Introduction
The present time is dominated by changing customer behaviours, different wants and needs and a fast evolving world. This is a challenge for current businesses. They need to adopt to quick changes, confront current business processes and bring new innovative products on the market. In order to keep the company on course successful businesses establish a mission, clarify values and identify a preferred vision.
But what value is added to to the company, for the employees and for the customer by establishing strategic statements? This essay will discuss this question critically with supporting references. The company which will be used as an example is Nike, a company involved in the development, design, manufacturing, marketing
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Clarity about its values is a key to success. Nike provides this clarity in eleven maxims which will be stated later. Through those maxims Nike creates value for its stakeholders to express what the company stands for.
With the core values set, the mission and vision statement of the company can be built on top of it. The key value created by strategic statements are:
• Brings people together, since they share common values
• Helps in making decision with a guideline to reefer to
• Business strategies can derive from already set goals and objectives
• Challenges the easy way in order to drive innovation and follow the vision
It is proven, that in times of stress employees with a reason of their work are more successful than people without. The understanding of the mission helps teams to focus and to bear challenges which are obstructing the successful implementation of the company’s vision which is pointed out by Scott, Jaffe & Tobe (1993). A clear mission lets people know what is important for them and the company and they can focus on fulfilling their tasks rather then being reactive.
Evaluation of the organization’s various strategy statements
In the second part of the essay criteria for evaluating strategy statements will be described and Nikes mission / vision statement and maxims will be critically valued.
Criteria for evaluation
Besides the definition for a mission and vision statement, developed in the tutorial, three principals
After its mission statement, the company enumerates its values in support of the mission statement. The values are the following:
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6). This strategy is a major component of Nike’s business strategic level plan. In applying this strategy, Nike has attained a great deal of consumer insight, which it uses to offer uniquely designed premium products to the athletes. Still on product differentiation, Nike focuses more on research and development at a greater level. These unique features to Nike, have transformed the competition levels in this competitive industry, leading to a trend of a paradigm shift in the market. Most consumers opt for Nike branded sports products and apparels, at the expense of the other brand names.
Nike was, is, and will always be a company driven by certain key philosophies. What are they? First and foremost,
With branding as one of their core strategies, Nike had assumed coherence between their strategic vision, organizational culture and stakeholder images which in return rises to their powerful organizational
Brands use different strategies to create competitive advantages to beat with their rivals. Some companies use “Overall Cost Leadership” to increase profit by reducing costs and increase market share by lowering price. Some companies use “Focus Strategies” to select a group of market and tailor its strategy to serve that group. The others use “Product Differentiation” as a strategy to obtain a premium price by making unique products. Nike, with its differentiation strategy, the company is continuing to separate its self from the competitors by using its superior technology and innovation. This paper mainly discusses on the company’s product differentiation and analysis how the company using this strategy to build its brand image and become a market leader in sportswear industry. A brief discuss about Nike competitive advantage which related to its broad differentiation aspect and the company product life cycle are also presented on this paper.
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Meaningfulness as a brand the meaning of Nike is the “greek goddess of victory”. Likability of the brand the symbol of the brand reminds the minds the sign of ok in addition it is associated with victory and winning. These all have a positive effect on peoples minds. Adaptability is how the brand responds to change nike has changed its logo many times in years which shows how Nike uses adaptability for brand equity. Transferability is the capability of the brand to add new products nike always adds to their portfolio of products they also change their logo according to gender ,product etc. Protectability is the last of these elements which is about protection and legal registration nike has protected their brand elements with the swoosh appearing alongside the trademark “just do it” since