Research Report on Cirque du Soleil Julien Lallement ISEG Business School 5 Group2C January 10, 2012 Human Resources Management, Pr. Michelle K. Duffy, Phd ABSTRACT This final research report relating to the Human Resource course will be focused on the Cirque du Soleil business case discovered in class. In a first part we will develop and articulate the Cirque du Soleil HR portfolio. This part will also relates the company values and core competencies. The first part will be concluded by
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STRATEGY DISCUSSION Question 1: Red Ocean Analysis Explain why anyone applying Michael Porter’s “Five Forces” competitive analysis in 1984 would have told Guy Laliberté not to start another circus. Explain your reasoning. Applying Michael Porter’s Five Forces to Guy Laliberté’s decision to start ‘another’ circus would lead individuals to come to one of two conclusions, depending on how in-depth they understood Laliberté’s plan. On the surface level, his plan seems to be an inevitable
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Since 1984 Guy Laliberté has been building Cirque du Soleil, an artistic circus that has amazed thousands of people in hundreds of towns. Cirque has worked hard on keeping their strengths unbeatable and weaknesses miniscule. In the process of making their weaknesses turn into strengths they have taken advantage of many opportunities available to them. Cirque has done so well at expanding their horizon is it difficult to find opportunities they have not taken advantage of; so, where will they
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Blue Ocean Strategy MKT/421 Ken Metz May 5, 2015 Britney Jefferson The Blue Ocean Strategy were defined by professors W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne. They wrote a book about The Blue Ocean Strategy back in 2005. The Blue Ocean Strategy involves the description of how the organization should try and proceed to find some way to work in the market place that is not bullied by the competition and also that is free of competitors. The blue ocean includes the potential industries that do not
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marketing strategy they would use, cardboard and plastic boxes are just better for storing things like food and they cannot change that. What they can do is to come up with new product line. Their situation reminds me the book I just read. It is called Blue Ocean Strategy and it is all about how to turnaround your business. The main idea is that there are two oceans. There is a red ocean full of predators, and there is a blue, empty ocean. Blue Ocean Strategy is focused on blue undiscovered ocean. For
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Porter’s Five Forces Model versus A Blue Ocean Strategy Porter’s Five Forces Model, provided by Michael Porter, is an external environmental analysis tool for a specific market. This model emphasizes that in any existing industry, there are five competition forces: threat of new entrants, power of suppliers, power of customers, threat of substitute products, and intensity of competitive rivalry. In addition, these five forces can influence and determine the profitability of the enterprise. Using
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Blue Ocean Strategy: Article Summary Abstract The Blue Ocean Strategy (BOS) is a business strategy about capturing uncontested market space, thereby making competition irrelevant. The corner-stone of BOS is 'Value Innovation'. A blue ocean is created when a company achieves value innovation that creates value simultaneously for both the buyer and the company. The innovation (in product, service, or delivery) must raise and create value for the market, while simultaneously reducing or eliminating
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Cirque du Soleil Case Q1. Outline briefly the environmental factors contributing to the demise of the traditional circus, and compare the offering of the traditional circus with the offering of Cirque du Soleil. Q2. Analyse Cirque du Soleil’s Blue Ocean Strategy and assess the sustainability of the proposed diversification strategy. Environmental factors contributing to the demise of the traditional circus Legal & Political * Tough laws and taxation policies. * Lack
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on marketing analysis of the world’s leading circus company Cirque du Soleil. Based on the data given it will conduct a PEST, Porter’s 5-Forces, SWOT analysis and discuss the results, together with results paper will concentrate on marketing and positioning strategies and Ansoff’s Matrix, and also recommend strategy measures for achieving sustainable economic development outcomes. It was found that, first of all, Cirque du Soleil is making a profit while most of its competitors are fail to
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ANALYSIS The article in Harvard Business Review, Blue Ocean Strategy written by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne, gives an insight to how Cirque du Soleil has implemented a Blue Ocean Strategy when creating its business. This article provides examples for examining alternative purposes and approaches of Blue Ocean Strategies. It appraises the benefits that a Blue Ocean Strategy brings a company by expanding its growth and profit in a much faster speed. It achieves these benefits by creating new
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