www.ccsenet.org/ijbm International Journal of Business and Management Vol. 6‚ No. 5; May 2011 Strategic Analysis through the General Electric/McKinsey Matrix: An Application to the Italian Fashion Industry Cesare Amatulli (Corresponding author) Professor of Fashion Marketing Faculty of Education Science‚ University of Bari Piazza Umberto I‚ 70121‚ Bari‚ Italy Tel: 39-80-497-0060 E-mail: c.amatulli@formazione.uniba.it Tiziana Caputo Research Assistant of Marketing Department
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McKinsey 7S Model This model was developed in the 1980’s by Robert Waterman‚ Tom Peters and Julien Philips whilst working for McKinsey and originally presented in their article " Structure is not Organisation". To quote them: "Intellectually all managers and consultants know that much more goes on in the process of organizing than the charts‚ boxes‚ dotted lines‚ position descriptions‚ and matrices can possibly depict. But all too often we behave as though we didn’t know it - if we want change
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A New Focus for McKinsey Rajat Gupta‚ a 20-year veteran committed to decide to put emphasis on knowledge development‚ launched a four-pronged attack to help McKinsey to build up their long tern capital. First‚ he capitalized the firm’s long tern investment by creating come new channels and forums for knowledge development and organizational learning. Second‚ he created a Practice Olympic to encourage regional offices to extend ideas that grew out of client engagement. Third‚ he assigned senior
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GE Energy and GE Healthcare Case Study 1. What are the business benefits of using information technology to build strategic customer relationships for GE Energy and GE Healthcare? What are the business benefits for their customers? Technology is no longer an afterthought in forming business strategy‚ but the actual cause and driver. Networking and data storage & analysis technologies enabled GE to gain a competitive advantage by providing unique products and services to their customers. What
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------------------------------------------------- Case Study Review on McKinsey & Company: Managing Knowledge and Learning. Harvard Business School. Article 9-396-357. Rev. January 4‚ 2000 ------------------------------------------------- Knowledge is fundamentally a cognitive phenomenon (Geisler‚ 2007.p. 467) which is embedded in the intellectual capital: the human and structural capital (Bercerra-Fernandez‚ Gonzales and Rajiv Sabherwal‚ 2002‚ p.3) of organizations. The acquisition or to be
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1. Develop a profile of the typical IKEA customer. To what extent does the profile vary across countries? IKEA customers’ profiles are typically relative to their domestic markets as their perceptions can be more or less easily matched with their expectations. IKEA targets customers who are willing to assemble furniture themselves‚ self-servicing while looking at the furniture‚ and willing to deliver furniture home by themselves. The majority of the customers like to perceive themselves as either
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SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY A summary of the case study: IKEA invades America Submitted to: Nazmus Sadekin Lecturer‚ Dept. of Economics‚ Southeast University Submitted by: Tasnuva Amreen Khan - 2011020106012 (Group Leader) Sayeed ahmed Khan - 2011020106023 (Group coordinator) Amit Roy - 2011020106027 Ferdousy Rahman - 2011020106021 Md. Anis Uzzaman - 2011020106016
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What does IKEA mean in the eyes of the customer (value proposition)? (i) The basic pillar of the value proposition offered by IKEA products with respect to the customer’s needs is the offer of low price products which however retain a level of quality. (ii) Another value proposition that IKEA offers to the customers is a unique combination of form‚ function and affordability as well as variety. Creation of beautiful and durable furniture which is affordable for the consumer. Also‚ IKEA gives the
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STRATEGIC ANALYSIS OF IKEA POLITICAL-Foreign investment restrictions-Companies as charity for tax avoidance-VAT increase to 20%-Globalization has eased import rules.-Government regulation climate change act 2008) | Ref13119 | ECONOMICAL-Economic crisis in North America.-Rising raw material and transport cost in 2009-Low spending power due to recession.-Recession in Russia-High import tax in japan | Ref2‚34677 | SOCIAL-Requirements on wood supplier-Brand image-Does not accept child labour-Women
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After reading the IKEA case‚ I find following problems‚ * Reluctance to change furniture: mind set of Americans Americans typically have the mind-set that furniture should last a lifetime‚ which is not in-line with IKEA’s value that does not include durability in its products. Thus to increase market share in America‚ IKEA must change the American’s attitude towards furniture as something fun and disposable‚ furniture is something that add value to lifestyle without incurring too much cost
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