...University | Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University | Strategic Analysis Report Hitachi LTD (4000 words) | 1.0 Introduction This report will conduct a strategic analysis report on Hitachi Ltd. On a famous advertistment (advertisement) about Hitachi’s smart cities and its social innovation business it suggests the following: “Even apart, we are connected. Even in absence we are still joined. Past and present connect! thus； we see the future. IT connects with infrastructure to link the world to bring better quality of life, urban planning, transport, electricity, industry, the enviroment, Hitachi’s expertise, its people, its technology are all at the service of society..... Hitachi inspires the Next ” (Hitachi, 2012) 2.0 Vision statement and report structure “The Hitachi Group is active in various fields ranging from social infrastructures to home appliances, materials, logistics, and services. Our goal is to seek constantly to breathe new life into the next era, an outlook expressed in our corporate slogan: “Inspire the Next.” We seek to become a vigorous company that will grow throughout the 21st century, contributing to society by helping to build comfort and prosperity” (Hitachi, Hitachi ltd, 2012). Above is an extract from a Hitachi advertisement derived from the Hitachi Smart city concept, that the company seems to be centrally pursuing in its global strategy via a strategy called the ‘social innovation business’. The advertisement, vision and the corporate...
Words: 4145 - Pages: 17
...the contents of this announcement. (Stock Code: 0322) Progress in Tingyi and PepsiCo Strategic Alliance in China The appended press release is issued in connection with the progress in Tingyi (Cayman Islands) Holding Corp. (“Tingyi Holding”) and PepsiCo strategic alliance in China. The information in the press release may be price sensitive. This announcement containing the press release is accordingly being issued pursuant to Part XIVA of the Securities and Futures Ordinance. This announcement is issued by Tingyi Holding pursuant to Part XIVA of the Securities and Futures Ordinance. Investors are advised to exercise caution in dealing in shares of Tingyi Holding. As at the date of this announcement, the Directors of Tingyi Holding are: Executive Directors: Mr. WEI Ing-Chou, Mr. Junichiro IDA, Mr. Ryo YOSHIZAWA, Mr. WEI Ying-Chiao, Mr. WU Chung-Yi, Mr. Teruo NAGANO; and Mr. HSU Shin-Chun, Mr. LEE Tiong-Hock, Mr. Hiromu FUKADA By order of the Board Tingyi (Cayman Islands) Holding Corp. Ip Pui Sum Company Secretary Tianjin, 22nd October 2013 * For identification purposes only Independent Non-executive Directors: Tingyi- PepsiCo Strategic Alliance in China Progressing Well - Tingyi manufacturing network has accelerated national distribution of PepsiCo beverage brands throughout China More than 35 Tingyi manufacturing lines added to produce PepsiCo beverage brands The strategic alliance brings new products quicker to the market, offers increased choices for consumers;...
Words: 1399 - Pages: 6
...December 5, 2011 To: Google Management Subject: Google Corporate Strategy Larry, this summarizes our analysis of Google’s current corporate strategy and outlines recommendations to guide future strategic decisions in Google’s incredibly volatile marketplace. Our goal is to help identify where Google’s environment is shifting and how Google can respond proactively to continue the market-beating growth and profitability of past years. Recommendations: 1. Google should continue with its acquisition strategy, utilizing the 70/20/10 plan, and internal operations with refined real options approach. 2. Use the Motorola Mobility acquisition to stage growth by entering the mobile hardware market. The integration of hardware and software capabilities opens a huge door for the company. While understanding the importance of advertising revenue to Google and the need to sustain it, the timing is right to diversify revenue streams and monetize the Android platform through the manufacture of integrated Google phones. This recommendation is important as a means of protecting Google from experiencing the preverbal paradox of success. Moving into mobile manufacturing also helps diversify Google’s revenue stream as Google finds itself losing advertising revenue to other websites, such as Facebook, Netflix, and others. Thus, beyond the importance of protecting Google’s right to make the Android operating system through the acquisition of 17,000 patents, a move which ultimately protects...
Words: 5225 - Pages: 21
...Blue Ocean Strategy (your name) MKT/421 (due date) (instructor name) Blue Ocean Strategy A blue ocean is uncontested market space that does not exist now, but will in the future. Blue ocean strategy refers to innovation and development of products and services that have not been offered previously. It is a method of systematically pursuing differentiation and low cost and effectively making the competition irrelevant. “Blue ocean strategy describes how organizations should try and find a way to work in a marketplace that isn’t bloodied by the competition and is free of competitors” (Brooks, 2013, Dec 17). Four actions and questions, known as the ERRC Grid, are part of creating a blue ocean strategy (ERRC Grid, 2012, Apr 19): 1. Eliminate - Which of the factors that the industry takes for granted should be eliminated? 2. Reduce - Which factors should be reduced well below the industry's standard? 3. Raise – What factors should be raised well above the industry’s standard? 4. Create - Which factors should be created that the industry has never offered? Canopus Business Management Group shares three characteristics to unlock a blue ocean - focus, divergence, and a compelling tagline. These three characteristics assist in answering the four questions posed above. * Focus – “Focus is the key factors where the company has raised its performance or standard in comparison to industry peers to differentiate them. A company should not diffuse its efforts on...
Words: 978 - Pages: 4
...revenues reached $ 44.33 billion on the quarter ending on December 31st, 2012, Gross Profit grew to $20.7 billion and a net income of $13.06 billion. Notice that Apple not only has greater revenue but its profits margins are several times greater than HP’s. On the other hand, Dell has made less revenues and profit than HP. During its quarter ending on February 2nd, 2012 Dell’s total revenue was $16 billion, gross profit $3.38 billion and net income $764 million. Both companies have shown weak earnings results compared to previous years during the same quarters, however HP have better earnings because of its global presence in several markets. How globalization has affected the company business strategies. At HP, its approach to social innovation is integrated into its overall business strategy. The company applies its global reach, broad portfolio, and the expertise of its employees to help improve social and economic conditions worldwide in ways that only enterprises with HP's reach can. At the same time, its initiatives have successfully opened up new markets and developed existing ones....
Words: 1208 - Pages: 5
...which lead to a drop in Inventec’s stock price. * Inventec had exclusive contracts with Compaq and Toshiba leading to customer lock in. Thus, when HP acquired Compaq, stocks of Inventec plummeted amidst speculation. However, other ODMs’ stocks were safe as they supplied to multiple OEMs. * Computer products greatly became commoditized in early 2000s. As a result, the OEMs had to squeeze their profits. In turn the OEMs used their bargaining power to squeeze the profits of the ODMs. Thus, for the ODMs profit plummeted from 10% in 2001 to 3-4% in 2004. * Since 2001 easing of Taiwan Government restrictions of high tech investment in China lead to huge cost saving to Taiwan ODMs. This reduced the entry barrier in the ODM industry fueling the already fierce competition in this industry. Q2: What are the drivers of the average profitability of the ODM industry? Ans: The ODM industry products are highly commoditized. Thus, minimizing cost and maximizing production output can lead to higher profits. The drivers of average profit margin of the ODM industry are: * The process of designing and manufacturing goods should be low in cost and production should achieve economies of scale. Owing to high capital investment...
Words: 766 - Pages: 4
...Troy Rock Florida Institute of Technology Research Paper Supply Chain Process in the Oil and Gas Industry. MGT 5069 June 18, 2016 Introduction The definition of supply chain management, it is described as being the set of processes in a firm that are implemented to maximum customer satisfaction while operating at a lowest cost possible to achieve maximum profits. In the oil and gas industry supply-chain, the profitability of a firm is hinged upon its upstream suppliers and its downstream distributors as various forms of raw materials such as oil, fossil fuels, equipment, resources, finances, and information flow through from the top-tier parties all the way down to the customer. The customer is not only the average member of the public that is pumping fuel into their vehicle, but it can be airline companies, cruise-ships, plastic item manufacturers, independent gas stations, etc. Regardless of who is the end-user customer of the oil and gas firm, processes must be put in place to ensure that the supply chain surplus is maintained for all links in the supply chain, from the upstream drillers, down to the points of purchase for the consumer. Currently the price of oil has sharply dropped in the year 2015 and 2016 due to an overabundance of supply, and though a fear of scarcity was once a concern, that is not the case now. The main objective the oil and gas firms face are delivering the abundance of raw materials, going through the various production operations...
Words: 4204 - Pages: 17
...SECTION I: Introduction/Executive Summary Tesla Motors, Inc. is an American company that designs, manufactures and sells electric cars and electric vehicle powertrain components. Named after the scientist Nikola Tesla, Tesla Motors ($TSLA) was founded in 2003. Exactly who founded Tesla Motors can be discussed, but it was probably by a group of intrepid Silicon Valley engineers Martin Eberhard, Marc Tarpenning, and Ian Wright. Their goal was to build an electric vehicle with the same performance as a Porsche and more environmental friendly than a Toyota Prius. The problem was that the founders didn't have the money needed to realize their idea, so they contacted Elon Musk, who decided to invest in the company. Elon Musk had earlier founded the companies Zip2, PayPal, and SpaceX. The difference between Elon Musk and the founders was that Elon Musk wanted Tesla Motors to become an improved General Motors with several car models, while the original founders wanted to design only a sports car. Elon Musk became interested in electric cars because he is well aware of peak oil. The idea behind peak oil is that oil is a finite resource we will run out of. Elon Musk believes the production of oil will begin to decrease after year 2020. As the production of oil decreases, the price of oil will increase and more people will buy electric cars SECTION II: Current Situation Tesla Motors headquarters is in Palo Alto, California. Its goal is to speed up this transition from gasoline cars to...
Words: 8262 - Pages: 34
...SHANGHAI – China’s economy is at a crossroads. As 2013 begins, foreign and domestic observers alike are asking which path the country’s economic development should take in the next decade. How can China ensure stable and sustainable growth in the face of significant internal and external challenges, including slowing medium- and long-term growth, rising labor costs, and growing inflationary pressure? After the global economic crisis weakened external demand, which sustained China’s unprecedented economic growth for three decades, the authorities agreed that internal demand, especially domestic consumption, must become the country’s new growth engine. At the Chinese Communist Party’s congress in November, China’s leaders declared their intention to double per capita income by 2020, unleashing 64 trillion renminbi ($10.2 trillion) of purchasing power. Indeed, with roughly 130 million middle-class consumers, China’s domestic market holds significant potential. The Boston Consulting Group estimates that, with an average annual GDP growth rate of 7% in China and 2% in the United States, Chinese domestic consumption will rise to half of America’s by 2015, and 80% in 2020 (assuming that the renminbi appreciates at an average rate of 3% against the US dollar over the next few years). Moreover, the current-account surplus plummeted from more than 10% of GDP in 2007 to 2.8% in 2011, reflecting China’s decreasing reliance on exports to drive economic growth. In 2010, China’s imports ranked...
Words: 942 - Pages: 4
...RESEARCH ARTICLE REVIEW Vol.3 Issue 1, January-March 2010 ISSN 0974-2441 Nutraceuticals: new era of medicine and health Manisha Pandey *, Rohit K Verma, Shubhini A Saraf Department of Pharmaceutics, Babu Banarasi Das National Institute of Technology and Management, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh – 227105, India. Address for correspondence: Manisha Pandey, Department of Pharmaceutics, Babu Banarasi Das National Institute of Technology and Management, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh – 227105, India. E-mail: manisha_2929@yahoo.co.in The concept of nutraceutical was stared from the survey in U.K., Germany and France which concluded that diet is rated more highly by consumers than exercise or hereditary factors for achieving good health. Nutraceutical is a term coined to describe substances which are not traditionally recognized nutrients but which have positive physiological effects on the human body. They do not easily fall into the legal category of food and drug and often inhabit a grey area between the two. Risk of toxicity or adverse effect of drugs led us to consider safer nutraceutical and functional food based approaches for the health management. This resulted in a world wide nutraceutical revolution. The nutraceutical revolution will lead us into a new era of medicine and health, in which the food industry will become a researchoriented one similar to the pharmaceutical industry. Keywords: Nutraceuticals, Medicine, Functional foods. INTRODUCTION The quality of...
Words: 2607 - Pages: 11
...PRINT VERSION OF THE COMPETING VALUES COMPETENCY QUESTIONNAIRE TO ACCOMPANY BECOMING A MASTER MANAGER: A Competing Values Approach FIFTH EDITION QUINN / FAERMAN/ THOMPSON / MCGRATH / ST. CLAIR (Text published by John Wiley & Sons) If you have questions about this questionnaire, please email them to: Lstclair@bryant.edu Copyright © 2011 Competing Values Competency Questionnaire The Competing Values Competency Questionnaire is a tool to help you assess your development as a managerial leader with respect to the four quadrants of the competing values framework.* This questionnaire consists of 100 questions related to skills that managerial leaders need to meet the challenges of complexity, ambiguity, and paradox that characterize the world today. For each item, indicate how often you have successfully engaged in the activity. Rate yourself on the following 7 point scale: Never | Very Seldom | Seldom | Occasionally | Frequently | Very Frequently | Almost Always | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | It is important to note that this questionnaire is not designed to provide a final evaluation of your ability as a managerial leader. It is designed to provide a “snap-shot” profile, based on your current experience, strengths, and weaknesses. You then can use the profile to create a personal development plan based on your individual needs and interests. Some items refer to general activities that you may do regularly, such...
Words: 2054 - Pages: 9
...Kettering University Department of Business MGMT 659 - Strategy Summer 2013 Prof. Irish BUS Project – Microsoft Rakan Mogaddam Contents 1 Current Situation Analysis 3 1.1 Past Performance Indexes 3 1.1.1 Ratios 3 1.1.2 Industry Competitor Comparison 4 1.2 Strategic Posture 4 1.2.1 Mission Statement 5 1.2.2 Vision Statement 5 1.2.3 Strategies and Policies 5 2 Corporate Governance 6 2.1 Board of Directors 6 2.2 Top Management 7 2.3 Stakeholders 8 3 External Environment 9 4 Internal Environment 10 5 Analysis of Strategic Factors 14 6 Alternatives & Recommendations 15 7 Implementation and Control 17 8 Evaluation Scorecard (Kaplan) 18 References: 20 Current Situation Analysis 1 Past Performance Indexes 1 Ratios The ratios of Microsoft can be used to analyze how well the company is performing according to its investments and recent profits. The following are a few ratios for the year ended June 30, 2013: 1 Credit Ratios 1. Current Ratio: 271% This ratio tells us the relation between the current assets and liabilities of the company. 2. Quick Ratio 266% This ratio tells us how liquid our assets are. This means how quickly we can change our assets into cash. 2 Profitability Ratios 1. Return on Assets 12.69% It tells about...
Words: 2833 - Pages: 12
...speak to such a distinguished audience of journalists, intellectuals, and entrepreneurs. I was invited here this morning to speak about the future of U.S.–Korea cooperation. Of course, our bilateral relationship does not take place in a vacuum. We are members of the rising Asia-Pacific community. Economically, Asia itself already accounts for more than one-quarter of global GDP. Over the next five years, nearly half of all growth outside the United States is expected to come from Asia. This growth is fueling powerful geopolitical forces: China’s ascent, Japan’s resilience, an eastward-looking India, Southeast Asian nations more interconnected and prosperous than ever before, and of course the rise of a “Global Korea.” President Obama has made U.S. engagement in the Asia-Pacific region a priority. We have already begun a strategic rebalance of diplomatic, economic, and security investments in Asia. And America’s 60-year alliance with Korea is a lynchpin of that strategic rebalance. 60 years. 60 years of peace and stability. 60 years of hard work and economic growth. 60 years of partnership and shared prosperity. This year marks the 60th anniversary of the U.S. – Korea Mutual Defense Treaty, the armistice, and the formation of the American Chamber of Commerce in Korea. As we celebrate 60 years of partnership and shared prosperity, we are also upgrading important aspects of our partnership – what I call the four pillars. Security The first pillar of our...
Words: 1487 - Pages: 6
...The Emirates Story Just over twenty years ago, Emirates was born as the official international airline of the United Arab Emirates On 25th October 1985, Emirates flew its first routes out of Dubai with just two aircraft—a leased Boeing 737 and Airbus 300 B4. Then as now, the goal was quality, not quantity, and in the years since taking those first small steps onto the regional travel scene, Emirates has evolved into a globally influential travel and tourism conglomerate known the world over for commitment to the highest standards of quality in every aspect of the business. Though wholly owned by the Government of Dubai, Emirates has grown in scale and stature not through protectionism but through competition—competition with the ever-growing number of international carriers that take advantage of Dubai’s open-skies policy. Not only does it support that policy, but also see it as vital to maintaining their identity and competitiveness. After making its initial start-up investment, the Government of Dubai saw fit to treat Emirates as a wholly independent business entity. Growth has never been lower than 20 per cent annually, and the airline has recorded an annual profit in every year since its third in operation. Continuing the explosive growth, while continually striving to provide the best service in the industry is the secret of Emirates’ success. The airline’s business includes: An award winning international cargo division A full-fledged destination management...
Words: 1926 - Pages: 8
...Topic: Yamaha Electric Cars VS Chevy Volt Electric Cars. Introduction Electric cars have become increasingly popular in our society as consumers are becoming environmentally conscious and being active participants in reducing the amount of carbon dioxide that is emitted into the planet. The electric car predominantly runs on electric power, which helps in decreasing the dependence and burning of fossil fuels. The government supports electric vehicles by providing tax deductions and although they are pricey investment considering the average price, the long-term benefits are worth it. There is an increasing demand for electric cars on the market, which presents an opportunity for Yamaha to launch an electric car and compete to capture its market share in the environmentally conscious consumers’ market segment. Yamaha intends to “fully utilize its core competencies that aims to enhance its reputation as a trusted and admired brand based on its customer oriented and quality conscious management culture”. Yamaha core competence helps the company to develop a competitive advantage by focusing on unique features and abilities that are hardly copied by competitors. Yamaha is highly experienced and has great expertise in the automotive industry which will allow them to position their electric vehicles in the market as a unique and differentiated product from competitors. They will be able to create competitive advantage in the battery power and duration by using cutting edge technology...
Words: 2201 - Pages: 9
