Second Pages PART 02 Concept and Analytical Tools 53 hou27541_ch03.indd 53 9/20/2010 10:10:11 AM hou27541_ch03.indd 54 9/20/2010 10:10:11 AM Second Pages CHAPTER 03 Analysing a Company’s External Environment Crafting and Executing Strategy: Creating Sustainable High Performance in South African Businesses Part 1: Scope and Dynamics of Strategy Part 3: Part 2: Concepts and Analytical Tools Crafting a Strategy to Create Sustainable High
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Strategy & Technology a gallaugher.com chapter provided free to faculty & students for non-commercial use © Copyright 1997-2008, John M. Gallaugher, Ph.D. – for more info see: http://www.gallaugher.com/chapters.html Last modified: Sept. 13, 2008 Note: this is an earlier version of the chapter. All chapters updated after July 2009 are now hosted (and still free) at http://www.flatworldknowledge.com. For details see the ‘Courseware’ section of http://gallaugher.com INTRODUCTION Managers
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vantage//~‘L~ FIRST-MOVER ADVANTAGES Marvin B. Lieberman David B. Montgomery’ October 1987 Research Paper No. 969 1The authors are, respectively, Assistant Professor of Business Policy, and Robert A. Magowan Professor of Marketing, at the Stanford Business School. We thank Piet Vanden Abeele, Rajiv Lal, Mark Satterthwaite and Birger Wernerfelt for helpfiul discussions on earlier drafts. The Strategic Management Program at Stanford Business School provided financial support. / ~‘N
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Customer loyalty and the effect of switching costs as a moderator variable A case in the Turkish mobile phone market Serkan Aydin and Go¨khan O ¨ zer School of Business Administration, Gebze Institute of Technology, Gebze, Turkey, and O ¨ mer Arasil Telecommunications Authority, Ankara, Turkey Abstract Purpose – In the GSM mobile telephony sector, the main condition for protecting the subscriber base is to win customer loyalty, a key necessity for the maintenance of a brand’s life in
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that the orthopedic group could ender that will allow it to earn large profits is the education market, children social networking market such as the YMCA (Young Men’s Christian Association), and minor sporting teams. This paper also describes the barriers to enter and exit the internal medicine market for a physician wanting to establish a solo practice, a company offering a health club facility in the same building where employees work, and hospital wanting to develop a coronary bypass program.
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Transforming a Brazilian National Champion into the World’s Leading Energy Exploration and Production Company Team 5: Todd Anderson Guy Gresham Gopinath Polavarapu Heraclio Rojas Alina Shastun Who is Petrobras? Background: • • • • Brazil’s national oil company and the largest in Latin America Petrobras accounts for 95% of Brazil’s national oil and gas production Ownership – Government (64%) and Private Sector Market Capitalization – fifth largest publicly traded energy company in the world
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CHAPTER 3: THE MICRO ENVIRONMENT MGMT 488 – STRATEGY AND POLICY OVERVIEW The micro environmental analysis is the second step in creating the Environmental Analysis. The micro environment examines the general business climate as it relates to the organization within its industry. The micro environment is also known as Porter’s Five Forces of Competition. The macro environment is primarily concerned with major issues and upcoming changes in the environment. The analysis looks at five areas
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The following analysis will provide reasons on why brand identity should be strengthened and how it can be used to improve eBay’s business. Threat of Entry This is an Internet driven service industry, which does not provide for many barriers to entry. The main barriers come from government regulation. The government will not permit some products to be sold in certain states or countries and so any online sites need to make sure they don’t violate those laws. It is also hard to enter a market where
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QUIZ 2 tips ● General Environment Dimensions in the broader society that influence an industry and the firms within it ● Industry Environment-more direct effect on strategy Set of factors that directly influences a firm and its competitive actions and response ● Competitor Environment Focuses on each company against which a firm directly competes ●The General Environment is grouped into seven environmental segments: page 38 [1] Demographic – population, age, geographic distribution
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corporation’s societal environment can affect the corporation through its task environment. 5. How can managers identify external strategic factors? a. Environmental uncertainty b. Issues priority matrix c. New entrants d. Entry barriers e. Rivalry f. Substitute products g. Bargaining power of buyers and suppliers h. Bargaining power of other stakeholders a. Environmental Uncertainty- Situation
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