Tuesday 8 October 2013

EVALUATING A COMPANY'S RESOURCES, CAPABILITIES AND COMPETITIVENESS

Assalamualaikum w.b.t.


Now, in this chapter we had discuss about techniques for evaluating a company's internal situation, including its collection of resources and capabilities and the activities it perform along the value chain. 


Competitive Assets --> are the firm's resources and capabilities.


             Resources : include tangible and intangible.
                                tangible include physical resources like assets.
                                intangible include knowledge, skills,brands


              Capabilities : how you utilize the resources.



For sustainable competitive advantage must used VRIN Test that is Valuable, Rare, Inimitable and Non-substitutable.



Social Complexity --> company culture, interpersonal relationship among managers, trust-based relations with customers or suppliers.



Causal Ambiguity --> rivals do not know from other sources that create competitive company




EVALUATING A COMPANY'S EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT

From this chapter, we had learned about evaluating a company's external environment.

Macro-environment - the firms has no direct control

In the macro-environment, it had six principal components of strategic significance that is PESTEL analysis.

                                           
                                          PESTEL analysis

Besides that, we had learned FIVE competitive forces.