BRIEFING ST 1 (England) DIRECTORS’ BRIEFING SWOT analysis SWOT analysis looks at your strengths and weaknesses‚ and the opportunities and threats your business faces. By focusing on the key factors affecting your business‚ now and in the future‚ a SWOT analysis provides a clear basis for examining your business performance and prospects. This briefing outlines: x B Brainstorm the issues. Ask everyone to identify any strengths or weaknesses they feel the business has‚ and any opportunities
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Porter’s Five Forces Model: an overview Abstract Porter’s Five Forces Model is a structured framework for analyzing commerce and business establishment. It was formed by Michael E. Porter of the Harvard Business School between 1979 and the mid 1980’s. Porter developed the Five Forces model in opposition to the SWOT (strengths‚ weaknesses‚ environmental opportunities‚ threats) analysis that was an industry standard for businesses to determine how they compared to other businesses in a certain market
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Porter Analysis “Starbucks Case” I. Threats of Competitors Now a day‚ Starbucks is very well known in the market‚ so with this competitors are arising rampantly. Small coffee retail outlets are growing rapidly in America and it seems to be multiplying. Based on the study of the Ivey Management‚ there are more than 3485 competitors in the market. All are coffee retailing or even café or with carts. In US‚ they have low barrier to entry in the retail specialty coffee market. This has resulted
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added value through product improvements. Vodafone must feed this back into its product strategy. Vodafone’s goal is to grow its revenue and improve its profit margin by adding value to its products and services thus earning more from each product sold. The ‘Vodafone live!’ service enables customers to use picture messaging and to download polyphonic ring tones‚ colour‚ games‚ images and information‚ through an icon-driven menu. Another service is the Vodafone Mobile Connect Card‚ which enables customers
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SWOT Whereas the STEEP model looks at the industry as a whole‚ SWOT concentrates on your particular business. The acronym stands for Strengths‚ Weaknesses‚ Opportunities and Threats. Generally speaking‚ the first two are internal factors‚ and the last two external ones; those on the right of the template are positive factors‚ those on the left‚ negative. As above‚ the following diagram suggests some of the issues that may be significant‚ but as this is a personal analysis‚ only you will be
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SWOT sample Havas Sports Entertainment UK Strengths | -domestic market-reduced labor costs-barriers of market entry-high profitability and revenue-skilled workforce-monetary assistance provided | | Weaknesses | -competitive market---small business units-unknown-costs-high loan rates are possible | | Opportunities | -venture capital-new acquisitions | | Threats | -increase in labor costs-global economy-price changes-financial capacity-tax changes-increasing rates of
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Porter Five Forces – Degree of Competition The UK banking industry is made up of three distinct types of competition which include the following (OFT‚ 2010): · Retail banks - Accept deposits and use these funds to make loans as well as offering other financial products to consumers and firms. Lloyds Banking Group‚ Virgin Money‚ Metro Bank‚ · Universal banks which not only offer retail banking services but also offer wholesale and investment banking services. For example: Barclays‚ HSBC
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Porter analysis of Zara Zara fashion chain‚ with 546 stores in 30 countries today from which 340 are outside Spain- and 2914‚3 millions of total sales in 2002‚ is undoubtedly the group’s locomotive (Inditex‚ 2003). In 2002 it represented 33% of the group’s total stores‚ accounted for 72% of the group’s total sales and contributed to the holding’s total profits for 540.4 millions (Inditex FY2002 Results Presentation‚ 2003). Moreover‚ Zara with 75-90 new stores within 2003 takes the lion’s share
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PORTER’S FIVE FORCES 4 Power of Suppliers Criteria Level Effect on Power Effect on Profit Difference of Inputs High Increases Decreases Cost of Switching Suppliers High Increases Decreases Threat of Forward Integration High Increases Decreases Supplier Concentration High Increases Decreases Difference of Inputs Product differentiation within inputs in the tech industry is largely dependent on how recently the input has been developed (the extent of which it is considered
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Pestel analysis Political factors: * With the joining of the European Union – sponsorship for higher education related programs * Increase in demand for higher education – the number of students‚ around the world‚ grew by 300% and the number of universities have tripled in the last 30 years‚ therefore the demand for student accommodation has also increased * A university diploma is becoming more and more necessary in order to obtain a decent job as higher education is now “common”
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