in an industry following the same strategy along the same strategic dimensions” (Porter‚ 1980) * “a set of firms competing within an industry on the basis of similar scope and resource commitments” (Cool & Schendel‚ 1968) Competitive strategy = a choice of which strategic group to compete in = the choice of the easiest group to ‘get into’ Strategic groups are organisations within an industry with similar strategic characteristics‚ following similar strategies or competition on a similar bases
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Long Case Study – Case #12 Google’s Strategy in 2010 Google’s mission statement is: “Our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” The biggest management issues that we could see in this case were that Google’s management was pushing too hard its employees to keep its huge growth rates and forgot a little bit about its initial motto‚ which was “make money without doing evil”. Also‚ it was proved that Google helped the Chinese government
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Organizational Behavior Google’s “Three Thirds” 1. Using Table 11–1 as a guide‚ what needs to be done to turn Google’s HR group into a true team? Google’s current HR as described in the book works more as groups than as a true team‚ as defined by Katzenback and Smith (Kreitner & Kinicki‚ 2013) There are elements of a team such as they are people with complementary skills and I believe that the groups have the same common commitment‚ to get the highest performance out of it existing employees
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HANYANG UNIVERSITY DIVISION: BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION INSTRUCTOR: PROF. SEONG-JIN CHOI HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL CASE: Google Inc. (Abridged) 2nd case report Fall Semester 2013 Seoul‚ 10th September 2013 submitted by: Karl Rempel Asternweg 5 67551 Worms +49 160 990 100 78 karl.rempel@fh-worms.de student-id: 9100420130 Summary The Harvard Business Case “Google Inc. (Abridged)” from December 14 th 2010‚ written by Benjamin Edelman and Thomas R. Eisenmann‚ describes Google’s
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Google Inc. Study Questions 1. What were the key factors behind Google’s early success? 1. Better search algorithm (PageRank). 2. More indexed web pages (over one billion in the first year) 3. Fast‚ and user-friendly interface and search experience. 4. Effectively being able to monetize searches 2. Do you expect the search business to become more concentrated (i.e.‚ dominated by fewer firms)? Is search a winner-take-all business? I do expect that the search business will become
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Corporate Values‚ Google became a very successful company in the world. Google’s integrality in providing search result helps Google to succeed. There is great potential revenue can be generated from their search service. However Google corporate value “Don’t be evil” refuses to compromise the integrity of search results. The quality search result is important to secure user’s usability of search engine and the confidence in Google. Google’s emphasis on technologies helps Google to excel its competitors
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about content publishing by “experts”‚ without any possibility of interaction between user and author. The second phase of the Web‚ Web 2.0‚ is defined by social media tools‚ which support social interactions and connections with people‚ as well as collaboration and sharing‚ and the creation of user-generated content. This was the major change that allowed the beginning of social networks. Social networks are groups of people who share common interests‚ and social networking sites offer different
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model developed by Michael E. Porter in 1979 to understand how the five competitive forces impacting an industry. • • An analysis tool to determine the profitability of an industry and develop a firm’s competitive strategy. As a framework that classifies and analyses the most important forces that affect the intensity competition in an industry and its profitability level. Porter’s Five Forces Model | Overview THREAT OF NEW force ENTRANTS determines how easy (or This not) to enter a particular
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Case Study 1 Darren Loy Pi Siang 1205153H TE02 1. Name and describe the four product/market expansion grid strategies and explain which strategy Google implemented with the Nexus One. The four product/market expansion grid strategies are Market Penetration‚ Market Development‚ Product Development‚ and Diversification. The Market Penetration strategy is when a company is introducing a new product into the market that has similarities to current products in the market. One of the most effective
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0 More Next Blog» Create Blog Sign In Business Models & Strategy The Business Models & Strategy blog is an online resource center for entrepreneurs‚ small business owners‚ business and marketing professionals. Our goal is to provide relevant information‚ educate and engage with all the professional that are interested in business and strategy. Home Business Toolkits T h ur s day‚ June 30‚ 2011 Labels Use of Porter’s (1985) Value Chain Framework Checklists (2) Use of Porter’s (1985) Value Chain Framework
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