Building Competitive Advantage Through Market Based Management Practices In 21st Century Management practices, firms and corporations are constantly seeking the leg-up on the competition to increase profits and long-term value creation. In an increasingly global environment, competition remains stiff if not more competitive than ever before. Representing indirect forces on competitive advantage for companies, globalization and national and international business/trade laws have an increasing impact on competitive measures that firms may take. In Contemporary Management by Jones and George, Competitive Advantage is defined as “the ability of one organization to outperform other organizations because it produces desired goods or …show more content…
A sustained competitive advantage, on the other hand, can last much longer. Business Level Strategies Any successful business ultimately results from business-level strategies that create a competitive advantage over rivals and achieve superior competitive performance within a particular industry (Collin 2004). Moreover, firms who have created a competitive advantage must stabilize their competitive position within the industry or seek to maintain the advantage in which the company has created. They 4 must first decide on: customer needs, or what is to be satisfied; customer groups, or who is to be satisfied; core competencies, or how customer needs are to be satisfied (Porter 1980). Based on these decisions, a firm will determine which strategies they formulate and implement to put a companyʼs business model into a plan of action. Business-Level Strategy deals with decisions and actions pertaining to each business unit in order to make each unit more competitive in its market-place (Collin 2004). These particular business units are in effect part of the “organizational structure” of a firm and part of the “value chain.” The Value Chain The value chain is a basic tool for diagnosing competitive advantage and finding ways to create and sustain it (Porter 1985). The value chain however, can also play an important role in designing organizational structure. According to Jones & George, the organizational structure of an firm is a formal system
listening to the customers, rather than forcing them to listen to us. 3) Combining our
Goals in the company are to find the right product for the customer’s particular needs and build a relationship with the customers
Before we can identify the needs of customers and stakeholders, it is important that we can identify who our customers and stakeholders actually are.
Structure is the basis through which an organization seeks to create control the direction of an organization. This is completed through clear definitions of the allocation of work, differentiation, and the coordination of having those responsibilities working together towards the efforts of the organization, integration (Bolman & Deal, 1993, pp). Through these methods, the organization is able to devise a division of labor that collaborates to bring about the missions and goals of an organization. The structure that comes about from this can be varied in their rigidness and flexibility it allows, and to an extent this is a great contribution to its success.
Understanding customer needs (including examples of 3 different customers and 1 need for each, and explain how you would prioritise conflicting needs)
All businesses have organisational structures, even if they are small or big, they have some type of structure so they can operate productively.
In order for one to evaluate and identify with the diverse business structures, he/she must be aware of the meaning and standards that makes that structure. Various businesses functions in different ways as the world is full of technology and new structures, company cultures and new ways in which companies are run. In order to fully grasp the concepts of Organizational structure and culture in the movies, I will use the Movie Up in the Air and The Devil Wear Prada movies to analyze a business scenario from them.
We recognise that customer needs differ across our key customer groups and business divisions/units, so we need to provide a tailored level of service to them, in line with their unique needs.
most basic requirements must be met when it comes to customer’s comfort and that is where
needs of the consumers in the market. Although they have a clear understanding of the
Corporate level strategy can be defined as the master plan that decided by the top management for the whole company and also the organisation’s strategic business units. With the help of corporate level strategies, an organization or company can determines and indicates what business it should be in, which path it should follow and also which role should be played by respective business units in order to pursue respective direction. By the way, corporate level strategies can be divided into three types which are growth strategy, stability strategy and also renewal strategy.
Generally speaking, there are two factors that come into play when the customer needs are to be cov-ered. The first is necessary factors (NF) indicating the customers' minimum requirements for the prod-uct. The second factor is critical success factors, which creates the competitive advantage of the product and thus ascribe the product added
If a company wants to be successfull in their business it has to be able to create competitive advantage over it competitor in a same business area. (De Wit & Meyer, 2010). What approach or strategy should the company take into account in order to create competitive advantage in their business environment is the core issue for the managers.
1.2 At least two different organizational structures are identified, described, and compared in terms of their design principles.
2. Then we need to understand the customers with whom we have been successful and why.