Technological Environment Analysis of Cathay Pacific Airways: Technological factors include forces that create new technologies‚ creating new product and market opportunities. It is based on considerations as to whether the local market has sufficiently developed technologies to take full advantage of the product. It should be noted that high technologies are required to make full use of the variety of promotional methods using alternative advertising media such as television or websites.3
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Cathay Pacific They have one spare parts management process but it has some drawbacks and issues need to be addressed to refine the process and to increase its efficiency. First main point is that these aviation spare parts is very expensive and thus has very adverse effect on Cathay Pacific’s balance sheet. They have sufficient inventory of these spare parts but of which significant percentage of parts are dead and inactive stock. They can’t simply get rid of these parts because for aircraft safety
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General Environment Analysis for the Cathay Pacific Airlines With headquarter and airline hub located in Hong Kong‚ the general environment of Hong Kong has significant effect on Cathay Pacific. It is crucial to analyze the key trends and events of the six segments of Hong Kong general environment in order to adjust the firm strategy of Cathay Pacific. The six segments are sociocultural‚ demographic‚ political or legal‚ technological‚ economic and global. The Sociocultural Segment The value
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Analysis and Evaluation: Financial Performance of Cathay Pacific 2012 Contents Introduction …………………………………………………………… P.3 Liquidity Ratios ……………………………………………………….. P.3-6 Financial Leverage Ratios ……………………………………………... P.6-7 Profitability Ratios ……………………………………………………... P.8-9 Market-based Ratios ……………………………………………………. P.10-11 Dividend Policy Ratios …………………………………………………. P.12-13 Conclusion ……………………………………………………………… P.13-14 Reference
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. VRIO The VRIO framework is a set of four questions of: Value‚ Rarity‚ Imitability‚ andOrganization (Barney and Hesterly‚ 2006). It is a tool to analyze company’s resourcesand capabilities to discover their potential competitive advantages or to identifycompany’s internal weaknesses (Barney and Hesterly‚ 2006). The following competenceswere chosen from Nokia: quality‚ price‚ services/functions‚ and brand image. 5.1 Quality The high quality of Nokia’s products and services enables
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VRIO ANALYSIS 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
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Resource Based View - VRIO Analysis 1. Tangible Resources a) Financial Resources: * Firm’s cash and cash equivalents- The total cash and cash equivalents of the firm stood at around Rs. 271.5 Crores in the year ended March 2009 (before merger with Kraft). Liquidity is important for a business to factor in for unforeseeable events. The ideal cash reserve requirement can be calculated by taking into account and listing possible unfavorable events and assigning probabilities to them
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aircrafts are highly dependent on petroleum as the starting energy and the price of petroleum is keeping increase in last few years‚ so the cost of operation of Cathay Pacific Airlines is unavoidably increase‚ and the air ticket price also need to be raised to offset the increasing petroleum cost‚ finally the sales of air ticket of Cathay Pacific Airlines may decrease. The effects of the Technological segment - As the broadband Internet connection is developing rapidly in every countries now‚ the
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I will explain the link and differences between the VRIO-framework and the SWOT-model. Before I will explain this‚ I will first give you an insight in the meaning of these two models. SWOT-model: [pic] A SWOT Analysis is a strategic planning tool used to evaluate the Strengths‚ Weaknesses‚ Opportunities‚ and Threats involved in a project or in a business venture. Strengths and weaknesses are internal to an organization. Opportunities and threats originate from outside the organization. A SWOT
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competition in the tissue paper industry in Malaysia is very intense. In order to compete and survive in the tissue paper industry‚ it is important for a firm to adopt the VRIO analysis framework. VRIO stands for value‚ rarity‚ imitability‚ and organisation‚ and this framework was founded by Barney J. B.. According to Robert J. Chapman‚ VRIO analysis is important for firms that wish to succeed by using its internal resources and capabilities to gain the competitive advantage against its competitors in order
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