Business Strategy Unit 7 EDEXEL Level 4
Tutor: Louise Penketh
Manchester College
22/4/2010
By Guitola Tiny
Contents Introduction 4 Introduction to Virgin Group 4 Strategy Formulation 5 Virgin Group Smart 6 Stakeholder Map 6 Virgin Group PESTLE 8 Political 9 Technological 9 Environmental 10 Virgin Group Porter’s 5-forces 11 Porter’s 5-forces analysis (Michael Porter (1947)) 11 The Treat of Entry 11 Governmental policies 12 Differentiation 12 Switching cost for buyers 12 The Power of Buyers 12 The Power of Suppliers 12 The Threat of Substitutes 12 Competitive Rivalry 13 Adding value chain (porter value) 14 SWOT 15 Virgin Group SWOT 16
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V Festival UK
VFestival Aus
Virgin Festival Canada
Virgin Festival USA
The Virgin Voucher
Virgin Experience Days
Shopping
Virgin Books
Virgin Drinks
Virgin Megastore USA
Virgin Vie at Home
Virgin Wines
Media and telecommunications
Virgin 1
Virgin Broadband Australia
Virgin Connect
Virgin Media
Virgin Mobile
Virgin Mobile Australia
Virgin Mobile Canada
Virgin Mobile France
Virgin Mobile India
Virgin Mobile South Africa
Virgin Mobile UK
Virgin Mobile USA
Virgin Radio International
Finance and money
Virgin Money
Virgin Money UK
Virgin Money USA
Virgin Money Australia
Virgin Money South Africa
Health
Virgin Life Care
Virgin Active
Virgin Active UK
Virgin Active Italy
Virgin Active South Africa
Virgin Active Spain
Virgin Health Bank
Virgin Health Miles
Virgin Healthcare
Virgin Spa
Social and Environment
Virgin Earth
Virgin Green Fund
Virgin Unite
This is a organisation that as soul for whatever market they enter, and do their research before hand to achieve success each time based on creating a good customer relation and as providing them with great service and products, repeating great business every time, taking into consideration every people involved and make them feel valuable (Employees, consumers, government, suppliers, etc.).
Strategy Formulation
Strategic plan has an immense importance particularly on organisational prospects and
They strive to provide nice workplaces for their employees to grow and work in a better environment. Supporting Our Communities is the second. They are doing Community Giving Program such as giving the scholarship to build academic achievement for young people. Third and Fourth responsibilities they are focusing are Operating Sustainably and Conducting Business Ethically. They are putting efforts to maintain transparent business and to save electricity 30% and reduce waste for the environment. Their buying & planning offices are located in New York, Los Angeles, and Boston. Their buying and planning teams always try to get the current trendy products and find what their customers love at the affordable
The organisation’s goal is to achieve long-term value for its customers, shareholders and its employees through domestic and growth outside of Australia.
Identify some core values of this organization as best as you can. What do they believe in (beyond organizational success or profitability)? How might their revealing these values to customers and employees create opportunities to exceed expectations? How can they translate core values into actions to produce A-plus value, thus strengthening relationships?
Their short term objectives would be increasing sales. The vision would centre around employee co-ownership with the happiness of partners as the ultimate purpose. The mission is the satisfaction of employees. Finally, the value would be to represent the best possible choice, as a result of providing the best quality, trust and customer service.
The organization has a broad range of business sectors that would be very difficult to imitate. This sets this sets them above and beyond competition.
→ high focus on sales/technical knowledge; high customer-centric outlook; flexibility in meeting needs of customer key to success; unique/comprehensive business structure (engineering, manufacturing, and distributing of various filtration products and systems
It has been said that worship is the core or center of mission. The ultimate goal of any missionary is to bring people (entire people groups) into a passionate, relationship with God. John Piper states,
It pay specific attention to deals made with the government, establishing a good relation. And also he investment in quality products.
The heterosexual imaginary is immensely ingrained in our everyday experience that most people, including feminist sociologists, has become inclined to conceptualize and theorize based around the heteronormative. The heterosexual imaginary acts as an invisible framework at play that structures our thinking processes and in which constructs our social identity. For instance, the inquiry of a survey taker’s marital status in most social science surveys come to show that our recognized and appropriate social identity is formed around heterosexuality. That is, any deviation from this heterosexual norm would be considered abnormal and be marginalized. To a minimal extent, this focus has served the interests of women because of the lack of activism
Just as other interpersonal themes, sexual themes in film are often depictions of sexual themes that exist in real life relationships. For this very reason, it is very easy for a person to compare his relationships with that of a relationship shown in media or film. Some relationships are total train wrecks from the start while others are not necessarily ideal, but healthy. Although not seen very often, ideal couples in film are attributed with characteristics that are seen by society as desirable; youthful, attractive people who are hyper-sexual and affectionate. As cliché as it sounds, sometimes relationships are simply “complicated”. Such is the case in the film It’s Complicated.
Chapter conclusion: Benefits for employees are very important for companies. Benefits for employees include various insurance plans, paid vacation days, paid sick leave, paid days off, etc. Different companies need to establish different benefit plans based on their company conditions. In brief, benefit in one of the bridge between employers and employees.
The company aims at ensuring that they are recognized as a leading company in its industry and rise above the noise in the market that is caused by competition.
Our company is a leading consulting firm in the various industries, especially in the technology industry. The members in our team are experts in corporate strategy and have worked with plenty of clients from the software industry to services. We can bring real world experience to the table and provide invaluable prospective regardless of your current stage of business development.
Throughout the course, Religion and Sexuality, I have gained new insights on religion and its relationship to sexuality, further, I have learned skills on how to approach people about such topics (religion and sexuality) and how to critically evaluate these subjects efficiently. Lastly, this course has enabled me to discover new qualities about myself.
The organization have a great vision which is striving to ceaselessly reinforce its position as a