Case Study : Nissan Motors And The Japanese Automotive Industry At The Time Ghosn

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For instance in the passenger car market, the major growth opportunity for the next several years will still be in the small car sector(800-1000 c.c.) where Maruti has the best prospects. G.M. or Ford cannot claim this as their opportunity because they do not have products to offer in this critical market segment. SWOT analysis should also cover the existing business and functional strategies of the firm. If all this is done the SWOT can provide a complete and exhaustive framework for environmental analysis.

Nissan's strategy is based on the concept of listening to the community and identifying potential risks and opportunities. The company takes into account the proposals of major experts and organizations, reviews organizations' assessments, uses this information to analyze its goals and activities, and to

During March 1999, Brazilian Carlos Ghosn took over as the first non-Japanese Chief Operating Officer of Nissan, when Nissan had been incurring losses for seven of the prior eight years. Many of the industry analysts expected a culture clash between the French leadership style and his new Japanese employees. Analysts said, because the financial situation at Nissan had become critical so the decision to bring Ghosn in came at the worst possible time. The continuing losses were resulting in debts (approximately $22 billion) that were shaking the confidence of suppliers and financiers alike. Furthermore, the Nissan brand was weakening in the minds of consumers due to a product

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Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japan-based company and expands quickly around the world. It has overtaken General Motors Corporation and ranked the first in the automobile industry since 2008 (Towill 2010). Toyota entered into Australia in 1958 and was perceived as one of the most significant parts of the Australian export market. However, it is in a dilemma and facing unprecedented pressure due to a series of internal and external reasons. Toyota utilises a balanced business model and pursue an export-oriented strategy to overcome the insufficient domestic demand. While this strategy might address the high-cost problem, it is highly reliant on the import, which is likely to restrict Toyota’s development and lose competitive advantages in the long term. Additionally, Toyota Australia suffers from the external environment, resulting in adverse situations and manufacturing losses. First and foremost, it is limited by political issues. For instance, the liberal trade policies and unbalanced trading environment could discourage the importation of the Australian cars. Secondly, the change of market structure, such as increasing demand for small fuel-efficient cars, might be counter to the types of cars manufactured by Toyota.

Thus, SWOT analysis was being used to identify the strength, weaknesses, opportunity, and threats of the company’s operation. By using this analysis, we get to identify how the company’s operation runs and what strategies would be the best to be suggested in the alternatives. The strength for Taurus is well established background, reputation for quality, strong division and strategic internal development. The weakness is inefficiencies productivity, weak competitive position and not incorporated division. The threat and opportunity is from the external environment. The opportunity is highly attractive market, awareness of joint venture and merging, high demand of rubbers and tires, opportunity to privatise and the competitiveness of Hungary 's exports. Lastly, the threat is high threat of new entrants, maturity of tires, occurrence of new private law and crisis in Hungarian industry.

As part of developing market strategies, a company should know where it is strong or slack, as well as consider past experiences and future possibilities. One such means is a SWOT analysis. The worth of this tool lies in its simplicity and clarity by scrutinizing the internal

Nissan had been undergoing losses for last 7 years when Ghosn took over Nissan as COO in 1999(Millikin and Fu, 2005). He was the first non-Japanese Chief Operating Officer for Nissan. The anticipation was a big cultural clash for this project as Ghosn came from French Leadership style to Japanese culture. Business analysts anticipated that this can be a big difference to the Japanese employees. It was a worst possible time for any leader because of Nissan’s financial and business position. The situation was very critical as the continuing financial losses were resulting in debts that were approximately around 22 billion Dollars. This had resulted in shaking of confidence for Nissan suppliers as well as financers. Company was producing 43 models of vehicles and only 4 of them were producing profits. The portfolio of Nissan brand was weakening in the minds of consumers due to its current state. There was little liquid capital for new product development and nobody was anticipating that Nissan could increase their margins and overcome the losses. Nissan’s Models were old and it was creating loss of interest in Nissan brand in the minds of consumers.

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