Strategy and Competition Final Exam: 50% Students are required to read the “Apple Inc. in 2010” case study and answer FIVE (5) of the following questions. They are required to submit their answers within the stipulated time frame. 1- What‚ historically‚ have been Apple’s competitive advantages? Apple’s competitive advantages are its innovation‚ strong brand and rapid growth. In the Sculley years‚ Sculley pushed the Mac into new markets‚ most notably in desktop publishing and education. Apple’s desktop
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Strategy and Strategic Analysis GEST-S-468 Pr Manuel Hensmans MonUniversitéVirtuelle • Please check regularly! – http://strategy.skynetblogs.be/ – http://uv.ulb.ac.be • Syllabus‚ slides‚ case info‚ e-clip info • Exam info! 2 Overview Course • Introductory Class 1: What is Strategy? (19/09/2011) • Part I: The Strategic Position What is our current strategic context? – Class 2: The Environment (3/10/2011) – Class 3: Strategic Capabilities (10/10/2011) – Class 4: Strategic
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The essay will cover the importance the balance between planned and emergent approach through the framework of game theory/ net value and scenario thinking and planning. It would also incorporate the idea of chaos theory and the importance of understanding the market through certain criteria that have been learned in the course. Introduction to each approach Planned approach is a formalized approach to a strategy; it focuses on control formalization‚ centralization and inflexibility. (Mintzberg
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EXTERNAL ANALYSIS I. Aggregate Market Factors Aggregate factors are important indicators of the attractiveness of a product category. A. Size The market size is defined through the market volume and the market potential. The market volume exhibits the totality of all realized sales volume of a special market. The volume is therefore dependent on the quantity of consumers and their ordinary demand
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Introduction Porter (2002) states that root of the problem lies in the lack of distinguishing between operation effectiveness and strategy. The expedition for productivity‚ quality and speed has resulted in management tools and techniques‚ total quality management benchmarking‚ time based competition‚ outsourcing‚ partnering‚ reengineering‚ change management. In any organization‚ strategy management is the key to its success. There are many theories based on this assumption that without a proper
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CHAPTER 7 COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE IN TECHNOLOGY INTENSIVE INDUSTRIES Frank T. Rothaermel ABSTRACT This chapter introduces the reader to the meaning of competitive advantage and posits that a firm’s strategy is defined as the managers’ theory about how to gain and sustain competitive advantage. The author demonstrates how a firm creates its competitive advantage by creating more economic value than its rivals‚ and explains that profitability depends upon value‚ price‚ and costs. The relationship among
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Chapter 1: Business Strategy TED.com TED= technology‚ education‚ design ‘ideas worth spreading’ Set up by Chris Anderson – also started Wired Magazine TEDx= everyone can organise a TED conference All the things that are happening in the world‚ are things that are strategic Look around you‚ know what’s happening around you You need to know where interesting ideas come from Eg. Wieden Kennedy (Portland‚ Oregon): where Nike is. Where Nike is‚ adidas goes Check out: TED talk
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Introduction E-business is an acronym for ’electronic business.’ The word ’e-business’ has been derived from terms such as "e-mail." As the name implies‚ e-business means conducting or operating business through the Internet. The main aim is to establish a positive reputation of the enterprise as well as sell goods and services. Internet is used as a medium like print and broadcast to promote business and earn profits. It is also used to collaborate with business partners. Definition E- business
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FUGLE INC. AN ANALYSIS OF‚ AND INSIGHTS INTO‚ THE DYNAMICS OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION AT GOOGLE st 1 MARCH 2010 Approx. 2‚000 words (excluding title page‚ table of contents‚ appendices and references) FUGLE CONSULTING
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58 HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW The more networked a market is‚ the harder it is for an innovation to take hold. Smart innovators learn to orchestrate marketwide change by starting from the endgame they desire. New Rules for Bringing Innovations by Bhaskar Chakravorti to Market I T’S TOUCH to get consumers to adopt innovations-and it’s getting harder all tbe time. As more markets take on tbe characteristics of networks‚ once-reliable tools for introducing new products and services
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