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Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness
Wal-Mart
Assess how globalization and technology changes have impacted the corporation you researched.
Wal-Mart is an enormous global competitor that operates a large network of discount department stores and warehouse stores in many markets. Wal-Mart has made the Forbes list of top companies as the world's 18th largest corporation; Wal-Mart is also the world's biggest private employer in the world, boasting over 2 million employees, which makes the company the world's largest private retailer (Faber, 2012). Wal-Mart's operations management and logistical systems are among the most developed in the world.
Wal-Mart has already invested tons of capital into the development of distribution channels that are more advanced than all of the other firms in the industry. Wal-Mart was a leader in applying RFID technology to their logistical systems and Wal-Mart is continuing to develop the technology and automate much of its distribution processes. Wal-Mart will further exploit the advantages that technology can provide in their global operation that operates worldwide. Globalization has also been behind Wal-Mart's growth and a substantial portion of their revenues are from foreign markets. Thus, investments in technology that allow Wal-Mart's supply chain to be more efficient in the transportation, inventory management, operations management, or management of perishable goods can either make the company...
Apply the industrial organization model and the resource-based model to determine how your corporation could earn above-average returns.
Wal-Mart has also expanded into many international markets and the business model has been successful in almost all the markets they have entered with their focus on cost and convenience. In these markets Wal-Mart's logistical systems have imitated the same technologies and process that it has developed in the domestic market. Having this type of internal knowledge base about distribution systems has allowed the company to develop in many international markets at an exceptional pace. Thus it can be said that Wal-Mart has acquired internal resources that provide a competitive advantage and allow the firm to earn above average returns in the resource-based model.
The Wal-Mart model is entirely is based on low cost and efficiency and this drives the operational strategy of the organization. For example, Wal-Mart has no-frills stores that are based on a generic template and only use a very basic retail footprint. This allows the operation to standardize much of the floor plan and inventories carried to reduce costs. Furthermore, the business produce so much inventory turnover that it allows them to have more flexibility that many of their smaller competitors. Wal-Mart has introduced this model into markets that are receptive to the low cost retailer. Thus while some of its…
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Wal-Mart is the world's largest retailer, and it has been significantly affected by the forces of globalization. This paper will consider those forces in the context of both the company's vision and in terms of organizational theory. Globalization Wal-Mart has been opportunistic in its approach to globalization. The company famously has become the subject of studies on globalization not just for its retail reach but for its supply chain management. Wal-Mart's vision