The Quantitative Strategic Planning Matrix (QSPM) Enhance security features: The sellers’ details will be provided to the buyer upon payment Enhance security features: The sellers’ details will be provided to the buyer upon payment STRATEGIC ALTERNATIVESAdd feature daily necessity groceries Add feature daily necessity groceries | Key factors | Weight | AS | TAS | AS | TAS | Opportunities | 1) The need for substantial resource investments in technology and marketing in order to
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| Employees | 27‚770 (2012)[1] | Slogan(s) | "World ’s Online Marketplace." "Connecting buyers and sellers globally." "What ever it is‚ you can get it on eBay." "Buy it‚ sell it‚ love it" "Buy it New‚ Buy it Now" "When it ’s on your mind‚ it ’s on eBay" | eBay Inc. (stylized as ebay) is an American multinational internet consumer-to-consumer corporation‚ headquartered in San Jose‚ California. It was founded in 1995‚ and became a notable success story of the dot-com bubble; it is now a
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EBAY in Japan Pierre Omidyar‚ a software programmer created Auction Web which later became eBay in 1995. Over the next 11 years it would acquire 24 companies making it a very successful company. In the late 1990’s eBay began to explore opportunities in the international market. It’s website was gaining popularity in Canada‚ the UK‚ and Germany. As its popularity increased it began to set up websites in several European Countries including Korea and Australia. It soon began to venture out
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example Making eBay work Question 1 Analyse eBay’s strategic capability using an analytical framework(s) Threshold resources • IT server platforms and space • Offices and facilities • Appropriate personnel • Sufficient customers and suppliers Threshold competences • Account management • All other general managerial skills • Sophisticated ICT skills • Customers and suppliers who are competent Unique resources • The biggest on-line electronic exchange platform • The eBay brand • First
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segments listed in the case study‚ buyers can also be divided into basically the two types of sellers that list their products to be sold on eBay i.e. the corporate companies and the small businesses and the buyers that purchase the products from these sellers. All these buyers certainly have a strong bargaining power as they are needed to sustain the growth of eBay. Threat of new entrants Google‚ even though it is not in e-tailing or online auction is a potential competitor as it is a strong trusted
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Adrian Clynes 1/18/13 International Management Reflection paper on eBay in Japan There are many reasons why things didn’t work for eBay; one of the main reasons was the dominance of Yahoo Auctions in japan. Since they are the first ones to get in the market‚ they have more experience of how to fit in the Japanese market and these leads to a series of things attract new sellers‚ which brought new buyers and according to Masahiro Inoue‚ president CEO of Yahoo Japan in auctions more buyers
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Case Analysis: EBay Inc. Introduction EBay Inc.‚ situated in San Jose‚ California‚ was founded by Pierre Omidyar in September 1995 as a marketplace for the sale of goods and services powered by a person-to-person on-line trading community. Sellers listed items for sale‚ and buyers bid on items of interested which was automated using EBay’s listing system to arrange items by category and topic. Focused market segment was the collectibles and developed based on a traditional auction house. Since
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History of eBay It all began in September 1995 when Pierre Omidyar a software developer for Apple computers decided to sell his broken laser pointer. He created originally called ‘‘AuctionWeb‘‘ site which was created on the very same server as his page devoted to research about the ebola virus. It came as a surprise when he found out that his broken laser pointer was sold for more than 14 dollars. He decided to contact the winning bidder asking why would he buy a broken thing for this amount of
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Ebay 1. Company * Business model * Ebay History and Business Model * With more than 100 million active users globally (as of Q4 2011)‚ eBay is the world’s largest online marketplace‚ "where practically anyone can buy and sell practically anything" (eBay.com‚ 2012a). Founded in September 1995 by Pierre Omidyar in his San Jose living room (Bjornsson 2001) ‚ eBay connects a diverse and passionate community of individual buyers and sellers‚ as well as small businesses. Their collective impact
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that they take. I have chosen company eBay – the world’s online marketplace. Below is some information about this company that I have search through most of the reference unit. This introduction is about‚ what is eBay‚ what the product is‚ how they market their products and what is their marketing strategy. What is eBay Inc? eBay Inc. was formed as a sole proprietorship in September 1995 and was incorporated in California in May 1996. In April 1998‚ eBay reincorporated in Delaware and in September
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