TiVo‚ a digital video recorder (DVR) enables subscribers to record programs without video tapes or DVDs‚ allowing them to watch what they want‚ when they want to watch it. Despite of possessing benefits of being the first one to come up with this impressing innovation and having a fairly high customer satisfaction rate‚ sales are still very disappointing at the time of fourteen months into the launch. In order to expand customer demand‚ the company attempts to combine aggressive pricing‚ sales support
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1) TiVo holds several competitive advantages: - Innovation: TiVo has innovated its product to provide premium service applications like HMO and unique opportunities for advertisers and networks to air "showcases" four-six minute long commercials. - Patents: TiVo was early to the market‚ and therefore holds several significant patents that keep competitors from copying key functions of the product like optimization of disk space and scheduling. - Licenses: TiVo has a number of prominent licensees
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Case: TiVo 1. What is Keast’s Decision Problem? Keast’s decision problem is what marketing mix should he follow? This includes the advertisements to be used‚ media to be followed and other marketing techniques that could be followed. Also a decision on how to reduce losses being made needs to be arrived at. One option was to decrease the price per set from $999 to $399 and thereby increasing volumes. 2. Based on the marketing plan towards the end of the case‚ what strategy do you see in
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For the exclusive use of J. CO www.hbr.org What Is Strategy? by Michael E. Porter Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 1 Article Summary The Idea in Brief—the core idea The Idea in Practice—putting the idea to work 2 What Is Strategy? 21 Further Reading A list of related materials‚ with annotations to guide further exploration of the article’s ideas and applications Reprint 96608 This document is authorized for use only by James Co in Food and Agribusiness Strategic
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Record: 1 Title: What Is Strategy? Authors: Porter‚ Michael E.1 Source: Harvard Business Review; Nov/Dec96‚ Vol. 74 Issue 6‚ p61-78‚ 18p‚ 1 Black and White Photograph‚ 3 Diagrams‚ 1 Graph Document Type: Article Subject Terms: *STRATEGIC planning *ORGANIZATIONAL effectiveness *MARKET positioning *COMPETITION *BUSINESS planning *INDUSTRIAL management *ORGANIZATIONAL
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632 TIVO – CASE STUDY 1. Is TiVo a disruptive or a sustaining technology Base on the fact coming from the article‚ TiVo is a disruptive technology * TiVo did not seek to become a media portal or a content aggregator. Instead‚ it would act primarily as a “facilitator” to third party content distributors. At the core of these offerings was TiVoCast‚ a feature that let users access video contents feeds through main TiVo menu * TiVo push into broadband content distribution. TiVo could
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Introduction The competition in today’s industrial world is very intense and every company is spending a lot of money on designing and marketing their products and services. In such a highly competitive world it is very essential to design and market your products keeping in mind the target customers and markets. A product which is designed for the developed countries might not work in the third world countries and vice versa. So the companies‚ prior to designing their products and services must
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entitled‚” Strategic Marketing and Its Effect on Business Performance: Moderating Effect of Country-specific Factors”conducted by Matti Jaakkola‚ Marketing efforts and know-how are instrumental in commercializing ideas and inventions successfully. Therefore‚ it could be fatal for companies to ignore the importance of marketing (cf. e.g. Yli-Kovero‚ 2006; Salminen‚ 2006). Kotler (1999) emphasizes the position of marketing to even argue that‚ in the future‚ marketing has the main responsibility for achieving
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Marketing Strategy MKT – 306 Assignment Guide – 2013 -14 Module Leader: Sudipta Das Email: sudipta.das@sunderland.ac.uk Introduction to the Assignment: Please read all instructions and information carefully. You are required to submit your work under the University Infringement of Assessment Regulations. Your assignment must be submitted to your Study Centre in hard copy with an accurately and clearly completed Assignment Cover Sheet‚ and an electronic copy on CD in an envelope [hole
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Thompson−Strickland−Gamble: Crafting and Executing Strategy: Concepts and Cases‚ 16th Edition I. Concepts and Techniques for Crafting and Executing Strategy 1. What Is Strategy and Why Is It Important? chapter one © The McGraw−Hill Companies‚ 2008 1 What Is Strategy and Why Is It Important? Strategy means making clear-cut choices about how to compete. —Jack Welch Former CEO‚ General Electric A strategy is a commitment to undertake one set of actions rather than
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