scanning‚ strategy formulation‚ strategy implementation and evaluation and control (Hunger and Wheelen‚ 2007). This week’s assignment‚ we will describe the EFAS and the IFAS. Explain the purpose of each tool? We will also explain if there are any weaknesses in the EFAS/IFAS classification system? External Factors Analysis Summary (EFAS)- Is a tool that business strategists use to organize the external factors into the generally accepted categories of opportunities and threats as well as to analyze
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Arun Kuruvilla A Carnival guarantee for the nervous cruiser By Katia Hetter‚ CNN Link to the article: http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/12/travel/carnival-cruises-guarantee/index.html?hpt=hp_bn10 Article Text: (CNN) -- Worried about booking a Carnival Cruise Lines vacation? Problems aboard the Carnival Legend‚ Carnival Dream‚ Carnival Triumph and Carnival Splendor cruise ships may have some first-time cruise customers thinking twice about booking a Carnival brand cruise. Maybe Carnival’s
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Describe the EFAS and the IFAS. What is the purpose of each tool? Are there any weaknesses in the EFAS/IFAS classification system? The EFAS stands for the external factors analysis summary. The EFAS table lists the Opportunities and Threats faced by a company‚ which has five columns. In the first column the opportunities and threats of the company are listed‚ in the second column the weight assigned to each factor is mentioned. The total weights of the external factors add up to 1.0. The third
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plaguing the cruise industry is lack of brand recognition. There are at least 17 different brands in the industry with very little differentiation between them. While there are different categories including contemporary‚ destination‚ premium‚ and luxury‚ there is not much to separate one brand from another in these categories. Many people will decide that they want to go on a cruise and choose one of these categories without considering what the differences are between the brands. Carnival is considered
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Carnival Corporation (2002) I. CASE ABSTRACT In 2002‚ the biding war between Carnival and Royal Caribbean Cruise Line for the Princess Cruise Line ended. Carnival’s bid of %5.67 billion was accepted by Princess’s management‚ the war had lasted for almost a year‚ Princess had 11.9% market share and Carnival had 31.9% - a potential market share of 53.8%. After the terrorist attack on New York City and Washington‚ D.C. on September 11‚ 2001‚ customers for cruises dropped out of the market
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like the cruise industry‚ typically has a more attractive industry structure‚ though the nature and extent of competition in consolidated industries is hard to predict. Such industries typically exhibit high entry barriers‚ differentiated products‚ established brand preferences‚ and often high profitability. In some consolidated industries‚ incumbents fight with each other tooth and nail and hurt industry profitability as well as their own‚ as such is the case with the rivalry between Carnival Corps
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ANALISIS IFAS DAN EFAS PT. LION WINGS A. Latar Belakang PT. Lion Wings PT. Lion Wings semula adalah perusahaan home industry bernama Fa Wings yang didirikan oleh Johannes Ferdinand Katuari (Oen Jong Khing) dan kerabatnya Harjo Sutanto (Tan Siek Miauw) pada tahun 1948. Mula-mula membangun pabrik kecil di pinggiran Surabaya dengan memproduksi sabun cuci detergen (sabun colek) dengan merek Wings yang hingga saat ini masih tetap diabadikan sebagai corporate brandnya. Sejak tahun 1971 sampai
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Problem Statement: Chipotle’s position being a leader in Mexican Restaurant Quick service industry is being threatened by less customer visit frequency; company should try new multi-cuisine food to fit into existing successful Model. Hypothesis: To increase customer visit frequency & gain new food lovers & customers‚ Chipotle should expand its stores or open new line of multi-cuisine restaurant to serve its valued customers by maintaining its quality & standards. Analysis Plan / Solution
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EFAS of Individual Case Anlu Hu 2013/9/7 Case #5 Starbucks Coffee Company: THE INDIAN DLIEMMA External Factors | Weight | Rating | Weighted Score | Comments | Opportunities | | | | | Population | .20 | 5.0 | 1 | NO.2 Population equal big market | Cost of labor | .15 | 5.0 | .75 | Cheap labor | Availability of workforce quantity | .1 | 4.0 | .4 | Over 50% population are 15-59 years | Less coffee retail | .05 | 2.5 | .125 | Only 3 big coffee retail company | Global Retail Development
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Carnival Cruise Lines is a British-American owned cruise line based in the Doral suburb of Miami‚ Florida (Carnival Cruise Lines‚ n.d.). The company offers vacations that appeal to a wide range of lifestyles and budgets. Carnival was founded in 1972 as an independent company by Ted Arison. The cruise line company became known as the world’s most popular cruise line and in 1987 it made an initial public offering of 20 percent of its common stock. The public offering provided the company with an influx
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