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
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Mobile computing has revolutionized the way we do business, shop and communicate. Let’s break down briefly how mobile computing has an effect on each of the Porter’s five forces. 1. Bargaining Power of Suppliers Mobile computing gives suppliers more bargaining power, especially with the integration of social networking. There is variation of services and personalization that is readily available with so much customer input. Considering supplier costs, development is either costly or it isn’t
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Application Exercise (Assignment to be submitted) (90 min.) (Not exceeding five pages) |Apply the five forces analysis to your company/division and assess the attractiveness of your industry. | | |Compare the industry attractiveness five years back and today due to the shift in the forces. | | |Guidelines for the assignment |
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since 2009 (starta.co.uk). The U.S. continues to be the leading consumer in this market, even though it was projected that in the coming years it will be preceded by Europe and Asia. The athletic footwear market will be analyzed using Porter’s Five Forces where footwear retailers are players, buyers are individual consumers, and footwear manufacturers are the key suppliers. The market is dominated by large retail groups such as Foot Locker, Inc. Nike, Inc, Adidas AG, Finish Line, Inc. that hold
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The Bottled Water Industry Threat of entry of new competitors is low. Firstly, the competitors that currently exist are large, dominating companies who already own a huge market share of the industry. New entrants attempting to enter the market will have compete with established brands such as Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Nestle. These brands have decades of experience in the food & beverage industry, have developed brand recognition & loyalty and have achieved low-cost production and distribution
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New Service Proposal 4 4. Competitive Analysis 5 5. Service Concept 7 6. Operations Strategy 8 6.1. Operational Fit 10 6.2. Trade Offs 10 7. Critical Success Factors 10 8. Conclusion 11 9. Appendix 12 Figure 1: Porters Five Forces Model 12 Figure 2: House of Quality 13 Figure 3: Strategy Canvas 14 Figure 4: Key Success Factors and Activity Map 14 Figure 5: Healthy Portions Conceptual Floor Plan 15 1. Introduction The health food industry is not new, but our
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analyzes these three elements using Porter’s five forces and SWOT. Porter’s five forces model analysis The five competitive forces model was came out from Porter’s first book "Competitive Strategy" in 1980. From that on, the model is broadly used by business managers as a guide tool to analyze enterprise structure and strategy. From his perspective, there are five forces that determine the competition scale and degree. Taken together, these five forces affect the profitability and attractiveness
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Evaluating a Company’s External Environment LEARNING OBJECTIVES LO1 Identify factors in a company’s broad macro-environment that may have strategic significance. Recognize the factors that cause competition in an industry to be fierce, more or less normal, or relatively weak. Become adept at mapping the market positions of key groups of industry rivals. Learn how to determine whether an industry’s outlook presents a company with sufficiently attractive opportunities for growth and profitability
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2.1. Elements of successful business model 4 2.2. Apple’s innovation on its business model 4 2.2.1. Customer Value Innovation 4 2.2.2. Profit Pattern Innovation 5 3. Challenges Analysis 6 3.1. Apple’s challenges 6 3.2. Porter’s Five Force Model analysis 6 3.2.1. Threat of new entrants 7 3.2.2. Threat of substitute products or services 7 3.2.3. Bargaining power of customers (buyers) 7 3.2.4. Bargaining power of suppliers 8 3.2.5. Intensity of competitive rivalry 8
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* What does the model tell you about the nature of competition in the industry? External Analysis (Porter's Five Forces Analysis) Threat of Substitute products (low) Food and beverage market has a long industry chain and big industry span so threat in substitute products is low. Giants such as Wrigley (Mars, Milkway, Snickers and etc), Unilever (Knorr, Cornetto ,Lipton Ice tea and etc) ,Coca Cola, Nestle have similar products to offer to customers. But in Nestle case threat of substitute
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