...Apple 7S Model try to explore the McKinsey 7S Framework as a part of case study, in which I have to analyze Telenor, the Norwegian telecommunication company. McKinsey and Company created this 7S framework in the early 1980s. It is well-known for analyzing organizations, for the factthat McKinsey and Company used it to analyze over 70 large organizations in 1980s. As described in the title, the framework has 7 variables: structure, strategy, systems, staff, skills, styleand shared value. These variables are categorized as soft and hard components. The hard componentsare strategy, structure and systems which are normally feasible and easy to identify in an organisationas they are normally well documented in reports such as strategy statements, corporate plans,organisational charts, etc . The remaining four ones are more difficult to comprehend. It is only possible to understand these aspects by studying the organisation very closely, normally throughobservations and/or through conducting interview (~Oh no …). Structure Structure is the skeleton, the form of shape, of organisations. It dictates the way it operates andperforms (Waterman et al., 1980). Traditionally, businesses are structured with divisions,departments and layers, in which the lower layers answer to upper layers. Today, the flat structure, where the work is done in teams of specialists, are more common. The idea is to make theorganisation more flexible and devolve the power by empowering the employees...
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...Comparing the BCG Matrix with the McKinsey 7S model 1 Structure STRUCTURE ........................................................................................................................................ 2 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................. 3 BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP (BCG) GROWTH MATRIX ................................................... 3 COMPOSITION AND FRAMEWORK ....................................................................................................... 3 APPLICATION ....................................................................................................................................... 3 EXAMPLE APPLICATION: JUWI ............................................................................................................ 3 WEAKNESSES AND STRENGTHS OF THE BCG MATRIX ....................................................................... 4 THE MCKINSEY 7S MODEL ............................................................................................................ 5 COMPOSITION AND FRAMEWORK ....................................................................................................... 5 APPLICATION ....................................................................................................................................... 7 EXAMPLE APPLICATION: JUWI ..............................................................
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...Why do organisations need change? Table of contents Introduction Why do organisations need change Environmental pressures for change The promotion of innovative change Innovation and change case examples Recommendations Conclusions Annex 1 - Defining the Four Antecedent Processors 3 4 6 10 11 14 16 17 2 Introduction This report sets out to explain why organisations need change. Faced with dynamic economies and increased competition, more and more companies are struggling to establish dominance, gain market share, and in some cases, ensure their survival. Management must understand that the key to competitive success is to change the way the organisation functions. To assist in the need to change proposition theoretical frameworks and tools will used with supporting case examples to better illustrate why organisations need change. 3 Why do organisations need change? Organisations need change for a wide range of reasons. Organisations are never perfect and should be constantly changing to make themselves into significantly better companies (Porter 2005 ; Thompson et al. 2010). For example working practices may need updating to gain efficiencies, staff skills may need improving, customer service response times could be shortened, customers demanding a product or service you do not currently provide, new technology may produce improvements in efficiency, costs could be reduced, innovative new products may be possible to increase revenues and profit. This is by no means an...
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...Profile ..................................................................................................................................... 3 3.0. Apple Distinctive Competencies ............................................................................................................ 4 3.1. The R-C Model.................................................................................................................................... 4 3.2. Building Blocks of Competitive Advantage ........................................................................................ 6 4.0. Nature of Competition in the PC industry ............................................................................................. 7 4.1. PC Industry Life Cycle ......................................................................................................................... 7 4.2. Porters 5 Forces ................................................................................................................................. 8 5.0. Apple Sustainable Competitive Advantage.......................................................................................... 10 5.1. Value Chain ...................................................................................................................................... 10 5.2. New McKinsey 7S Model ................................................................................................................. 11 5.3. SWOT...................
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...Executive Summary JB Hi-Fi is an entertainment and consumer electronics chain store, providing a range of branded home electronic products and music records. The electronic industry is experiencing growth over the last few years mainly due to the introduction of a handful of electronic gadget which captures the attention of consumer. However, this growth focused on a few products such as smart phones, tablet, and music player while the rest of the products are slowing in terms of growth. Despite competing in a broad market environment, JB Hi-Fi is able to outperform its competitor and placed them well ahead in the market gaining a large marker share. JB Hi-Fi tries to achieve its objectives of expanding its market share by adopting 3 strategies that taps on the current retailing trend. Although its strategy matches with the change in its external environment, there are several issues that affect the implementation phase of its strategic management. This issues need to be addressed in order to successfully implement its strategies. Its current strategy is working in the short run despite experiencing issue with its implementation phase. This is reflected by JB’s current performance as they are experiencing growth even in a turbulent year in 2011. Overall, beside a few issue with its implementation phase, JB Hi-Fi is working effectively towards its future strategy as well as objective. The retail industry is ever-changing and thus, appropriate strategies have to be constantly...
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...Evolution C. Smartphones D. Consumers Analysis III. APPLE IPHONE A. Executive Summary B. Life Cycle Analysis C. PESTEL Analysis D. SWOT Analysis E. Porter Five Forces Completion Theory Model F. McKinsey 7S Framework IV. REFERENCES Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL; formerly Apple Computer, Inc.) is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. Apple software includes the Mac OS X operating system; the iTunes media browser; the iLife suite of multimedia and creativity software; the iWork suite of productivity software; Aperture, a professional photography package; Final Cut Studio, a suite of professional audio and film-industry software products; Logic Studio, a suite of music production tools; the Safari web browser; and iOS, a mobile operating system. As of July 2011, the company operates 357 retail stores in ten countries, and an online store where hardware and software products are sold. As of September 2011, Apple has recently been the largest publicly traded company in the world by market capitalization, and the largest technology company in the world by revenue and profit Established on April 1, 1976 in Cupertino, California, and incorporated January 3, 1977, the company was previously named Apple Computer, Inc., for its first 30 years, but removed the...
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...revenue of Lenovo is keeping increasing in a steady trend and the EBITDA revenue in 2014 has reached more than US$ 1365 billion (see figure below). + financial situation +competitor (benchmark) The current success will contribute to its strategic management and strong strategic execution as well. This report will give a full and deep analysis about its strategic management. Firstly, a current situation about the strategic analysis, strategic directions and objectives will be introduced in the beginning part of the report. The key broad business-level and international strategies of the company will be presented in the following. The detail strategic implementation of chosen strategy will be explained as a further analysis with McKinsey 7s model and BCG matrix. Based on the strategic analysis, the key issues during the process of strategic implementation and the specific evaluation will be assessed from the angle of the consultant through some related theories of the balanced score. Some conclusion and recommendations will be provided according to the analysis of the current strategic situation of Lenovo. [pic] [pic]2. Strategic analysis 2.1 External environment analysis The manager plan, evaluate and implement organizational strategies, even those with major long-term resource commitment implications are make decision through analysis the environment(v,p.149). 2.1.1 General environment The acquisition of IBM had resulting Lenovo has stronger economic...
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...Disney: Diagnosing the Change HRM-587 Managing Organizational Change August 3rd, 2014 Introduction: Choosing a Diagnostic Model The diagnostic model I have chosen to discuss to analyze Disney and several of the companies acquired throughout the years such as Pixar, Marvel, and LucasFilm’s LTD for this assignment is the 7-S Framework model. I will also briefly discuss the many changes that Disney has implemented to improve the customer viewing as well as interactive experiences at their many new, current theme parks, and vacation destinations throughout the world. The 7-S model developed by McKinsey and Company consultants Robert Waterman Jr., Tom Peters, and Julien Phillips (Palmer, Dunford, Akin, 2009). The 7-S model may be used in a variety of situations where an alignment perspective is useful, for example, to help 1) improve the performance of the company, 2) examine the likely effects of future changes within a company, 3) align departments and processes during a merger or acquisition, 4) determine how best to implement a proposed strategy (Manktelow, J. 2014). The 7-S model is characterized by seven categories: Structure, strategy, systems, style, staff, skills, and superordinate goals (Palmer et al., 2009). The structure of the company was set and solidified by Walt Disney himself. He wanted to create something brilliant and diversified. This idea would be able to change through the years and remain a competitive force in the industry. Throughout Walt Disney’s...
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...performance ............................................................................................................ 1 History of the company.......................................................................................................................... 1 Target Market and Competitors ............................................................................................................ 1 Going Global..................................................................................................................................................... 2 Internal Analysis ........................................................................................................................................................ 3 Mckinsey 7S Framework ................................................................................................................................. 3 External...
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...How to write a Good Value Chain Analysis The ability of a company to understand its own capabilities and the needs of the customers is crucial for a competitive strategy to be successful. The profitability of a firm depends to a large extent on how effectively it manages the various activities in the value chain, such that the price that the customer is willing to pay for the company’s products and services exceeds the relative costs of the value chain activities. It is important to bear in mind that while the value chain analysis may appear as simple in theory, it is quite time-consuming in practice. The logic and validity of the proven technique of value chain analysis has been rigorously tested, therefore, it does not require the user to have the same in-depth knowledge as the originator of the model (Macmillan et al, 2000). The first step in conducting the value chain analysis is to break down the key activities of the company according to the activities entailed in the framework. The next step is to assess the potential for adding value through the means of cost advantage or differentiation. Finally, it is imperative for the analyst to determine strategies that focus on those activities that would enable the company to attain sustainable competitive advantage. It is important for analysts to remember to use the value chain as a simple checklist to analyse each activity in the business with some depth (Pearson, 1999). The value chain should be analysed with the core competence...
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...| Strategic Analysis of JB Hi-Fi | | Yunyi FENG - 3133785; Junxi MAI - 3138621; Hon Sze CHAN - 3121268 2012-10-25 | Executive Summary JB Hi-Fi Limited provides a large range of consumer electronics and CDs and DVDs. In order to capture the value from its customers, JB is focus on three basic strategies: expansion of online sales, expansion of stores and development of its digital market. To achieve the primary objective of creating the best value for its shareholders, JB maintains low cost of doing business through bulk purchase and economies of scales. To enlarge its market shares within the electronic retails market, JB Hi-Fi needs to create a flexible strategy against the turbulent environment. During this year, JB is currently operating in an environment with highly dynamic, highly complex and a relatively low unpredictable. However, it is able to match its strategies with the environmental changes, under regulated by some regulations and legislations. Since JB Hi-Fi is continually expanding its existing market through online sales by the same products, it is put into the market penetration strategy. However, there are some issues occurred when JB implementing its strategies, such as the fluctuation of currency and operating in a high gearing ratio. To address these issues, JB must be aware of a full environmental change, for instance, the trend of increasing online sales. JB Hi-Fi needs to solve them in a short term, in order to capture the value...
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...COURSE PROJECT: MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE (HRM 587) GUIDED BY: MISS SCHANTA REOAUX-SMITH Name: Manali Shah Student ID: D40000679 ABSTRACT:- The purpose of this project is to deliver information about two different companies and discuss the changes the companies had in last few years. Such information will help us in analysing the changes the company went through which helped the company to grow or which made it go in loss. Also by thorough analysis and detailed review a comparison, the project demands a comparison of the change in two different companies. This way the project will help us to understand the concept of the course “Managing Organizational Changes“ NAME OF THE COMPANIES:- The companies that will be discussed in this project are: 1. Nokia 2. Samsung WHY DO I FIND THIS TOPIC INTERESTING? The project emphasize in learning the organizational changes and analysing the impact they create in the development of their companies. Nokia and Samsung mobiles are well known world-wide. But what I find interesting is what made these companies bigger. Nokia, as we all know was a leading mobile company, has lost its position in the market. Samsung, which was well known as an electronics and home appliance company, catches up with Nokia in the mobile market. So the study of the change these organizations implemented in their company is an interesting thing to learn. And also the study of comparison...
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...2013 Organizational Change Management By Seyed Jafar Payandeh College of London, UCK Tutor: Professor Kay Crewe Student of PGDip in Strategic Management and Leadership Final assignment submission date: 07/02/2013 Table of Content Subject Page Task 1…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...2 1.1 Three models of strategic change…………………………………………………………………………………………...2 1.2 Evaluating the relevance of the models in organizations in current economy……………………....…6 1.3 Assessing the value of strategic intervention techniques in organizations……………………………….7 Task 2…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...8 2.1 Examining the need for strategic change within Tesco…………………………………………………………..…8 2.2 Assessing the factors that driving the need for change within Tesco………………………………………..8 2.3 Assessing the resource implications of an organization not responding to a changing market..9 Task 3………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….10 3.1 Develop systems to involve stakeholders in the planning of changing and show how you would evaluate these systems……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….10 2.2 Develop a change management strategy with stakeholders and how you would create a strategy for managing resistance to change…………………………………………………………………………………11 Task 4………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….14 4.1 Three models of strategic change………………………………………………………………………………………….14 4.2 Evaluating the relevance of the models...
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...The article focuses on the main aspects of Value chain analysis. The activities entailed in the framework are discussed in detail, with respect to competitive strategies and value to the customer. The article includes tips for students and analysts on how to write a good Value chain analysis for a firm. Moreover, sources of findings information for value chain analysis have been discussed. The limitations of Value Chain analysis as a model have also been discussed. Introduction The value chain approach was developed by Michael Porter in the 1980s in his book “Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance” (Porter, 1985). The concept of value added, in the form of the value chain, can be utilised to develop an organisation’s sustainable competitive advantage in the business arena of the 21st C. All organisations consist of activities that link together to develop the value of the business, and together these activities form the organisation’s value chain. Such activities may include purchasing activities, manufacturing the products, distribution and marketing of the company’s products and activities (Lynch, 2003). The value chain framework has been used as a powerful analysis tool for the strategic planning of an organisation for nearly two decades. The aim of the value chain framework is to maximise value creation while minimising costs (www.wikipedia.org). Main aspects of Value Chain AnalysisValue chain analysis is a powerful tool for managers to identify...
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...Papers on Value chain analysis; Reports on Different Companies The article focuses on the main aspects of Value chain analysis. The activities entailed in the framework are discussed in detail, with respect to competitive strategies and value to the customer. The article includes tips for students and analysts on how to write a good Value chain analysis for a firm. Moreover, sources of findings information for value chain analysis have been discussed. The limitations of Value Chain analysis as a model have also been discussed. Introduction The value chain approach was developed by Michael Porter in the 1980s in his book “Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance” (Porter, 1985). The concept of value added, in the form of the value chain, can be utilised to develop an organisation’s sustainable competitive advantage in the business arena of the 21st C. All organisations consist of activities that link together to develop the value of the business, and together these activities form the organisation’s value chain. Such activities may include purchasing activities, manufacturing the products, distribution and marketing of the company’s products and activities (Lynch, 2003). The value chain framework has been used as a powerful analysis tool for the strategic planning of an organisation for nearly two decades. The aim of the value chain framework is to maximise value creation while minimising costs (www.wikipedia.org). Main aspects of Value Chain Analysis ...
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