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Michael Porter 's Model And Its Components

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1. Describe Michael Porter’s model and its components. Pick an industry and describe how the different components of the model relate to the industry.
Michael Porter 's model helps us to understand the competition between organizations in an industry and explain how they are sustaining profits at different levels. These competition among the organizations can be analyzed using Porter 's five force model which are:
• Threat of new entrants
• Threat of substitute products/services
• Bargaining power of customers
• Bargaining power of suppliers
• Intensity of competitive rivalry
Porter 's five model can be used to understand the competitive situation in smartphone market. For example, Nokia Corporation, which was one of the largest vendor in …show more content…

L 'Oreal holds a patent on high engineering in U.S. and actively performs analysis and development in medicine, tissue engineering and pharmaceutical fields. Their main product target hair color, skin care, sun protection, make-up, fragrance and hair care. L’Oreal has three current strategies:
a. Broadening Customer Base: Broadening consumer base will allow the company to concentrate on accessible innovation. Advantages are increase in international brand awareness and can attract investors and shareholders from the new market. Dis-advantages are expensive market research before entering the market and government regulations may be hard to meet.
b. Changing Business Operations & Functions: L’Oreal has been focusing on streamlining, focusing, simplifying and making their business more efficient. These changes will result in continued industrial re-engineering of the business in every aspect including centralization of purchasing processes, better utilization of equipment. This will avoid redundant cost therefore utilizing the additional funds towards investing in R&D. Major dis-advantage is it needs a lot of communication and organization between the operations & functions which may be costly and time-consuming in the short term and may be hard to convince the long-term benefits of this strategy.
c. Increasing Expense in Research & Development and Promotion & Advertising: This contributes

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