Samsung Case Study: Samsung Business Strategy

Hurstville city council Public sector Hurstville city council is a local government organization, which is located in the St George and southern region of Sydney, NSW, Australia. it is established to operate and develop the city by ensuring the high quality of lifestyle for its residents and visitors. Vision • Balancing the economic growth and developing the quality of life of Hurstville residents.

Due to risk and cost involved in transacting with many business partners, most firms usually choose to vertically integrate to achieve transactions cost economies – that is to mean, they try to virtually minimize the involve of third parties in the supply chain simply by taking up the challenge to do most of the things themselves. At least by doing so, they reduce the risks and all the difficulties associated with enforcing contracts with all these business partners and even avoid the challenges of ensuring that the raw materials, like the components parts and or services meet the quality and required level standards. In integrating vertically, it will also reduce the risks of asymmetric information and opportunistic behavior aimed against the firm. This traditional model of vertical integration, however, assumes two things: either that vertical segments are well defined, or that firms operate in existing markets. The problem with these assumptions is that they rarely exist in the real world today.

Sensitive market to these kinds of products are commercial line and offices those has to get technological interface to attain day to day tasks. Samsung has contributed in so many innovative products to make users life easy such as tablets, mini laptops, and televisions to provide with the wide range of technology for personal use. Samsung is known for its colors and picture quality in the

Many people believe that Samsung is one company that produces all these products that we see the Samsung logo on them, but this is not true, as the Samsung Group has a large number of subsidiary companies, one of which is Samsung Electronics, the focus of our conversation. Samsung Group started its business in 1938, after almost thirty years, Samsung Electronics was founded, and was mainly produces TVs black and white cheap. In the seventies it acquired the semiconductor sector and a semiconductor, which defined the future of the company. The Samsung Electronics Co., one of the largest technology companies in the world in terms of revenue, and its branches are located and their plants and operations in 61 countries around the world and employs

Staff: As We mentioned that Samsung always respect their staff, Samsung have a good name in welfares and social events. Even they supports the families of their employees and have a good and proper medical services in which annual check for the members who’re above 40 in age. Samsung also prefer passing away & favourable supports to the staff. They also provide teaching to their youth members.

Samsung implements the strategy of “ Red Ocean;” which shows that a firm gains competitive advantage by venture into the current market and constructing on the weaknesses of other competitors in the field of similar products. Thus, Samsung“floods the market with many products” which are made by other companies within short duration of time ( Travos,2002). It seems that Samsung made these new products through developing many of manufacturing products of its Smartphones. However, such attitude is considered to be as a massive cost advantage over other firms that make such product. Samsung has improved its “competition position internationally through developing its present competitive strategies” , through depending on the other manufacturers`

1. Introduction Samsung first started as a South-Korean family owned business but has now earned acceptance around the globe now. Samsung has grown into a global information technology leader, managing more than 200 subsidiaries around the world. The company’s offerings include home appliances such as TVs, monitors, refrigerators, and washing machines as well as smartphones and tablets.

 COST STRUCTURE OF SAMSUNG Low cost structure of Samsung and high responsiveness to economic events has made Samsung more competitive. For example, initially Samsung focused more on volume and domination on market rather than increasing profitability. However, in 1990s, during the Asian financial crisis, Samsung cut costs and reemphasized product quality and manufacturing flexibility, which allowed its consumer electronics move from project phase to store shelves within next six months. Under the resources-based view of strategic management, effective resources available to a firm, as well as the competency of a firm is responsible in affecting competitive advantage received by a firm.

Overall this shows that Samsung does business with the intention of advancing and improving people’s lives and it gives us the impression that their decisions are based on reaching their goal of “continuous innovation and “creating superior products. Thus the reader can see that Samsung will not compromise the integrity of the products and they put quality above other aspects in business (such as profits). It also makes new employees aware of the heights they need to reach in order to maintain the Samsung standard of

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT CASE STUDY: MCDONALD’S CORPORATION 1. INTRODUCTION McDonald’s Corporation is the world’s leading fast food restaurant chain with more than 34,000 local restaurants serving approximately 69 million people in 119 countries each day. More than 80% of McDonald’s restaurants worldwide are owned and operated by independent local franchisees. Its revenues come from the rent, royalties, and fees paid by the franchisees, as well as sales in company-operated restaurants (McDonald’s, n.d.).

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a South Korean multinational electronics company which headquartered in Suwon, South Korea. Samsung has long been a major manufacturer of electronic device such as lithium-ion batteries, semiconductors, microchips, flash memory and hard drive devices for clients such as Apple, Sony, HTC and Nokia. Samsung has been the world 's largest manufacturer of LCD panels since 2002, the world 's largest television manufacturer since 2006 and world 's largest manufacturer of mobile phones since 2011.Samsung Electronics displaced Apple Inc. as the world 's largest technology company in 2011 and is a major part of the South Korean economy. In June 2014 Samsung published the Tizen OS with the new Samsung Z. For Samsung Electronics, 2003 was a watershed year. It successfully positioned itself as one of the world’s best and largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world.

Process Strategies The process strategies, for such a large manufacturing company, would need to be varied. The production process type would be determined by the product life cycle stage at that time (Thayer 2004).Product life cycles for items such as smartphones and tablets do not generally follow the standard life cycle stages. The maturity stage can be interrupted by discontinuation or irrelevance of a technology, which recommences the cycle (Giachetti & Marchi 2010). Incidentally, during the product life cycle of these items, a cyclic improvement of both process and product is required to stay in contact with market changes.

Porters Five Forces Analysis: Samsung Electronics  Introduction Samsung Electronics focuses in three specific areas; Consumer Electronics, IT & Mobile Communications and Device Solution. Porter’s Five Forces model has been used to analyse Samsung Electronics competitive position within the global market they operate in. By using this model, an evaluation of their current position will highlight which of the five forces are “affecting the intensity of competition in an industry and its profitability level” (Jurevicius, 2013). Nevertheless, when conducting analysis on an international company such as this, studying of market trends is already carried out thoroughly to ensure that they are fully aware of that market, in order to achieve success and maintain within it. With this in mind, it would be considered that Samsung Electronics would have a relatively good competitive advantage against other rival companies.

In this fast-paced industry, Samsung Electronics Company (SEC) has done a remarkable job in turning the company around and reaching a top-of-mind brand awareness over the past few years. The Samsung brand identity and values were poorly regarded up until the early 90s. The brand was positioned as a low-end electronics company that was mainly manufacturing consumer televisions and VCRs. Samsung was not able to compete with the industry’s leaders (i.e. Sony) in the global market. A positive change was needed to reinvent the company’s culture and brand position at that time.

Major competitor is Samsung electronics: let us do the detailed comparison with the brand: Samsung VS Apple Business model Samsung versus Apple in cell phones, tablets and other cloud access gadgets is a fight that is progressively exciting the creative energy of the business press and other industry spectators. It is additionally intriguing to watch the progressions that the battle is driving in the Samsung and Apple plans of action. The climb of Samsung Electronics is something we have been breaking down for quite a while. Home life report, The Rise of Korea in the Electronics Market, was distributed in 1988. And, after it’s all said and done, it was clear that Samsung was a breed separated and would turn into a noteworthy thistle in