...REPORT ON INDIAN POWER CABLES INDUSTRY 2011 BIG STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS MAY, 2011 3, Hindustan Kohinoor Complex, L.B.S Road, Vikhroli (W), 400 083 Tel 022 67427821-29 URL: www.big-consultants.com CONTENTS 1. Indian Economic Overview 2. Power Cable Industry Overview 3. Understanding Power Cable – Product & User Industry Overview 4. Major Players in Power Cable Industry 5. About BIG Strategic Management Consultants BiG Strategic Management Consultants 2 India is among the top 15 countries in the global economy in terms of GDP at current prices. INDIAN ECONOMIC SCENARIO q Indian economy has 20.0 18.0 16.0 14.0 12.0 10.0 8.0 6.0 4.0 2.0 0.0 2007 GDP growth Source: Indian Economic Survey 2010-11 emerged with remarkable 17 15 15 13 9.6 6.5 4.8 14 rapidity from the slowdown caused by the global financial crisis 2007-09. q All the advanced economies faced deep 9.3 8.0 6.8 8.0 9.4 8.6 economic crisis , as the world GDP dropped 2009. q The signs of recovery have by 1.3% in 3.6 been witnessed from fourth quarter of 2010. q The Indian economy which 2008 2009 PCI growth 2010 2011 has also been impacted by the global turmoil, posted a growth of 8.6% in FY 2010-11. Infla:on (WPI) BiG Strategic...
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...with all the changes in technology, buyers bargaining power has increased greatly. With the emergence of companies like Amazon.com and online stores like Half Price Books.com (where you can buy school books or any book) university book stores and big chain stores now have to compete buy price. Stores like Barnes & Noble have to compete buy price because now-a-days all you have to do is do a Google search of whatever book you what to buy and the search will come up with thousands of hits of people wanting to sell you that book. Also with devices like the kindle, and iPad, readers can buy eBooks and download them rite to that device for a discounted price. Stores that have already adopted the new way of buying and reading books such as Amazon will survive a downfall in actual published books because there philosophy has always been online and competitive. Barnes & Noble over the last few years has started to do more on-line sales and they specialize in sales of eBooks for the Nook, which Barnes & Noble came up with to compete with other e-readers. There are two types of buyer power. The first is related to the customer’s price sensitivity. If each brand of a product is similar to all the others, then the buyer will base the purchase decision mainly on price. This will increase the competitive rivalry, resulting in lower prices, and lower profitability. The other type of buyer power relates to negotiating power. Larger buyers like Barnes & Noble tend to have more...
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...Climate change has meant a renewed interest in nuclear power as a means of providing for the world’s energy needs. Discuss the implications for Australia’s mining industry? Australia is the world’s largest coal exporter and has the second largest deposit of coal in the world. Although the world is currently in the throes of a global financial crisis, Australia’s economy one of the few in the developed world to stay afloat has been buoyed considerably by its exports industry, particularly that of coal. Despite Australia’s promise to reduce carbon emissions by 5% in accordance with its commitment to the Kyoto protocol, the coal industry has been lucky enough to avoid almost all penalties that other industries are set to receive under the proposed carbon emission trading scheme . This combined with Australia continuing to stall further international discussions on combating climate change has earned Australia the reputation of “A nation of climate sinners” . It is obvious that despite a lot of rhetoric on the importance of addressing climate change, the Australian government is not willing to commit to solving the global challenge of climate change to an appreciable degree while such a large part of the Australian economy is at stake. For the Australian government to fully commit to its promises on combating climate change, a way to free the Australian economy of its coal dependence needs to be found. The world is in a new era of energy production where it is no longer a question...
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...Alliant Energy is an electrical power company that puts significant emphasis on diversity. It is committed to “creating a workplace that welcomes an individual’s talents, ideas and perspectives”. Alliant believes that by having a diverse workforce they will have more opportunities to succeed. Diversity will benefit this company by providing numerous sources of information for the use of global and social knowledge; positive perception from the media as diversity is a big issue in our world today and ensuring they have fair opportunities in the marketplace. Having diversity in the workplace brings a source of new knowledge, creativity and understanding to a business that makes it unique and brings the benefit of a worldlier point of view. It is important for an organization to recognize the potential of people of differing cultures, genders and lifestyles and the positive effect it can have. For example having an employee from a certain culture can educate a company on how to do business and negotiate with certain countries of the same culture. In a nation of so many different races and backgrounds it is important for a company to be able to cater to all the wants and needs of such a diverse community. The best way to do so is to have a diverse team of employees and managers working together to communicate, teach and understand each other and work on bringing the best service possible to a given market. Alliant understands these concepts and that is why it so committed to workforce...
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...Utilities Industry: ATCO Power in South Africa BU606 – Economics Group 7 Amanda Downey - 125824690 Ahmed Youssef - 135819900 Alex Zorzitto - 135823380 Tom Vandemoortele - 135824330 Wafik Moussa - 135808970 Word Count = 2,832 (including titles and citations) Contents 1.0 Executive Summary 3 2.0 Electrical Power Utilities Industry in South Africa 4 2.1 Why South Africa? 4 2.2 Environmental Analysis 4 2.2.1 Social Economic and Political Considerations 4 2.2.2 Macroeconomic Trends 5 2.2.3 Aspects of International Trade/Investment 5 2.2.4 Competition Analysis 6 2.2.5 Market Structure and Firm Entry 6 3.0 Opportunity, Issues and Recommended Strategy 7 3.1 Opportunity Description 7 3.2 ATCO Power Current Strategy: Strengths and Weaknesses 7 3.3 Risk Factors in South African Market 8 3.4 Financial Analysis 8 3.5 Recommended Strategy and Entry Mode 9 4.0 Implementation Plan 9 4.1 Immediate Action Plan: 6 Month 9 4.2 Short Term: 1 Year 10 4.3 Long Term 10 4.4 Contingency Plan 10 5.0 References 11 6.0 Exhibits 13 1.0 Executive Summary ATCO Power is yearning to achieve its global expansion goal and establish itself as an industry leading, reliable and environmentally responsible provider of cost-effective solutions for customers and partners worldwide. In search for an investment opportunity in the underserved market in Africa potential target countries were identified based on electricity demand growth trends, production...
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...Regulated Electricity Utility Industry The electric utility industry generates, transmits and delivers electrical power to consumers, businesses and governments. Today there are three primary business structures in the regulated electrical utility industry—public companies owned by shareholders, municipally owned companies, and those owned and operated by the federal government. Shareholder owned companies are the largest group, providing half of all electricity in the United States. Burning fossil fuels to power steam turbines produces over half of electricity consumed today.1 Other generation methods include harvesting the power of nuclear reactions to power turbines and, increasingly, renewable methods such as wind or water-powered generation. Unlike most manufactured products electricity cannot be stored, so a complex and delicate fabric of transmission systems (know as the power grid) exists to deliver power when and where it is needed. Many firms involved in the generation of power are also involved in its transmission and sale to end-users, making vertical integration commonplace within the industry. This end-to-end integration, as well as end users’ dependence on electricity, has led to historically strict government control of the industry. The most significant piece of regulation in the last century was known as the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 also known as PUHCA. The act had a profound effect on the regulated electrical industry. First, and most importantly...
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...Resolving China’s Power Shortage(c) Shanghai is China’s financial and business hub. In late July 2004, with daytime temperatures reaching 37 degrees Celsius, the city’s electricity consumption surged to a weekly record of 14.35 million kilowatt hours. The city authorities resorted to asking 2,100 businesses to operate at night, and a further 3,000 others to adjust operating hours. Even high-profile multinational companies were not spared. General Motors and Volkswagen were ordered to suspend production for more than a week each. Shanghai Volkswagen spokesman Lu Jun explained, “It's a rule. We have to cut power for 10 days … We’ve cut power and so have had to stop production. It's all over Shanghai”.1 The Shanghai episode mirrored a nationwide shortage of electric power. In Beijing, on July 22, 2004, the Municipal Power Supply Bureau imposed the capital’s first brownout of the year, disrupting supply to suburban areas for 47 minutes in the afternoon. The Chinese government has certainly been working tirelessly to resolve the power crisis. Thermal coal is the principal fuel used to generate electric power in China. In July, Premier Wen Jiabao exhorted, “Railway departments should do their utmost for the transport of coal for electricity generation”.2 The Ministry of Railways increased train speed and freight loads, and allocated 90% of freight capacity to transport key materials. In the first half of 2004, Chinese railways shipped 480 million tons of coal,...
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...Performance Proven Solutions for Power Generation Industries Leading generation organizations rely on Ventyx solutions to improve asset and workforce performance and financial results. 48 of the top 50 North American power generators use Ventyx solutions 9 of the top 10 European power generators use Ventyx Solutions 19 of the top 20 nuclear operators in North America measured by the highest capacity factor use Ventyx solutions 49 of the top 50 "Fortune 1000" energy companies use a Ventyx solution 4 of the top 5 European utilities use a Ventyx solution 70% of North American nuclear generators use a Ventyx solution Ventyx provides the asset management, portfolio planning and optimization tools for regulated and merchant power generation organizations. Ventyx solutions operate individually to answer strategic needs, or together as integrated solutions. Generation organizations trust Ventyx solutions to improve their performance and overcome strategic challenges, including: Meeting Energy Supply Operational Efficiency Trading and Risk Management Workforce Productivity Tightening Regulatory & Safety Compliance Service Reliability Environmental Citizenship Generation Portfolio Optimization Aging Assets Aging Workforce Meeting New Growth Requirements Fuel Supply Volatility Resource Planning Constraints Standardize and Streamline Asset Management Our best-of-breed Asset Suite allows you to standardize and streamline your work processes to...
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...application developers and digital media professionals, as well as their management in marketing departments and agencies, companies and publishers. The Digital Marketing segment provides solutions and services for how digital advertising and marketing are created, managed, executed, measured and optimized. Its customers include digital marketers, advertisers, publishers, merchandisers, web analysts, chief marketing officers and chief revenue officers. The Print & Publishing segment addresses diverse publishing needs of technical and business publishing, and OEM printing businesses. Adobe was founded by Charles M. Geschke and John E. Warnock in December 1982 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA. Brief profile of American electric power American Electric Power Company, Inc. (AEP) is a utility holding company that owns, directly or indirectly, all of the outstanding common stock of its public utility subsidiaries and varying percentages of other subsidiaries. The service areas of AEP’s public...
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...Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy In order for a company to understand the structure of its industry, awareness of the five forces can help. The first force is the Threat of Entry, where new entrants to an industry bring new capacity and a desire to gain market share that put pressure on prices, cost and rate of investment necessary to compete. New entrants shake up competition, where when threat is high, incumbents must either hold down prices or boost investment. The second force is the Power of Suppliers, where powerful suppliers capture more of the value for themselves by charging higher prices, limiting quality or services or shifting cost to industry participants. The power of suppliers can squeeze profitability out of an industry that is unable to pass on cost increases in its own prices. Third is the Power of Buyers, where powerful customers can capture more value by forcing down prices, demanding better quality or more service. Powerful customers play industry participants off against each other which challenges their profitability. Fourth is the Threat of Substitutes, where substitutes perform the same or similar functions as an industry’s product by a different means. When threat of substitutes is high, industry profitability and growth potential suffers. Last is the Rivalry among Existing Competitors, where high rivalry limits the profitability of an industry but rivalry depends on the intensity with which the companies compete and the basis of which they compete...
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...CHAPMAN Luotang Power: Variances Explained Introduction As soon as Tan Min Yi received the 2011 Report of Operations for the Luotang Power Company, he called company Controller Fiona Zhu and Sales Manager Ricky Wang into his office to discuss the results. Tan was general manager of the Luotang Power Company, a 600 Mega Watt (“MW”)1 coalfired power plant, located in Hubei Province, China. He was scheduled to make a presentation to the Board of Directors of his parent company, China Hua Tong Power (“HT Power”), the following week about the most recent results and was concerned about their reaction to the disappointing results.2 Tan knew his company had performed well during the year. Both plant availability3 and fuel economy had improved over the previous year. Additionally the plant’s primary customer, the Hubei Provincial Power Company (“HPPC”), had met its contractual electricity purchase obligations for the year. However, there had been limited opportunity to sell energy above the contractual minimum, either to HPPC or others. Still, Tan felt that these factors were outside his control. His team had performed well—it just didn’t show up in the financial results. The scheduled presentation to the Board was important for two reasons. First, HT Power was considering a 2,000 MW expansion at Luotang. However, on a more personal note for Tan, he had been general manager of Luotang since 2002, and he hoped it would be time for a promotion. He hoped that HT Power would consider him...
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...attractiveness of the industry in which a given company is embedded based on a structural analysis of the industry. In this stage, called the five forces framework, five forces that influence industry attractiveness are identified, as well as the factors (e.g., number of competitors, size of competitors, capital requirements) that determine the intensity of each force and therefore the cumulative intensity of the five forces. The purpose of the five forces framework is to relate the degree (or intensity) of competition in a given industry, as qualitatively measured by the combined strength (or intensity) of five forces, to the attractiveness of the industry, defined as its ability to sustain profitability. Based on the structural analysis, a particular company may be in a very attractive industry (e.g., pharmaceuticals) or in an unattractive industry (e.g., steel). However, though a firm exists in an unattractive industry, it can still be highly profitable by choosing the proper competitive position within the industry, for example, e.g., a mini-mill such as Nucor in the steel industry in the nineteen-eighties. The second stage of strategy creation addresses the competitive strategy available to the firm in order to achieve a strong competitive position. Ideally, a firm would want to be in a very attractive industry (e.g., pharmaceuticals) and have a strong competitive position (e.g., large pharmaceutical firms such as Smith Klein or Glaxo) within the industry. The five forces...
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...online presence) Standard Aero http://www.standardaero.com/ ii. The product(s) or service(s) the organization provides: Standard Aero provides maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) services in the aerospace industry. iii. The target market of the organization’s products or services: Standard Aero’s target market for their services include business and commercial aviation, military, and industrial power customers around the world. b. Standard aero is using a business unit strategy of differentiation to distinguish themselves from their competitors. This can be seen in their mission to be “the most trusted service partner and where custom solutions come standard”. Differentiation is based on the ability to distinguish a product or service from its competitors, and having been in business for over 100 years, Standard Aero has made a name for itself and the quality of its services. They have a higher quality of work compared to discounted cost leadership products, and their differentiation has made it so that their customers are willing to pay higher prices for the quality of the services that they provide. c. Porter’s Five forces in relation to Standard Aero can be viewed as follows: New entrants – It is difficult for new companies to enter the industry due to high capital requirement on facilities, testing, and repair equipment. There are also government regulations in place for safety as well as controlled goods regulations for the avionics equipment that place...
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...1 Identify the industry, product segments and value chain. Industry: PFL is a leading manufacturer in Australia's branded frozen food industry. Intention of expansion overseas: less than 1% export sales. Move to US market with Four'N Twenty products. Developed halal products in its Four'N Twenty range with intention of growing sales in Asia. product segments: Frozen savoury, Dessert, Fruit products customer segments: retailers (supermarkets), foodservice outlets (sporting venues or cafes), Petrol and Convenience Channel (Reliance BP sites) oversease markets: US market, Asia market Value chain: PFL doesn't sell directly to consumers. 2 What is the current life cycle position of the industry? (industry life cycle, and demonstrate why?) Maturity stage : The case mentioned that PFL has already achieved leadership in serveral markets. Besides, serveral other markets are very competitive. In addition, PFL is continuing to pursue conversion cost reduction, which is another character of maturity stage. So we conclude that this industry is in maturity stage. What are the key issues that will affect historical/future industry growth? What is their likely impact and the overall assessment of the industry’s future growth? (TEMPLES) Technology + The technology development, especially information systems and manufacuturing systems, will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of this industry by enabling economies of scale and scope. So the smaller compititors who doesn't have...
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...agenda. China wants to be rich and thus powerful. It certainly follows a clear-cut strategy already in place for over 30 years. This helps increase its prestige and power. Its performance in the field of “new” international agenda items (direct human, environment, etc.) lags behind its economic might. China will continue to be the manufacturing plant of the industrial world for many years. Investment in China will be driven primarily by the creation of local infrastructure focused on trade for export markets, whilst Chinese capital markets will still remain inchoate for many years. India wants to be powerful and hence enjoy global prestige. Its competitive edge resides in low labor costs (wages) in certain sectors (textiles, outsourcing, information technology). It has no coherent project of prosperity. Investment will continue to flow from companies wishing to reduce their labor and other production costs by “offshoring” their plant, call-center or web-center operations. Investment will be strong in areas of value-added products, such as chemicals, software and other IT-related industries, but on an insufficient scale to make it boom across all socioeconomic structures. Moreover, capital markets will remain incipient when compared to international counterparts. Russia wants power, prosperity and prestige, but it is uncertain on how to get it. Sometimes it talks and behaves as a superpower. The population of scientists is immense. The Europeanization...
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