...Apple Inc Strategic Recommendations for the Future Apple Inc is a globally respected business organisation and is an acknowledged pioneer in its areas of operations in the technology sector. Primarily a manufacturer and marketer of personal computers and peripherals, software and networking solutions, the company’s product line includes the Macintosh range of desktop and notebook PCs, the Mac OS X operating system, the IPod digital music player, the ITunes music store, the IPhone, the IPad tablet, the X Serve G5 servers and X Serve storage products (Apple Computer Inc, 2011, p 1). The company sells its products through its chain of retail stores, third party wholesalers and online channels. The company’s main markets are in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Japan and South East Asia. It also has a growing presence in China and India (Apple Computer Inc, 2011, p 2). Apple’s vision statement is elaborated as “man is the creator of change in this world. As such he should be above systems and structures and not subordinate to them”. The company’s mission statement is as under: “Apple is committed to bringing the best personal computing experience to students, educators, creative professionals and consumers around the world through its innovative hardware, software and internet offerings”. (Masi, 2009, p 2) 2. External Analysis 2.1. Environmental Analysis Apple Inc is one of the largest of global corporations in terms of market capitalisation and has important products...
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...Situation analysis and strategic recommendations of BP After oil spill disaster in USA Table of content: Introduction 3 Executive Summary 3 Approaches 3 Background of BP 3 BP in USA 3 PESTEL analysis of BP in USA 4 Political Environment 4 Economic Environment 5 Socio-cultural Environment 6 Technological Environment 7 Legal Environment 7 Environmental Analysis 8 Summary 8 SWOT Analysis of BP 8 Strengths 9 Weaknesses 9 Opportunities 10 Threats 11 Summary 11 Strategic Recommendations 11 Porter’s Generic Competitive Strategy 11 Ansoff Model 12 Conclusion: 13 References & Bibliography: 15 Appendix: 17 Introduction: As the global business environment is turbulent and dynamic every business organisation should adopt their strategy with the changing business conditions and conduct external and internal analysis on regular basis to cope up with the changing environment. This paper will analyse the overall situation of BP in USA after the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. The oil spill creates a new condition for their operation in USA and requires considerable and serious change in the strategic decision making and positioning of the company. Executive Summary: This paper will start with a brief background of BP. A PESTEL analysis...
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...Strategic recommendation for XYZ Pharmaceutical Inc. As stated in previous assignments the implementation and vast application of information technology in present day business has become an expected standard. A business that does not utilize the web at even the lowest level is at a huge disadvantage. At a minimum, a small town retail operator would enjoy increased sales by simply having an informational website to answer the customers’ basic questions. Where is the business, what are the hours, what is offered et cetera. Moving forward and expanding further from the low-level perspective of the use of information technology and offer strategic recommendations to the bio-technology pharmaceutical operations of XYZ Pharmaceutical Inc. Included in the recommendation will be training, human resources, and regulatory considerations. In a past analysis of Zephyr Teachout’s article “Will the Web Kill Colleges?” it was concluded that the Chaffee’s argument regarding the future minimization or extinction of the traditional brick and mortar college is a very real possibility. Furthermore, He explains the increasing utilization of online based college courses and in fact many course becoming hard to attend except in an online environment. Teachout’s argument regarding the proliferation of online college is supported with several examples. Teachout compares online college to newspapers concerning how information is shared. Why would a student commute or even move to attend class when...
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...I. Strategic Recommendations A. Pause Strategy (CI#1, 2, 3): Carnival Corp has been known for health and safety records, a key component in consumer decision-making in the cruise industry. In order to begin improvements, a pause strategy needs to be utilized to allow the company to take a step back from aggressive growth and focus more towards consumer necessities. Many complaints stem from issues like sanitization of rooms, quality of food, and ship malfunctions. Keying in on ship maintenance, restoration, and efficiency will significantly decrease the chance of malfunctions. While implementing more stringent and attentive guidelines towards guest amenities and conditions of food storage/quality to help increase consumer appeal. Pros * Allows focus towards proactive improvement of overall health and safety environment * Opportunity to address customer complaints with effectiveness * Better consumer reports from changes * Proliferation of trust and support from consumers * Reduction of direct costs from efficiency of improvements/upgrades Cons * Overall growth will be put on hold * Hard to estimate overall initial costs of improvements * Costs associated with implementation process * Strategy is temporary; Follow-up plan must be ready B. Marketing Strategy (CI#1, 2): Carnival Corporation & PLC is a global cruise company, consisting of some of the industries most recognized brands. In order to reach the different consumer...
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...“What recommendations do you propose for the strategic development of the University of East Anglia in existing and new markets from now to 2018?” 12th Nov 2009 INTRODUCTION With the rapid socio-economic development and national policies tilt on education, strategic management at the university became increasingly important. Some schools use strategic management in facing the challenges and catch the opportunities brought by environmental changes to earn improvements and thus to achieve a historic leap forward. Competition exists in every field not only in similar businesses, but also in other industries that offering competing products or services (Stacey 2007). The only way to surge ahead of competitors is to have new approaches in the competition. Strategic management principles of the institution must be innovative and creative. It is important because all the organizations are trying to employ traditional methods and this can mean a closer competition level. This essay will discuss the main strategies in existing and new markets of the University of East Anglia under the current situation of UEA in the whole UK educational industry. New market space New market space is the creation or reinvention of existing products in such a way that it must appeal to the existing customers as well as a whole new group of customers. The products offered must be unique in every aspect and it should make the organization...
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...York Library Journals and Magazines: HR, Management, & Organizational Behaviour All of the following journals are available in print and/or electronic format from the York University Libraries. Electronic journals are available only to current York University students, faculty and staff. In order to access the journals online from off-campus locations, you will need to login with your Passport York ID or an active library card i.e. YU Card and PIN. • Human Resource Management and Organizational Behaviour Titles • Industrial Relations Titles • Related Journals Human Resource Management and Organizational Behaviour Titles Academy of Management Executive Academy of Management Journal Also available in print: v.48, 2005 - Bronfman Business Library. Call no.: HF 5001 A24, non-circulating. Freely available E-journal. Academy of Management Learning & Education Also available in print: v.5, 2006 - Bronfman Business Library. Call no.: HD 30.4 A28, non-circulating. Freely available E-journal. Academy of Management Proceedings Academy of Management Review Also available in print: v.30, 2005 - Bronfman Business Library. Call no.: HF 5001 A25, non-circulating. Freely available E-journal. Across the Board Also available in print: v.32, 1995 - v.43, no.4, 2006. In stacks; v.13, no.10, 1976 - v.31, 1994. In storage. Bronfman Business Library. Call no.: HC 101 N3 Administrative Science Quarterly Also available in print: v.53, 2008 – Frost Library...
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...Strategic Analysis Report Guidelines Applied Strategy Inc. – Fall 2011 Company: Tesla Motors, Inc. (Tesla) Overall Objective: To analyze Tesla’s current operations and provide strategic recommendations to the board of directors of Tesla in order to answer how to protect and strengthen a current competitive advantage, or to create a new competitive advantage and then protect and strengthen it. The recommendations should be creative, should leverage Tesla’s current strengths and/or address Tesla’s biggest weakness, and should be supported with sound financial analysis and justification. Refer to the financial analysis provided by Paul Gregg, ASI’s CFO, and use this as your financial model for all analysis and projections. Introduction (up to 1 page) Executive Summary Please provide an executive summary in the front of the report outlining in a concise manner the most critical aspects of your analyses. Formatting for readability will be important in this section. Your executive summary should identify your most critical findings and then highlight key components of your strategic recommendation. Consider your audience here – based on your research for Tesla and the industry, what does the CEO or Chairman of the Board of Tesla need to know to achieve the company’s goals? Part 1 (2-4 pages) Identify Tesla’s current mission and analyze Tesla’s strategy In less than one page, identify Tesla’s mission. Consider all of the parts of Tesla when you reflect on the vision and mission statement...
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...guide is to help you maximize your learning when using case studies. It outlines some key issues that will help you learn from the case analysis method. In most graduate courses, students use cases from actual companies to practice strategic analysis and to gain some experience in the task of creating and implementing strategy. A case describes, in a factual manner, the events and organizational circumstances surrounding a particular managerial problem. It’s as if the reader is inside the organization (at the time the case was written) and has most, if not all, relevant information, facts, and circumstances. The student’s role in case analysis is to diagnose and evaluate the situation described in the case. You then develop recommendations, supporting arguments, and the appropriate action steps that should be taken to rectify the problem presented in the case. After reading this guide, you will be able to: * Understand what a case study is * Appreciate the benefits of using case studies in the learning of strategic management and how their use can help develop your managerial skills * Use the key steps in analyzing case studies * Apply theoretical concepts and frameworks to the case material The case approach to strategic analysis is an exercise in “learning by doing.” Because cases provide you with detailed information about conditions and problems of different industries and companies, your task of analyzing organization after organization and situation...
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...Strategic Audit of Lowe’s Companies, Inc. | Explore Page 1 of 70 Home Blog Contact Site Map Explore Learn. Live. Share. http://www.jacobcamp.com/2011/05/29/strategic-audit-of-lowes-companies-inc/ 5/25/2012 Strategic Audit of Lowe’s Companies, Inc. | Explore Page 2 of 70 Strategic Audit of Lowe’s Companies, I May 29, 2011 | Business Development,ERP,General Business Home » Blog » General Business » Business Development » Strategic Audit of Lowe’s Companies, In Click for PDF: Lowe’s U.S. Strategic Audit Spring 2011 Lowe’s Company, Incorporated is a home improvement retailer that has stores throughout the Unit following report is a student strategic audit for Mike Anderson’s strategic management course at th undergraduate student project team was composed of the following people: Keelie Cox, Alicia Kelly Wu, and myself (Jacob Camp) I. Executive Summary This report critically overviews the U.S. Division of Lowe’s Company, Incorporated. The purpose of accurate and current representation of Lowe’s through research using a variety of sources, method statements, recommendations, or opinions offered herein are only perspectives from the respective state that these aforementioned statements will come to fruition. The current operations, performance, and policies of Lowe’s will most certainly lead the company t the fortunate position to avert disaster. A note of exceptionally good news is that Lowe’s was evalu with a probability...
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...Strategic analysis of Costa. Produce an individual strategic analysis of the above organization- Costa. Should use the secondary sources of information only. The strategic analysis should be written and structured in report style using an appropriate reference convention, table of convention, table of contents, list of figure, diagrams, appendices etc. This coursework 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)...
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...Strategic Analysis Report Guidelines Applied Strategy Inc. – Fall 2011 Company: Tesla Motors, Inc. (Tesla) Overall Objective: To analyze Tesla’s current operations and provide strategic recommendations to the board of directors of Tesla in order to answer how to protect and strengthen a current competitive advantage, or to create a new competitive advantage and then protect and strengthen it. The recommendations should be creative, should leverage Tesla’s current strengths and/or address Tesla’s biggest weakness, and should be supported with sound financial analysis and justification. Refer to the financial analysis provided by Paul Gregg, ASI’s CFO, and use this as your financial model for all analysis and projections. Introduction (up to 1 page) Executive Summary Please provide an executive summary in the front of the report outlining in a concise manner the most critical aspects of your analyses. Formatting for readability will be important in this section. Your executive summary should identify your most critical findings and then highlight key components of your strategic recommendation. Consider your audience here – based on your research for Tesla and the industry, what does the CEO or Chairman of the Board of Tesla need to know to achieve the company’s goals? Part 1 (2-4 pages) Identify Tesla’s current mission and analyze Tesla’s strategy In less than one page, identify Tesla’s mission. Consider all of the parts of Tesla when you reflect on the vision and mission statement...
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...weakness. Please be as specific as possible and quantify your analysis where appropriate. This section will provide the first part of the foundation for your identification of strategic issues and related recommendations through your analysis of the organization's core competencies, competitive advantages and organizational weaknesses. ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS This section will present your identification of the major external threats and opportunities currently facing the organization. These will be generated from your analysis of the industry and general environmental factors in light of the organization's strengths and weaknesses. A maximum of five threats and five opportunities should be identified and should be presented in a prioritized order. Use power point exhibits to support your analysis, be specific and quantify your analysis where possible. This section will provide the second part of the foundation for your identification of a strategic issue and the formulation of related recommendations through your analysis of driving forces, key success factors and industry attractiveness. STRATEGIC ISSUES AND RECOMMENDATIONS Identify and fully support and discuss the most important strategic issue facing your organization. It is extremely important that you clearly integrate the strategic issue with your analysis to the organization's SWOT. There often interrelationships between particular weaknesses and threats or missed opportunities, which should be recognized...
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...“Consultant Report On United Breweries Limited ” Student Name: Gangadharan Renganathan Student Id Course Subject : 1229047 : Master of Business Administration : Strategic Management Submitted To: William Naylor Table of Contents Introduction: ........................................................................................................................ 3 Objectives: ............................................................................................................................. 3 Recommendations: ............................................................................................................ 4 Prior Recommendation for future development: ................................................... 7 Conclusion: ............................................................................................................................ 7 Reference: ............................................................................................................................. 7 Appendix: .............................................................................................................................. 9 Introduction: United Breweries was founded on early 19th century. This group is operating more than 100 years. A Scotsman, Thomas Leishman in 1857, founded UB GROUP. He started this business as a big producer of beer from a south Indian based British Breweries. Thomas Leishman was founded the United Breweries Limited (UBL) on15th March...
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...material in the analysis of an actual strategic management situation. This assignment will be completed throughout the term and the final assignment will be a compilation and refinement of the sub-assignments. 2. Assignment Topic: Write an expanded strategic plan for an organisation This assignment requires you to apply the entire strategic-management process to a particular organisation. Most of the information in a strategic management case is established fact, but some information may be based on opinions, judgements, and beliefs. A strategic-management case puts the reader on the scene of the action by describing a company’s situation at some point in time. This assignment will give you practise applying strategic-management concepts. When preparing a comprehensive written analysis, picture yourself as a consultant who has been asked by a company to conduct a study of its external and internal environment and raise issues concerning the company’s mission, strategies, objectives and policies. You also need to make specific recommendations for the company’s future. Prepare exhibits/examples to support your recommendations. Highlight exhibits/examples with some discussion in the paper. Throughout your written analysis, emphasize how your proposed strategies will enable the firm to gain and sustain competitive advantage. In preparing your written analysis, follow the steps outlined here, which correlate to the stages on the strategic-management process and the chapters in...
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...weakness. Please be as specific as possible and quantify your analysis where appropriate. This section will provide the first part of the foundation for your identification of strategic issues and related recommendations through your analysis of the organization's core competencies, competitive advantages and organizational weaknesses. ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS This section will present your identification of the major external threats and opportunities currently facing the organization. These will be generated from your analysis of the industry and general environmental factors in light of the organization's strengths and weaknesses. A maximum of five threats and five opportunities should be identified and should be presented in a prioritized order. Use power point exhibits to support your analysis, be specific and quantify your analysis where possible. This section will provide the second part of the foundation for your identification of a strategic issue and the formulation of related recommendations through your analysis of driving forces, key success factors and industry attractiveness. STRATEGIC ISSUES AND RECOMMENDATIONS Identify and fully support and discuss the most important strategic issue facing your organization. It is extremely important that you clearly integrate the strategic issue with your analysis to the organization's SWOT. There often interrelationships between particular weaknesses and threats or missed opportunities, which should be recognized...
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