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The Strategy Adopted By Samsung

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Question 1:
Critically analyze & discuss the Strategy adopted by Samsung to achieve Global Completive Advantage. (500 words)

Strategy comes from the ancient Greek work Strategos that combines ‘army’ & ‘to lead’ (Mintzberg 2009, pp. 6). Strategy is about predicting future; & it is also about looking for resources around you & prepares them for future. In business perspective, it means developing an edge over competitors in order to secure current customers & capture more new customers. In other words Strategy is creating Competitive Advantage. Organizations have their own ways to achieve Competitive Advantage (Scott 2005, pp. 191). Samsung chose leading in Design to achieve its Competitive advantage.

Until 20 years ago, Samsung manufactured cheap, imitative electronics for other companies. Its leaders valued speed, scale, & reliability above all. Its marketers set prices & introduced features according to what original-manufacturers wanted. Its engineers built products to meet prescribed price & performance requirements. At end of the process designers would make a product looking nice. The designers were only following engineers’ orders in a company led by engineers (Yoo & Kim 2015, pp. 74).

In the 50th Anniversary of Samsung, Lee Kun-Hee the new chairman of Samsung announced the second Foundation of the company aiming of directing Samsung Group toward becoming a modern world-class corporation. He visited an electronics store in Los Angeles in 1993. He noticed that

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