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the right trade-offs -Strategy rests on unique activities WINNER if you have a strategy that fits the environment -A cogent configuration of activities‚ incentives‚ systems that supports successful positions and makes the right trade-offs Porter: Firms can ONLY achieve sustainable competitive advantage if they have BOTH operations effectiveness and superior strategy. Strategic Activities Map: Picture map that identifies key activities of a firm (their tradeoffs and the investments that
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HEB has implemented Scanner Based Payment system in its all of its stores. Use of SBP produced reduction in transportation costs for HEB suppliers and reduction in inventory level for HEB. POS method increased accuracy and speed of checkout. POS also offer customer convenience and accuracy. SBP formed high level of trust between suppliers and HEB. HEB has installed Unix Mini-computers‚ which were linked to POS and then linked to HQ. Exchange of information regarding sales‚ orders and personel between
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recommendation for Knudstorp and the Lego Group‚ I needed to gain perspective on the industry and internal factors that have historically interfered with Lego’s business model‚ and thus lead them to the point of bankruptcy. In Exhibit A‚ I used the Porter’s five forces model to help identify and label the threats‚ demands‚ trends and opportunities of the toy industry. While Lego faced many different types of challenges‚ market trends and market pressures over its long history‚ the company implemented two strategic
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Porter’s Five Forces The Threat of New Entrants (Low) There is a great amount of economies of learning and scale in the oil industry for Example BP has been searching for oil since 1901. They invest a huge amount in up-to-date technologies making it difficult for new entrants to compete. His obviously requires huge capital investments in R&D as well as start-up cost‚ for example a truck just to carry the oil costs over $1‚000‚000. There is a lot of regulation in the industry especially with
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Client-server computing is a method of distributed computing where one program (a client) makes a request to be fulfilled by another program (a server). 10. Porters value chain model: primary and secondary activities. 11. Value Chain: is the “set of activities through which a product or service is created and delivered to customers.” [1] There are five primary components of the value chain and four supporting components. The primary components are: Inbound logistics—getting needed
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Evaluate the general environment of Wal-Mart using the framework in Chapter 2. What are the key opportunities and threats facing Wal-Mart? (This is the "OT" of a SWOT analysis)Wal-Mart ’s builds its stores in towns with a population size of 5000-25‚000 people. Wal-Mart has recently started to tap into the more populated city suburbs by building smaller less obtrusive stores in those regions. Wal-Mart targets every age group from infants to senior citizens. Wal-Mart ’s geographically places it ’s
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1) Describe the competitive environment of ECCO and determine how well ECCO is positioned (vis-à-vis competitors) to take advantage of changes in the industry. Use Porter’s five-forces model‚ the PEST model‚ and a SWOT analysis to explain your answer. (400 words) ECCO produces mainly casual footwear with an intense focus on high-quality production. In order to deliver the highest quality product‚ ECCO maintained a fully vertically integrated value chain situated in various countries leveraging
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• PEST ANALYSIS - a technique for understanding the "environment" in which a business operates • SCENARIO PLANNING - a technique that builds various plausible views of possible futures for a business • FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS - a technique for identifying the forces which affect the level of competition in an industry • MARKET SEGMENTATION - a technique which seeks to identify similarities and differences between groups of customers or users • DIRECTIONAL POLICY MATRIX
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Sonia’s smoothies 1) Nick calculated that of 200 customers who completed the questionnaire at the rock festival‚ the mean age was 23. The age distribution conformed to a curve of normal distribution with a standard deviation of 5. Calculate the number of customers aged 33 and over who featured in Sonia’s survey (33-23)÷5 = 2 2% of 200= 4 Answer= 4 2) With reference to the report on the UK smoothie market (appendix 2) analyse two limitations of using secondary sources as the
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