Evaluating Strategic Planning and Innovation for Tesco UK's Growth

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of Tesco UK's strategic planning. It begins by defining business strategy and evaluating the role of organizational values, mission, vision, goals, and core competencies in strategy formulation. The report then analyzes factors crucial for strategic planning, including member involvement, long-term objectives, and appropriate timing. The second part focuses on generating innovative product ideas, emphasizing idea generation, target market identification, and opportunity evaluation using SWOT analysis. The report examines Tesco's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to suggest strategic recommendations for future growth. This document is contributed by a student and published on Desklib, a platform offering AI-based study tools.

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Introduction
It could be defined that the business strategy is the set of fetch work that is used for the achievement of
the long-term goals of the company. The process of the identification of the mission, vision and the
objectives of the organization is known as business strategy and they for the achievement of those goals
the plans and the policies are being made. The organization could to run yet bus8ienss in the successful
way as it is considered the most vital element of the organization. Here the organization has been
selected whose name is the Tesco UK and that organization is trying for suggesting the strategic planning
for them. The success of Tesco has been elaborated around the world as that of the retail company.
There are different types of the services which are being provided like the insurance, the banking and
shopping.
Task 1
1.1 Evaluate the role of organizational values, mission, vision, goals and
competencies in strategy formulation.
Strategic planning could be defined as the process in which the direction, the strategy and the resource
allocation is being directed for the achievement of the goals. There is need of knowing for the
determination of the direction and what would be the future of the organization. There are some of tag
main and the major components of the strategic planning and in the presence of those components it is
not possible to fulfill or complete the strategic planning.
Mission:
It is known as the main and the basic aim of the enterprise or the organization. Moreover, eat also
describes that what is being done for the attainment of the vision. For the organization mission
statement is considered very important and it also inspires the employees of the team so that the vision
of the company could be fulfilled. With those of the operations of the company the mission statement
must be the harmony and the mission statement of the charity is to provide the jobs for the unemployed
and the homeless.
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It could be described as the organizational outline that what it wants to be in that of the future for the
operations or what is that which it wants to achieve for that of the time frame. Normally the basis of the
long term organizational goals has been made by the help of the mission statement. For the
organizational the mission statement is very inspirational and emotive.
Goals:
Something which is being desired by the organization is known as goal and in case of the specific target
it is known as the end result, it has the main step and that is the achieve of the targets, the destination
of the organization is known as goals and for the achievement of the target it is kwon as the contextual
planning. The goals of the company are being decided by the top management and for the attainment
of the goals these are all the other persons which are following the contextual planning. Like there are
almost 50 employees in the company and there are top 5 officials that have decided the goals and then
the planning has been made that how the goals would be achieved while on the other hand the rest of
the members of the team are acting according to the plan.
Objectives:
There is confusion about the objectives and the goals at sometimes and they treat both of them in the
equal way but in readily they are quite different. The measure of the progress is the objected that is
required for reaching the target while on the other hand the detail of the destination is the goal. Fr the
attainment of the goals the main objective is the main step but it is true that goal is not the part of the
objective.
Core competencies:
In the success of the business it is known as one of the core component, it could be said that the core
components provide the competitiveness over the other companies. If there is any competitiveness in
the company that company would be considered that they would be able for they penetration of the
desired market. The core competitiveness are the services of the customers for the insurance company
and underwriting of that of the acquisition of the customer and the claim processing. The core
competencies are the distributions for the manufacturing process, the raw material procurement and
the development of the products.
1.2 Choose/select an organization and analyze factors to be considered when
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For the attainment of the organizational goals the strategic planning is considered very significant as
how the ways are shown for reaching the target. In the strategic planning, there are some of the
significant factors that have been involved in the strategic planning and all those factors must have been
scrutinized in the proper way in terms of the time and importance.
Members involved in planning process
All of the members must be involved in the planning process of the organization so that all the plans
have been formulated in the effective way and the execution is done and in the planning, process the
areas are being covered. By the help of the top-level management that planning is being made and the
execution is being done by the middle level of the company under those of the top-level managers (Batt
and Nohara, 2009). Day to day functions are being done by the lower level of the employees for the
achievement of the firm objectives.
 Top level: the plans are formulated in Tesco by the senior level executives and there are many
significant factors which are being considered like as the advancement and the engagement and
in the planning process.
 Middle level: the senior level executive is formulating the plan and the power has been
delegated for the managers for the implementation of the plan in the firm under the observation
of the senior executives. There is huge role played by the plan execution on that of the effective
implementation.
 Lower level: in the planning process the lower level of the firm has also been involved as they
are dong the day to day operations which are linked y0 the planning process that has been
suggested by the middle level managers like as the purchase of the raw material, the budgeting
and the inventory.
Long term objective of Tesco
By constantly seeking and taking the actions the long term needs of the company on their views that are
related to the product, quality, yet store facilities and the choice. The goods are the services are being
provided on the basis of the affordable prices to those of the customers.
Short term target Tesco
The development of the capabilities of the employees is the short-term objectives of the company by
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Appropriate timing for the planning
There is Pacific Time period that has been involved in the planning of the ongoing activity in which it has
been made. At the first stage the medium, shirt term and the long-term goals of the company are being
separated. All the short-term goals of the company are tried to be met on deadline.
Task 2
2.1 Generate ideas for an innovative product or service. Focus on the
following key steps:
Idea generation
The creative procedure or the process which the company is using for the objective of figuring out the
new ideas for the innovative product is known as the idea generation, there are many ideas which are
made in the group discussion and it involves coming up with new ideas and then actually put the idea in
to the procedure and the taking up the ideas. It is true that the idea is the tangible lysate you can see or
touch or sometimes it could be the cultural or the symbolic. The process of the involving the large
number of the ideas is known as the Employee Brainstorming in case of the new products a date
services which those of the employees which are being on the number of those of the ideas.
The smartphone penetration is approaching the peak just nine years after the launch of the first full
smartphone screen of touch.
There is not any personal device who has the same societal or the commercial impacts as there is not
any device which seems likely to be. At the initial stages, for Tesco the country of the p operations will
be at UK. The current trend is being analyzed by the UK mobile consumer survey in that of the mobile
industry. There are some of the main findings which have been given below:
 In the middle of the night there is almost half of 18-24 year olds which check the phone.
 There is the fingerprint that has been included in the 27% of smartphones of which the 76% are
used.
 The connected home devices have not been still taken off but still there is just 2% of adults
which are owing the smart applications.
 There is almost half of the up adults which are having the access to the least one type of the
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 In the last year, the 4G adoption has more to that of the last year, from 25% to 54%.
 The forecast estimates are being made that the number of smartphones will reach to about the
44.9 million by 2017.
Target Market
There is wide range of the consumers that could be targeted by Tesco who are using the device in the
day to day activities. the group of the customers are the usual target that are ranging from 20s to 50s or
even older as long as there is the ability of the person for the purchasing of the use of the smartphones
that is need to be offered in the market. Teenagers to early adults (age 14 ' 25) 'as they are mostly the
technology saving the age group of the Tesco target market for the smartphones. It is the group of the
customers that is growing as the observation has been made that three is the group which is having the
more spending power in the current year that has been compared to that of the past.
Adults (age 26 ' 50) ' the largest portion could be made by the specific group of the Tesco market as it is
known as the consumers group which has most of the ability for the purchase of the products. I the
years to come it is the portion that will continue to grow.
Opportunity evaluation and SWOT
SWOT Analysis
Strength
It could be said that the strength is the interval attribute or the resources of the company which are
giving the advantage over those of the companies.
 The design and the innovation
 The design and the innovation
 The environment is being focused
 The market share is higher
 The loyalty of the customers
 The good standards of the industry
 The higher and the strong management of the company
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It could be said that the internal attribute is the weakness and also those of the company reduces which
are doing the work place or against the company of the competitors.
 The own software or the OS is being lacked by Tesco
 The too many products variations are being focused
 There is not any single focus on the product competency
 The competitors are berry strong
 TESCO lacks its own OS / software
 Focuses on too many variation of products
 No focus on one core competency product
 Very strong competitors (E.g.: Apple)
 The profit margin is very low
Opportunity
The external factor is the opportunity that could be capitalized by the company or is being sued for the
other advantages.
 The smartphone market is being raised
 The portable promotional industry is being increased
 For the quality requisition process the interest is increased
 The tables business evolution ‘
 The patents are being gained through the acquisition.
Threat
There is also another external factor which could; be potentially jeopardize or cause the organization or
the company for being at the disadvantage over to that of the competition.
 In the development countries the slow market
 The technology is changed rapidly
 The increment in the competition
 In the hardware production, the margins are declined
 The competition is increased in the smartphones
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For the objective of understating the attractiveness of the industry the porter five forces analysis is
being done. It is true that the analysis of the five forces is just one of the part of the complete porter
strategy.
 Threat of new entrants- low
It is trap that the industry of the mobile phone is the well-established market and there is quite low
threat of the new entrant because:
I) there is huge capital requirement in the market like there is high manufacture cost and also the high
resect cost and that of the development cost.
ii) It is difficult for the new entrants in the presence of the barriers because all the best methods have
been patented.
iii) There is more loyalty of the consumers towards that pf the existing brand.
Threat of substitute products or services-moderate
For the success and the survival there is huge threat pf the availability and the presence of the
organization since the organization could be enforced for cutting the prices in to the pieces.
I) there is moderate power of the substitute product and it is also playing the impacts on the substitute
products.
iii) There is wide variety of the produces in the smart phones which are specializing in those of the
individual functions which could be termed as the substitutes. If there is focus on one of the function
on the buyer so there are many substitutes and the better photos could be taken by the digital cameras,
to those of the smartphones.
Bargaining power of customers (buyers)-high
There is high bargaining power of the buyer’s is there is an ideal way in the form of the product
differentiation for adding the value to the customers.
I) There is increase in the power that has been increased due to the customers of increasing the number
of choices in the industry of the mobile telecommunication and there is very little product difference.
Ii) There is less asymmetric information that shows that the buyers have all the required information so
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Iv) For the customers, the low switching cost make it easy for changing the products which they are
normally purchasing.
 Bargaining power of suppliers-Low
If there are large number of the substitutes of the inputs, the three is less bargaining leverage of the
suppliers over those of the products. So, it is due to the competition. Many industries are positively
affected by the greater competition. If there is high level of the competition among the suppliers for the
reduction of the prices to the producers. If the suppliers are reliant on those of the high volume there
would be the less bargaining power because the producer can threaten for cut of the volume.
 Intensity of Existing Rivalry-high
There are almost 968Million base of the customers, there is the rate of almost 28-30% worldwide at
which the industry is growing and the at 168.8% in India, the notice has to be made that these are the
tech high giants by which all the major players of the industry have been backed that has been given
below: Ex: Apple ($170.910 Ban) ,Samsung($268 Ban), Microsoft($77.85 Bn), Google($59.82 Bn ), Nokia
($40.176 Bn), RIM ($ 11.073 Bn), LG ($45.246 Bn), Lenovo ($29.57 Bn)
It means that in the battel there is the strong contender, and also with the Technological
Competitiveness the vendors are the tech giants. So, it is true that in the smartphone industry the
competitive rivalry is high.
New product/service planning
There are number of stages which have been involved in the development of the new product that are
typically centering on the following main areas:
The Idea:
All of the products have to be started with the area, so this might fail in some of the cases that has been
based on the new products on the something which is similar to that of which is already existing so it
may be something unique or revolutionary that may mean the deliberation of the idea of the process
that has been involved too much. Like it could be said that there is idea in the form of the Tesco
smartphone. Now the company can gain the idea by asking the employees mainly those who are dealing
with the regular customers.
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There are number of ideas of Tesco bit once the bets idea has been selected for the new product there
would be the next step and that is to start the new product. It would make them able to see that there
is any of seeing the demand for the type of the product.
Development:
The development of the product is the next stage. There are many designs by which the prototypes
need to be verified and also those of the manufacturing stages that are coming up with the finished
goods that are being demanded by the consumers.
Testing:
Before the lack of most of the products, there is large number of money which is being spent by Tesco
on the promotion and the production. The new products would be tested with the small number of the
actual consumers, it will also help them in making sure that there would be the viable product that
would get the profit and so there are not any changes which are need to be launched.
Analysis:
From that of the customer testing looking at the feedback which makes Tesco to make any of the
necessary change for the products and it also has been decided that how they are going for the launch
with that of the information from that of the real customers so they would be considered able for
making the number of the strategic decision s which are considered crucial for the success of the
products.
Introduction:
Finally, after the making of the products there is the new development stage of the product there is one
of the only thing that has been left to do is to do the market, once the market has been done the Tesco
would be ensured buy the good product lifecycle that most of the investments and the efforts are made
by Tesco.
Market research for the new idea.
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The trend would be buck by the UK smartphone industry over Tesco of the next two years with those of
the unit sales set for the growth by the 5.5 per cent to 25 million in 2018. There so the sales of the 24
million units in the 2016 that was in the 2015 the 23.7 million as the figure has been increased by further
in two years.
The prediction has been made that the up would be overtaken as fourth most valuable market in the
year 2017 and the estimation of the $13.08 billion behind the India ($14.81 billion), US ($70.04 billion),
Japan ($16.20 billion), China ($117.77 billion). In the UK the 4G unit sales accounting for the 71 per cent
of the overall market. So, this year it will reach 77 per cent this and in the year 2018 it will be 91
percent.
In UK the smartphone penetration was 73 per cent in 2015 with that of remarket analysist that is
forecasting and that would increase to 76 per cent in 2017 that is meaning more to those of those of the
quarters of the users which are owing the smartphone. In UK, the sim free market would be continuing
as one of the sim free market in up with those of the three million units which are sold in the 2016
compared to 2.8 million during those of the previous calendar of the 12 months.
Market Share
It is total 99.1% of the worldwide smartphone for which the iOS and android are being counting. There
are some of the closet competitors which are BlackBerry OS and Windows 10 Mobile that make up to
the 0.6% and 0.1%, respectively. There is slight down in both of these figures from where they were
earlier in this year. So, it is not known as the surprise, as the new options of the window are still being
made and from that of the platform the microphone has stead lot baked away and the focus has been
made on the improvement of the IOS and the android and the black berry. While on the other and the
devices are being made.
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TASK 3
3.1 Identify, then evaluate a target market for the new product and select
an appropriate market segment.
SEGMENTATION:
The segmentation of the market is one of the fundamental structure of the marketing. By segmenting
means that groups are being spitted up in to the end users who are:
 Within each of the group there is maximum similarity
 Between the grouse there is maximum difference’
The on the demographic and the behavioral segmentation Tesco can segment the customer.
Demographic Segmentation
Age Segmentation: the teen or the young’s or the adults could be the target agree segmentation in the
mid-30s or the yearly.
Income Segmentation: the middle class or the high-class income is the target income segmentation