A. Overview of Starwoods Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. is one of the largest hotel companies in the world. It was originally formed by a real estate investment firm Starwood Capital under the name of Starwood Lodging and was run by the ambitious Barry Sternlicht. Later on Starwood Lodging came to be known as Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc after Barry Sternlicht stepped down as CEO. The company owns and operates hotels leading brands such as Sheraton
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Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide In partial fulfilment Of the requirements in Total Quality Management 12 October‚ 2010 I. INTRODUCTION Being one of the of the leading hotel and leisure companies in the world‚ Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide‚ Inc. already has nearly 1000 properties in some 100 countries and approximately 145‚000 employees at its owned and managed properties. Starwood Hotels and Resorts is a fully integrated owner‚ operator and franchisor of hotels and resorts
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1 Executive summary This paper analyses and compares two major global hotel chains‚ Marriott International‚ Inc. and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide‚ Inc. Both chains have extensive investments in and outside the US. They have very strong brand names and are quite competitive. However they differ in their strategies‚ like the market segment each one targets‚ the role of technology in the business‚ the financial efficiency of their systems etc. The paper discusses the extent of globalisation
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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 firms
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SWOT Analysis: Strengths: Starwood has created a brand name for itself worldwide and has been able to gain a high number of loyal customers. The group has provided good service to customers and has received a number of positive feedbacks from the customers. The popularity of the group is seen clearly by its ranking in the Worldwide Top 10 hotels. Starwood has over 897 hotels worldwide which shows the large operational scale. Starwood has grown by 3.0% in one year (in Rooms) and this shows how
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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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1Barney 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 firms
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Starwood: Operations as a Competitive Weapon Before 2002‚ meeting and event planning among Starwood properties lacked consistency (Krajewski‚ Ritzman‚ & Malhotra‚ 2010). Each individual property had its own unique approach to event planning‚ paperwork requirements‚ and available technology and resources (Krajewski‚ Ritzman‚ & Malhotra‚ 2010). Starwood realized that meetings and events were critical for the continued success and growth of the brand‚ as a large volume of the hotels’ business
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