Q1) What is the industry attractiveness like in 1997? Has it changed in recent years? Q2) Does Airborne Express have a competitive advantage? Is it sustainable? Q3) What recommendations will you give Airborne Express? ---------------ESSAY START ------------------ Industry Attractiveness in 1997 The industry is defined as the Domestic US Express Mail industry. This includes overnight and second day delivery. In order to assess the attractiveness of the industry‚ a Porters’ Five Forces analysis
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1. Airborne Express is an air express transportation company that is engaged in delivering small sized packages and documents around the United State of America and to and from many different foreign destinations. The purpose of this paper is to analyze and identify the problems and issues Airborne encounters on a daily basis using Porter’s five forces framework. Porter identified five competitive forces that help shape every industry and market place in the global economy. These competitive forces
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AIRBORNE EXPRESS Economics of Strategy and Organization 1 Why has the express mail industry been so difficult for smaller players? Small players like BAX GLOBAL‚ DHL WORLDWIDE EXPRESS‚ TNT‚ etc. lacked resources to expand their base. Fed Ex had huge hub facilities with 2.4million square feet of floor space. Smaller players focused on segments rather than the whole market on the whole. BAX GLOBAL focused on heavy cargo and was not considered competitive for overnight letters. RPS targeted
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Harvard Business School Airborne Express Case Study Q1. How and why has the express mail industry structure evolved in recent years? How have the changes affected small competitors? The Express mail industry in the United States had a volume of $16-17 billion on expedited shipments in the year 1996. In the years before shipment volumes has risen 15-20% per year. However due to higher competition prices have fallen which resulted in a rise of only 10-15% in total revenues. As an example of
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mission. o What is Airborne Strategy? How does Airborne‚ a relatively small player‚ manage to perform so well in an industry dominated by two giants? Airborne uses low-cost leadership. Airborne owns its own fleet of planes as well as its own hub; UPS and FedEx don’t‚ so they have to pay extra fees for using those facilities. Airborne also doesn’t offer next day shipping so the mail has time to be sorted and shipped without incurring to many costs. o What should Airborne do (in 1997) to continue
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EXECUIVE SUMMARY Summary Analysis: Airborne express has been making good profits for few years now and has 16% of express mail market share. The company follows the “best cost provider” strategy‚ meaning provides best price to the customer compared to rivals by maintaining good product attributes. Another key strategy of the company is focus on niche markets. The company ensures to have a sustainable competitive edge in the market by providing the lowest cost. However‚ the competition from
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Has Airborne Express Achieved a Sustainable Competitive Advantage? Base on financial power and company size‚ Airborne cannot be aligned with FedEx and UPS. However‚ Airborne could successfully grow faster than its competitors for series period of time and positioned itself behind those two giant firms. The keys successes are resulted from Airborne’s abilities to discover its competitive advantage. However‚ to label Airborne for achieving sustainable stages‚ we need to analyze of Airborne’s external
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Airborne diseases refers to any diseases which are caused by pathogens and transmitted through the air. These viruses and bacteria can be spread through coughing‚ sneezing‚ laughing or through close personal contact. These pathogens ride on either dust particles or small respiratory droplets and can stay suspended in air and or are capable of traveling distances on air currents.[1] Often‚ airborne pathogens or allergens cause inflammation in the nose‚ throat‚ sinuses and the lungs. This is caused
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Ch11 case Golf 1. is mean driving distances of current balls is mean driving distances of new balls is mean driving distances of sampled current balls is mean driving distances of sampled new balls Use the test statistics and normal distribution table to get p-value. If p-value is smaller than‚ then we reject H0‚ which means the mean driving distances of current balls and new balls are different. 2. From the t distribution table we find that p-value is between 0.05 and 0
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