STRATEGY FORMULATION NATALIE FELTMAN Key success factors for the low-cost airline industry Figure 1 illustrates the process followed to determine the key success factors (KSF) in the low-cost airline industry. It is adapted from the process developed by Grant (2005: 93). The texts highlighted in red are the responses to the questions posed in the model and serves as the inputs to the discussion on the KSFs for the low-cost airline industry. Figure 1. Identifying key success factors in the
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Differentiation is a strategy that creates product that is unique among firms in the same industry in an important way. A differentiator achieved competitive advantage easily upon the ability in providing distinctive products to its customers that satisfy their needs in a way that is different from its competitors (Hill and Jones‚ 2004‚ p160.).This allows the differentiator to charge on premium price for its products. Unlike cost leaders performing cost reduction‚ differentiators manage to increase
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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENT TITLE: STAKEHOLDERS AND STRATEGIC DIRECTION JUNE 2013 1. Introduction 2. Company profile 3. Stakeholders 4. Stakeholder analysis 5. Corporate strategy 6. Business strategy 7. Functional strategy 8. Operational strategy 9. Strategy and stakeholders 10. Conclusion 11. References 12. Appendix 1. Introduction For any business‚ becoming and staying the market leader is a huge task‚ even for household names
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The idea to enter the world of the full cost carriers by low prices isn’t a new one. Already in 1977 Laker Airways founded the “Sky Train” between London and New York. Even if this service was never successful‚ more and more low cost carriers were founded during the progress of deregulation and the development of an own low cost strategy began. When we today have a look at the homepages of low cost carriers we cannot but state that nearly all of them are operating successful despite the issues of
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9. A potential obstacle to the completion of the merger was US anti-trust regulation which seeks amongst other things to prevent enterprises achieving a dominant position in the US market‚ using material in the case explain why did not pose an obstacle to the merger. US anti-trust regulation is also known as Competition Law ’ prevents enterprises achieving dominant position in the US market. According to Organization for Economic Co-operation and Developments‚ the prerogatives of that regulation
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Helicopteros del Norte S.A. Billing Policy Helicopteros del Norte S.A is a ‘user pays’ organization‚ which means that traveling in a medical helicopter is not free.The cost of helicopter transport varies depending on the nature of the call out. Below are our standard fees for the different services we offer.For insurance against these fees‚ coverage can be provided by becoming a Member of Helicopteros del Norte S.A or through private health insurers.If you already have private health insurance‚
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EUROPEAN BUSINESS JOURNAL An integrated approach to strategy innovation Richard Schoenberg There have been some striking examples of strategy innovation in recent years – consider companies such as easyJet‚ Direct Line Insurance or the retailer Zara – and a growing body of academic literature has emerged on the topic. This article attempts to distil a number of the major insights offered to date‚ with the aim of providing executives with an integrated approach to strategy innovation. It includes techniques
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Definition: A firm pursuing a cost-leadership strategy attempts to gain a competitive advantage primarily by reducing its economic costs below its competitors. If cost-leadership strategies can be implemented by numerous firms in an industry‚ or if no firms face a cost disadvantage in imitating a cost-leadership strategy‚ then being a cost leader does not generate a sustained competitive advantage for a firm. The ability of a valuable cost-leadership competitive strategy to generate a sustained competitive
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February 2003 English and French only THE IMPACT OF LOW COST CARRIERS IN EUROPE (Presented by Albania‚ Armenia‚ Austria‚ Azerbaijan‚ Belgium‚ Bosnia and Herzegovina‚ Bulgaria‚ Croatia‚ Cyprus‚ Czech Republic‚ Denmark‚ Estonia‚ Finland‚ France‚ Germany‚ Greece‚ Hungary‚ Iceland‚ Ireland‚ Italy‚ Latvia‚ Lithuania‚ Luxembourg‚ Malta‚ Moldova‚ Monaco‚ Netherlands‚ Norway‚ Poland‚ Portugal‚ Romania‚ Serbia and Montenegro‚ Slovakia‚ Slovenia‚ Spain‚ Sweden‚ Switzerland‚ The former Yugoslav Republic
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The Low-cost Orange Flying Machine: The Case of easyJet Introduction The colour orange is increasingly becoming synonymous with the firm easyJet as it has become one of the world’s most profitable low-cost airlines (Alamdari and Fagan‚ 2005). This paper examines the basis of their success and argues firstly‚ that easyJet from its inception essentially adopted and stayed with the original low-cost model that was pioneered by Southwest airlines in the USA. Moreover‚ this is a model that has served
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