As elaborated above In PESTLE and SWOT analysis frameworks macro environment of the industry provides solid understanding s to where an organization is currently standing and which opportunities it should base its strategic goals on. Aligning of internally identified strengths to cater the opportunities created as a result of macro environmental factors enable the organization to achieve the competitive advantage. NTB has exploited these opportunities up to greater extent by expanding its branch network, widening the customer base across the country, promoting lending activities and catering tech savvy client network up to a certain extend. However, customer segmenting and technological usage could be further modified to fit the strategic …show more content…
Porter’s generic model further provide insight that the company should unilaterally differentiate products/services and provide tailor made solutions to its customers’ demands while exploring the methods of overall cost reduction through methods such as “paperless” banking concept ,recycling of paper waste , and energy solution methods. Thus the overall strategic requirements point out that the company could enter into a “blue ocean’ through, selective differentiation process and overall cost leadership. Industry conditions could be exploited to outline the unforeseen market spaces creating new demand and capturing new segments through this. Blue ocean approach will further provide grounds to offer the total customer experience to customers, creating a win win situation for all stake holders …show more content…
These factors could be changed if the organization takes a total new approach towards matters converting constructive criticism in to golden opportunities and catering for the need of the customer rather than trying to align the needs to fit the product service availability. Costs in par with the standard market expectations could be widely reduced if innovative methods are introduced, for example within the legislative requirements, organization could look in to the possibilities of reducing paper work and increase system entries. Recycling of paper waste collected from the entire organization, filtering of waste water , LED based lighting to save electricity are some of the proven sustainable solutions of reducing overall cost in long run. Service and quality a standard has to be kept above the industry average by actively attending to the changing lifestyles, expectations of the customers. Further, as emphasized above, it is important to treat the employees as the most valued assets of the organization, nurturing their needs since happy internal customers create happy external customers in return. Segmenting process as stated below would on the other hand attract customers who were overlooked under the previous
Bass Pro Shops is a unique retail store that sells high quality gears for many outdoor activities. Not only can you buy the best merchandise on the market, you can also experience workshops and life-like outdoor theatres located in the stores. It started as a small homemade bait shop located in Springfield, Missouri; it slowly making its way to having 50 retail stores in the United States. SWOT analysis consists of a company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
Premier Inn is a famous British hotel brand with over 700 facilities worldwide. Being founded by Whitbread in the year 1987, the company is the result of a merge between Premier Lodge and Travel Inn. Premier Inn hotels operate under the strategic partnership between the leading international companies and Britain’s leading hospitality firm Whitbread PLC. This allows enhancing the popularity of the Premier Inn brand all over the world.
It is the process of splitting the customers, or potential customers, in a market into different groups, or segments, within which customers share a similar level of interest in the same,
Oaks Mall in Gainesville, Florida, which is in northern Florida. The largest city in Alachua County, Gainesville is the largest growing populated city in Florida. Oaks Mall 's anchor stores include Belk, Sears, JCPenney, and Macy 's, and opened in 1978. Whether you 're done getting all that fun shopping done, or you just want to head to a nearby restaurant, you can hop over to Crafty Bastards Restaurant and Pub! Sometimes the old adage "when in Rome" is just so applicable.
2.0 Introduction to Boots Boots UK Limited is a pharmacy chain operating in United Kingdom and Ireland which sells health and beauty products along with operating an optician service. It was first established in 1849 by John Boot, and was formerly known as ‘Boots the Chemist’. Boots ( the trading name of the company) has achieved many successes throughout its career that it can be called a very successful, pharmacy-led health and beauty company, despite its ups and downs which are going to be mentioned further in this assignment. Boots UK is officially branch of a multinational company, Alliance Boots GmbH which operates in over 25 countries around the world.(Boots-uk.com, n.d.) 3.0 Current Marketing Situation Boots is a member of Alliance
INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT TRANSNET – MANAGEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROGRAMME (MAP) 2015 Module: Principles in Marketing Date of submission: 06 March 2015 TABLE OF CONTENT Page 1. COMPANY OVERVIEW 3 2.
On the other hand, with affection to internal customers, employees and management should reduce cost, and achieve economies of scale, as well as help people who need
SWOT Analysis Before we implemented our opioid addiction and rehabilitation service, it was important for us to examine what obstacles we might face and need to overcome as well as what we might be able use in our favor to help with our service. We performed a SWOT analysis to help identify the external opportunities and threats that were present as well as our internal strengths and weaknesses so that we might more efficiently jumpstart our service. External SWOT Analysis
POLITICAL Political factors can often give a big impact on the business of a company. Often this factor is not in the hand of the organization. Several aspects of government policies can make a huge difference. However, all firls are required to follow the law. It is the responsibility of the organization to find how upcoming legislations can affect their activities.
Targeting is the next step after segmentation and requires that the needs of the target market are met. Next
Executive Summary This report complies of an extensive study of Nando’s South Africa. A brief background of Nando’s is provided. A SWOT analysis is used to scan the micro environment of Nando’s to identify the businesses strengths, which should be exploited to gain a competitive advantage, weaknesses, where strategies need to be implemented so not to lose customers , opportunities, where strategies to exploit these ideas to gain a competitive advantage need to be identified and implemented and threats, where strategies need to be implemented so the business is not negatively affected. The Porters Six Forces model is used to scan the challenges Nando’s faces in the market environment by looking at level of rivalry in the market, the threat
Expanding into Latin America New markets for any company can be anywhere in the world and since this world every day is becoming more globalized every single company around the world is targeting moving into new places and being able to expand their horizons around the world. Latin America is a region that is becoming more and more approachable to companies from around the world. It provides with a fast variety of raw materials and labor possibilities for them to exploit. Before any organization moves into a new market it must first evaluate it and scan its possibilities in order to determine the best option for it. The following is a description of this process and the best options that the company selling high quality distance measuring technology
Introduction The following strategic analysis report was carried out for Giant Hypermarket in Malaysia. Giant Hypermarket also popularly known as “Giant” is a subsidiary of Dairy Farm International. The objectives of the study is to advise the Board of Directors into a possibility to revisit and redesign the current business strategy based on the blue ocean strategy (Kim and Mauborgne, 2005) to provide value based innovation via cost reduction with increased value for buyers and to ensure sustainable business operation in Malaysia. Additionally, the analysis also includes the possibility of developing a global strategy for Giant.
The process of market segmentation involves the division of a market into groups of smaller size whose needs, behaviour and characteristics are distinct from each other. These smaller groups or 'segments ' may require separate marketing strategies. There are four major market segmentation variables namely behavioural, psychographic, geographic and
1. MARKAT SEGMENTATION Market segmentation is a strategy that is generally used by a company to identify and define the target customers, and provide the supporting data for the marketing plan elements. There are five types of market segmentation which are demographic segmentation, geographic segmentation, psychographic segmentation, benefits segmentation and volume segmentation. • Demographic Segmentation Demographic segmentation is market segmentation according to age, family size, religion, race, gender, income and education. By using this segmentation, a company can categorize the needs of consumers more easily and target its consumers more accurately because demographics can segmented into several markets.