Assessing Pixar's Tangible and Intangible Resources and Organizational Capabilities

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Write a 2 page paper that assesses Pixar’s Tangible Resources, Intangible Resources and
Organizational Capabilities and determine if they are Valuable, Rare, Difficult to imitate and
Difficult to substitute. Support your assessment.
Tangible Resources: Tangible resources refer to physical assets such as cash, machinery,
inventory, buildings or land that Pixar can liquidate and have a set value (Kamasak, 2017).
Pixar’s tangible resources can be categorized into financial, physical or technological. Steve
Job’s initial investment as well as Pixar’s capacity to deliver provided the company with ample
financial resources for future growth and development. Besides, Steve Job’s financial
investments enabled Pixar to get software and hardware required to advance internal resources
further. These tangible resources are very crucial in Pixar’s accounting since they help it
understand its financial standing when entered on financial statements and balance sheets.
Intangible Resources: Intangible Resources, on the other hand, refer to Pixar’s assets which
lack a physical substance (Won, & Chelladurai, 2016). These assets are of greater longer term
value to Pixar than tangible resources since intangible assets are not quickly used up. Pixar’s
intangible assets can as well as categorized into organizational, human, reputation, and synergy.
In Pixar there is a committee-run organizational structure that supported creativity required to
produce high quality animated movies. Human resource was another vital asset of Pixar. In the
case, John Lasseter has been referred to as “the Walt of the 1st century. In addition, Ed Catmull
led the technology advancement which enabled Pixar to be more innovative than the rest of the