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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WAC REPORT ON THE CASE LARSON IN NIGERIA Su bmitted To Submitted On Submitted By : : : Prof. Sanjay Kumar Gupta 06 th September, 2012 Samarth Mewada-20121048 To : David From : Steven Date : 06.09.2012 SUB: - Detail analysis report to choose the course of action for future prospects in Nigeria Dear David, The Business situation in Nigeria has been analysed with reverence to present situation and future escalation. The report contains the options and the options are evaluated on
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Industry Structure: Fragmented Product Differentiation: Generic Technological Change: Slow (Long Product Life Cycle) Product/ Service Technology: High Switching Costs Location: Global Product Life cycle: Maturity stage. The maturity stage is identifies in the mass distribution of crude oil, less product differentiation, overcapacity, lower labor skills in developed countries, & the increasing stability of manufacturing process. General information related to Value Chain * A
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MT 140: introduction to management Prof: William Whitle Unit 2: Macro environment Name: KAlsayed Date: 09-08-2012 THE MACROENVIRONMENT The general environment; includes governments, economic conditions, and other fundamental factors that generally affect all organizations (Brady, 2009). The changes in the macro-environment are not affecting firm’s day-to-day operations, but they are important for the continuous of the business and for being healthy. The main factors
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3 Industry Analysis: The Fundamentals When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for poor fundamental economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact. —Warren Buffett, Chairman, Berkshire Hathaway The reinsurance business has the defect of being too attractive-looking to new entrants for its own good and will therefore always tend to be the opposite of, say, the old business of gathering and rendering dead horses that always tended
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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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Porter describes eight major sources of barriers to entry, the presence or abcsence of which determines the extent of threat of new industry entrants. Product differentiation can be achived as a result of unique product attributes or effective marketing communications, the third entery barrier relates to capital requirements, a fourth would be switching costs which is caused by the need to change suppliers and products. Now we come to the fifth barrier to entry that is refered to distribution channels
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RTE Cereal Industry Barriers to Entry Giovanni Massari 1) Economies of Scale: with regards to Economies of Scale, we have Product-Specific ones with regard to the fact that there is a minimum efficient scale of production in the industry, without which firms wouldn’t survive in the environment; requirements, in this case, are 75 million pounds of cereals per year to be efficient. Other scale economies can be Multi-Product ES (“Economies of Scope”); indeed, different types of cereals can be
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concentrated rivalry and diffuse rivalry o Greater the industry concentration, the lower the competition between rivals, thus the more profitable the firms will be • Threat of new entrants o How easily can new firms enter market? o Are there entry barriers? o Do existing rivals have competitive advantage making it difficult for other firms to enter and compete? • If so, firms in industry will likely generate higher profits than if new entrants can enter easily. • Threat of substitutes o How easily
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Stacey Tile Company case 1) a. Is Mr. Gilbert a good manager? Why? b. Please analyze the case using one of the theoretical frameworks/tools discussed during the class. This case is about a tile company which is threatened with foreclosure and Mr. Gilbert, a manager, who decided to take control over the Stacey Company and tried to make a profitable one. The main issue is to reestablish the company by increasing production on high quality and concentrate sales on tile setters
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