Slide 3: NOKIA Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation‚ headquartered in Keilaniemi‚ Espoo‚ a city neighboring Finland’s capital Helsinki. Nokia produces mobile phones for every major market segment and protocol‚ including GSM‚ CDMA‚ and W-CDMA (UMTS). Nokia has sites for research and development‚ manufacturing and sales in many continents throughout the world. Slide 4: Nokia Nseries On 27 April 2005‚ Nokia announced a new brand of multimedia devices at the press
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Strategy In The Top Spot In the highly competitive $3 billion mobile phone market in India‚ Nokia has managed to make its brand the phone of choice for millions. It currently has a market share of over 70 per cent. Abhijit Joshi tracks the Finnish company’s strategy for success. W A DISTRIBUTION NETWORK DOUBLE THAT OF ITS RIVALS: Nokia’s Sanjeev Sharma hen mobile phones were introduced in India in the mid-90s‚ US based Motorola‚ Sweden’s Ericsson and Finland’s Nokia dominated the handset
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framework of generic strategies (overall cost leadership‚ differentiation‚ focus) ➢ Describe each of the strategies ➢ Provide examples of firms that have successfully attained as a means of outperforming competitors in their industry ➢ Address how these strategies help a firm develop a favourable position vis-à-vis the five forces ➢ Pitfalls managers must avoid if to pursue successfully these generic strategies ➢ Conditions under which firms may effectively combine generic strategies to outperform
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So Nokia has already been through one (successful) change programme‚ turning itself from an unfocused conglomerate into a focused mobile phone producer. Can it change again? - Global market leader in mobile phones - but not smart phones - Still profitable‚ but revenues under pressure - September 2010: Appointed new CEO - Stephen Elop - to drive strategic change - February 2011 - Elop issued the famous “burning platform” memo bluntly explaining the serious strategic challenges facing Nokia -
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The Portes Case Boston-based Portes‚ Inc. is a software company that has been in operations for 10 years in the United States. Its flagship product is systems recovery software (called RecoverTM) that enables firms to recover data from damaged hard drives. The product has to be customized to client needs and the value of each product unit is high. The firm was founded by its current CEO‚ Diane Mullins‚ who is a software expert with a entrepreneurial bent. She studied computer science as an
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Marketing Strategies in the Competition between Branded and Generic Antibiotics (A) Clamoxyl in 1996 02/2007-5057 This case was prepared by Pierre Chandon‚ Assistant Professor of Marketing at INSEAD‚ Olivier Kovarski‚ Professor of Marketing at ESC Normandie‚ Jacques Lendrevie‚ Professor of Marketing at HEC‚ Sarah Spargo‚ Research Associate at INSEAD‚ and Marc Vanhuele‚ Associate Professor of Marketing at HEC‚ as the basis for class discussion rather than to illustrate either effective
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of Michael Porter’s Generic Strategies in the Romanian Hotel Industry Ovidiu N. Bordean‚ Anca I. Borza‚ Răzvan L. Nistor and Cătălina S. Mitra‚ Abstract— Porter’s generic strategies remain one of the most widely accepted typology of strategic options for businesses. Using a survey a sample of 69 hotel managers from the Nord-West part of Romania was questioned about their current strategic practices. A factor analysis revealed that hotels are pursuing only two strategies that can be identified
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Michael Porter has described a category scheme consisting of three general types of strategies that are commonly used by businesses to achieve and maintain competitive advantage. These three generic strategies are defined along two dimensions: strategic scope and strategic strength. Strategic scope is a demand-side dimension (Michael E. Porter was originally an engineer‚ then an economist before he specialized in strategy) and looks at the size and composition of the market you intend to target. Strategic
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Michael Porter’s Generic Strategies According to Porter‚ strategies allow organizations to gain competitive advantage from three different bases: cost leadership‚ differentiation and focus. Porter calls these bases as generic strategies. Cost leadership emphasizes producing standardized products at a very low per unit cost for consumers who are price sensitive. Differentiation is a strategy aimed at producing products and services considered unique industry wide and directed at customers who are
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Porter’s generic strategies framework constitutes a major contribution to the development of the strategic management literature. Generic strategies were first presented in two books by Professor Michael Porter of the Harvard Business School (Porter‚ 1980‚ 1985). Porter (1980‚ 1985) suggested that some of the most basic choices faced by companies are essentially the scope of the markets that the company would serve and how the company would compete in the selected markets. Competitive strategies focus
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