Moving on to the development of dynamic capabilities, here, Google will need to effectively make changes towards the company’s internal and external organisational skills, resources and functional competences moreover, reviewing the company’s strengths, as a result of adapting to the new change(Newth, F 2012), that is, the re positioning of Google’s online shopping paid model. This is a crucial change to develop, as vice president of product management for Google shopping, Sameer Samat, explained that by repositioning to an all-paid model will increase further trustworthy data(Sullivan, D 2012) , hence, it will greater improve the shopping search experience for its customers.
Additionally, Google’s core competencies have already created various competitive advantages for the company, and as a result, Google will need to review their most valuable competitive advantage, and put emphasis on those advantages they have over other similar companies, such as Amazon who provides an online shopping service (Sullivan, D 2012).
Analysis of competency test
Referring to “appendix 1”, a competency test of Google was completed, and is now going to be further analysed. Additionally, the competency test as completed was based around three of Google’s strategic assets, that is, their employees, Google’s strong brand name and their loyal customer base. It should also be noted that the analysis for the business model impact will be discussed further in the report.
The first strategic asset
Describe Google’s customer value proposition and profit formula linked to its business model. What strategies has Google relied upon to build competitive advantage in the
Today, Google, Inc. is worth more than General Motors, McDonald's and Disney combined, and the company continues to model the way in the global technology industry in which it competes. In fact, the company's name has become a verb and it is common practice for consumers to "Google" what they want to find online. To determine how Google, Inc. reached this dazzling level of performance in a relatively short period of time, this paper provides an analysis of the three external environments in which Google competes, the general environment, the industry environment and the competitor environment. Next, a discussion of two specific strategic issues as well as opportunities and threats that are facing Google, Inc. is followed by a summary of the research and important findings in the conclusion.
search engine, cloud computing). What I have learned from doing research on the company Google would be that they focus on diversity, data, and non-typical corporate practices. Data is at the central for a lot decisions Google makes. Besides data examined for typical corporate business, Google’s also considers employee operations. An example of this would be lunch lines (Google offers free meals and snacks to employees), to make the most optimal lunch line (to meet new people and to prevent waste of time), Google has taken data to find and state that the most optimal lunch line is 3 to 4 minutes.
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Google’s competitive advantage was that it used a cost-per-click approach with advertisers. Google’s philosophy with ad technology is what gave them the advantage. They did not allow an advertiser to
Google is #1on the Fortune list of the top 100 companies to work for (Fortune/CNN, 2013). The company has achieved this standing for a number of different reasons, each of which will be outlined in this paper.
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