Essays on Value Chain Analysis

Discuss the positives and negatives of corporate culture in the competitiveness of a firm. Relate how firms should deal with different corporate cultures in mergers and acquisitions. According to Wheelen and Hunger (2015), "corporate culture fulfills several important functions in an organization. It conveys a sense of identity for employees and helps generate employee commitment to something greater than them. It adds to the stability of the organization as a social system and serves as a frame of reference for employees to use to make sense of organizational activities as well as a guide for appropriate behavior." One of ...

Introduction

Samsung is a multinational Electronics company that has existed in the market for the last 70 years. It is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea with regional conglomerates across the world. This company is involved in diverse business operations spanning from the manufacture and supply of semiconductors, digital media, mobile products, consumer electronics, wireless wearable, home appliances and industrial appliances. In 2009, Samsung Electronics Inc. was touted as the world’s largest corporation based on revenues and a market leader in the electronics industry. On top of being the world’s largest semiconductor chip producer, it is also, the world’ ...

Abstract

The paper involves the study of the implementation of management accounting in the business environment as a way for companies to attain competitive advantage. The aspect of the paper is of high importance because every business needs to succeed or be ahead of a competitor and the only way to achieve that is through use of the competitive advantage. Competitive advantage can be difficult to obtain especially if a firm does not implement Porter’s competitive resources to analyse and understand the market environment. The paper will also briefly describe the aspect of management accounting and the activities it ...

Introduction

The present report comprises of three sections. The first section discusses the recent trends in the business environment, which call for the attention of the Board of Directors as well as the Chief Executive Officer. The next section discusses Porter’s generic strategies including overall cost leadership, product differentiation, and focus strategies and demonstrates the way their implementation will help Partical, Inc. stay ahead of the competition in the global environment. The last section discusses and evaluates both the value chain analysis and Porter’s Five Forces, and indicates how the firms can gain competitive advantage through their effective ...

Alpha Group

Consolidated financial statement of financial position for the year ended 31st December, 2015. Items £ (000) £ (000) Long-assets 2014 2015 Investment property, fair value 2500 2500 Property, plant, $ equipment 4324 4818 Total long-term assets 6824 7318 Current assets Cash 200 140 Cash equivalent 30 20 Trade receivables 1900 1200 Inventory 1000 1950 Dividends 100 190 Non-controlling interest share 120 150 Inventory, fair value cost to complete and sell 180 150 Total current assets 3530 3800 Total assets 10354 11118 Equity and liabilities Share capital 1500 1250 Retained earnings 1910 1000 Profits for the year 1000 1250 Dividends payables 100 190 ...

Value Chain

The objective of analyzing Monster’s value chain is to make a product that will become popular to its customers, which includes not only the production segment but also marketing and distribution (Horngren and Data, 2015). This is because products will eventually need to be discontinued due to changing customer preferences and product innovation from competitors. This means that the company’s core operations and its products must continuously evolve and this could be done using the value chain analysis tool. For an energy drink company like Monster, one of its main goals is to continuously adapt to the ...

Introduction

As a consultant, I have been hired by Boeing to investigate the advantages of outsourcing, the problems, and risks of outsourcing, and to give recommendations based on the Boeing 787 project. In January 2003, the Board of Boeing decided to offer a new, light, fuel efficient, long-range airplane made out of composites (Tang & Zimmerman, 2009). To reduce the development cost from $10 billion to $6 billion, and cut the development time from six to four years, Boeing’s management outsourced the manufacturing of the 787 aircraft to its Tier 1 suppliers (Tang & Zimmerman, 2009). The complex supply chain was ...

Vivendi SA

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Introduction

Vivendi SA is an integrated media group that operates throughout its value chain and is focused of expanding its business in order to provide unlimited means of entertainment to its customers. The company owns the leading subsidiary businesses like Universal Music Group, Canal+ Group, Gameloft, Ubisoft, Daily motion and Radionomy. The current paper aims to conduct the Resource Based View Analysis, Value Chain Analysis and Core Competency Analysis in order enlighten the resources, efficient work processes and market standing of the company.

Tangible Resources Financial The Net Cash Position of Vivendi SA indicates that the company has ...

Internal Analysis of Encana

Internal Analysis of Encana

Introduction

The oil and gas industry in North America is currently experiencing challenges and transition stage. The increasing need for the environment-friendly and sustainable forms of energy is affecting the industry negatively as more governments and companies are encouraged to use energy with no or low carbon emission. More companies are now developing solar and wind energy and create vehicles that can rely on electricity rather than oil. Such growing trend in the energy sector resulted to lower demand of oil and gas particularly in the North America. Many oil and gas producing countries and companies ...

Imperial Oil, founded in 1880 is a giant petroleum producing company, with its headquarters located in Calgary, Canada. It is the second largest integrated petroleum company in Canada and has registered a phenomenal growth since its inception. Its operations consist of exploring and producing oil, manufacturing and distributing petroleum products for energy sources, producing chemicals for industrial and domestic use through innovative and sustainable technology. ( Annual report, 2016) reports a cash generation of $22 bn from operations only during 2010-2015. Its performance can be evaluated from the growing dividends paid to its shareholders in last 21 consecutive years. Imperial ...

Internal Analysis

The process of internal analysis helps in identifying and evaluating an organization’s capabilities, resources, and core competencies. Internal Assessment The internal assessment has three main components that are resources, value chain, and core competencies. The assessment of these components helps in determining the internal strength of the company.

Resource Based Views

The resource-based view helps an organization to analyze the tangible and intangible resources that are available at the disposal of the firm and can be used. These resources are determined to develop a competitive advantage of an organization. The main aim of the model is to analyze the internal resources ...

Tesla Motors is one of the most promising companies in automotive industry regardless of its business struggles in the past. In fact, despite the costly prices of its unique cars, the company has gained strong based of consumers and followers of the brand. With this impressive performance in the market, a study concerning its business strategy through SWOT analysis and Value Chain analysis is worth setting. It is interesting to note the fact that the company has reportedly reconfigured its system and has taken full charge and ownership of its value chain concerning strategy. This is with a determined ...

Samsung Electronics

The name of the company is Samsung, which is a multinational conglomerate company. The link to the original website is www.samsung.com.

BACKGROUNG and HISTORY

Samsung is headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul. The South Korean multinational conglomerate has numerous subsidiaries and affiliation with several businesses. The largest chaebol of South Korea was founded in 1938 by Lee Byung-chul. The business started as a trading company, but the group expanded itself by diversifying into areas such as textiles, insurance, retail, securities, and food processing. In the late 1960s, the company stepped in the electronic industry. Samsung was separated into four groups in 1987 following ...

Context

A classical fashion company, J.Crew faces challenges from various directions, demanding it to keep innovate, offering fashionable models, while maintaining its conservative style and reasonable prices (Strickland & Lindsay 200). With a fierce competition, conducted by reputable brands, J.Crew requires a turnaround strategy for enhancing its competitiveness in a time wherein fast fashion and authentic, luxury clothing are in a paradoxical relationship of contradiction and completion (Joy et al. 274).

PESTEL The microenvironment plays an important part in J.Crew’s current business performance. The political, economic, social, technological, environmental and legal factors (PESTEL) define the context that influences the company’ ...

Internal analysis of Hudson’s Bay Company

Introduction The internal analysis of a firm enables the understanding of the internal factors that has contributed to the position that the firm is currently in. It involves the analysis of the resources of the firm and the attributes such as inbound logistics, operations, marketing, human resources management, development of technology that adds value to the organisation. The core competency analysis enables the understanding of the expertise, skills and abilities it has to maintain a competitive position in the industry. Internal analysis also enables the finding of the key success factors that are contributing to the competitive advantage of ...

Internal Analysis of PetSmart Inc

Resources are considered to be operational incentive, which a business or an organization may have. Identifying with the PetSmart Inc. the resources that the business has are analyzed from the perspective of the tangibles and the intangible resources. According to Ulrich (2013), the choice of the tangible and intangible resources can best fit the description of the internal environment, which the organization has in terms of business management incentives. Tangible resources The domain of the tangible resources is filled with the resources that are seen and can be handled by the metric measures of resource performances. In this case, ...

Internal analysis of Enbridge Inc.

Introduction Enbridge Inc. a distribution and transportation of energy company operating in the United States and Canada. The company is divided into five segments to facilitate its operations and achieve its long-term corporate objectives. The sections include Liquids Pipelines; Gas Distribution; Sponsored Investments and Corporate and Gas Pipelines, Processing and Energy Services (Finance.yahoo.com, 2016). The company operates a common carrier through the Liquids Pipelines segment by contrasting natural gas liquids, refined products, and crude oil pipelines as well as terminals. The Gas Distribution Segment is a natural gas utility serving industrial, commercial and residential customers in Quebec, New York, ...

Internal Analysis

Internal Analysis

Introduction

According to David (2011), every organization has weaknesses and strengths in its functional areas. Organizations have several functional areas depending on the industry they operate in. A firm that seeks competitive advantage against rivals must build on its distinctive competencies, which are inimitable strengths that others cannot replicate. Similarly, it is important to build on weaknesses and to turn them into strengths. The process of internal analysis, therefore, involves establishing the company’s strengths and weaknesses within key functional areas. Once completed, an internal analysis helps employees to understand and perform their roles within the larger organizational ...

Executive Summary:

The competition in the market is growing and energy sector is not an exception. The saturation of the players is high and thus the intensity of competition is high. Windflow is a Company that has been serving its client since a long time; however the Company has not been able to set any competitive advantage in relation to the industry. In this scenario on the business level, there are two open options for the business. They are either to enter into a new market category or to create a unique strategy of positioning in the market. There are two ...

Costa Coffee-Business Strategy Analyses

The strategic tools used Analyse the company’s history, development, and growth The strategy tool used to analyze this question is the Critical success factors. As discussed below, there are various factors that have contributed to the development and growth of the company. The tool is chosen because it is possible to identify the factors in the case study. Costa coffee began its operations in the United Kingdom in 1971. Costa coffee was brought into existence by two brothers Sergio and Bruno Costa. They served the first coffee to some caterers in London. In 1978, the company opened its ...

Introduction

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is also referred to as FCA. It is an Italian American multinational and currently sits as the seventh largest car manufacturing company globally. The organization was formed in the year 2014 following the merger of Fiat S.p.A. Fiat S.p.A. consisted of many brands including Fiat, Ferrari, Maserati, Alfa Romeo, Maserati, the Chrysler group amongst many other models. The company merged and incorporated in Netherlands into Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. Fiat was established in 1889 and has been involved in many endeavors including railway manufacturing, railway engines, military cars, aircrafts, and farm tractors. Over the years, the company ...

Management

Part V. Business Strategy Sony has differentiated its products and services. The company has used differentiation as its business level strategy. The basis of this differentiation in case of Sony is its core competence of product miniaturization. Miniaturized televisions, radios, cassette recorder, camcorder, and walkman cassette recorder are all examples of differentiated products that Sony has developed by using its core competence. Furthermore, the company has also used miniaturization competence in order to manufacture laptops so that the company become capable of maintain its competitive position in the market place, and to face competition as there is intensity of ...

Business

IKEA’s Value Chain Analysis The revolutionary idea of studying the value chain embedded in an entity was postulated by Michael Porter as part of which he tried to depict how the entity accumulates customer value along with the chain of activities that it performs. Stated otherwise, the value-chain analysis is an analytical framework that identifies business activities or process inputs that eventually create value for the customers of the company or/and provides competitive advantage to the entity. Owned by Stichting INGKA Foundation, IKEA is the world’s largest furniture retailer with the presence in more than 40 countries ...

Value Chain and the Internal Environment

Value Chain and the Internal Environment

Introduction

Every business should have a strategic management process in place for it to be competitive in the market. Ideally, strategic management helps an organization define its stand in the market. A value chain is the co-existence of various departments as they work together to achieve a common goal. The objective of the value chain is to create useful products from inputs. Also, it gives business a competitive advantage and helps it operate in a market where competitors exist. This paper is an overview of the value chain and the internal environment.

Ideally, strategic ...

Supply Chain Management

Introduction The global nature of business has been changing over the years, and most businesses are in the quest of growth, and the desire to reach new markets. Most business firms focus on production, marketing and finance, with avid attention directed into achieving customer satisfaction through effective and efficient operations of various processes in the business. In light with this, competition is an aspect that seriously affects many businesses, and in order to address this, most firms consider the use of the supply chains, which aid in the efficient distribution of goods at minimized costs but sufficient profits ( ...

Abstract

This paper focuses on analyzing value chain of Fluor Corporation. The paper is carrying out evaluation of several processes of Fluor along with a Close and comprehensive analysis of all processes that deliver high quality to the customer. The company deals with mega projects hence it is very important to complete the projects on time with all desired specifications and good quality. An effective Value chain helps in completing the projects on time with high quality.

Fluor Value Chain Analysis

Thesis Statement: this paper intends to discuss a comprehensive analysis of Fluor Value Chain. The paper further elaborates upon how Flour is able to establish a strong ...