Apple Inc. Case Study # 1 iPhone [pic] Professor Chug-Shing Lee BUSA 499 Capstone October 1‚ 2008 Analysis Conducted By Apex [pic] Ryan Boykin Ashley Fiorini Lance Tanaka Matt Webb Executive Summary Apple has demonstrated that innovation can lead to market dominance with products like the iPod. With products such as this‚ Apple has developed a brand that has built a customer base with astonishing loyalty. According to Business week‚ Apple was thirty third for top
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Barney and Hesterly (2006)‚ describe the VRIO framework as a good tool to examine the internal environment of a firm. They state that VRIO “stands for four questions one must ask about a resource or capability to determine its competitive potential: 1. The Question of Value: Does a resource enable a firm to exploit an environmental opportunity‚ and/or neutralize an environmental threat? 2. The Question of Rarity: Is a resource currently controlled by only a small number of competing
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Company Wildberries - it is a large online store of fashion apparel‚ shoes and accessories‚ which has existed for more than 7 years. I chose this site because I had previously used the services of this website. Products in this online store are divided into categories. To view products by brands (brands)‚ go to the tab "brand". All products are sorted by price‚ color‚ size‚ popularity rating (rated buyers) and the date of receipt to the store. When viewing products by categories is also sorted
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Describe the SWOT analysis and the VRIO model and compare them. Highlight their main similarities and differences. (25 points) (A 1½-page response is required.) Student’s Response The SWOT analysis is used to describe the Strength‚ Weaknesses‚ Opportunities and Threats that face a corporation. The purpose of this analysis is to identify the particular competencies that the corporation has as well as to identify the opportunities that they are facing but unable to take advantage of due to the
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Distinctive Competencies The VRIO analysis is helpful in determining if a resource or capability leads to competitive advantage (Middleton‚ 2004). Resources/Capabilities Valuable? Rare? Costly to Imitate? Exploited by Organization Competitive Implications Strength or Weakness Key Account Management Initiative Yes Yes Yes Yes Sustained Competitive Advantage Strength and Sustainable Distinctive Competence Recruitment Process Yes Yes No No Temporary Competitive Advantage Strength and Distinctive
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1. What are the strategic capabilities of IKEA? From the VIRO table (appendix 1) IKEA’s strategic capabilities are grouped into the following categories - Brand/quality reputation Financial strength Production capacity. Brand/Quality reputation IKEA operates (in 2002) 154 stores in 22 countries and serviced 286 million customers. With a 14% share of the market (in America)‚ there is huge opportunity for growth via a continued marketing campaign to leverage off its brand‚ differentiating
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Competitors VRIO Analysis: Jack N’ Jill VRIO Capability Cream-O Vanilla-cream filled chocolate sandwich cookies 30g (Product) Valuable? Rare? Costly to Imitate? Organized? No Result: Competitive Disadvantage It is not valuable because Cream-O is often seen as a substitute of Oreo cookies. Jack N’ Jill VRIO Capability P8.28 (Price) Valuable? Rare? Costly to Imitate? Organized? Yes Yes Yes Yes Result: Sustainable Competitive Advantage 10-packs of cream-o is only worth P62.50 which is less costly
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resources and capabilities of the firms to explain their success. I will be using these four aspects‚ which are also known as “VRIO framework”‚ and break down each aspect of the theory to analyze success of the firm. In my paper‚ I start with brief information about BYD (BYD stands for Build your dream) and its location China. In the next section‚ I focus on the each aspect of VRIO framework and try to explain to what extend and how BYD has gained competitive advantage out of them. Then I end the paper
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Strategy Assignment 2 Internal Analysis - VRIO Shai Zamir Dan Saguy Introduction ‚ Inc. is an American multinational electronic commerce company in the online retail market. Its’ headquarters is in Seattle‚ Washington‚ United States. It is the world’s largest online retailer‚ with different websites for large countries. Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994 (the site went online in 1995). It started as an online bookstore‚ but soon diversified‚ selling DVDs‚ Music‚ software‚ games‚ electronics
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SCWAMP- Straight‚ Christian‚ White‚ Able-bodied‚ Male‚ Property-Owning. I remember once back when Miller Lite had these series of “Man Law” commercials‚ but at the time I did not notice that they where performing a SCWAMP analysis. “The Men of the Square Table”‚ consisted of Jerome Bettis (retired running back for the Pittsburg Steelers)‚ Eddie Griffin (comedian and actor)‚ Ty Murray (rodeo cowboy)‚ Triple H (wrestler)‚ Burt Reynolds (actor)‚ and others. All these men were straight‚ and were not
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