Strengths include the well-designed products that the company puts out‚ such as the iPhone‚ iPad and Macintosh computers. Apple has loyal customers and the strength of its products allows it to charge more than its competitors. Weaknesses include Apple’s relative softness in the business market. Most of its products are bought by everyday consumers and aren’t widely used by businesses – PCs are more common computers to find in an office‚ and Research In Motion‚ which makes Blackberry phones‚ has
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economic issues and provide efficient information to the users‚ and such role is taken by Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) as well. The CAPM is the key theory in the stock market and industries; it is widely used by analysts‚ investors and corporations. In this essay I am going to discuss the recent developments about the CAPM‚ and refer to both advantages and disadvantages. Capital Asset Pricing Model The initial development of the CAPM was building upon Markowitz’s idea‚ and the model was further
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Strategy and Business Policy / SCHINDL 04/03/2013 Strategic Management & Business Policy How to assure a competitive advantage sources and basic choices when developing a strategy copyright 2010 formulating a strategy 1. understand stakeholders as components of your future strategy 2. understand their needs and their power options 3. understand the „landscape“ you are in 4. realize the options to turn stakeholders into partners how to formulate a strategy now ? copyright 2010
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1. Introduction In this report‚ i’m selected AirAsia Berhad. The objectives and scope of this report was included conduct an analysis of industry environment and organisation capability. Besides that‚ there were also included sources of competitive advantage and the ways were used to sustain these competitive advantages. 2. Brief description of the Company Core business of AirAsia Berhad is broken travel norms around the globe and has risen to become the world best. Route
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management The concept of strategy ➢ Strategy is the great work of organization. In situations of life or death it is the Tao of survival or extinction. Its study cannot be neglected. ----SUN TZU‚ The Art of War.2500 B.C ➢ Strategy is about winning. ➢ Strategy is not a detailed plan or program of instructions‚ it is a unifying theme that gives coherence and direction to the actions and decisions of an individual or an organization. Characteristic of a winning strategy ➢ Goals that
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Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM): Pros and Cons. CAPM defines the relationship between risk and return. The premise of the model is that the expected investment return varies in direct proportion to its risk‚ i.e.‚ the riskier the investment - the higher the return you should expect. Shows: • how much risk you are taking when investing in an instrument? • whether the instrument is rightly priced • whether you are getting sufficient return for the risk you are taking CAPM calculates the
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GENERAL PRICING APPROACHES There are four general pricing approaches: Mark-up pricing - The practice of adding a constant percentage to the cost price of an item to arrive at its selling price. Mark-up pricing is a pricing strategy in which the cost of the product is first calculated then a proportion of its markup was added. It is used primarily because it is easy to calculate and requires little information. An example of this are the retail stores. Value-based pricing - also value optimized
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Introduction A difficult characteristic to understand about the housing market is how a price is given for a particular house. That price will be designated to that particular house alone. All houses have various pricing‚ so I can’t always assume that one will cost more or less than any other. The pricing for houses vary based on their characteristics. Each characteristic must be analyzed to determine its contribution or detraction toward the price. I have taken some of these characteristics and modeled the
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Introduction Pricing is an important strategic issue because it is related to product positioning. There are many ways to price a product‚ eg. price skimming‚ penetration pricing‚ etc. Price skimming is a pricing strategy in which a marketer sets a relatively high price for a product or service at first‚ and then lowers the price over time where a new‚ innovative‚ or much-improved product is launched onto a market. The objective with skimming is to “skim” off customers who are willing to pay more
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4. Predatory Pricing 5. Mutual forbearance 6. Game Theory 7. Market Commonality 8. Antitrust Policy 9. Operational Synergy 10. Financial Synergy ------------------------------------------------- Tacit Collusion: Definition: “Circumstance where two companies agree upon a certain strategy without putting it in writing or spelling out the strategy explicitly” Tacit Collusion is seemingly independent; Two firms agree to play a certain strategy without explicitly
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