Business Generic A firm positions itself by leveraging its strengths. Michael Porter has argues that a firm’s strengths ultimately fall into one of two headings: cost advantage and differentiation which are applied at the business unit level. The two basic types of competitive advantage combined with the scope of activities for which a firm seeks to achieve them‚ lead to three generic strategies for achieving above average performance in an industry: cost leadership‚ differentiation‚ and focus
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About The Author Michael E. Porter is the C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He has received the Wells Prize in Economics‚ the Adam Smith Award‚ three McKinsey Awards and numerous other honours. Introduction This is an interesting book on Business strategies and a must read for everyone who is or aspires to hold a role of decision making in any business. The book centres around the strategies that a company should implement while struggling
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MARKETING MANAGEMENT – CONCEPTS AND STRATEGIES Northampton Business School Postgraduate Programmes Assignment Submission and Feedback Sheet Course Title…MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION…Year/Stage…JAN/2013… Module Title………MKTM003 Marketing: Principles and Management Student Name……SASINAN……RATTANASIWILAI………………………… Student Number………13418205…………………. Tutor……ROGER……WILLETS…………………………… Date assignment due…29th…MAY…2013………Date submitted…29th …MAY…2013…
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Essex County College Porter’s Five Modules Porter’s Five Forces is a groundwork for industry analysis and business strategy development which was invented by Michael Porter in 1979. Three of Porter’s five forces relates to competition from external sources. The remaining two are internal threats. These five forces include three forces from horizontal competition such as the threat of substitute
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Michael Porter’s video discusses how to gain competitive advantage and in the market place using specific strategies. Competitive advantage is the positioning of a company in its competitive environment. The starting point to have superior competitive advantage is to “improve faster than the competitors can catch up”‚ and this requires strategies. One of the strategies is broad differentiation which is defined as having a unique benefit over the competition. In other words you need to market a product
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Red Oceans are all the industries in existence today the known market space. In the red oceans‚ industry boundaries are defined and accepted‚ the competitive rules of the game are known. Here companies try to outperform their rivals to grab a greater share of existing demand. As the market space gets crowded‚ prospects for profits and growth are reduced. Products become commodities‚ and cutthroat competition turns the red ocean bloody‚ hence‚ the term “red” oceans. Blue Oceans in contrast‚ denote
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Blue Ocean Strategy MKT 421 Name Date Instructor Blue Ocean Strategy Description and Significance According to Cham Kim and Renee Mauborgne (2004)‚ the Blue Ocean strategy involves the description of how the organization should try and proceed to find some way to work in the marketplace that is not bloodied by the competition and also that is free of competitors. The strategy is against working in conditions such as Red Ocean‚ where businesses are ferociously fighting each other for some share
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Michael Porter’s Value Chain History of Value Chain • Popularized by Michael Porter’s book best seller “Competitive • • Advantage” 1985 Creator of “5 Forces model” Helped Gereffi in the late 1990s develop Global Value Chain. Michael Porter’s Background • Born May 23‚ 1947 in Ann Arbor‚ Michigan • Received MBA in 1971 Harvard Business School • Competition and company strategy • 6 time winner of the McKinsey Award Value • The Value is the extent to which a good or service is perceived by
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1) wireless controller (the Wii remote) handheld pointing device/detect movement in 3 dimensions; 2) WiiConnect: receive message & upload over the Internet; (2) Segmentation Strategy: aimed at a different target audience: underserved segments (more women and families) teenage boy’swomen and families “Blue ocean” strategy: creating a market where previously there was not one. 15-30 males -> neglected female and older males. Risk: new market with new product; damage market position and reputation
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that wants to succeed needs to have a well-defined strategy. We at Nestle believe in this philosophy and in this short presentation‚ I will help you understand exactly what a competitive strategy is and what it entails. My presentation is based solely on the ideas of strategy guru Michael Porter as represented in his 1996 article “What is strategy?” In determining what a strategy is‚ it is important to differentiate between competitive strategy and operational effectiveness. Whereas operational
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