• A differentiator gains a competitive advantage because it has the ability to satisfy customers’ needs in a way that its competitors cannot, which allows it to charge a premium price for its product. • Premium prices → increased revenue → superior profitability • A differentiator invests its resources to gain a competitive advantage from superior innovation, excellent quality, and responsiveness to customer needs • A product’s appeal to customers’ psychological desires is a source of differentiation. ▫ Example? 13 Differentiation • Generally, a differentiator chooses to divide its market into many segments and offer different products in each segment • A differentiated company concentrates on developing distinctive competencies in the functions that provide competitive advantage ▫ These are still expensive! • A differentiator must control its cost structure to ensure the price of its products does not exceed the price customers are willing to pay for them • When differentiation stems from the design or physical features of the product, differentiators are at great risk of being imitated ▫ Example?
Problem: CanGo has never prepared a SWOT analysis. This can lead to poor decision making and ineffective goal determination. Solution: Prepare a SWOT analysis which shows the company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Strengths and weaknesses are often internal factors while opportunities and threats are external. CanGo needs to do a SWOT analysis in order to identify where they are strong and where they are vulnerable.
Case 5.8 NextCard, Inc. 1. Should auditors evaluate the soundness of a client's business model? Defend your answer. Auditors should not evaluate the soundness of a client's business model. They are not required to have knowledge and expertise to start and maintain a successful business.
CVP analysis allows management to use variable cost to identify future performances within the company. This can also show disadvantages of managers not looking thoroughly through the companies performances. These managers tend to be ones who do not record their records thoroughly. CVP analysis tends to be a beneficial tool to management, but it is limited in the amount of information that can be provided for product operations. This analysis gives a hypothesis of what the question is made of, to give an advantage to management but continues to not be an exact procedure for management.
This generic phrasing, however, does not aid in the differentiation. As a consumer, what about a mission statement such as that would draw me to one company vs. another? “In essence, the mission statement defines the direction in which the organization is heading and how it will succeed in reaching its desired goal” (Peter & Donnelly 8). An article for Demand Media, written by Elizabeth Smith and titled Five Criteria for a Mission Statement, gives a fairly succinct breakdown of what you should look for when both analyzing and writing a mission statement. Smith first directs us that a mission statement be informative.
This practice keeps these businesses in the oligopoly market structure. They must take into account the expected reaction of the other companies. Oligopoly market structure has no definitive plan in place; it is based on strategic planning. This means the company is ready to react to what a competitor may do. Target could have very well been in the monopolistic competition structure but did meet some of the structure points.
Midas Week 1 Assignment BUS 644 Midas This paper will address several issues that are caused in the business operational efficiencies and the various solutions to minimize those issues in business operations. Business operating efficiency is nothing but the ratio between the input to run a business operation and the output gained from the business. In order to improve the operational efficiencies, it is very important that output or productivity surpasses the input. According to (Vonderembse & White, 2013), “the productivity increases, organizations can do the same work with less effort or can do more work with same effort. Increase in the productivity reduce costs, lower price and provide a basis for competing in a world markets.
One could argue though, that receiving a five year employment borderlines financial benefits especially given the worsening financial position of Pharma. Adams and Barker also lacked diligence in investigating the proposal, decision, and transaction and never consulted outside experts. “Directors’ and officers’ decision-making procedures must be set up in a way that allows careful decisions to be made regarding the best interests of the corporation”. (The Legal Environment of Business, 2011) The argument could be made both ways about protection by the business judgment rule concerning rational belief. For Pharma to survive and become viable it was obvious that some decisions had to be made, but was the sale of the assets in the best interest of the corporation, or was it in the best interest of Adams and Barker?
This allows the employer to modify and potentially grow a better business, and with want, a larger one, on a regulated path. After review, it is recognized that not too much negative attention is brought to OSHA, pertaining to small businesses. These businesses are given the opportunity to reconstruct and develop; otherwise could be stated for corporations. OSHA feels that by bringing damaging inspections to the public eye that it will incentivize other companies to succumb to submission. It has been reported that OSHA does not take the proper steps to rectify and/or modify the violations that are released; ultimately, this ‘affects OSHA’s credibility, with employers.’
Crystal Diaz MGT 451 Professor Widman June 13, 2010 1)What does customer satisfaction mean to you and how could you measure that in the stimulation? As Anderson, Fornell, and Rust state, “To compete in such a world, firms must strike the right balance between their efforts to compete efficiently and their efforts to compete effectively.” Two arguments were discussed, one that customer satisfaction and profitability are well-matched. For example, customers that are satisfied can decrease, “the time and effort devoted to handling returns, rework, warranties, and complaint management, while at the same time lowering the cost of making future transactions. The second theory believes that, “ increasing customer satisfaction should increase costs, as doing so often requires efforts to improve product attributes or overall product design.”