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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Athletic Footwear Industry Analysis The global athletic footwear market has shown steady growth in recent years with only minimal slowing down during the global economic crisis. China, as a leader, contributing over 63% of the world’s production, followed by Vietnam, Italy, Indonesia, Belgium and Brazil. It grew by 2.6% in 2009 to reach a value of $196.3 billion. In 2014, the global footwear market is forecast to have a value of $230.8 billion, an increase of 17.6% since 2009 (starta.co.uk). The
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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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Table of Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. Overview of Organization 3 2.1. Market Analysis 3 2.2. Current Services 4 2.3. Competitive Strategy 4 3. 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
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this essay is aimed to discuss how the business environment, company 3 resources and segmentation are related to the business performance. The paper 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
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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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Apple’s Business Models Analysis and Suggestion with Web 2.0 Strategy Contents 1. Abstract 3 2. Apple’s Business Model 4 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
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Environmental Analysis SWOT analysis Apple has created its image as a multinational corporation, which designs, manufactures and sells computers, consumers’ electronics and software. Along with these, Apple provides related services to its customers. Area of concern | Types of concern | | Favorable | Unfavorable | Internal Environment | Strengths * Loyal Customers * Flame of Innovation * Diversification and differentiation of Products * Use of Mac OSX’s unique operating system
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