CASE 5 MTN GROUP LIMITED Question 1: Why has MTN been successful? MTN has been successful due to the following reasons; 1. TARGET UNDERDEVELOPED MARKETS: MTN has operation in 21 Africa countries and the Middle East. Cellular telephones were popular in Africa because of lack of land line telecommunications in many countries. This boosted the company’s revenue with 43% increase in 2007 resulting to after tax profit of R11.9 ($1.6) billion. MTN strongest growth was in South Africa and Nigeria.
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Environment scanning attempts to provide management with accurate forecasts of trends that relate to external changes in geographic areas where the firm is currently doing business or considering setting up operations. These changes relate to environmental factors that can affect the company and include the industry or market‚ technology‚ regulatory‚ economic‚ social‚ and political aspects. In this case‚ a Canadian manufacturing firm wants to do business in Poland and do the environment scanning. The
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QUESTION 1 QUESTION 1.1 Market structure MTN and Vodacom 1.1.1 Introduction The South African mobile market structure can be classified as an oligopoly‚ or even a duopoly‚ with two firms‚ Vodacom and MTN of more or less the same size dominating the market. Both Vodacom and MTN have market shares of at least 35%. This implies that both firms can be classified as ‘dominant’ i.t.o. the Competition Act. It is also important to note that the combined market share of the two large players is approximately
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Welcome to the New World MTN Group Limited Final results for the year ended 31 December 2012 Agenda 01 Strategic and operational overview Sifiso Dabengwa Group President and CEO 02 Financial overview Nazir Patel Group Chief Financial Officer 03 Looking ahead Sifiso Dabengwa Group President and CEO Strategic and operational overview MTN vision and mission Creating and managing stakeholder value Creating value for our shareholders‚ employees and communities in a sustainable way and
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SKIMMING AND SCANNING Readers use different strategies based on why they are reading. To be an efficient reader‚ students need to know when to use other reading method‚ such as scanning and skimming. * SCANNING involves moving your eyes quickly across a line or down a page to locate particular information or searching for what is needed. Guidelines for scanning a book or a magazine * Understand the organization of the material. * Stay focused on what you are looking for. * Use
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Internal scanning involves looking inside the farm business and identifying strengths and weaknesses and assessing the businesses’ resources and management’s skills. It is part of the strategic planning process. An overview of Strategic Planning for a Farm Business and how internal scanning fits into the planning process is available. Internal business scanning is comprised of the following three categories: 1. Farm Business - What are the unique strengths and limitations of your business? 2.
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READING III Week 3 SKIMMING‚ SCANNING & READING FOR DETAILS As a student‚ you are assigned a lot of reading. Sometimes it is important to read slowly and carefully. Other times‚ you are just trying to find specific information. Skimming and scanning are skills that help you both of these types of reading. SKIMMING – Getting the gist Skimming is a fast reading to get the general idea of the text. Different techniques for skimming include: a. Running your eyes over the text to get the
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Skimming and Scanning Scanning means knowing what information you need to find before you read. You have something in your mind‚ your eyes‚ then‚ move quickly to find that particular information. You scan when you are looking for a fact or a detail or a particular vocabulary word. When you are scanning‚ you don’t have to read every word to answer the questions and don’t have understand every word Skimming means reading quickly for general meaning. You skim reading material to find out about
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REVIEW OF ARTICLE USING EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTAL SCANNING AND FORECASTING TO IMPROVE STRATEGIS PLANNING BY Joel D. Lapin The Community College of Baltimore County Journal of Applied Research in the Community College‚ Vol.11‚ No.2‚ Spring 2004‚ pg 105-113 Joel D. Lapin is a professor of Sociology at The Community College of Baltimore County (Maryland)‚ Catonsville Campus‚ and Vice President and lead consultant in external environmental scanning and forecasting for The Clements Group which
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MTN Group Operating Regions South and East Africa MTN South Africa‚ MTN Swaziland‚ MTN Zambia‚ MTN Uganda‚ MTN Rwanda and Mascom Botswana. West and Central Africa MTN Nigeria‚ MTN Cameroon‚ MTN Congo-Brazzaville‚ MTN Côte d’Ivoire‚ MTN Benin‚ MTN Ghana‚ MTN Guinea Bissau‚ MTN Guinea and MTN Liberia. Middle East and North Africa MTN Iran‚ MTN Afghanistan‚ MTN Cyprus‚ MTN Sudan‚ MTN Syria and MTN Yemen. MTN Group Vision MTN’s vision is to be the emerging markets’ leading telecommunications
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