...is supposed to be structures as a report. Don’t explain what each model is about. Don’t discuss on the models. Just implement them for the company/ industry/ market you have selected, always trying to adopt the correct perspective for each one of them. THE REPORT SHOULD FOLLOW: Executive Summary: The last to write. In ten lines, summarize everything you have done in your coursework. Imagine that I am your manager and I don’t have time to read your report. In these 10 lines you have to make me understand what you have done in total. Introduction: Write a few lines about the company. What the company is about? What is the company’s size and area of activity? What is the vision/ mission/ main strategic goals of the company? In which industry(-ies) it belongs? Which market(s) it targets? Corporate Strategy is the Strategy shaped for the company as a whole. However, I am giving you the opportunity to choose just one market and/or one industry to analyse. For example, if you had to analyse ‘Samsung’, you could create a strategic review for Samsung as a globalized company (all industries and markets included) or you can just choose to analyse the industry of ‘smart phones’ in the US market. In any case, it would have been good for your report to state in your introduction what will be the industry and the market you will analyse and keep the same scope for all models after this point. Analysis of External Environment: This part should include: PESTEL Analysis: How factors...
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...with international competitive organisational capabilities. From US’s case, managerial enterprise has contributed to the success of leading economics; however, only to a small extent it can be applied in differing national circumstances. There are enormous lacks in Chandler’s analyse. Moreover, different countries have different situation and management characteristics. Managerial enterprises can be applied successfully in US, but it probably can’t be applied successful in nations with different circumstances. In this essay, Chandler’s (1990) study on managerial enterprise will be introduced, and also critically analysed by considering the enterprises and industries in UK, US, Germany and Japan. Firstly, this essay is going to introduce Chandler’s framework of analyse on managerial enterprise, and present how it contribute to German and US’s economic success by referring cases in different industries. This is followed by discussions on the weakness of Chandler’s analysis by referring to other authors’ view, so as to show to what extent managerial enterprises can be applied in corporations worldwide. In Chandler’s (1990) book scale and scope, he has analysed the largest 200 firms in manufacturing industry from each of the countries: UK, US and Germany, in order to prove that managerial enterprise has contributed to the firms’ economic success. Managerial enterprise has been defined...
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...Analysis 2.1 Describe the structure of the industry in which the company is located. 2.1.1 Analyse the competitive forces at work in the industry. (Are there new entrants to the industry? What is the relative power of suppliers, customers, and substitute products and services over prices?) 2.1.2 Determine the basis of competition. (Is the basis of competition quality, price or brand?) 2.1.3 Determine the direction and nature of change within the industry. (What are the direction and nature of change within the industry?) 2.1.4 Analyse how the industry is currently using information technology. (Is the company behind or ahead of the industry in its application of information systems?) (700 words)- Venithri 2.2 Describe the business, firm, and industry value chains for this particular company. 2.2.1 Determine how the company creates value for its customer. (How is the company creating value for the customer-through lower prices and transaction costs or higher quality? Are there any places in the value chain where the business could create more value for the customer and additional profit for the company?) 2.2 Determine how the company uses best practices to manage its business process. (Does the company understand and manage its business processes using the best practices available? Is it taking maximum advantage of supply chain management, customer relationship management, and enterprise systems?) 2.2.3 Analyse how the company leverages its core competencies...
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...Module 2: How would you define the industry to be analysed? Australian shopping centre Industry Is the industry Global? Not really Is the organisation mentioned Australian or overseas based? Australian Can you make any inferences about the industry value chain from the article? Build, Develop and manage shopping centres Are you able to identify the stage of the industry life cycle from the facts in the article? Shake out or decline * Sales have delcines by 0.3% pa in the last 5 years (Australian retailers) and expect to grow by the same amount in the next 5 years. Therefore profitability is not in clear decline, * Buyers have how power (information power, not dependent of traditioinal methods of shopping) * Suppliers have high power ( they can choose how where they want their shop or wether just online) * Australian has sturcuters in place whereby a few major players determine market trends and consumer offerings Remote Environment (eg PESTEL) What have been the remote environment trends that have driven the industry to its current state? Political – Not really mentioned - changes in tarrifs and taxes may shift balance of power Economic – Global Financial Crisis. Industry is very reliant on overall economic growth and prosperity. Social- Technological- Biggest Issue- Online reatialing has become bigger, information at buyers fingertips (literally), new technology emerging to provide cusomters with more of a service rather then just selling products...
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...Question 1. In 250 words, what role do the measurements of unemployment and inflation have on the management of an organization? Question 2. In 250 words, what analyses might a manager do to learn more about a specific company or industry? Please provide at least three examples. Question 3. In 250 words, what role does trade have, in relation to how an organization develops its strategic plans? 1. What role do the measurements of unemployment and inflation have on the management of an organization? Measurements of unemployment and inflation tells an organization what it should be doing to strategically price their products, and also acts as a means to control costs. The unemployment and inflation rates also indicate to an organization if they should consider increasing or decreasing hourly wage rates in an attempt to attract new employees. By evaluating the unemployment and inflation information in the current market, the company can also decide if whether or not the company should be acting to cut costs while remaining to compete effectively in an attempt to retain the skilled help currently employed. The inflation rates also can help a company determine if it appears, by analysis, that costs are going to continue to rise due to inflation, or if a reduction is in the near future, which will bring costs back down under control. There are two ways to measure inflation. The first is the Consumer Price Index, which is a measure of price changes in consumer’s goods such as...
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...and Homelessness: Fact Sheet #8 (1999) (citing Virginia Coalition for the Homeless, Shelter Provider Survey (1995) (out of print)). Hubbard, G. (2004). Strategic Management: Thinking, Analysis & Action (2nd edition), Frenchs Forest, Pearson Prentice Hall Johnson, G., Scholes, K. and Whittington, R. (2005). Exploring corporate strategy (7th edition), England: Pearson Education Limited Porter, M.E. (1980). Competitive Strategy. New York, The Free Press. Porter, M.E. (2008). The five competitive forces that shape strategy. Harvard Business Review. January 08, 1-19. Read more at Suite101: Using Porter's Five Forces to Analyse Non Profit Industry | Suite101.com http://www.suite101.com/content/using-porters-five-forces-to-analyse-non-profit-industry-a322704#ixzz1SZuLihAp Read more at Suite101: Using Porter's Five Forces to Analyse Non Profit Industry | Suite101.com...
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...business cases * ability to analyse the sources of firm's competitive advantage * ability to understand how to sustain the competitive advantage over time * ability to analyse the industry structure and evolution, and appraise its influence on profitability * ability to understand how to develop firm's resources and capabilities LEARNING OUTCOMES By the end of this course, students will have developed a more complex and nuanced view of competitive strategy. In particular students will be able to: * decode the complexity of firms' internal and external environments in terms of the strategic concepts and frameworks * analyse and appraise firm's strategic positioning, resources and industry structure * recognise key challenges in strategic analysis, strategy formation and implementation * critically evaluate the implications of strategic decisions on firm boundaries, future opportunities, and competition The group presentations are available for anyone to watch. The link is: * www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/wbs/central/elearning/projects/strategy_analysis_and_practice * The password is: SAP What is Strategy? The choice of a future for the company and of a way to reach that future, understood as the framework that coordinates, unifies and integrates the company’s decisions and actions. What is the difference between analyzing industry structure and analyzing market structure? ~the principle difference is that industry analysis, notably five forces...
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...University of Zululand Faculty of Commerce, Administration and Law Department of Business Management Assignment topic: Chapter Two summary Name: Mr T Mdletshe Student number: 200903233 Module code: CBM 503 Module Description: Advanced Aspects of Management THE ENVIRONMENT The environment is what gives their means of survival. It creates opportunities and its present threats. This chapter therefore provides frameworks for analysing changing and complex environments. These frameworks are organised in a series of ‘layers’. Within the environment there is Macro-environment, this is the highest-level layer that consist of broad environmental factors that impact to a greater or lesser extent on almost all organisations. Industry or Sector forms the next layer within this broad general environment; this is made up of organisations producing the same products and services. Competitors and markets are the most immediate layer surrounding organisations; here the concept of strategic groups can help to identify the different kinds of competitors. This chapter works through this three layers in turn. 1. THE MACRO-ENVIRONMENT The three concepts in this section are PESTEL, key drivers and scenarios these are interrelated tools for analysing the broad macro environment of an organisation 2.1. PESTEL framework The PESTEL framework categorise the environmental influences into six main types, namely: Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Environmental and Legal. Politics highlight...
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...Name: Chengxiao Tong Net ID: EK2429 Homework#1 Question1: The main objective of financial analyses is improving the valuation and performance of the firm by using the financial tools like financial ratios and financial statement analyses so that the manager can find the best solution for the corporate strategy. Using the ratio analyses is very common in the financial analyses. For example, we can judge a firm’s performance from the ROA and ROE. They show the profitability ability of the firms. The average ROA and ROE is 9%-10% and 10-11%. We can calculate the ROA and ROE from the financial statement from the firm which we want to do the analyses. Then the second step is comparing it with the average date or the average date in the industry. If they are lower than the average that means the firm is not running well recently. On the other hand, the higher means the firm has the better ability to make valuation. Question2. 1. T 2. F ROA=Net Income /Total Asset, which is one of the effective and important ratios for the financial statement. If the A company with the Net Income= 3M and Total Asset=300M, B company with the Net Income =0.3M and Total Asset= 3M, A company’s Net income is higher than B’s but B company’s performance is better than because B’s ROA is higher than A. Net Income is just one part of the financial statement. We cannot compare it with other companies only and make a judgment. 3. F Because of the information asymmetry, we should keep on updating...
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...Preliminary and incomplete Do not quote without authors’ permission How Do Venture Capitalists Choose Investments? by Steven N. Kaplan and Per Strömberg* First Draft: August 2000 This Draft: August 2000 Abstract In this paper, we consider how venture capitalists (VCs) choose or screen their investments by studying the contemporaneous investment analyses produced by 10 venture capital firms for investments in 42 portfolio companies. Consistent with most academic and anecdotal accounts, we find that it is common for VCs to consider explicitly the attractiveness of the opportunity – the market size, the strategy, the technology, customer adoption, and competition – the management team, and the deal terms. We also provide evidence on how the venture capitalists expect to monitor those investments. In at least half of the investments, the VC expects to play an important role in recruiting management. Finally, we complement the investment analyses with information from the financial contracts for the investments and consider the relation of the analyses with the contractual terms and with subsequent performance. In both analyses, the evidence suggests that the VC’s initial appraisal of the management team is important. Stronger management teams obtain more attractive contracts and are more likely to take their companies public. G24: Investment banking; Venture Capital; Brokerage G32: Financing policy; Capital and ownership structure * Graduate School of Business, University...
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...Porter's Five Forces is a strategic tool that is used among many managers today as to take important decisions. What this tool does is analyse components of the company's micro environment and with that information that it gathers will know where the strength or weaknesses of the company's competitive position lies. The analysis that is to be done is on supplier power, buyer power, competitive rivalry, threat of substitution and threat of new entry. Together these forces determine the profitability of the company because it is these forces that determine that prices which will be charged. By analysing supplier power we would be assessing how easy it would be for our suppliers to raise their prices, and hence lower our profits. Suppliers are the once that provide us with the raw materials that we need to produce our product and thus giving them some power over the firm. If the raw material that the supplier sells is scarce, and no easily found, then this would enhance the power that they have over the company and could mean that they could raise their prices when they would see fit. If we were to see competitive firms competing for the resource that the supplier supplies then this would put the supplier in even greater power over those firms. In our case, Mdina Glass uses several raw materials that can be found in many destinations. The main raw material that is used is sand, but not just any sand, silica sand. Other raw materials include limestone, soda ash and other...
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...Approach Note: The flow of the case will be as follows: Industry Analysis The Indian aviation sector can be traced back to early 1910s. However, prior to economic liberalization in 1991, the aviator industry was mainly controlled by the government. Post 1991, private airlines were allowed to provide air service under “Open Sky Policy”. Since then several private airlines have ventured in the aviation business and the air traffic has also seen rapid growth. This led to intense competition and only a few managed to survive. Today, Indian aviation industry is one of the fastest growing aviation industries in the world. It is dominated by low cost carriers. The civil aviation industry is likely to register a CAGR of 16% for period 2010-2013. Introduction to Indigo Along with the venture of several private players came the trend for low cost private airlines, which promised a huge market in the Indian air space. IndiGo, from InterGlobe Enterprises was one among the major private players who pitched in to capitalize the untapped market in 2006. From its incubation days, IndiGo concentrated on its low cost and efficient model of operations, which sustained its business in a big way during the troubled market situations and rising oil prices. Within the first year of its operations, IndiGo grew exponentially in all spheres. Starting with owning 15 aircraft's within 2 years, IndiGo replaced the state run carrier Air India as the top third airline in India. There was no looking back...
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...Abstract This report is to discuss about the reason why Yellowstone Cattle Bank (YCB) will be the prefer transaction. The first part will analyse which type of leverage buy out (LBO) YCB belong to, thus find out the ways to get success in this transaction theoretically. The second part of this report will elaborate and analyse the pros and cons by choosing YCB surround different steps of whole transaction. Define the type of deal in YCB transaction According to the information provided by the case and the definition of variety of Private Equity investments, in this case Yellowstone Cattle Bank is involved in both Platform roll–up and growth LBO. From the information that provided, YCB is operated in a fragmented and consolidated industry and the company have opportunities to reduce the operating cost at future, these two points illustrated that it is obvious YCB transaction is a platform roll–up type Private equity deal. However to investigate deeper of the company background the Private Equity firm can also rely on the operating income growth to achieve successful and However if the company need to achieve the growth continuously, Newport’s must have the assist from the CEO due to his industry familiarisation and the previous result that he got. It is barely impossible to find a new manager to have similar managing experience in this industry. When he was founding the company at the same time that amazon are just launch, it prove that his experience is un-doubtable. The evident...
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...UNIT 2: FINANCE IN THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY Get assignment help for this unit at assignmenthelpuk@yahoo.com LO1 Understand sources of funding and income generation for business and services industries Funding: sources eg retained profits, loans, banks, investors, small business schemes, franchise, hire purchase, sponsorship, lease schemes, creditors, debt factoring Income generation: methods eg sales, commission, sub-letting, sponsorship, grants, tracking mechanisms LO2 Understand business in terms of the elements of cost Elements of cost sales; materials; consumables; labour; overheads; capital; gross and net profits; discount costing Selling prices: product and service costing; formula to achieve a specific gross profit percentage; differential gross/net profit margins; marginal costing; effect of competition; freelance; commission; peak/off-peak trading Control of stock and cash: methods eg storage, purchasing, cash, security, reconciliation, stock-taking Taxation: income tax; Value Added Tax (VAT); corporation tax; schedules; rates; personal/capital allowances; post-tax profits, implications LO3 Be able to evaluate business accounts Trial balance: source; structure eg summary of accounts from sales, purchase and nominal ledgers Final accounts: types eg sole trader, partnerships, limited company, trading account, profit and loss account, balance sheet, adjustments for depreciation, accruals, prepayments, bad debt provision; format eg vertical, double-entry,...
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...business and services industry context Structure and operation of UK economy: market structure; perfect/imperfect competition; oligopoly; duopoly and monopoly; national/local factors; determinants of free-market economy Government economic policy: aims and influence; effects on employment policy; inflation; balance of payments; economic growth in industry sector; current issues Income, wealth, employment and occupational distribution: structure and composition of business and services industry; patterns of demand for business and services; the socioeconomic framework of demand; labour demand in industry sector Demographic trends: geographical pattern of labour demand; nature of employment in business and services industries; employment profiles eg age, sex Social structures: types of people employed; geographical variations; self-employed; unemployed; labour turnover; levels of pay Industry context: contexts eg hospitality and catering, hairdressing and beauty therapy, sports and leisure, travel and tourism LO2 Understand the effect of legal and political environments on business and service industries Structure, operation and influence of local government: structure; areas of control; limits of authority; interface with national government; powers affecting business and services industries Role and influence of the EU: history of the EU; relationship with national and local government; influence of the EU directly/indirectly on business and services industries Pressure groups:...
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