Blue Moon, Pty Ltd. produces and designs boats for sailing from 22 to 52 meters. It is been having a very good reputation in eyes of the customer for producing boats which were low in price and had a short period of production. Recently, it has been facing some decline. So, there is need for company to make some changes and adapt a new strategy. The company is looking to setup a new strategy so as to compete with its competitors. Morever, the company wants to satisfy its consumer by providing more innovative products as being demanded by their customers. The New Business Strategy includes strategies that are different from its competitors which will result in being a differentiator rather than being a cost …show more content…
In terms of the strategic dimension’s key success factors for Blue Moon before change were: • Lower prices • Shorter production time In regards of the strategic dimension’s key success factors for Blue Moon after change can be: • More Innovative • Sophisticated • High quality/superior boats • Excellent and expert customer service Blue Moon is being facing decline in profit and market share thus resulting in non-attraction of clients. As clients have no problem in paying more in return of gaining more attributes.Hence, the above four can be key success factors for Blue Moon. Blue Moon through advertising its product during competitions of sailing and sailing fairs which are held internationally can attract the sailors who are experienced. Training courses are available for employees to learn new skills which could also be added to key success factors. Tools/Techniques: The company can include some tools/techniques in its new MAS. Some of them will be having a positive outcome information and some of them might have negative outcome information
In addition, training should also be tailored to specific positions in the company and employees roles. Management may need additional training to help deal with employee issues, while someone in purchasing may need more training on gifting policies and someone in finance needs to understand the company’s position on fraud.
A few of the strengths that Blue Nile has is its prices, product line,educational information, lean costs, and supply chain efficiency. Also, Blue Nile has many potential market opportunities. Currently, Blue Nile has expanded to new geographic markets and has had a huge success in its online sales. Finally, there are few external threats to the company 's future profitability. Even though there are other online jewelry retail stores, Blue Nile has established itself, there are no real direct substitutes, and with such low prices, it would be hard for new entrants to compete.
Training and Development is imperative to the organization’s progress. Training helps addressing employee weaknesses and builds a reliable and skilled workforce. This will improve the employees’ performance and boost their self confidence, and innovation. By acquiring the needed knowledge and skills, employees can perform more efficiently and increase the overall productivity of the organization.
When a certain point is reached regarding a company’s success, a set of different opportunities arise and partnerships may unfold. However, with every possible strategy available, risks and benefits also come into play; without discarding any of them beforehand, every option is a strong candidate until a final decision is made. In this case study we will analyze the current business strategy pertaining
An example of Blue Ocean Strategy business would be “Le Cirque du Soleil.” At some point of our life we did went to see the circus. The circus’ performances were very popular for many centuries. This is an old concept - a group of artists and acrobats who travel the world with a tent, and with a diversity of wild animals to perform a spectacular show. The primary target was the children. Today, this concept is obsolete, although still exist in Europe.
1. Jet Blue´s Business- level strategy; value and cost drivers Jet Blue uses to create and maintain ist competitive position
This is done by creating a leap in value both for the buyers as well as for the organization thereby creating a new and uncontested market space. Companies left out in the red ocean usually follow a conventional approach, running to beat competition by creating a defensible position in the current market space order.
This strategy seem challenging since this strategy focus on capture new market and new demand, which it’s required extra efforts in term of innovation of products and promotion in order to make customers realize about their product. Even there are some discussions about the blue ocean strategies; however, based on my review on customers comment said that the practical guidance on how to create them is limited. Therefore, without usual analytic framework which can be used as guidelines to create blue oceans as well as effective principles to manage risk, creating blue oceans viewed as too risky for managers to pursue as strategy for their company.
Developing or making a strategy for a management is very complex in nature. It needs to be made in the uncertainty situations and may also affect the operational decisions. New strategy developed may also involve the change in present culture of an organisation which is difficult and may adversely affect the performance of the organisation. Strategies usually exist at a number of levels in an organisation. Let’s distinguish different levels of strategies and analyse it using Burberry’s strategies. The strategic themes of Burberry are: Leveraging the
The authors present the idea of a business being able to operate in a league of its own, without intense competition. The company is able to set its own pace to create, sell and profit from unique products and services in high potential new markets. The blue ocean is taken as a metaphor to represent these industries that may offer greater opportunity or higher profit potential. This is the goal of any blue ocean strategy, to search for and gain uncontested market space instead of engaging in traditional
importance in enhancing its value through a four pillar strategy and it is this strategy that has
Employee training programs are important in a business' success. Without an effective training program implemented the business could suffer from confused employees, ill direction and incompetence. The new employee can only excel further when taken through a properly planned training program.
The code name we gave to our project is ¡¥Low Bap¡¦: the sound of boots of an army when is marching in the battlefield. With this name we compare the business corporations of the present with the huge armies of the past. In this way, we could consider BT as a big army of the past, which has to be kept in a continuous march so as to meet our targets both in short and long-term. Regarding the number of the consumers that are involved and the size of funds, which are going to be used, BT¡¦s strategy will be an example that may have both a positive or negative effect to the Global business field in the future. It is up to us to build BT¡¦s fame as an innovative strategic planner or another bureaucratic plodding giant.
strategies and efforts. They must also be designed in light of the type of business,
There are some tool produce to help implement blue ocean strategy. The Eliminate-Reduce-Raise-Create (ERRC) Grid is the matrix that help execute blue ocean strategy with the four action framework: eliminating, reducing, aising and creating. ERRC Grid help company to remain on their competitive factors. Eliminating and reduce the factor that the transitional industry take it for granted can help the new strategy to remain unique from the transitional market. Nevertheless, raising and creating some unique competitive factor the transitional market never or seldom offered that is above the industry standard. With all these “Four Actions Framework” the company can escape the transitional red ocean market by activate a new blue ocean market and create a new value curve. (Kim & Mauborgne, 2005)