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The initial strategy was to maintain a competitive presence in each segment by keeping our prices aligned with the average for each target market, while maintaining costs low. Specifically, it was our goal to become the leader in Traditional and low-end segments of the sensor business by allocating significant resources to R&D, marketing and promotions for these products. Our differentiator would be the result of a high investment in R&D to ensure our products were the best available.

We perhaps erred on the product design providing far too many features in the entry-level camera resulting in an increased cost of manufacturing. We did fairly well in terms of global prices but fared badly in P / Q ratings. The average Price for an entry-level camera in the global market is ranging from 150 - 175

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The Andrews management team has opted to pursue the strategy of differentiator with a product life cycle focus. This strategy involves the creation of products with excellent design in terms of size and performance (on the perceptual map), and MTBF. Significant investment in awareness and accessibility, and development of proficiency in the research and development sector is also central to this business strategy. In order to compensate for these high initial investments, our product prices will be relatively high; however it is believed that our customers will be drawn to our product due to high awareness and due to the superior quality of our sensors. Our released products will need to be manipulated according to the changes in expectations of the marketplace by producing smaller and faster products, according to the expected ideal size and performance of the sensors in future years. In addition, our company must invest in other important activities such as; total quality management (TQM), marketing, and human resources (HR) in order to

s. Whether a company’s price is within 5% of the lowest-priced camera branding the region

By charging a high price for a high quality product and keeping all unrelated costs low, such as administrative costs, labor, depreciation, we were able to triumph all other competitors at large profit margins with large market share in entry level and the best multi featured camera.

We aimed to win market share by appealing to cost-conscious or price-sensitive customers, which we felt that the majority of consumers consisted of. This would be achieved by having the lowest prices in the target market segment, or at least the lowest price to value ratio (price compared to what customers receive). To succeed at offering the lowest price while still achieving profitability and a high return on investment, it was evident that we had to be able to operate at a lower cost than our rivals. We aimed to achieve this goal though a combination of two methods, the first being achieving a high asset turnover. In the manufacturing of our cameras, we wanted to achieve the production of high volumes of output. In theory this approach meant fixed costs would be spread over a larger number of units of the product or service, resulting in a lower unit cost. We hoped to take advantage of economies of scale and experience curve effects[3]. We hoped and realised that higher levels of output both required and resulted in a higher market share, and created an entry barrier to potential competitors, who may be unable to achieve the scale necessary to match our low costs and prices.

The competitive strategy that CamSha aims to initiate is broad differentiation. Differentiation is selected as the quality and reputation of the business can be diminished in a cost leadership model (Datta, 2010). The camera sharing service aims to be utilised for special functions and thus requires it to be worth the quality. By focusing on differentiation we aim to target customers who can afford the camera and hence have a good reputation in maintaining the camera quality while in use, which will limit the threat of trust and diminishing quality. Research shows that by providing customers with trust in quality and reputation it can generate new and maintain existing customers (Hinz, 2015). Furthermore, it reduces the threat of suppliers

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First, we have identified if there is really an insufficiency in the amount of selling prices set by the Sales Department, in reference to Exhibit 1 of the case. We did this through identifying the maximum amount of overhead costs that the company can incur for the three products and comparing it with the total overhead costs. See Table 1 for details.

In 2002, Leitax had suffered through poor planning of 3 camera models: the launch of one camera delayed (cost: $19.5 million), another outsold its inventory (costs: $4.5million) and a third model reported sluggish sales ($2.5million). To compensate, Leitax extended the life of an existing model and made a mad scramble to find product and customers but the most costumers preferred to wait for the delayed camera. These

Operating expenses includes production costs, such as direct labor, indirect labor, inventory carrying costs, equipment depreciation, materials and supplies used in production, and administrative cost. This was not happening at Alex’s plant. His inventories had increased over the past six or seven months and operational expense also increased. This meant he had a lot of work to do to keep his plant open and he was now aware of it.

Dell Computer Corporation is the focus of the case. The time of the Dell case is

Sales & Marketing Costs = program and advertising spend + salaries + commissions and bonuses + overhead in a month, quarter or year.

The digital camera industry is growing at very fast pace. Therefore, there is a very good potential for the companies in this industry. Mike, a young engineering graduate is planning to start a digital camera company after obtaining experience from the other company. He plans to form a proprietorship form of business organization as this is the best business structure according to his needs. There are various giant competitors in the digital camera market. However, he has already conducted market research and based on that, he has identified target customer group. The company will be able to attract customers on the basis of its competitive advantage. The company has decided not to fix price of its