*I ONLY Need An Introduction and a Partial Conclution!!!**

The “Sources of Competitive Advantage” image above shows the focus of competitive advantage for seven companies:

• Toyota focuses on quality as its competitive advantage.
• IBM focuses on service as its competitive advantage.
• Wal-Mart focuses on low cost as its competitive advantage.
• Coca-Cola focuses on its proprietary products as its competitive advantage.
• Apple focuses on innovation as its competitive advantage.
• Nike focuses on brand recognition as its competitive advantage.
• Nintendo focuses on value as its competitive advantage.

• Slide 1: Include title of the team PowerPoint, course name and number, instructor’s name, date submitted, and names of team members.
• Slide 2: As a team, select a company from the list of organizations listed above that integrates information systems to support its business strategies. Describe the business mission and goals of your chosen organization.
• Slide(s) 3-4: As a team, describe how information systems create competitive advantages for your chosen organization. Analyze and identify the types and functions of systems used in the organization.
• Slide 5: What different types of data make up “big data” for your chosen company? Describe the big data (what it is and how it is used). Big is a term that describes extremely large data sets that may be analyzed computationally to reveal patterns, trends, and associations. Examples of big data may include data in a company’s customer service department used to solve customer problems or a company’s use of stock market or competitive intelligence data to predict the future (Hint: You can find examples of big data used by the organization by reviewing data reports on the “Investors” or “Our Investors” tab of the organization’s website). Justify your answers.
• Slide 6: Conclusion
• Slide 7: Reference list

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  Nintendo’s Source of Competitive Advantage

   

  Introduction

  Competitive Advantages

  Less Expensive Consoles

  Games are easier, quicker and cheaper to develop

  Didn’t go HD

  Addressing non-consumers with simpler solutions

  Continue to think about what comes next

  Nintendo makes their consoles cheaper to manufacture which equates to being able to sell the base console a to profit and their competitors have to subsidize the retail price

  Nintendo decided not to go HD on the Wii to reach more customers who had not transformed to the HD world yet

  Simplicity can be a powerful means of disruption when targeting non-consumers. The ability for anyone to pick up a game and play versus the complexity of PS and XBOX has proven to be a major advantage.

  It’s crucial to keep thinking about what the source of sustainable competitive advantage is that will allow the disruptor to fend off the inevitable competitive counterattack.

   

  3

  Competitive Advantages

  User Friendly Computer Interface

  Closed System

  Competitive advantage in an underperforming industry

  Creativity

  Nintendo allows young children to play video games interchangeably without any technical skill whatsoever.

  This makes them stand out because this protects the product from competition.

   

  So value creation, those three: the supplier, buyers, and substitutes. That’s the places, those are the ideas, factors that inhibit or allow for the creation of value.

  4

  Hardware Unit Sales

  Consoles

  Handheld

  Software Unit Sales

  Games

  Applications

  Digital Download Sales

  Games

  Applications

  (sold through online store)

  Big Data for Nintendo

  -Nintendo uses big data by analyzing hardware and software sales trends to understand customer buying habits

  _ Hardware Unit Sales includes the WiiU, New 3DS, 2DS, Amiibo and Nintendo Switch.

  With the announcement of their new system the Nintendo Switch Nintendo used big data to evaluate the reactions of the consumer base by analyzing the number of views which were over 20 million views and 95% positive reactions to their new system.

  – Using Data Nintendo seeing that Pokemon Go brought and increased interest to the brand, saw this as an opportunity to resell back cataloged games and promote the release of a new pokemon game

  -Using Data Nintendo saw an increase in digital download sales over packaged games year to year, but took in consideration that WiiU games sales were down across the board, which explained why they saw a decrease in sales.

   

  5

   

  Nobody said that being a disruptor would be easy. Nintendo shows how a disruptive strategy can pay off handsomely, but also illustrates that in highly competitive markets, competitive advantage is transient.

  Conclusion

  Everiss, Bruce (2008) Nintendo’s Competitive Advantage. Retrieved from https://seekingalpha.com/article/59142-nintendos-competitive-advantage

  Huse, Tim (2010) What Can We Learn from Nintendo? Retreived from https://hbr.org/2010/08/what-can-we-learn-from-ninten

  https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2016/161027_2e.pdf

  Nerdster, P., (2017) Nintendo Business Strategy Analysis for 2017 and Beyond. Retrieved from http://professornerdster.com/nintendo-business-strategy-analysis-2017-beyond/

  References

   

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ead the Ch. 10 Management in Action case study “Hewlett-Packard is Counting on Organizational Change to Boost Revenue Growth” on p.333（see attach）

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Hewlett-Packard Is Counting on Organizational Change to Boost Revenue Growth

Meg Whitman became CEO of Hewlett-Packard Co. in 2011. Since the time H-P’s revenue peaked in 2011 at $127 billion, it has dropped every subsequent year. On the positive side, the company had two consecutive quarters of growth in 2014. H-P also is trying to right-size and reduce costs by planning to lay off 16,000 employees. H-P earlier decided to lay off 34,000 people, resulting in a total reduction of 50,000 employees.100

Whitman described the job cuts “as an opportunity to streamline the company further and make it more nimble. An expected $1 billion in cost savings in fiscal 2016 would allow H-P to invest in new technologies and skills to revive growth.” Others, like UBS analyst Steven Milunovich, believe that these job cuts will erode employee morale and may lead to increased turnover.101

“But fixing the world’s biggest tech company—with $120 billion in annual revenues and 330,000 employees—is a herculean task. Bloated by more than 70 acquisitions in the past 15 years, HP isn’t just sprawling and stalled out; it may actually be running in reverse.”102

Whitman decided to change the organizational structure to fuel growth. She created two clusters of businesses. One focuses on corporate technology customers. This group, which sells servers, storage, and networking, delivered 43% of the company’s overall operating profits according to Forbes. Unfortunately, the software and services that accompany all this hardware have not been as successful. H-P tried to build the software side of the business via acquisitions, which according to Forbes have not been very successful. The magazine noted that “when it comes to software acquisitions, Autonomy [H-P’s enterprise software company] was merely the most high-profit misstep. All told, over the past decade HP squandered nearly $19 billion to buy myriad outfits that contribute only 7% to overall profit. The services unit, which staffs other companies’ tech projects, is barely at breakeven.”103 H-P is currently “looking for small to midsize acquisition candidates in cloud computing, security, and analytics software.”104

The second structural cluster sells printers, PCs, laptops, and mobile devices to people worldwide. This segment of the business contributed 29% of operating profits in 2013. The problem here is that the lucrative printer business is shrinking. Technology is simply moving more toward ink-free photo and document sharing, which benefits companies like Google, Face-book, and Dropbox.

Strategically, H-P also is trying to get back into the fast-growing tablet market. The company attempted to gain entry in this market in 2011 with the TouchPad model, but it was a failure. Since February 2013, the company has introduced new models, and they are being well received in the market. In a similar vein, H-P has created an overall vice president for design. This was done to create a strategic focus on product development.

H-P didn’t stop at just a reorganization or a new tablet strategy, according to Forbes. A survey of the company’s 20,000 salespeople revealed that employees rated the internal sales tools a mere “7” on a scale of 1 to 100. For example, it took HP as much as three weeks to prepare a sales quote, when competitors could do it in a matter of days. The company decided to upgrade its sales process by using new tools from Salesforce.com.

Whitman also took to the road to reassure customers that H-P was doing the “right things.” In the last year, she conducted “305 one-on-one meetings with customers or sales-channel partners, aides say, as well as another 42 roundtable chats with small groups” around the world.

It did not take Whitman long to realize that the organizational culture also needed to be changed to foster consistency between the company’s strategies and culture. According to Forbes, she eliminated the barbed wire fence and locked gates that separated parking lots for the executives and the general employee population. “We should enter the building the same way everyone else does,” she said. She also decided to work from a cubicle, like most employees, instead of from a larger, more private location. She keeps a picture of her mother in her office. She also role models when she travels by staying at more modestly priced hotels.105

While H-P is positive about the changes taking place, some analysts are more skeptical. Bill Shope, an analyst from Goldman Sachs, concluded that “serial restructuring cannot solve H-P’s secular challenges, particularly following years of underinvestment.” He forecasts that H-P’s revenue might fall to $107 billion in fiscal 2015.106

FOR DISCUSSION

1.  Which of the supertrends are driving H-P to change?

2.  Which of the forces for change are causing H-P to undertake major organizational change? Explain.

3.  How might Meg Whitman have used Lewin’s and Kotter’s models of change to increase the probability of achieving positive organizational change? Provide specific recommendations.

4.  To what extent is H-P following the four steps for fostering innovation? Explain.

5.  What advice would you give Whitman based on what you learned in this chapter? Be specific.

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