implementation and evaluation are provided by terms of the various strategic
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Corporate-level strategy is focused mainly on the decisions over the scope of the firm ’s activities‚ mainly: product scope‚ geographical scope‚ and vertical scope. One of the myths of corporate-level strategy is that strategy formulation can be separated from implementationthat strategy is constructed first‚ then the appropriate management and organizational structure is selected afterwards. Unfortunately‚ this will result in a poorly designed strategy since it does not take into account the
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headmaster of Stowe‚ a private boarding school Branson dropped out at 17. His success started by publishing a magazine called Student‚ then he moved on to mail order records. This is where the Virgin Group started. Richard Branson has developed his brand in a large variety of markets. The over-familiarity of the Virgin brand has caused the consumers to not take the brand in a serious manner. One might argue that he stretched his brand too thin. This lack of focus and over-diversification could result in
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WHAT IS CORPORATE STRATEGY? Although strategy has different definitions by various authors‚ to understand Corporate Strategy we begin by defining strategy. "Strategy is the direction and scope of an organization over the long-term: which achieves advantage for the organization through its configuration of resources within a challenging environment‚ to meet the needs of markets and to fulfil stakeholder expectations” (Johnson‚ Scholes & Whittington‚ 2008). From the definition given by Johnson
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289 CASE EXAMPLE The Virgin Group Aidan McQuade Introduction The Virgin Group is one of the UK’s largest private companies. The group included‚ in 2006‚ 63 businesses as diverse as airlines‚ health clubs‚ music stores and trains. The group included Virgin Galactic‚ which promised to take paying passengers into sub-orbital space. The personal image and personality of the founder‚ Richard Branson‚ were highly bound up with those of the company. Branson’s taste for publicity has led him to
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EXPANSION STRATEGY STAR BUCKS GLOBAL EXPANSION When Starbucks entered China in 1999‚ the coffee company was prohibited from wholly owning its stores. Beijing lifted those restrictions on foreign ownership in the retail sector at the end of 2004‚ as a condition for its entry into the World Trade Organization. (Wall Street Journal‚ 2006) Since then Starbucks has increased its equity position in Shanghai and Taiwanese operations‚ acquiring a 50 percent ownership interest in its Shanghai joint-venture
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Sun Microsystems ( Corporate Strategy) Introduction Sun Microsystems was found by four individuals. It is the market leader in the fast growing workstations industry. The SPARCstation I was introduced in May of 1990. An improved version of Sparc I was introduced in the summer of 1990 with an improved interface‚ a color monitor. In the beginning company strategy was designed to emphasize gaining market share‚ concentrating on all out sales growth‚ no matter what the cost. Products were sold
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Starbucks Corporate Strategy Corporate Strategy fundamentally is concerned with the selection of businesses in which the company should compete and with the development and coordination of that portfolio of business.[1] In the case of Starbucks the corporate strategy they have implemented is unique to their industry which has allowed them to differentiate from their competitors and is summarized best by Howard Schultz CEO of Starbucks‚ “We’re in the people business serving coffee‚[2]” high quality
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Does Newell have a succession corporate strategy? Does the company add value to the business within its portfolio? Newell uses the basic corporate strategy of restricting‚ transferring skills and sharing activities. In doing so they have developed a successful corporate-level strategy that adds value to the business. Newell’s succession corporate strategy is something they like to call “Newellization.”The main objective for Newell is to acquire companies that are failing and have financial problems
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Apart from that the company should also focus on fuel efficient and hybrid cars to increase its production and to make people aware of these cars. 3.0. Strategic Analysis of Toyota Corporation: The corporate strategy of Toyota varies with time and its operations. In the recent era the corporate strategy of the business is to maintain the top position in the industry (Henry‚ A. 2008). The company is also striving to enhance its technology in order to increase the quality of its cars and to meet the
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