Clusters, Innovation, and Competitiveness: New Findings and Implications for Policy Professor Michael E. Porter Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness Harvard Business School Stockholm, Sweden 22 January 2008 This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter’s articles and books, in particular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press, 1990), “The Microeconomic Foundations of Economic Development,” (with C Ketels, M Delgado) in The Global Competitiveness Report 2006, (World
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had the ability to fly both day and night. By the 1950’s former president of the company, William Allen, decided that The Boeing Company has enough scientists, engineers, experience, and the production facilities to revolutionize the airplane industry. Objective of the changes was having more competitive advantage in the market. After a short research and development stage Boeing was able to use the very first computers in this era to guide the flight of guided missiles. In 1963, Boeing engineers
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1 DEVELOPING A SUSTAINABLE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE THROUGH STRATEGIC POSITIONING By R. Murray Lindsay April 2002 Strategic management is the process by which senior management ensures that the organization’s strategy is carried out or that it is modified to reflect changing conditions or knowledge. Management accounting and control systems play a key role in strategic management. While a management control course will typically take strategy as a given, it is important for you to have a reasonable
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21715 - Strategic Management (Summer Session 2012) Individual Written Case Analysis Case 32 – JetBlue Airlines: Getting “Blue” Again? Sam Lui (00039469) 21715 – Individual Case Analysis Table of Contents Executive Summary................................................................................................................................. 3 1. General and Industry Environment.............................................................................................
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Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited. The strategic analysis contains investigation of certain key business areas of Virgin Atlantic, such as: defining whom the Virgin Atlantic customer is; understanding of the external environment issues of the airline industry; competitor analysis, and analysis of the Human Resources within the organization. Through the analysis of Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited, some issues for the company were uncovered. Especially two main issues should be considered as potential
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Introduction Overview of Malaysian Airline System Berhad (MAS) Malaysia Airlines (MAS), the countries’ national carrier was incorporated on 12th October 1937. First known as Malayan Airways Limited (MAL), it was a joint initiative of Ocean Steamship Company of Liverpool, the Straits Steamship of Singapore and Imperial Airways which proposed to Colonial Straits Settlement government to run an air service between Singapore and Penang. MAL’s first commercial flight was on 2nd April 1947. By the time
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objectives) along with the analysis of the internal and external environment of the organization. Next, leaders must make strategic decisions. These decisions, broadly speaking, address two basic questions: What industries should we compete in? How should we compete in those industries? These questions also often involve an organization’s domestic as well as its international operations. And last are the actions that must be taken. Decisions are of little use, of course, unless they are acted on
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Summary 3 2. Introduction 3 3. Current Company Situation 3.1 Past Performance Assessment 3 3.2 Current Company Activities 4 4. External Analysis 4.1 PEST 5 4.2 The Five Forces 6 4.3 SWOT - Opportunities and Threats 8 5. Internal Analysis 5.1 Value Chain 9 5.2 Functional Analysis 11 5.3 SWOT - Strengths and Weaknesses 11 6. Strategic Issues and Key Problems 12 7. Development of Different
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Module #1: Introduction by Mark Lehrer 3 Module #2: Industry Analysis by Mark Lehrer 6 Rivalry 8 Entrants 9 Bargaining Power of Suppliers / Buyers 9 Two Cases: Breakfast Cereal and Personal Computers 9 Module #3: Value Chain Analysis by Mark Lehrer 12 Module #4: Industry Value Chains by Mark Lehrer 16 Module #5a: Generic Strategies (by Mary Hamilton) 16 Module #5b: Resource-Based View (by Mary Hamilton 16 Module #6: Industry Life Cycle (by Mark Lehrer) 16 Module #7: Competitive
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1.0 Introduction The competition in Airline industry is now rising which make it harder and harder for those Airline corporation to survive. Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) is an airline business which was founded in early 1946. SAS has made a huge successful change to overcome its problems through recession period. This successful change has a big contribution of Jan Carlzon who is a CEO of SAS. Nowadays, after a vertical integration revaluation, SAS has expanded their business into International
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