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
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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
A political challenge for L 'Oréal is the requirement to conform to different government leadership styles in the various countries they operate within. They faced a decline in dermatology from its Galderma brand due to new legislations governing drugs (Euromonitor, 2005). The EU law affects L’Oréal, as they are restricted with their use of certain chemicals such as Phthalates, which are carcinogenic (The Rules Governing Cosmetic Products in the European Union). L’Oréal is obligated to produce safe products that don’t contain any harmful substances (Sadik, 2013).
Porter’s five forces model seeks to portray how attractive an industry is in relation to the five competitive forces which includes, threat of substitutes, threat of entry, bargaining power of customers, intensity of competitive rivalry and bargaining power of suppliers.
The five forces examines the dynamics within an industry. Understanding the competitive forces, and their underlying causes, reveals the roots of an industry’s current profitability while providing a framework for anticipating and influencing competition and profitability over time. Understanding the structure of its industry is also essential to effective strategic positioning.
Michael Eugene Porter is an economist, author, advisor and a researcher. He is the creator of Porter Five Forces theory, which is a framework for a business. The model “identifies and analyzes five competitive forces that shape every industry, and helps determine an industry 's weaknesses and strengths” (Investopedia LLC, 2016). The five forces are competitive rivalry, bargaining power of buyers, bargaining power of suppliers, threat of new entry, and threat of substitution. This is a very important theory which a business can strengthen their position.
2. How Porter's Five Forces of Competition impact the company Porter set out his famous Five Forces model in chapter 1 of his 1980 Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors, which has now become the dominant paradigm for the "Structural Analysis of Industries." The model places supply chain forces on the horizontal access and market structure vertically above and below industry competition, which they all point to as the center of potential profitability (Hitt, Ireland and Hoskisson,
L'Oréal is a French cosmetics company, it was founded in 1909 by Eugène Paul Louis Schueller. The company is registered in Paris. It is recognized as one of the world's largest cosmetics companies. L'Oréal has developed businesses in cosmetics, concentrating on hair color, skin care, sun protection, make-up, perfume and hair care. L’Oréal has been recognized by their beauty and health industry, for their commitment to business standards and
Michael Porter’s Five Forces Model, provides five competitive forces that impact a company within its environment. Porter’s Five Forces Model provides an assessment of a company’s operating
Porter’s five forces analysis is a tool is useful for us to analyse the threat of competition in an industry. Porter believed that the industries were influenced by five forces; competitive rivalry, threat of new entrants, bargaining power of suppliers, bargaining power of buyers, and the threat of substitutes. Analysing these areas can allow you to see attractiveness of the market and find a competitive advantage.
Michael Porter designed Porter’s Four Corner’s Model which is a predictive tool that assist in analyzing on competitor’s probable action. Porter’s Four Corner’s Model is not primarily based on an organization’s current strategy and potential in verifying future strategy. It includes the basis of what motivates the competitor. The ‘Four Corner’s’ is consign of four aspects which are essential to competitor analysis. It includes current strategy, drivers, capabilities and management assumptions. This four characteristics help to recognize on how competitor response to given situation.
Porter’s five model is defined as the framework that evaluate the position of a company in the external environment with focus drawn on the level of competitiveness (Roy 2011). The framework considers factors such as rivalry, substitute goods, the power of suppliers and buyers as well as new entrants. Four forces can influence the success of Michael Kors. The first one is competitive rivalry. Here, the struggle is about maintaining performance despite different tactics used by different companies to increase sales. For instance, Ralph Lauren uses premium prices for quality products to differentiate itself, while Coach uses product variety within the line of handbags to remain competitive (Stewart 2016). Also, when the industry is flooded with similar companies producing similar merchandise, the probability of a company stagnating is high because consumers have a variety to pick from. Hence, the need to establish loyal customers.
The competitive environment influences the performance of businesses and from a competitive industry perspective; Porter’s model defines whether the industry is attractive or unattractive. In an attractive industry, the threat of entrants, threat of substitute products and intensity of rivalry among existing firms are low. Additionally, the bargaining power of buyers and suppliers are also low and weak. On the other hand, in an unattractive industry the five forces are high and
The Porter 's Five Forces model, which was named after Michael E. Porter, identifies and analyzes five competitive forces that shape every industry, and helps determine an industry 's weaknesses and strengths. These forces are:
Michael porter developed a model that can help strategic management to better understand the industry context in which the industry operates. The framework he created models an industry as being influenced by five forces. Michael Porter framework can help a company when developing a business strategy if it decided to go global. When entering the international market the company has to put in mind what kind of competition it will find in the foreign market and how can it overcomes the different challenges. The five forces that affect an industry
Executive Summary & Table of Contents L 'Oreal presently offers the following products in the Netherlands: Plenitude and Recital under the L 'Oreal brand name, and Ambre Solaire under the Garnier Institute brand name. L 'Oreal Nederland has been considering whether to introduce the Synergie skin care line and Belle Couleur hair colorants line into the Netherlands. Synergie and Bele Couleur are marketed under the Garnier Institute name in France. The Netherlands market has several challenges: new product launches are difficult (especially from a relatively unknown company like Garnier) and the distributor
Perhaps one of the weaknesses that a big company faces is the decentralized organizational structure. This is also part of the difficulties that L’Oreal is facing. Due to the many subdivisions of the Company, there is also the difficulty in the control of L’Oreal. This slows down the production of the Company because of the need of giving reference to the other Board members and directors of the Company. L’Oreal will also have a difficulty in finding out what division is accountable for the possible pitfalls of the Company. Another weakness that L’Oreal faces is their profit. The profit margin of L’Oreal is comparably low than that of the other smaller rivals. While L’Oreal projects certain rise in digits as their profit, the result does not usually meet the expectations (Sang, 2003). Perhaps, this is also due to the high-end advertising and marketing as well as the width of the Company. Finally, the coordination and the control of the activities