1. What are the challenges facing Zipcar? Two prominent challenges that Zipcar faces currently are: Internal organizational challenges due to Merger with Avis – A merger between 2 companies of different size‚ values and culture always possess some challenges along with benefits. 3 potential challenges due to this merger could be - creating cultural synergies between a large conglomerate with established business practices with a relatively small entrepreneurial organization with innovative ways
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| Report to the Management:A Strategic Analysis of Zipcar | | | Student ID Number: 0898244‚ 0889876 | 11/30/2011 | Table of Contents 1.0) Abstract………………………………………………………………………...2 2.0) Introduction…………………………………………………………………….3 3.0) PESTEL Analysis…………………………………..……………..…………...4 4.0) Five Forces………...……………………………..…………….…..…………..6 5.0) Three Generic Strategies.……………………………..……………..…………8 6.0) Strategy Direction……………………………………………………...……..10 7.0) Value Chain Analysis…………………………………
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Scott Hunt 4/3/2014 MGMT 452 Case Study: Zipcar Assignment Questions 1. Evaluate this potential venture and the progress that Chase has made. The potential of Zipcar exceeded the expectations of the owners Chase and Danielson in many factors. Their goal of creating this urban-style car borrowing system gave new light to the ideas of what options urban populations see in commute. The initial idea needed to be sized properly and growth was a big factor in terms of how fast they could get their
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What exactly is sustainability? The term “sustainability” has gotten a growing amount of usage recently‚ in the media‚ business‚ and general communities. Increased exposure to the term‚ however‚ has not necessarily correlated with increased consistency of understanding of exactly what sustainability is‚ or what it means in today’s context. In fact‚ the rapidly widening usage of the term may be contributing to greater confusion about it‚ as the increased usage results in more people bringing
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Oil refining in China Ed chen‚ a strategic planner at a international oil and gas firm was assigned with the task to look for investment opportunities in the china’s refining industry and also to see whether there was any room for foreign competition or if was a local-only-game. Downstream constraints have always been a major factor which will ease neither quickly nor cheaply”. “ Crude oil prices have continued to increase in the period 2001-2005 and according to the” Medium term oil market
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Background of Industry Refining industry holds an importance for all the oil producing countries. If focused on the global trends in the oil refining industry‚ then there will been see that this industry in the past few decades has experienced many ups and downs. Malaysia Channel coast Malacca western‚ as the connection of the Indian Ocean and Pacific and Pacific maritime energy trade in an important way. Malaysia’s position in the South China Sea makes it a party to the various disputes among
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Refining Solutions Meghan L Adams PHL/458 July 16‚ 2013 David Boswell Refining Solutions There are a number of solutions that can be reviewed to solve most any problem and most require a touch of creative or critical thinking. William Hughes once said‚ “If we are not prepared to think for ourselves‚ and to make the effort to learn how to do this well‚ we will always be in danger of becoming slaves to the ideas and values of others due to our own ignorance.” This quote is one that can be considered
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Refining Solutions Paper Creative Minds and Critical Thinking/ PHL 458 University of Phoenix Refining Solutions Paper In my previous paper‚ I presented an issue on which I will be expanding on in this paper. The issue was that while working as a Shift Supervisor in Starbucks we ran out of a seasonal syrup and customer where ordering the drink. The issue was making the customers happy because there was another Starbucks within walking distance and we
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Questions One: Analysis of Zipcar’s business model using Porter’s five forces model Threat of New Entrants In my own observation‚ Zipcar is a perfect description of an almost hundred percent automated business. They have fully utilized all IT resources available to them‚ and have succeeded in eliminating the need for human interaction at the same time staying in full control of the business. They have succeeded in outfitting all their cars with patented wireless technology‚ which I would classify
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Zipcar‚ which was recently bought for $500 million by Avis car rentals‚ is a start up that is in the business of selling the urban lifestyle of renting cars for short periods of time instead of owning a vehicle. The case evaluates how Zipcar has been able to gain the trust of its customers by being a green minded company with a strong set of values and benefits that will keep a customer. Zipcar took advantage of the fact that they had a place in a niche market‚ which allowed them to create a positive
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