The case study was all about the launch of TiVo and the consumer behavior around the product. TiVo was launched in 1999 and didn’t quite receive the response the company had hoped for. As a result the marketing team led an effort to further understand the nature of TiVo’s appeal for existing and potential customers and to encourage other participators such as advertisers and television network to take accountability for TiVo’s relevance in the lives of consumers. The bulk of TiVo’s customer base
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penetration Situation analysis Company Offer high-quality‚ valuable product with much satisfaction 0.04 market penetration charged service fees strong strategic ties with Sony and Philips‚ co branding competition Replay TV Ultimate ReplayTV: comparable quality‚ pause live TV‚ record programs‚ price $200 above TiVo Key: quickskip UltimateTV: watch and record‚ simultaneously‚ 30s skip‚ subscript Customers The average American spends 4.3 hours/day watching tc After TiVo: 31% 31% strength innovators
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Case study: TiVo 1. What are TiVo’s competitive advantages? Disadvantages? - Advantages: TiVo can offer many features that others can’t‚ such as the ability to stream television‚ photos and music‚ although Media center PC’s offer more features than TiVo. Moreover‚ TiVo offers many services such as "wish list"‚ "season passes"‚ the capability to provide interactive ads with specific TV programs and the ability to collect fine-grained data on consumer viewing habits. Another advantage is the
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Thoma Bravo – Citect Corporation (HBS 9-209-022) Study Questions 1. Do you think TB or Schneider would create more value as the owner of Citect? 2. TB would assume what risks if they are the winning bidder? 3. Should TB continue to bid on Citect and at what price? Are the expected ROIs and IRRs to TB sufficient at your revised bid amount? (* note: a detailed evaluation model will be constructed during the class session *) Study Questions 1. Is Newell just another conglomerate? How
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standpoint. What is TiVo? What factors facilitate its adoption? What factors make adoption difficult? Who is TiVo best suited for? (1) TiVo是DVR(digital video recorder)軟硬體整合技術的企業，消費者可將各項來源如傳統天線、有線電視、直播衛星及透過區域網路(LAN)，以指定或邊看邊錄的創新體驗．透過EPG(Electronic Program Guide)介面，依方便的時間享受以電視為核心的數位家庭娛樂． (2) 下列以學者Roger提出的「創新擴散」理論中ACCORD模型來說明吸引消費者及阻礙因素： Factors Influencing the Adoption Process What factors facilitate its adoption? What factors make adoption difficult (Relative)Advantage TiVo化被動為互動，顛覆消費者的模式與習慣，以專屬硬體和軟體讓消費者掌握電視節目控制權，利用時間差效應(time
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1. Analyze the situation from the consumer’s standpoint. What is TiVo? What factors facilitate its adoption? What factors make adoption difficult? Who is TiVo best suited for? TiVo is a form of television recording technology used to record shows based on the users preferences. It can store a vast amount of recorded shows and play them back with out the interruption of commercials. It has added features such as pause and fast-forward‚ which can enhance and improve the television viewing pleasure
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Case: Land Securities Group (A): Choosing Cost or Fair Value on Adoption of IFRS Case Number: 9-105-014 Topic: Financial Reporting and Control Description: A U.K. real estate firm‚ required to adopt international accounting standards (IAS) by 2005‚ must change the reporting of its primary asset (investment property) from the revaluation model under U.K. GAAP to either the cost or fair-value model under IAS. This would have a number of effects on European investment property firms‚ including
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inertia of prospects and the evangelical zeal of TiVo users.” As an emerging expert in consumer behavior how would you tackle that mystery? What do you think could be going on? Beyond your pet hypothesis‚ try to be creative and list a large number of conflicting hypotheses by taking multiple points of view. What might “evangelists” mention as a cause of their failure to sell TiVo to their friends? What might a “couch potato” say about his reluctance to buy TiVo? What would you expect a top executive at
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The case analysis of the TIVO Question 1: Analyze the situation from the consumer’s standpoint. What is TIVO? What factors facilitate adoption? Who is TIVO best suited for? From the customer’s standpoint: (1)TIVO was a solution to help you to decide what and when you want to watch on the TV‚ it make the customer watch TV more convenient and effective because it have several new functions like pausing‚ fast forwarding and replaying‚ flexible recording services that customers have never experienced
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1) TiVo holds several competitive advantages: - Innovation: TiVo has innovated its product to provide premium service applications like HMO and unique opportunities for advertisers and networks to air "showcases" four-six minute long commercials. - Patents: TiVo was early to the market‚ and therefore holds several significant patents that keep competitors from copying key functions of the product like optimization of disk space and scheduling. - Licenses: TiVo has a number of prominent licensees
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