Wal*Mart Case Summary WalMart’s competitive advantage is a result of several key strategic actions. First‚ WalMart’s choice of geographic location in small town locations that were not being served by competitors allowed it to establish itself as the only discount retailer in these areas. This key strategic choice of location was completely different from what competitors had done and gave WalMart a first-mover advantage in markets that had not previously been served by discount retailers. A second
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Bharti airtel – zain acquisition Umesh Word count: 3437 words Bharti airtel – zain acquisition Umesh Word count: 3437 words Global Business Global Business sheffield hallam university | B1051892 sheffield hallam university | B1051892 2013 2013 Bharti Airtel-Zain Africa Deal Background of the Acquirer (Bharti Airtel) and Acquiree (Zain Africa) After a prolonged wait‚ finally‚ Bharti Airtel’s much awaited African Safari did start by acquiring Zain Africa. Mr Sunil Mittal and other
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NITI Aayog or National Institution for Transforming India Aayog is a policy think-tank of Union Government of India that replaces Planning Commission of India and aims to involve the states in economic policy-making in India. It will be providing strategic and technical advice to the central and the state governments. Prime Minister of India heads the Aayog as its chairperson.[1] Union Government of India had announced formation of NITI Aayog on 1 January 2015.[1][2] There are couples of things to
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SWOT ANALYSIS OF WALMART The ‘Fortune 500’ is a list of top 500 companies‚ with the highest gross revenue in the United States. The list is complied and published on an annual basis by the Fortune magazine‚ and it includes both publicly and privately held companies arranged in decreasing order of their gross revenue adjusted for excise taxes. The Fortune 500 list was first was published in 1955‚ and originally included only manufacturing‚ mining‚ and energy industries‚ but now it has been
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Question 1) Determine the Core Competences of Wal-Mart. Substantiate your answer. In order to determine the core competences of Wal-Mart‚ I will first need to conduct an internal analysis of Wal-Mart before we could identify the core competences of the company. The internal analysis consist of a few components‚ first we will have to identify the resources available to the company‚ followed by the capabilities of the company. After which I will put the capabilities through a numbers of models to
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Case Synopses Walmart Stores‚ Inc. 09/12/13 Which strategic management concepts are useful in the analysis of this case? 1. SWOT Analysis Walmart’s internal strengths and weaknesses and environmental opportunities and threads are: Strengths Highly motivated and committed employees (Associates) Top management involved on daily operations (street managers) Latitude price setting (allows more profitability in different locations) Technology oriented (Satellite system and logistic
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Walmart Supply Chain Controversy August 29‚ 2005 Hurricane Katrina hit the Louisiana coast and Wal-Mart was one of the main sources of aid of this disaster. Their efforts included personally helping their associates with the disaster relief‚ setting up and re-opening he affected stores as soon as possible‚ and even worked hand in hand with government relief agencies. Their trucks were the first to arrive with emergency relief supplies. This was a great act that helped Wal-Mart in the short and long
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Strategic Management Title: WAL-MART: A STRATEGIC ANALYSIS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Wal-Mart is one of the most successful businesses of the last century‚ and last financial year their total sales revenue topped $400 billion (Datamonitor‚ 2009). They are an enormous organisation‚ with huge ambition‚ and possess the ability to reshape markets to their own liking. Wal-Mart have faced many criticisms‚ and are feared and respected in equal measure. This report aims to examine the challenges
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Forecast of Bharti Airtel Subscribers Economics I - Project GROUP 1 ABSTRACT Analysis of Bharti airtel’s subscriber base was done using Time series analytical tools to develop predictive models. Different models linear‚ exponential were developed and December 2009 forecast was made using them. Our research revealed that subscriber growth is non linear thus best explained and predicted by exponential curve such as logistic curve. Introduction
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WALMART-China CASE ANALYSIS Walmart-world’s largest retailer‚ is a successful as a king of retailing in US market. After this success‚ Wal-Mart Stores started eyeing areas beyond its home country and looking at unchartered waters in the overseas markets. Wal-Mart’s mature discount concept and business model were ready to be exported. The management firmly believed that consumers were alike everywhere around the world in searching for quality products at great prices and desiring to be treated
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