RUNNING HEAD: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AND STRATEGIC COMPETITIVENESS 1
Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness
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Strayer University
BUS 499 Business Administration Capstone
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April 18, 2013
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AND STRATEGIC COMPETITIVENESS 2
With offices in more than 30 countries, Red Hat, founded in 1993, is the world's leading provider of open source solutions, using a community-powered approach to provide reliable and high-performing technologies ("Red hat company," 2012). The five technologies are cloud, operating system, storage, middleware and virtualization. Globalization and technology have positively impacted Red Hat.
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The relationship between the employee stakeholder and the corporation should be that of unity. The publicity for the company should be positive and this can be influenced by employees of Red Hat. The employee group of Red Hat is where the heart STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AND STRATEGIC COMPETITIVENESS 4 of the company lies. Without the hard work and dedication of our management and employees, Red Hat would not exist. Another Red Hat stakeholder is a person or a group that is a stockholder. A stockholder has voting power that can help make major decisions such as mergers and acquisitions, select the board of directors and weigh in on other import issues at annual meetings (Lawrence). This group of stakeholder’s goal is to receive a positive return on investment (ROI). They have a right to review records of the corporation and sometimes do just that if the ROI is negative. Customers are very important stakeholders. Red Hat needs to provide their customers with safe, well made, valuable products. If they don’t, their customers can go elsewhere. As stated before, some of the well-known competitors are Novell, Microsoft, and Oracle. If Red Hat doesn’t provide adequate products, they may lose valuable stakeholders. Customers will sometimes boycott a company who has unsatisfactory products or service (Lawrence). Red Hat will do all they can do to ensure that does not
Some of the advantages of selecting each vendor’s product are similar and still somewhat distinct. Red Hat in (For sap business,) states, “that is a responsive customer support, higher performance standards, collaborative engineering for better products, and designed-in security.” Customer support is a very important advantage. Higher performance standards are also an important advantage. Higher performance means we will get what we paid for or more in our return. According to (Stevens, 2011) there are several pros and cons to using Red Hat. Some of the advantages are its scalability in the processors and memory, ability for hot-swapping of processors, and an integrated KVM virtualization with Kernel Samepage Merging and SELinux sandbox options. Some of the cons of Red Hat are its server
The current hardware within the organization will support the Linux platform and architecture. This makes a Linux implementation more cost efficient, because the Linux operating system is open source, allowing licensing for the operating system to be almost free, and maintenance quite minimal in cost, when compared to its Widows competitor. The implementation of Linux within the organization can also accommodate the use of several of their Windows based applications.
The purpose of the paper is to research and understand how the changes of globalization and technology have impacted the Airline industry. This paper will also apply the industrial organization model and the resource-based model to determine how the Airline industry earn above-average returns. This paper will explain how the Airline industry’s success is through its mission and vision statements with Southwest Airlines as an example. Finally, this paper will evaluate how the importance each category of the stakeholder impacts are to the overall success of the Airline industry.
ASOS is an international fashion retailer, which offers an extensive line of products, varying from high street to
During the POC, the account team also identified that Sutter needed a continuous integration/development framework and process in order to build flexible and scalable integration architecture for future enhancements. They showed Sutter how open-source can help them build such an enterprise-class integration framework. A great POC experience and results convinced Sutter that Red Hat will be a perfect strategic partner for their growing business needs.
Linux has a rich history of collaborations between different organizations and input from users worldwide. This has led to a world class piece of open source software that has proven itself to have both the reliability and security to provide the peace of mind for users and corporations worldwide to use for day to day operations and
For the simulation my company name was H Company. Below you will find the results to the 8-year simulation. H Company has been highlighted in the majority of screen-shots.
The company I choose to concern myself with in this text is Hewlett Packard - HP. Operating in the Diversified Computer Systems industry, the company concerns itself with the sale of computers, software, and other technologies to customers from all over the world. Some of the company's main competitors in the industry include but they are not limited to Dell and IBM.
The paper that I 'm writing will help you to gain information on how Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness play hand and hand when dealing with a business. The business that I have chosen to write about is Nike. I have always wanted to know the practices that Nike used to make their business last this long and how have they been so successful. I will explain to you how globalization and technology changes have helped or hurt the company and the major role that it has played. I also plan to construct a plan to see how my corporation could earn above-average returns and increase their gaining potential. I will explain Nike 's vision and mission statement and show how this had allowed them to continue to be one of the most outstanding business in this day and age. In turn, I plan to show how each or stakeholder plays an important role in the success of the corporation.
Stakeholders are the group or number of people who are directly or indirectly related to a particular business. Stakeholders can be directors, customers, employees, government, agencies, owners, suppliers, unions and the community from which the business draws its resources (Campbell, 2002). However, stakeholders are a crucial part for the success of business. If an organisation knows it’s stakeholder, then it can determine where, there is prospect for business and also by analysing stakeholders, business can set its operational activities (Graham, 2005).
Dissimilar sources plan altered steps involved in the planning process, but in this case I will discuss on seven steps that are involved in the entire process. The first step is goal setting. This basically involves coming up with the main objectives and goals that the company wishes to establish within a particular period of time. It is a very important section because the company will operate with a view of the goal in mind, if it is not clearly established, and then the business could lose direction along the way. After goal setting, we have development of the planning premises, where the plans are prepared and any underlying conditions defined. This is where there is an assessment of the environment and any constraints or
The (word) stakeholder means any person with an interest in business, someone who can contribute to the company grows and success or who benefits from its success. The various stakeholders in business have differing role and their level of involvement in the enterprise varies
(CNN) -- As per a report published by CNN these days the mobile phones have become an increasingly ubiquitous part of our daily lives, they've had the effect of unleashing a kind of epidemic of spontaneity. We have started relying on these smart devices and as a result, a lot many of us have become exceptionally bad at planning. This has made us
Operational management processes in a firm involves overseeing, formulating and reformulation of the operations of a business. The processes are meant to ensure efficiency in administering resources whilst ensuring there is effective management of client’s specifications and or directions. This is achieved by adding value to the firm’s processes. Such achievements are experienced when a firm embarks in directing its physical and or technical functions towards enhancing its development, production and manufacturing. These should be pre-determined and controlled by market opportunities if a company is to reach its ultimate production levels. Their realisation adds up to ensuring the future of a firm, offering operational
The strategic management process is sometimes improperly perceived as a unidirectional flow of objectives, strategies and decision parameters from management to the employees. In fact, the process should be highly interactive since it is designed to stimulate input from creative, skilled and knowledgeable people working at every level of the business.