Lecture 5 External Environment Parts of these slides are material developed and copyrighted by Johnson‚ Scholes & Whittington (2006) and Lynch (2006) Sustainable Competitive Advantage • One of the main purposes of analysing competitors is to explore where and how sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) can be generated • Public service and not-for-profit organisations may also wish to explore SCA as they may be in competition for finance from external bodies • SCA will probably require
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Assessment Task 4 BSBRSK501A Manage risk Prompt questions 1. What are three ways that research can be conducted for risk-related issues‚ and for each way‚ briefly describe how it may be done. Qualitative analysis may be useful as an initial screening to identify if further analyse of risk is required‚ when the analysis is appropriate for decisions‚ when numerical data or resources are inadequate. Semi-quantitative analysis sets values to the risks in order to produce a more
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IV. Marketing Mix 1. PRODUCT Carmen’s Best is one of the creamiest artisanal ice cream in the market. It is also rich‚ smooth and dense that almost a pint of it weighs as heavy as a half gallon-sized ice cream. It means that its ice cream is not pumped with air‚ a practice among most commercial ice cream makers. The only difference is that Carmen’s Best ice cream is homemade‚ the old-fashioned way. Carmen’s Best uses 100% all-natural fresh cow’s milk and cream‚ delivered straight from their family’s
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Marketing Mix MKT 421 Tyson Foods promotes several different types of food in the food chain industry. They are ranked 96 in the Fortune 500 in America’s largest corporations. Tyson’s produced poultry‚ beef‚ and pork‚ as well as providing the previous to several chain stores to use products. From McDonald nuggets to the Subway sandwich‚ Tyson is one of the largest poultry processing plants in the country. Tyson also distributes bag in bag products to stores which include Sam’s and Wal-Mart stores
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Competitors’ customers Even though Zara can survive with the highest market share in the clothing market‚ still there are those competitors out there that Zara might gain more of their customers if it applied new marketing strategies . There’ 4 main competitors that the company should consider‚ including H&M‚ Mango‚ Uniqlo and Gap. For H&M ‚it has the customers that are mostly similar to Zara which mostly are women that are into fashionable clothes‚ want to follow the trends but are more price-conscious
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Assessment 1 part1 TASK 1 Identify the key characteristics of visual music products or services by gathering relevant information about the product and services of visual music from the case study and other resources that are applicable A) You will need to provide a paragraph or brief explanation of the following characteristics of products or services below Brand The brand or branding of a product is the image of how a company is view among the general public‚ the brand is their
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Marketing Sales Promotion Sales promotion is one of the five aspects or elements of promotional mix. Promotional elements are advertising‚ personal selling‚ public relations‚ sales promotion and direct marketing. Sales and promotion is the fourth one. Sales promotion is a fast process that makes the people to be aware of some kind of good and services and increases their interests in buying those good or service‚ sales promotion is for all kind of customers. Sales promotion is one of the main
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Organizational Planning and Management HUS 643.22 Systems Analysis Comp Unit IV-B Purpose: To discuss the components of the marketing mix‚ outline the product offerings of the agency and define strategic planning from an open systems perspective. Monifa K. Jackson December 26‚ 2003 Dr. Harold Carter Thesis Development Marketing mix is a management function linking the organization to its external environment. The linking or transaction occurs not only between customers and
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Jan. 29‚ 2013 Zara International Business Problem Productivity is the best word to describe the approach of merchants during the classical era. Merchants believed that being strong in productivity would bring higher profits. It sounded so simple and unbelievable from the very different and complex businesses today. However‚ businesses cannot forget the significance of productivity even centuries after it was first thought of. After reading the article about Zara International‚ I was very
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Zara case Zara uses a vertically integrated system (VMS): In this system‚ wholesalers‚ retailers and distributors work as a unified system. One channel owns the others. They have a corporate VMS system‚ because Zara has managed to build a system that is controlled from the headquarters and it allows a quick response to decide and solve problems. Inditex‚ Zara’s parent company owns most of the resources to design‚ produce and distribute. Recommendations: Instead of doing everything themselves
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