Robert G. Mondavi‚ the son of poor Italian immigrants‚ began making wine in Califor¬nia in 1943 when his family purchased the Charles Krug winery in Napa Valley where he served as a general manager. In 1966‚ at the age of 54‚ after a severe dispute over control of the family-owned winery‚ Robert Mondavi used his personal savings and loans from friends to start the flagship Robert Mondavi Win¬ery in Napa Valley with his eldest son‚ Michael Mondavi. Robert’s vision was to create wines in California
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do you identify as Sony’s resources‚ capabilities and core competencies? Does Sony have a sustainable competitive advantage? Sony Corporation is considered one of the world’s most successful companies‚ operating in the “electronics‚ games‚ music‚ films and financial services” industry (Hanson et al‚ 2001). Sony is known for creating “products that stimulate the senses and refresh the spirit” (Sony‚ 2007). Effectively managing a combination of its resources‚ capabilities and core competencies‚ has
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“An internal capacity for leveraging resources and competences is a prerequisite for creating competitive advantage. Discuss‚ with references to theory and real world organization of your choice”. Strategic management is a multi faced and vast area of study with many theorists presenting differing views as to what is crucial to the successful formulation of strategy. This essay will present an explanation of the internal capacity of leveraging resources and competences and show how they are creating
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Strategy Analysis on “Robert Mondavi and the Wine Industry” Robert Mondavi and the Wine Industry The following case study analysis the past success of Robert Mondavi (RM) as a Californian wine maker and the changes in the wine making industry that resulted in struggles‚ threat and – lastly – the takeover of the Mondavi Winery (MW) by Constellation Brands in 2003. In addition‚ it will provide some thoughts on strategic moves to enhance the future success of the MW. A. Analysis of Past Success
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Strategic Capabilities 2011 Introduction Strategy is all about planning the next moves‚ making decisions - how and where to move forward from the current position. In the past‚ strategy was associated mainly with the military sector‚ the top chiefs of command were making tactical choices in order to defeat their rivals and achieve victory. In the business sector the purpose of strategy is in principle the same‚ planning and building a road or path that will lead us to where ever it is
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Robert Mondavi Corp. Analysis I. Summary  Company founded in 1966 by Robert Mondavi in Napa Valley‚ California  Company vision to make California a recognized wine producing region alongside great winemaking regions of Europe  Major focus on technology and wine growing techniques  Production of premium to super ultra premium wines  Mondavi focuses on personal sales‚ wine competitions‚ and lavish parties to promote the wines rather than conventional
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Strategic Management Journal Strat. Mgmt. J.‚ 21: 1105–1121 (2000) DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES: WHAT ARE THEY? KATHLEEN M. EISENHARDT* and JEFFREY A. MARTIN Department of Management Science and Engineering‚ Stanford University‚ Stanford‚ California‚ U.S.A. This paper focuses on dynamic capabilities and‚ more generally‚ the resource-based view of the firm. We argue that dynamic capabilities are a set of specific and identifiable processes such as product development‚ strategic decision making‚ and
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1a) Dynamic capabilities are abilities which enable the organisation to renew and recreate its strategic capabilities to meet the needs of the changing environment. It is the capacity of an organisation to change which enables them to adapt more readily. Sustainable competitive advantage relies on resources‚ competencies and capabilities evolving with the dynamics of the industry. Sustainable competitive advantage is achieved when an organisation’s capabilities are of value to customers‚ unique
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What are capabilities? What must firms do to create capabilities? Capability is a capacity for a set of resources to integratively perform a stretch task. It represents the identity of the firm as perceived by both its employees and customers. It is the firm’s ability to perform better than competitors using a distinctive and difficult to replicate set of business attributes. The organization’s capability is comprised of three core assets – physical capital‚ including all tangible assets; technology
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Process capability studies determine whether a process is unstable‚ investigate any sources of instability‚ determine their causes‚ and take action to resolve such sources of instability. After all sources of instability have been resolved in a process‚ the natural behavior of the process is called its process capability. Process capability compares the output of a process (called “Voice of the Process”) with the customer’s specification limits for the outputs (called “Voice of the Customer”). A
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