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Corporate strategy project.GSK case.
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................11. External Analysis to identify a set of opportunities and threats and also explaining industryattractiveness...............................................................................................................................12. Analysing the resources and key competences of the organisation and identify corecompetences................................................................................................................................43. One strategy that the company implemented recently and its evaluation...............................5CONCLUSION ..............................................................................................................................8REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................9
INTRODUCTIONCorporate strategy is the long term statistical way that helps company in order to identifythe goals of the organisation. Project management takes one of the goals and manages costs,schedules and resources to give the desired result. Enterprise adopts different strategies and alsoin order to achieve profit in more effective and advanced manner. In the following report, GSKhas been taken into consideration.This report also leads in evaluating the strategy to form a jointventure with Pfizer. The main purpose of this venture is to create a premier global consumerhealthcare company with robust iconic brands. Both the company is well established brand totake care the consumer healthcare businesses. In the following report, external factors have been analysed that may help in setting theopportunities has been discussed. Further, this report also helps in determining resources and keycompetences of the organisation. 1. External Analysis to identify a set of opportunities and threats and also explaining industryattractiveness.Glaxo Smith Kline Plc is the leading Pharmaceutical company which is situated inBrentford London (Brewster, 2017). GSK founded in 2000 by a merger of Glaxo Wellcome andSmithKline Beecham. This is ranked at the sixth largest Pharmaceutical company as of 2015. Itis one of the famous or leading drug company across the world. In terms of business, GSKleading with three major part which includes Vaccines of Polio, Thyroid and treating hepatitis.On the same side, Pfizer is the worlds second pharmaceutical company. On December 19, 2018they announced the big merger with GSK. This makes the long term goals and objectives andeffective learning goals. Under the terms of the transaction, Pfizer will receive a 32% equitystake in the joint venture, entitling Pfizer to its pro rota share of the joint venture earning anddividends. Industrial analysis.Bargaining power of supplier- This force helps in analysing the power of supplier interms of control that it has over potential to raise its prices, which in turn would lowerdown the profitability of a business. The bargaining power of suppliers is low becauseGSK poses the threat of backward integration to suppliers.1
Bargaining power of buyer- The bargaining power is high. NHS is termed as the majorbuyer,. This is the force that leads in examining the power of customer or buyer and alsotheir effect on quality and price. The buying power is low when customers purchaseproducts in literally small amount and sells it in different way from that if competitors.Competitive rivalry- Industrial rivalry is very much high .The main driver is the numberand also the capability of competitors in the market. There are many competitors who areoffering with undifferentiated products and services that will lead in reducing marketattractiveness.Threat of substitution- The threat of substitute is high for GSK. This is because the costof switching is low. Thus, the other substitute is generic drugs and complementaryalternative medicine.Threat of new entry- Pharmaceutical is characterised with high entry barrier when factorslike involvement of huge capital, patents, cost advantage is been considered. Thus, GSKspent 3.4 billion euros on research and development in 2013. therefore, the threat of newentry is relatively low.Therefore, this is the long term external factors that affect the new managing marketopportunity and growth (Droppert and Bennett, 2015). In order to analyse external macro factors,company needs to conduct PESTLE analysis to determine the more opportunity and threats.Pestle is the model to analyse the business environment factors that can have direct impact on thebusiness goals. In this model helps to explains in detail about operating challenges Glaxo SmithKline Plc. Political FactorPolitical factor is significantly affect the overall business or industry functional activities.Political changes might also affect the company profitability growth. In other words, GSK is thedrug manufacturer and sell products in more than dozen countries and expose itself to differenttypes of political environment and political system risk. GSK is being affected with the country'spolitical instability which influences marketing strategy directly and also changes that isbasically caused due to international trade that could also has its affect on the formulation andalso selling of the product that us developed by the cited organisation. Thus, joint venture is theone that helps in growing business faster and also in increasing productivity and also generategreater profits.2
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