BU.450.710.52 – Tesla’s Blue Ocean Strategy – Page 1 TESLA: A BLUE OCEAN MARKETING STRATEGY Matthew Gazda‚ Vanessa Granville‚ and Ryan Schupp Marketing Strategy BU.450.710.52 Johns Hopkins University May 8‚ 2014 BU.450.710.52 – Tesla’s Blue Ocean Strategy – Page 2 Executive Summary Tesla is an innovative electric car manufacturer that intends to overturn the current gaspowered vehicle industry. CEO Elon Musk has masterminded a product that will compete
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Matrix For Ford Motor Company Marketing Essay Three tools are largely popular and relevant for analysing as well as prescribing remedies pertaining to the improvement of organisational performance. These are the Value Chain – propounded by Michael Porter‚ the Global Commodities Chain (GCC) Framework – put forward by Gary Gereffi and Miguel Korzeniewicz‚ and the Sector Matrix Theory – conceptualised by Julie Froud. This essay will aim at critically examining whether the sector matrix framework‚ gives
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Porter ’s Generic Strategies If the primary determinant of a firm ’s profitability is the attractiveness of the industry in which it operates‚ an important secondary determinant is its position within that industry. Even though an industry may have below-average profitability‚ a firm that is optimally positioned can generate superior returns. A firm positions itself by leveraging its strengths. Michael Porter has argued that a firm ’s strengths ultimately fall into one of two headings: cost
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PORTER’S GENERIC COMPETITIVE STRATEGY Automobile Sector MARUTHI: Low Cost Product – Differentiated service Product Pricing: Maruthi build high walls of safety against competition by its very competitive pricing i.e. pricing as low as possible for the particular product. Maruthi has also been a company that has strived for sustainable development with their “three R” framework standing for “reduce‚ recycle‚ reuse” in its plants‚ so that there is a minimal stress on resources emphasizing on low
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Introduction. In this assignment I am going to explain the following concepts‚ generic strategies‚ alternative directions and alternative methods. Indeed‚ I would like to support these concepts by referring my work to the automobile sector (as a continuing line provided with the Morgan´s example in class). I am going to use the example of General Motors and Ford‚ they are well known and also provide us a long struggling and interesting history. The first part of my assignment gives a theoretical
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37 The Generic Strategy Trap Danny Miller Management experts claim that for a company to thrive‚ it mus concentrate on a single generic strategy—on one thing it does better th its rivals. But specialization also has its disadvantages. The author sugge that a broader‚ mixed approach may be preferable. S ince the publication of Michael Porter ’s Competitive Strategy‚ many experts on strategy have been extolling the virtues of pure generic strategies. Porter argued that by adeptly
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Literature Review Most of the companies must have a strategy for competing in the markets in which they offer products or services. The strategy will either be implicit or explicit‚ and the extent to which a company is successful compared with its competitors relies on the creation of competitive advantage through the activities that it performs to design‚ market‚ deliver and support its product or service. They develop strategy at an overall company level‚ within customer sectors and for regions
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Michael porter developed 3 generic strategies: cost leadership‚ differentiation and focus. They are developed to create a defendable position in the long-run‚ outperforming competition and establish a competitive advantage. However does the generic strategy lead to sustainable competitive strategy? This analysis will explain in detail. Cost leadership means setting out to become the low-cost producer of its industry. Each industry is different and provides with diverse problems. Cost leadership
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Blue Ocean Strategy Rebecka McCollough MKT/421 January 21‚ 2015 Nikki Butler Blue Ocean Strategy When thinking about opening a business‚ you have to look at whether you want to compete in existing markets or create a new market for your product. When you compete in existing markets‚ you will find many of them are overcrowded and your business will not flourish in this environment. You should want your business to stand out and become profitable‚ that is what Blue Ocean Strategy encompasses
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familiar with the red oceans and feel accustomed to competition. However the main challenge companies face thereby is their incapacity to create new demand or expand their market share. The Blue Ocean Strategy offers users a framework for creating uncontested market space and change the focus from the current competition to creation of innovative value and demand. The theoretical analysis reviews the core basics of the Blue Ocean Strategy‚ distinguishing between red and blue oceans. Here the focus lies
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