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    Microsoft is a world leader in the PC industry and has $36.2 billion of cash. However‚ sales of PC would not last forever! The PC industry which is in its fourth decade shows signs of saturation and maturity (exhibit 13 in case). Launching XBOX allowed Microsoft to drive a revolution in digital entertainment and deliver the future of experience. The decision taken by Microsoft lead to its diversification in gaming consoles and online gaming industry. The diversification allowed Microsoft to utilize

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    STRATEGY & TRANSFORMATION FINAL ESSAY Topic: When A Company Likely To Choose Related Diversification and When Is It Likely To Choose Unrelated Diversification? Introduction First of all‚ “corporate strategy is what makes the corporate whole add up to more than the sum of its business unit parts” (Porter‚ M. E.‚ 1987 cited in Mintzberg et al 2003‚ p.451). In this regard‚ corporate-level strategy is concerned with two related issues; “first one is what businesses a corporation should compete

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    Diversification IBM a Fortune 500 company celebrated its 100th birthday this past June. IBM employs over 400‚000 employees and is considered to be a $100 billion dollar or more giant in e-business global marketing technology. With the inception of the computer‚ IBM’s core business was mainframe computers‚ which almost bought the company to its knees in bankruptcy. IBM looked at the PC as just a gadget and with any gadget over time would fade into oblivion. IBM would find out the hard way

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    Diversification Strategies BUS 508 Contemporary Business Seena S. Nelms Strayer University Diversification Strategies What is diversification? According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary online‚ diversifications means to produce variety or to engage in varied operations. Diversification is a strategy that takes companies into new markets with new products and services to increase their profitability. Some corporations have diversified and succeeded‚ while other have

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    Diversification Strategies Bus508 09/15/2010 1. Compare and contrast the two businesses-core business‚ their size‚ financials‚ global presence‚ use of e business (marketing‚ sales etc) The first business I examined was NetFlix. Netflix is in the midst of a company downturn and must make drastic changes to turn the company back around. Recently the company decided to increase the cost of their monthly services from $10 to $16. This over time caused a decline of 805‚000 customers domestically

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    Abstract Diversification is a form of corporate strategy to increase profitability of a company through greater sales volume obtained from new products and new markets. Diversification strategies are used to expand firms’ operations by adding markets‚ products‚ services‚ or stages of production to the existing business. I will be discussing diversification strategies of Johnson & Johnson who have benefited from diversification and National Semiconductors Company which was not able to succeed

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    Diversification Strategies Diversification is a risk that companies have to take in order to stay competitive in it’s changing market. Some companies have been successful diversifying their business‚ and in opposition there are other companies that in the process of expanding their business have not succeeded. For the purpose of this report‚ I will use the “Sara Lee Corporation” as a successful company throughout its diversification strategies. On the other hand‚ I would use Ebay as an example

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    BUS 508 | Diversification Strategies | Dr. Marilyn Caroll | | Kayla Lewis | 5/6/2012 | Diversification Strategies In today’s global markets companies are faced with tough decisions‚ one of the toughest decisions a corporation faces is whether or not they should diversify their business. Diversification simply means to mix a wide variety of investments within a portfolio. The rationale behind this technique contends that a portfolio of different kinds of investments will‚ on average

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    Diversification strategies are strategies used by companies to try to increase profitability through greater sales volumes obtained by new products and/or services. Amazon.com has diversified quite a bit since its conception in 1995. Starting out as an online bookstore‚ and evolving into a one stop e-shopping hub where millions of people shop for a variety of different items over the internet. Amazon.com today is one of the largest online retailers in the world. However‚ when companies try diversification

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    Diversification Strategies Let’s explain diversification of a company first; I myself thought it meant something totally different. A diversified company is a company that has multiple unrelated businesses. Those different businesses require separate management teams‚ have different customers‚ and produce different products or sell different services. One of the advantages of being a diversified company is that can create a separation from issues of one of the other businesses. Companies can

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