AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY ANALYSIS Submitted by Team A Donald Bradley Morgan Bruns Adam Fleming Jay Ling Lauren Margolin Felipe Roman Presented to: Prof. Alan Flury December 5, 2005 ME 6753: Principles of Management for Engineers Executive Summary Chosen industry: This analysis focuses on the automotive industry, specifically, large-scale manufacturers of automobiles. The automotive industry is inherently interesting: it is massive, it is competitive, and it is expected to undergo major restructuring
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Emerging markets Recent history The four BRICs The BRIC’s roller coaster. 2009 Sales dropped in 50%, stabilize in 2010 Annual growth of 15% per year through 2014 Russia China The largest one. Share in 53% in 2008 Share is expected to be 61% in 2014 Brazil The most mature and stable market. Probably remain the second largest to 2014 Outpace both Brazil and China in growth India Summary • • • • • • The 4 BRICs are different There is no standard BRIC car Brazilian
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features and driving experience. That means making them aware of the car, getting it on their shopping list and then getting them down to the dealership for a test drive. THE MARKETING SOLUTION: To crack the problem BJK&E Media, which handles the Daimler Chrysler account in the UK, launched a specific campaign with the principal aim to generate test-drives. Alongside conventional advertising in national and specialist press, online was particularly valuable for this initiative. Importantly, it offered
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The automobile industry is a giant, serving both public and private sectors of the economy and consuming enumerable amounts of goods used in production, accounting for numerous additional jobs. The complexity of the industry has grown over the years along with the complexity of the products it produces. New means of advertising and other market strategies further complicate this already hugely intricate industry. On top of this, the industry continues to evolve on an almost yearly basis with the
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Executive summary It is the intention of this report to critically discuss the different factors that influences the consumer’s behaviour. It aims to provide a better understanding on internal and external factors that influences consumers decisions. Internal factors like perception, learning & memory, motivation, personality & emotion and attitudes or it may be external factors such as society, demographics, group influence & social stratification, etc. Different companies choses different
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Section A: Prelim. Material - research ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURES in businesses Knowledge: Larger businesses may choose to use: Traditional hierarchy Matrix Structues Informal Structures Choosing these depends on: - Level of skill of employees - Business environment (eg. amount of competition) - Desire to move away from risk taking culture; more quality than innovation; then they may become more highly structured - Leadership styles* of senior executives Impacts on competitiveness: -
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The rise of the sharing economy (http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21573104-internet-everything-hire-rise-sharing-economy) On the internet, everything is for hire Mar 9th 2013 LAST night 40,000 people rented accommodation from a service that offers 250,000 rooms in 30,000 cities in 192 countries. They chose their rooms and paid for everything online. But their beds were provided by private individuals, rather than a hotel chain. Hosts and guests were matched up by Airbnb, a firm based in San
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After Kraft announced takeover of Cadbury’s, it announced job losses. TWE do you agree that mergers and takeovers are not always in the best interests of their stakeholders (40) A stakeholder is a group or organisation/institution that has an interest in or is affected by the success of a business. Many stakeholders would argue that takeovers/mergers are not in their best interests because the new ownership will usually cut jobs to reduce costs. This is because the new ownership are likely to have
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La modernisation de la Supply Chain de Renault un enjeu incontournable pour rester compétitif sommaire ¤ 1. Introduction ¤ 2. L’environnement Industriel ¤ 3. La Supply Chain ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ 3.1 La conception 3.2 La fabrication 3.3 La distribution 3.4 La vente 3.5 Les Achats ¤ Conclusion 1. Introduction La SC est aujourd’hui une source de compétitivité majeur au sein de Renault. La stratégie de la SC Renault est un mélange de réactivité et de flexibilité alors que
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