last entry ###

             I'm a bit sad actually because it was a last entry from me for this semester even some of my entry was a last minute work. According to this course, "Strategic Management" i have learn many things like make a blog, how to manage my time to edit my blog ^-^, and it was a interesting moment that i had. I never know how to make a blog before and now i'am superb in doing blog.hahahah., poyos je.,

             My last lesson for this entry is motivation and reward. For this topic, we also have a forum. I was participate in the forum based on the my experience. We need to find some organization or company that applied motivation and reward, and i was choose my father's catering. Based on it, i realize that my father was a caring person toward their family off course and also to the employee. In order to make our job efficient, we must always motivate our self and not blame other people. It was a last entry and hopefully we will see again in the other blog. Wish me luck for presentation next week. I hope it gonna be smooth presentation. ^_^ Daaaa~~~ 

(: coporate strategy :)

assalamualaikum.,

          Thanks to ALLAH because give me an opportunity to life in the world. In this topic, we learn about corporate strategy in other word, it also know as diversification or multifunction. From the word diversification, it can attract my intention to know more about it. Diversification means that a business development strategy allowing a company to enter additional lines of business that are different from the current products, services and market. For instance like in case study UMW Holdings. UMW Holdings was a company of an automotive assembly and distributor. They also have the other three core business which are automotive components OEM and REM, heavy components and oil and gas drilling service.

             According to this case study, we have given a question by Miss Ummi to answer and it quite difficult to use to answer it because we have not learn this topic yet. In the opposite side, it was an opportunity to us because learn it in advance. .^_^. While in the lecture hall, i was smiling because can get an idea about this topic.

!!!! strategies for competing in international market !!!!

assalamualaikum ~~~

           for this chapter, in order to make us more understand and clarify, miss ummi was relate it with a case study which is piping hot dogs (a case of a Malaysian franchise). in this case study, it tells us about an ongoing process for entrepreneurs as we are always seeking ways to improve in the industry. piping hot dogs was a new franchise that establishes since 1901 and own by Madam Rozidar and the company was named Nineteen O One sdn bhd. she have a principle that "the opportunity does not come rolling unless you look for it". that principle make Madam Rozidar want to fight in this industry. Nineteen O One have an aim to be a global halal branch in the international especially in the Middle East.

            to compete in the international market, they must have a strength and able to work independently. moreover, they also must look for the opportunity in the market. as we know,, Arabic people like to eat hot dogs. it was a big opportunity to Nineteen O One to open a new franchise at there. last but not least, in order to success in whatever we do, try to compete our self with others like in this case study. they try to open a new branch in the international market. ^_^   that all. hope you enjoy your reading.. ~~

      

## strengthening a company's competitive position ##

assalamualaikum.,  ***caaaaaaakkkkk***

                 Long time no see..haha., it's quite long time that I lost my update..sorry for that. okeyh now i'll share about what that i have learn in this topic which is how to strengthen a company's competitive position. for instance like, if we want to build up a business and want to successful in this field, the keyword is never imitate someone business. as we can see nowadays, most people always imitate from other business and it will be more funny because they open the business next to each other.

                 if we as a manager in the company, what we will do to strengthen a company's competitive position???? it can be strengthen from choosing the basis for competitive attack. which means that, if our rivals good in their product, we don't do a same thing. actually we can attack from buyer segmentation in order to get the title of best selling. in other side, we also can do like offer a better product at a lower price, leapfrogging competitor, pursuing continuous product innovation, and many more.

    in order to keep the company maintain their strength, they will join this strategy which are :

           1) Blue Ocean strategy
           2) Merger and Acquisition
           3) Strategic alliance
           4) Joint venture
           5)  Vertical integration strategy

            Blue Ocean Strategy means that offers growth in revenues and profits by discovering or inventing new industry segments that create altogether new demand. try to apply this method in our business in future and don't imitate someone business !!! good luck ~~~    ^_^

sharing session :)

                I'm very impress with the spirit that have in Madam Asnidar Hanim Yusof owner of the Oshima Restaurant (Halal Japanese Restaurant). She was so independent person in order to open a restaurant because from engineering course jump into business without have any knowledge. Oshima Restaurant have many challenges that occur when they want to grow up the restaurant. 

               I'm also want to open a business in the future and i'll take the experience from Madam Asnidar Hanim Yusof in order to successful. If all of you want to grab the opportunity, please make sure that you have a knowledge and experience before entering into this field. !!

 

chapter 5 (week 6)

assalamualaikum !!

          Last week lesson, we learn about the generic competitive strategies. In this chapter, we can know which company that apply those generic competitive. There are the five generic strategy :

         1) Low-cost provider
         2) Broad differentiation
         3) Focus low-cost
         4) Focused differentiation
         5) Best-cost provider
   
          Low-cost provider can be define as striving to achieve lower overall costs that rivals on products that attract a broad spectrum of buyers. For example,customer expectation in the industry have created a growing demand for low price and as a result, dell perform primary and support activities that simultaneously yield low costs and differentiated features. It same to Air Asia, Mydin, and Mcdonal's that provided a low-cost company.

           Okay ! let's we answer the question given to us in GOALS.

           PERODUA
  - Low-cost provider 

           Perodua is a second company in Malaysia that produce a car in this industry. The price is affordable and they offer a low-cost to their customer. The design can attract people to buy it especially for student because it is small in size. 


          GIANT
      - Low-cost provider.

        Giant as we know they provide a grocery product and also provide a low cost to their customer, as their trademark Great Value, Big Variety and Low Price.

       

SWOT analysis !!

Assalamualaikum everyone !!

                On Tuesday lecture, we learn about evaluating a company's resources, capabilities and competitiveness. Company's resources it can be defined in two ways which is in tangible and intangible resources. Tangible resources are those that can be touched or quantified readily is like product, technology resources, organizational resources such as the company control system meanwhile, intangible resources are those can't be touched like image, brand, skill and knowledge and so on.

                In order to know our company's capabilities and competitiveness, we must do a SWOT analysis. SWOT analysis can help our company to determine strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Indirectly we can improve our weaknesses and upgrade the strengths. If you don't believe this way, you can try in our daily life. It helps a lot. Best of luck !! Fighting !!