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Business Fundamentals : Accounting Ratios, Finance, Risk Management, Organization Design, HRM, Operations & Supply Chain Management, Product Development,
Tangible & Intangible Resources
2) Capabilities-
Capabilities are subjected to the four criteria for sustainable competitive advantage to determine whether they are core competencies or strong capabilities
3) Explain Core Competencies (if any)
4) Determine primary and support activities of Value Chain Analysis (VCA) whether any activity/activities should be outsourced.
5) Determine Strengths and Weaknesses from internal analysis
External Analysis-
Business Fundamentals : Economics, Stakeholder management & Marketing
1) General Environment - PESTL analysis to determine whether there are opportunities or/and threats,
2) Industry analysis using Porter's 5 forces analysis to determine whether the industry is still attractive to continue for this firm
3) Competitor analysis
4) Derive Opportunities and Threats
For both analysis, pls refer to 1st weekend slides for preparing a case analysis in order to know the tables to adopt for your analysis.

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Internal Analysis- 1) Business Fundamentals : Accounting Ratios, Finance, Risk Management, Organization Design, HRM, Operations & Supply Chain Management, Product Development, Tangible & Intangible Resources 2) Capabilities- Capabilities are subjected to the four criteria for sustainable competitive advantage to determine whether they are core competencies or strong capabilities 3) Explain Core Competencies (if any) 4) Determine primary and support activities of Value Chain Analysis (VCA) whether any activity/activities should be outsourced. 5) Determine Strengths and Weaknesses from internal analysis External Analysis- Business Fundamentals : Economics, Stakeholder management & Marketing 1) General Environment - PESTL analysis to determine whether there are opportunities or/and threats, 2) Industry analysis using Porter's 5 forces analysis to determine whether the industry is still attractive to continue for this firm 3) Competitor analysis 4) Derive Opportunities and Threats For both analysis, pls refer to 1st weekend slides for preparing a case analysis in order to know the tables to adopt for your analysis.

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INTERNAL ANALYSIS 
Business Fundamentals  
Finance 
Thakral Corporation has demonstrated a solid and steady performance over the years 
and it is expected that it will keep on capitalizing on the same in the coming future as 
well.  
 Risk Management 
Thakral has demonstrated highest degree of commitment wherever it has entered. The 
company has a long experience of managing the risk arising out of business and place 
it operates in. There is a question on quality of the products being produced in the 
Chinese regions and it could prove to be the biggest risk in coming future for the 
organization as whole. 
Organizational Design 
Seeming the company has a centralized mechanistic structure but it has to vary a little 
bit according to the place where it operates in. The company operates in a number of 
countries and regions. There are some region that vary to a great deal in terms of 
consumer behavior and market scenario and the company cannot survive with a similar 
approach and it has to modify a little bit to cope up with the situation. 
HR Management 
It is very challenging to maintain a diversified culture of the company. However, the 
basic principle and vision remain the same, there are many things that differ from one 
place of operation to other place of operation. The training is also a big concern keeping 
in mind the language barrier. The company has increased the employee size to 10000 
which has increased the payroll expenses. 
Operations Management 
The company has dilution of valued-employee culture due to the sudden increase of 
staff to cope with the expansion taking place. 
Product Development 
The company has to cut the production cost drastically to cope up with the consumers 
of price sensitive market but at the same time the quality needs to be maintained. 
Resources Analysis 
Tangible  
Financial  Financially sound and has a good credibility in the market 
place. 
Organizational  The company is the largest hotel chain in Australia 
 It has risen from a low-profile family business to become a 
big corporate house. 
 The company has a honed sense of taste for the success 
and growth. 
 It has operation in 34 countries. 
Physical  By 1998,

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