INTRODUCTION Cemex‚ the Mexico’s global giant‚ has been famous worldwide for its high quality products and reliable services in cement industry. It is the third biggest company that operates in US‚ Europe‚ Africa‚ the Middle East and Asia. The company produces and distributes cement‚ ready-mix concrete‚ aggregates and related building materials in more than 50 countries and maintains trade relationships with more than 100 nations. Cemex was founded in Mexico in 1906 but its worldwide presence
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Growth Through Going Global The traditional theory of the firm is based on the short-run profit maximization. Many actions of firms may be seen to conflict with this aim and yet could be consistent with the aim of long-run profit maximization. For example‚ policies to increase the size of the firm or the firm’s share of the market may involve heavy advertising or low prices to the detriment of short-run profits. But if this results in the firm becoming larger‚ with a bigger share of the market
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Information Technology Management CEMEX : GLOBAL GROWTH THROUGH SUPERIOR INFORMATION CAPABILITIES Team No. 8 : Q1) How do you describe IT impact Map for CEMEX? 1)Picture 1. The impact of IT on Strategy and Operations ▪ Description Goals Support Local Improvements Core Business Improvement Activities - Building and acquiring plants. - Diversifying business into mining‚ hotels and petrochemical. - Developing information technology. - Investing in a satellite telecommunication
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Organisational Dynamic Capabilities through Information Systems A system is a group of components that interact to achieve some purpose (Kroenke‚ Bunker & Wilson 2010). The responsibility of the Information systems is to offer information to management which will facilitate them their decision making process‚ which guarantee that the organization is controlled to a certain level. If the system meets the needs of the competitive environment the organization will be in control. Management information system is
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CEMEX: GLOBAL GROWTH THROUGH SUPERIOR INFORMATION CAPBILITIES 1. CEMEX is a cement company. What are the sources of competitive advantage in the cement industry? What is CEMEX’s position in the global cement industry? First‚ the cement business is cyclical. The uncertainty of the number of demand and sales restricts a cement company to gain profits stably. Thus‚ the expansion of the scale of the company is very critical to enhance the competitiveness‚ especially the international expansion to different
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5‚ 2009 CEMEX: Globalization “The CEMEX Way” Donald R. Lessard and Cate Reavis When one wants to globalize a company‚ especially when it is from a developing country like Mexico‚ you really need to apply more advanced management techniques to do things better. We have seen many cement companies that use their capital to acquire other companies but without making the effort to have a common culture or common processes‚ they get stagnant. 1 —Lorenzo Zambrano‚ Chairman and CEO CEMEX On June 7
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to be the competitive advantage if CEMEX. Continued innovation High level of commitment to customer service and satisfaction Proven post-merger integration expertise (PMI) Efficient production‚ distribution and delivery processes through information system Ability to identify opportunities in developing countries CEMEX is one of the world’s largest building materials suppliers and cement producers. Founded in Mexico in 1906. They supply cement to CEMEX has operations extending throughout
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transformation of Cemex‚ an emerging multinational from Mexico‚ into a Global Latina that has consolidated its position throughout its ’natural markets’ to become the world’s biggest building materials multinational. It provides an example of growth through acquisitions and shows how an emerging multinational conquers the world. The general objective is to study the growth and internationalisation strategies of Cemex with a special focus on: (1) international expansion through natural markets; (2)
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Cemex S.A.B. de C.V. (Cemex) Executive Summary This paper presents fundamental and financial analysis of Cemex. The analysis is performed by analyzing the company ’s financial data for the period beginning December 2002 through December 2005. The paper introduces Cemex by presenting the company ’s information and a brief summary of its main activities. Following the introduction‚ the paper will perform an extensive industry and company analysis and summarize
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or also known as the market imperfection approach. Cemex wanted to expand horizontally because it wanted to reduce its reliance on its home market and provide some stability in the demand for their product. Also‚ they saw opportunities abroad and it could provide their service‚ which required building very personal relationships with the distributors and the builders themselves. Lastly they had spent a lot of time working on their information technology system that allowed them to control their
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