Strengths include the well-designed products that the company puts out‚ such as the iPhone‚ iPad and Macintosh computers. Apple has loyal customers and the strength of its products allows it to charge more than its competitors. Weaknesses include Apple’s relative softness in the business market. Most of its products are bought by everyday consumers and aren’t widely used by businesses – PCs are more common computers to find in an office‚ and Research In Motion‚ which makes Blackberry phones‚ has
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Commonality Resource Similarity DRIVERS OF COMPETITIVE ACTIONS AND RESPONSES Strategic Focus Who Will Win the Competitive Battles Between Netflix and Blockbuster COMPETITIVE RIVALRY Strategic and Tactical Actions Strategic Focus Using Aggressive Pricing as a Tactical Action at Wal-Mart LIKELIHOOD OF ATTACK First-Mover Incentives Organizational Size Quality LIKELIHOOD OF RESPONSE Type of Competitive Action Actors Reputation Dependence on the Market Popped the Top COMPETITIVE DYNAMICS Slow-Cycle
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1. Introduction In this report‚ i’m selected AirAsia Berhad. The objectives and scope of this report was included conduct an analysis of industry environment and organisation capability. Besides that‚ there were also included sources of competitive advantage and the ways were used to sustain these competitive advantages. 2. Brief description of the Company Core business of AirAsia Berhad is broken travel norms around the globe and has risen to become the world best. Route
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Strategy and Business Policy / SCHINDL 04/03/2013 Strategic Management & Business Policy How to assure a competitive advantage sources and basic choices when developing a strategy copyright 2010 formulating a strategy 1. understand stakeholders as components of your future strategy 2. understand their needs and their power options 3. understand the „landscape“ you are in 4. realize the options to turn stakeholders into partners how to formulate a strategy now ? copyright 2010
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Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM): Pros and Cons. CAPM defines the relationship between risk and return. The premise of the model is that the expected investment return varies in direct proportion to its risk‚ i.e.‚ the riskier the investment - the higher the return you should expect. Shows: • how much risk you are taking when investing in an instrument? • whether the instrument is rightly priced • whether you are getting sufficient return for the risk you are taking CAPM calculates the
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GENERAL PRICING APPROACHES There are four general pricing approaches: Mark-up pricing - The practice of adding a constant percentage to the cost price of an item to arrive at its selling price. Mark-up pricing is a pricing strategy in which the cost of the product is first calculated then a proportion of its markup was added. It is used primarily because it is easy to calculate and requires little information. An example of this are the retail stores. Value-based pricing - also value optimized
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Introduction A difficult characteristic to understand about the housing market is how a price is given for a particular house. That price will be designated to that particular house alone. All houses have various pricing‚ so I can’t always assume that one will cost more or less than any other. The pricing for houses vary based on their characteristics. Each characteristic must be analyzed to determine its contribution or detraction toward the price. I have taken some of these characteristics and modeled the
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Introduction Pricing is an important strategic issue because it is related to product positioning. There are many ways to price a product‚ eg. price skimming‚ penetration pricing‚ etc. Price skimming is a pricing strategy in which a marketer sets a relatively high price for a product or service at first‚ and then lowers the price over time where a new‚ innovative‚ or much-improved product is launched onto a market. The objective with skimming is to “skim” off customers who are willing to pay more
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Innovation Report Innovation Strategies of Telecom Operators How to retain margins Ref: M12312 – June 2012 Market maturity‚ increased and multi-faceted competition‚ a difficult macroeconomic context and sustained regulatory pressure have an impact on the margins of most operators in advanced economies. This study analyses the initiatives being taken by telecom operators to contain their margins‚ such as: keeping costs under control‚ choosing investments‚ winning over new customers‚ valuation
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strategic analysis was carried out in accordance with the Strategy Formulation Framework which was developed by Fred David. The strategic formulation framework encompasses three primary stages which comprises of the input stage‚ the matching stage and the decision stage. The report contains seven chapters and the first chapter is the introduction where each chapter of the report is described briefly. The second chapter describes the Strategy Formulation Framework. The descriptions in this chapter are
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