...Final Exam – August 2013 Part 1 – Analysis of Netflix 1. and 2. Brief Overview of Netflix’s Business Model In order to better understand Netflix’s business model, there are 3 topics discussed at here: 1) the current business model analysis based on Alex Osterwalder’s methodology; 2) the history of Netflix’s business model which will give us more insights of what happened to Netflix in the past, and where it will go in the future; 3) the challenges and issues of current business model. Current business model The following is the current business model canvas of Netflix. As we can see above, Netflix’s revenue comes from subscription fee. The quality of video content is very important for success of Netflix’s business model. Netflix also extend the span of devices which support streaming. The growth of international subscription is one of the key success factors measured by wall-street. History of Netflix’s business model At the same time, to understand the history of Netflix’s business model is also very important. Figure 1Numbe of Subscription Figure 1Numbe of Subscription At the time of 1997 when Netflix was found, it offers online movie rentals. At 1999, Netflix launches the subscription service, offering unlimited rentals for one low monthly subscription. Before 2007, Netflix uses mail to delivery DVD to customers. At 2007, Netflix introduces streaming, which allows members to instantly watch television shows and movies on their personal computers....
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...Business Strategy John Smith [pic] Submission Date: 21 March 2012 PREFACE At the time of writing, this report was an accurate reflection of ****, a Grade 1 ‘Oustanding College”. However, in March the college underwent an Ofsted inspection for which the outcome is not yet known. Introduction NBBC is a large provider of further education, higher education and work-based learning with around 900 staff (644 full-time and substantive part-time) and an annual income of approximately £29 Million. In 2010/11, the College provided for a diverse age range of learners from 5 – 88 years, with approximately 3,140 full-time, over 10,000 part-time and in excess of 2,300 work-based learners. The College’s vision is to: • Continue to be graded ‘Outstanding’ by OFSTED with student success rates being in the top 5% for all general further education colleges; • Increase its market share in North Yorkshire and South Leicestershire and be recognised nationally for specialisms in Creative Arts, Logistics and Transport and the Built Environment; • Generate operating surpluses which enable investment to secure a continuing improvement in the experience of all students at the College and to increase the College’s impact within our local communities. The College currently operates on two main sites, Bradford and Leeds, as well as outreach centres at Filey, Bermuda...
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...Case Questions for TRX Inc., IPO ! What attributes make a company a good candidate for an IPO? Good business history: Investors will expect the long-term sustainability through historical financial data. Therefore, the good business history can reach investors’ expectation. Profitability: A profitable company can indicate investors that the company can get a positive ROI. The positive ROI can not only suggest potential growth but also lead to dividends for investors. Visibility and recognition: Visibility enables investors’ better understanding of the business model and increases the recognition. Growth potential: In the growing industry, the company has the higher potential to grow in the future. Solid and experienced management: The good management can act the best interests of shareholders, maximizing the profitability. Furthermore, the decent management can ensure the growth and performance of the company as well as create positive public image. ! How does TRX compare on these dimensions? Good business history: A six-year data shows that the number of travel transactions grew from 9.3 million to 73.5 million in 6 years. In terms of revenues, TRX generated 113.4 million in revenue in 2004, compared with the number of revenue, 63.2 million in 2000. Therefore, the business history indicated the company was growing. Profitability: According to the income statement in Exhibit 2, TRX experienced net loss from 2000 to 2005, which may be unfavorable to TRX...
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...systemic connections to bring about a balance on competing demands and gain strength in the industry. In the past fifteen years, Apple Inc. has brought a revolution in the personal electronics, telecom, computer and media by string of excellent products, offering unique, designer and exciting customer experiences. They have exceeded industry expectations thereby exerting significant power over both customers and industry players, with outstanding financial results. In August 2012, Apple inc was announced the most valuable listed company having a market value of $ 623 billion. In September 2012, it had the highest cash reserves of USD 121 bn. achieves a net margin of 20 % with a revenue increase from us $ 65.2 bn in 2010 to us$108.2 bn in 2011 and to US $ 156.5bn in 2012.( This feat was achieved under the late Steve Jobs and will outlive Jobs as apple has attained a quantum strategy which is rare and very difficult for competitors to imitate. Noteworthy is that apple is able to strike a balance of intense operations efficiency with outstanding serial innovation and addictive product-design, commanding premium pricing and redefined...
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...Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, New York 12180 Phone: 518-276-2933 Fax: 518-276-8661 Email:sandes@rpi.edu May, 2008 CURRENT POSITION ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (with tenure). School of Management Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Affiliate of Sloan Foundation Industry Studies Centers Major Interests: • Innovation Management • Product Design, Marketing and Brand Management • Innovative Teaching Approaches (Multimedia Enhanced on campus and Distance Learning) AWARDS 1995 Boeing Outstanding Educator Award Hesburg Award Team (for Educational Innovation) In 1995, I was a co-recipient of the Boeing Outstanding Educator Award and a member of the team receiving the Hesburg Award for Educational Innovation TEACHING Teaching Role. My recent teaching has been in Rensselaer’s resident MBA program (both full and parttime), Professional and Distance Education Program and undergraduate programs. My research and teaching have made important contributions to efforts to build the marketing and management and technology curricula in the School of Management at Rensselaer and at other universities who have adopted our teaching materials. As a pioneer in interactive leaning material on product development and manufacturing, I have developed several interactive multimedia cases and collaborated on the development of simulations designed to teach marketing principles and bridge management and engineering disciplines. The simulations teach marketing, design and manufacturing concepts by exposing students...
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...relationship gives a good insight for the companies' and industry's future. The two companies have different strategic goals and are operating in the same industry but in different main markets: FedEx is working on "producing outstanding financial returns" and focuses on the profitability of overnight air market whereas UPS is looking for "earning reasonable profit" and its core business that is the ground delivery. Sustainable competitive advantage Attaining a competitive advantage in package delivery business appears to be a challenging task. The main reason is that it is an easy-to- duplicate business both for the competitors and any new entrants. This is obvious in FedEx's case: the company always has distinguished itself through technologically advanced services, expanding in many places and new products over other competitors, especially UPS. UPS was the main choice for low-priced ground delivery services however being a market follower in the air delivery sector could negatively affect its reputation and cause loss of market in the long term. Taking the above into consideration the combination of high-service quality, convenience and low rates can give a company a sustainable competitive advantage. Federal Express "We will produce outstanding financial returns by providing totally reliable, competitively superior global-air ground transportation of high priority goods and documents that require rapid, time-certain delivery." (FedEx). Enabling Factors supporting...
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...Tesla Motors 3500 Deer Creek Palo Alto, CA 94304 650-681-5000 650-681-5101 I. I. Background and Introduction The focus of this analysis is on Tesla Motors and the electric vehicles they design, develop, and manufacture. Tesla Motors was incorporated in 2003 and using technology developed at the headquarters in California the company introduced the Tesla Roadster in 2008 (Tesla Motors, 2010b). On June 28, 2010 the company filed an initial public offering that was accepted by the SEC. They have also become business partners with Toyota Motor Corporation to develop an electronic version of the Toyota RAV4 to be sold in 2012 (Tesla Motors, 2010b). The importance of this analysis is two-fold. First, if a company can successfully develop a fully electric vehicle that is affordable and has mass market appeal it would mark a realistic solution to the diminishing worldwide oil supplies. Second, the technology that would be developed could be used as a springboard for the entire automotive industry. As with any business that is being hinged on new technology, there are significant risks and issues that could potentially be detrimental to the company. Being a new company, there is a very limited operating history for potential investors to go by (Tesla Motors, 2010b). Therefore, future earnings cannot be predicted based on past earnings. The company is losing money and in the SEC filing for the last quarter they state that they expect to keep losing money for...
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...Step 1: Skim over the Case Write-ups Because the case was such a dramatic failure, a number of case studies have been written on the case. For background, I have attached three case studies written on the case (one from Harvard, one from Northwestern and one from Thunderbird) as well as financial documents published by the company. You do not have to read everything in detail, but just skim through the readings three cases to get a general idea what the case is about (I think it is easy reading). Step 2: Mechanical Modelling Issues I have used data from the case studies and actual financial statements to create a “base case” financial model in the attached file name “Iridium Case Study Exercise.” In preparing the case, the first step (after reviewing the three readings) is to fill in the blanks for various items in the model. The idea behind doing...
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...1.1 ORIGIN OF THE TERM PAPER This term paper has been made as a part of our course Security Analysis and Portfolio Management (Course code # 4242), Mrs. Jafrin Sultana has assigned us this term paper in order to gain some practical knowledge about how to conclude on investment decision and analysis on the basis of various valuation approaches. The perspective of such a term paper is to make us familiar with the key factors of security market that affect the users in decision making. For this purpose we have used the annual reports of Bangladesh lamps ltd, and try to analyze and understand the overall capital market components according to our best effort. 1.2 OBJECTIVES OF TERM PAPER This term paper is based on “financial analysis & stock valuation of Bangladesh lamps ltd”. The objective of this term paper is to provide present situation of the Bangladesh lamps ltd, corporate structure, industry performance, stock valuation, SWOT analysis, ratio and risk analysis and financial statement analysis of the company. More precisely we can identify the objective of this report as follows: * To provide the overall industry performance within our selected industry * To acquire experience of a real organization to supplement theoretical knowledge. * To know about how the academic issues taught in our educational institutions come to practical ground in an organization. * To get familiar with the organizational structure and financial aspect of our selected...
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...Conceptualizing a Business Paper Chuck Dee BUS/475 Sep 3, 2009 Ram Iyer Conceptualizing a business starts with an ideal and someone that is passion for the products that are sold. In today’s business market with the current declining stock markets and global unemployment numbers, companies are trying to find different ways to bring customers back into businesses to spend money. Businesses are already at risk because many Americans are unemployed; but also the current state of the United States Government, trying to pass a bill to keep the government from completely shutting down, this has placed doubt in customer spending. Generating information of what the consumers need within the consumers market will determine the success of an organization. A business must create an outstanding staff that will be able to identify the problem that the organization will need to address, as well as an outstanding product; this process will form the company’s business strategy and place the business on the correct path for outstanding results. Classic Auto My entire life I have adored all types of automobiles from Oldsmobile, Chevrolet and Ford to the more exotic models like BMW, Bentley, and Ferrari. Out of all of the cars produces from the early 60’s until present, my favorite automobiles would be the 1970 – 76 GM convertibles. I have created the perfect business that will get both older generations and younger generations the chance to relive the day of old, Classic Auto...
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...the last 15 years, Apple Inc has revolutionized the personal electronics, telecom, computer and media industries through a string of blockbuster products that offer unique, designer, integrated customer experiences. In the process, the company has helped to accelerate the blurring of industry boundaries through the spread of devices that offer convergent technologies, and to position itself so that it exerts significant power over both consumers and industry players, with outstanding performance results. Apple became the most valuable listed company, with a market value of US$623 billion in August 2012, and has gathered the highest accumulation of cash reserves ($121 billion in September 2012) of any listed company. It regularly achieves net margins of above 20 percent in industries where most competitors achieve single-digit margins. Its net margin was 26.7 percent during 2012, having increased from 23.9 percent in 2011 and 21.5 percent in 2010. During the same period, Apple’s revenues increased from US$65.2 billion in 2010 to US $108.2 billion in 2011 and to US$156.5 billion in 2012. The chief architect of the business model and value system that led to this exceptional performance is widely acknowledged to be the late Steve Jobs. With Jobs’ passing in October 2011, many have wondered whether the magic at Apple would last, or gradually fizzle out. In this article, I take an in-depth look at the strategy and organization of Apple to argue that the magic will last. This is not only...
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...Case Study Apple-Merging Technology, Business, and Entertainment Marcus Burch University of Maryland, University College Author Note This paper was prepared for AMBA 640. Executive Summary In the case study of Apple-Merging Technology, Business, and Entertainment, Apple transformed itself from a computer company with limited success to a major digital company with almost limitless potential and outstanding success. Apple Inc. brings more than 35 years of mission management and problem solving ability to the digital environment. The computer and or digital industry is latent with slogans and catch phrases about its technology, innovations and proven commitment to development. Apple’s core products are the most revolutionary innovations of the digital age. The iPod, iPad, iPhone, and iOS App Store help usher in a change in the way we use and purchase products. These products spawned a new revolution in the marketing of electronics. Introduction The purpose of this case analysis is to critically analyze the case study, Apple-Merging Technology, Business, and Entertainment from Baltzan’s book Business Driven Information Systems 3E.(2012). The analysis will discuss the influence that the iPhone, iPad, iPod, and other Apple products have had over the last 10 years on the company and its competitors. Over the last 30 plus years Apple has transformed itself from a computer hardware or PC...
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...Distinguished Alumni of IITD Indian Institute of Technology Delhi is one of the premier engineering institutes of India. IITD is one of the seven IITs created as centres of excellence for higher training, research and development in science, engineering and technology in India. For many years, excellently trained batches of students are being given by IITD to the world. These alumni go ahead in life and make significant contributions to our society, bringing glory for themselves and for the institute. It is always an honour to be a part of such a great institute and, to be a distinguished alumnus amongst such a lot is something whose greatness could not be expressed only in words. Professor Arogyaswamy Paulraj is such a distinguished alumnus who has achieved remarkable success in his field. He received his Doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 1973 while on deputation from the Indian Navy. During his deputation, he led the development of an improved version of antisubmarine sonar for the Indian Navy. Later, he headed a team at the Naval Oceanographic Laboratory, Cochin to develop very large sonar systems giving India the most advanced sonar technology. He also supervised the development of a large systems software suite for parallel computers at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Bangalore and the development of radar and communications systems at Bharat Electronics. He was the founding Director of the Centre...
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...Introduction 2 2. Analysis of our team performance 3 3. Design analysis 5 3.1. Introduction 5 3.2. Management of Design 5 3.3. City Car Simulation 6 3.3.1. The „Design Thinking Framework” 6 3.3.1.1. What is 6 3.3.1.2. What if 7 3.3.1.3. What wows 8 3.3.1.4. What works 8 3.3.2. Design Evaluation 8 3.3.2.1. Design Analysis Group 1 - UPARK 10 3.3.2.2. Design Analysis Group 2 - EgoCAR 11 3.3.2.3. Design Analysis Group 3 - BCBL 11 3.3.2.4. Design Analysis Group 4 - Bao-Bay 12 4. Business model analysis 13 4.1. Group 1 - UPARK 14 4.2. Group 2 – EgoCAR 15 4.3. Group 3 – Better City Better Life (BCBL) 16 4.4. Group 4 – Bao-Bay 17 5. Conclusion 18 6. Appendixes 19 6.1. Appendix 1 - Business model canvas draft of Group 3 19 6.2. Appendix 2 - Spiral model vs. stage gate process 20 6.3. Appendix 3 - Example of a RASIC chart 21 6.4. Appendix 4 - The repertory grid technique 21 6.5. Appendix 5 - Business model canvas 22 6.6. Appendix 6 - Example for service blueprint 23 1. Introduction For the City-Car simulation, Prof. Goffin split all the students into four groups. Within each group every member was assigned a specific job role which is shown below: Julian Reinard: Lead Designer Yanik Kiermeier: Mechanical Engineer Carrie Wang: Managing Director and Project Manager YunLong Zhong: Marketing Manager John Hou: Manufacturing Manager Roger Yang: Finance Manager Stephen Lu: Software Engineer Group 3 ...
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...Technology has been defined as the application of scientific methodology and knowledge for practical purposes. Over the years there has been a lot of technology being introduced none so much as the last quarter of a century where there has been some outstanding inventions by some outstanding individuals. Being able to award an individual the accolade of the greatest technology inventor of all time or a technology as the greatest invention of all time is a very daunting and overwhelming task as it in unenviable task to burden a person with. There are a lot of questions to ponder on questions like how do you measure the impact it has made to civilization, does it lead to further innovation or an end product in its own, what negative impact has it had to our world? All these questions are valid questions and lead to me being very subjective on this topic while selecting my 3 innovators and their inventions. Nikola Tesla, one of the most unsung inventors of all, he was arguably the greatest inventor of all time his portfolio included the electrical coil, radio waves and a host of other patents which he still owns till this day. Tesla was born in 1856 in in the Austrian Empire now the modern day Croatia; he was an electrical and mechanical engineer, a physicist and above all an inventor holding over 300 documented patents in the fields of science and technology. What makes him so great was his aspiration to move the human race forward through his inventions, his patents were “freeware”...
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