Assignment: Case Project Is Waste Management, Inc
The subject company of our case project is Waste Management, Inc. The Company is a North America's leading provider of comprehensive waste management environmental services. The Company partners with its residential, commercial, industrial and municipal customers and the communities it serves to manage and reduce waste at each stage from collection to disposal, while recovering valuable resources and creating clean, renewable energy. Here is some basic information:
Headquarter location: 1001 Fannin Street, Houston, Texas 77002 Website:
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4.2 Analysis of Firm Resources and Capabilities
Hints (also for sub-sections):
A. You will find a good guide for this section. Follow the lists in the chapter and search for related data for our case company.
B. Make your own judgment on resources, capabilities, and competences using terms like "strong", "moderate", and "weak" by comparing our company with other firms in the same industry.
C. Your competition analysis in Project Part One should give you some thoughts for better understanding the strength of the firm's resources and capabilities.
D. Keep in mind that your analysis for Section 4.2 should be the basis of your "S" and "W" of your SWOT analysis.
E. Length recommendation for Section 4.2 (including all sub-sections): at least ten pages (APA format)
F. As you will have detailed analysis in sub-sections, just a few bridging paragraphs are needed under the title "4.2".
4.2.1 Tangible Resources
4.2.2 Intangible Resources
4.2.3 Capabilities
4.2.4 Core Competencies and Sustainable Advantages
Hints:
A. In this section you need to identify core competencies of the firm from the capability/resources you analyzed in other 4.2.1-4.2.3. But you need to make sure those competencies identified can create sustainable advantage for the Company using the VRIO framework based on Barney (1991) article. You can find some information about VRIO.
B. Here are two articles relevant to this section: Barney (1991): "Firm resources and sustained competitive advantage"; Prahalad and Hamel (1990): "The core competence of the corporation".
C. No more than four core competencies, because too many competencies would not be called "core"!
D. Read the sample report "Nucore" or "Calpine" for some guide.
4.2.5 Value Chain Analysis
Hints:
A. Read the value chain analysis part of Chapter 4 before you start.
B. First you need to briefly describe and analyze the value chain for related industries following the content in Chapter 4 (e.g., Figure 4.2).
C. Then, analyze the company's value chain following the guidance in the textbook. The sample paper ("Nucor") gives you a good example too.
4.2.6 Summary of Firm Resources, Capabilities, and Value Chain.
5.1 Strength
5.2 Weakness.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.
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