PORTER ’S VALUE CHAIN ANALYSIS The porter’s value chain is a model that helps to analyze specific activities through which firms can create value and competitive advantage. There are two activities in value chain which are: Primary activity – directly concern with creating and delivering a product. Support activities – not directly involved in production‚ may increase effectiveness or efficiency. PRIMARY ACTIVITIES | DESCRIPTION | Inbound Logistic | * Concerned with receiving
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Reaction Paper – Yahoo! C.E.O. Resigns Over Padded Resume On the 13th of May‚ 2012‚ the Yahoo! C.E.O‚ Scott Thompson decided to part ways with the company. His reason for resignation: he had had surgery for thyroid cancer several weeks earlier and was on medication which in turn could affect his performance as C.E.O. However‚ this event was the culmination of a tumultuous period at Yahoo! And if I were a decision maker in this case‚ aware of the recently opened can of worms‚ I would have definitely
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this purpose‚ Porter identified a range of interrelated generic activities common to a wide range of firms. The resulting model is known as the value chain. According to Porter (1985)‚ " Competitive Advantage arises out of the way firms organise and arrange discrete activities". Through using the Value Chain‚ the activities performed by a firm competing in a particular industry can be grouped into categories as shown in the model below: Upstream Activities Downstream Activities Porter distinguishes
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Final Yahoo! A History and Management Analysis Yahoo! was started in a Stanford University campus trailer. It was founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo‚ who were Electrical Engineering graduate students when they created a website named "Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web". The Guide was a directory of other websites‚ organized in a hierarchy‚ as opposed to a searchable index of pages. In April 1994‚ Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web was renamed "Yahoo!". The
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Rivalry Unlike what one would expect‚ KFC has little rivalry with similar fast-food chains in China. The primary reason is that their core products are different‚ as in they sell different kinds of fast-foods with very different tastes and styles. For example‚ if KFC raised its price for chicken by a small amount‚ Chinese chicken lovers who may not be as accepting to pizzas (many Chinese people strongly dislike the taste of cheese) are not going to switch to Pizza Hut just because the price
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bars‚ upscale supper clubs on the Spirit-class ships‚ and huge kid and teen centers on the Conquest-class ships.(1) SITUATION ANALYSIS A situation analysis researches the organizations current position in the marketplace and reveal potential opportunities to promote it (J.R.ABBEY 1998 ‚P.54). The cruise market situation has been anallysed accordin to the S.W.O.T. analysis (keller‚kotler 2006 p52.) Strengths Weaknesses High fixed costs (25% of overall operating expenses) Onboard service is labor intensive
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Executive Summary Porter Airlines‚ a short-haul commercial airliner established in 2002‚ have enjoyed significant and steady growth since inception. The concern now is to devise a solution that will allow Porter to continue its controlled expansion strategy‚ as it has been so successful and integral to the growth of the company over the past several years. Situation Analysis Porter Airlines operates in a fiercely competitive airline industry‚ where competitors compete based on price‚ service‚ and
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Porter’s Five Forces Analysis Threat of New Entry There are many companies manufacturing and selling office products at an international level. New entrants can find it easy to enter and establish their position in the market by basing their strategy on low cost. The market offers growth opportunities to new entrants as well indicating low entry barriers for the firms wanting to enter into the area of office products. Therefore it can be stated that Staples Inc is operating in an industry where
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CHAPTER 2: Porter’s Five Forces (Detailed Analysis of Present Environment) -Threats of new entrants A couple of years ago there were just a couple of casinos in Manila‚ all owned and operated by Pagcor (owned by the government)‚ but in the recent years a lot has changed and The Philippines is now expected to be one of the world’s top casino destinations in the near future. Resorts World Bayshore is the 4th casino to open in Entertainment City Manila. Construction on the first phase of the resort
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Report: Profile of Yahoo! Inc Student name: Undral Erdenebayar Student number: 200901320 Module: FC088 Introduction to Business Tutor: Andrew Nummey Submission date: November 19‚ 2012 Table of Contents Introduction 3 Part1: Jerry Yang‚ entrepreneur and co-founder of Yahoo! 3 Part2: Yahoo! Inc 4 Marketing Mix 4 Organizational Culture 6 Motivation 7 Conclusion 7 References 8 Introduction During dot-com boom in Silicon Valley‚ many companies wiped out‚ but some of the remaining
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