1 2011 CAPSTONE PROJECT REPORT GLOBAL BUSSINES STRATEGY OF VIGLACERA FLOAT GLASS COMPANY FOR THE PERIOD 2012-2015 ADVANCED Group 5 _ X0410 1.Pham Thi Bich Thuy 2.An Thuy Nga MBA 3.Vu Ngoc Bao.To Minh Tan PROGRAM GaMBA01.X0410 HANOI 2011 Page 0 GRIGGS UNIVERSITY GLOBAL ADVANCED MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM CAPSTONE PROJECT REPORT BUSINESS STRATEGY FORMULATION OF VIGLACERA FLOAT GLASS COMPANY FOR THE PERIOD 2012-2015 X0410 _ GROUP 5 Team members: - Pham Thi Bich Thuy – (Group Leader) - An Thuy Nga - Vu Ngoc Bao - To Minh Tan Page 1 HANOI, 2010 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT For fulfilling the requirements under Master of Business Administration program, we submit this final capstone project to Griggs University. In the first words of the Capstone Project, we would like to express our thankfulness to the great many people. We would like to thank all professors of Griggs University, who gave us very useful lectures during past two years. For all the support in researching period, we want to express our heartily thanks to our friends in Viglacera Corporation, our classmates and program co-coordinators who gave us good condition and useful information that made me be easier in researching and capstone project completing We have spent concerned efforts on completing this capstone project; nevertheless, due to limited time and scope of study, this project might be negligent.
We are looking forwards to receiving feedback from the program’s lecturers and fellow students to complete the project in order to develop sound strategies for the company, and effectively implement these business strategies in the near future. Page 2 TABLE OF CONTENT Pag e Cover Acknowledgement Table of contents List of Abbreviations List of Tables List of figures, graphs PREFACE 1 CHAPTER 1: THEORETICAL BASIS ON BUSINESS STRATEGY 4 1.Nature of business strategy 4 1. Concept of business strategy…………………………………. Role of business strategy……………………………………….
Basic characteristics of business strategy………………………. Requirement and contents of stages involved in a business strategy formulation process……………………………………………. The input stage. External factor evaluation (EFE) matrix….
Competitive Profile Matrix (CPM)……………. Internal Factor Evaluation (IFE) Matrix……………. The Matching stage……………. Internal – External (IE) Matrix…………….
The Decision stage……………. Quantitative strategic planning matrix – QSPM…………. Organization and implementation……………. Evaluate the effectiveness of the strategy…………….
13 CHAPTER 2: ANALYZING REAL SITUATION OF VIFG. VIFG – An Over view introduction……………. Areas of business and available products……. Evaluation of VIFG’s operating result in recent years……….
External Environment analysis…………. Macro environment analysis for VIFG (Pest) ……. Political and Regulatory Environment…. Culture-social Environment………….
Global business environment…. Float Glass Industry Analysis (Porter's 5 forces model)…. Threats from new entrants…. Threats from substitute products….
Supplier’s bargaining power…. Buyer’s bargaining power…. Existing rivalry within the industry…. Overall industry analysis conclusion ….
Vietnam Float Glass Company (VFG) …. Dap Cau Viglacera Glass Company…. Ky Anh Glass Company…. Chu Lai Glass Company….
The foreign competitors…………………………………. VIFG internal environment analysis……. Core competency building…. The Value chain….
Conclusions on internal environment analysis. Integrated analysis and positioning of competitors in the Vietnamese float glass market……. A comprehensive overview of the critical success factors of the participants in the 53 Page 4 Vietnamese float glass market…. Evaluation VIFG position on the current float glass market….
54 CHAPTER 3: FLOAT GLASS BUSINESS STRATEGY FORMULATION TO THE YEAR 2015, RECOMMENDATION AND SOLUTION ……. Vision and mission of VIFG…. Objectives of VIFG…. VIFG Brand value….
Business strategy choice analysis…. External environmental factors influencing VIFG (EFE Matrix) ……. Internal environment factors influencing VIFG (IFE matrix)…………. VIFG’s SWOT analysis….
Competitive positioning for the Vietnamese float glass market – IE Matrix. Strategy analyzing, strategy formulation and select the optimal strategy…. 62 Quantitative Strategic Planning Matrix (QSPM). Target market selection analysis and strategy products ……………….
Core product selection ………………………………………. Some Strategy implementation solutions …………………. Satisfy customers’ need ……………. Specific solutions for each strategy.
Implementation and execution of strategy …………. Methods, Budget, Timeline and Expected result…………………. Regarding to macro policies …………. Regarding the business operations of VIFG ………….
77 PREFERENCES APPENDIXES Page 6 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS In this document, the abbreviations are understood as follow: Abbreviation Full writing VIFG Viglacera Float Glass Company R&D Research and deploy WTO World Trade Organization ROA Return on Asset ROE Return on Equity SWOT Strength – Weakness – Opportunities – Threats EFE External Factor Environment IFE Internal Factor Environment IE Internal – External QSPM Quantitative Strategic Planning Matrix PCM Competitive Profile Matrix Page 7 LIST OF TABLES This document includes the following tables: Table Description Page Table 2.1 Some criteria from 2009 to September 2011 17 Table 2.2 Competitors in high quality market segment.3 Competitors in medium quality market segment.4 External Factor Environment Matrix of VIFG 38 Table 2.5 Relative comparisons among existing competitors 42 Table 2.6 Evaluation on competitive advantages of VIFG 43 Table 2.7 Human resource quality in 2010 45 Table 2.8 Average income of labor 46 Table 2.9 Internal Factor Environment Matrix of VIFG 52 Table 2.10 Total revenue of VIFG Company, Dap Cau Glass 54 Company and Vietnam Float Glass Company (VFG) (2009-2011) Table 2.11 Competitive Profile Matrix (CPM) 55 Table 3.1 SWOT Matrix of VIFG 59 Table 3.2 Quantitative Strategic Planning Matrix of VIFG 63 Table 3.3 Implementation Plan 71 Table 3.4 Some objectives of the Company period 2011 - 2015 75 Page 8 LIST OF FIGURES This document includes the following figures: Figure Description Page Figure 1.1 Strategy formulation analysis frame 7 Figure 1.2 PEST model 8 Figure 1.3 Michael Potter’s Five-Force Model 10 Figure 1.4 Michael Porter’s Value Chain Model 11 Figure 1.5 SWOT Matrix 12 Figure 1.6 IE Matrix 12 Figure 1.7 Basic model of QSPM 13 Figure 2.1 Organization Structure of VIFG 16 Figure 2.2 Profit growth of VIFG over the years 2009 – 2011 18 Figure 2.3 Revenue growth of VIFG over the years 2009 - 2011 18 Figure 2.4 The chart of GDP growth during the period of 2008 - 22 2010 Figure 2.5 Vietnamese Glass market share 53 Figure 3.1 IE Matrix of VIFG 61 Figure 3.2 Superior quality 67 Page 9 PREFACE 1. General context In the context of globalization and international integration, there is a tendency of increasingly scarce resources, fast technological advancement, ever-changing market demands, resulting in a quite sophisticated and constantly fluctuating business environment. In particular, Vietnam has made notable moves to integrate into the global community. Consequently, its economy has been remarkably improving since the early years of economic renovation.
The state has introduced sound policies to encourage investment and business development, offering opportunities for local industries to enhance their competitiveness, especially the construction material industry. In general, Vietnam’s construction glass industry plays a key role in providing inputs for the construction of the country’s economic infrastructure. With a view to meeting local demand for construction glass used for various purposes such as building and developing industrial and refinery zones, residential conurbation and housing areas for urban dwellers as well as countryside people in all regions of Vietnam, exporting goods to contribute to the national budget, offering another source of provision for the state budget, generating jobs for local people, the construction glass industry is currently one of the pivotal areas that the state fosters with its investment. Despite enjoying favorable conditions like having capital and incentives poured from the state, companies in the construction glass industry have to face the challenge of the ever-changing rate of the socio-economic environment and harsh competition within the industry.
To earn a prestigious position on the market as well as an enhanced competitiveness in comparison with competitors, companies must have long-term vision and appropriate development strategy formulation. In this context, Viglacera Float Glass Company, a construction glass manufacturing business, has been struggling to survive and develop a strong brand name in a changing environment with technological modernization, product quality Page 1 enhancement, market search and development, etc. especially during the financial – economic crisis in 2008-2009 and the followed revival period with surging inflationary pressure from the end of 2010 until now. Confronted with such adversity, the formulation of a good business strategy aimed at alleviating negative impacts while exploiting its resources and taking chance to stabilize business operation and development is a necessity for the company for the time being.
Therefore, Group 5-X0410 unanimously selects the topic “Business strategy development for Viglacera Float Glass Company by 2015” as the capstone report for the strategic management course. The importance of the research In the previously mentioned economic context, this research on business strategy formulation for Viglacera Float Glass Company by 2015 is useful as it may present an overview of the current situation as well as a suggestion for the company’s future business strategy. The results will probably be directly applied to Viglacera Float Glass Company’s operation to seek future business opportunities on the basis of strength intensification and the grab of market prospects, while limit potential threats during operation, direct the development of the company in the right way, earning it the leading position in the construction glass industry. Objectives and expectations On the foundation of theoretical research on strategy and business strategy, the analysis of environmental factors affecting Viglacera Float Glass Company is carried out.
This paper’s objective is to identify opportunities and threats, combine those with internal analysis for the business so that its strengths and weaknesses can be detected, serving the purpose of laying out visionary goals and proposing business strategy in the near future. Then, recommendations and plans are offered to be effectively implemented selected strategies. The capstone project aims at achieving the following objectives: - Identify theories of business strategy development that can be applied to the specific field of float glass production of Viglacera Float Glass Company. Page 2 - Identify the current situation to develop business strategies and suggest implementation solutions by 2015 for Viglacera Float Glass Company.
Research scope and methodology In the scope of this capstone project, Group 5-X0410 has used the theories of strategic management and business strategy to concentrate on the analysis of main influential factors to the company’s operations and its current situation. From that point onward, we develop feasible and effective business strategies for Viglacera Float Glass Company in the field of construction glass production by 2015. Research methodology With the hope of obtaining prospective results for our research, we have employed a variety of research methods such as systematic methodology, synthetic methodology, deductive methodology, comparative and statistical methodology, etc. using both primary and secondary data to analyze and identify the relationship among studied factors, observe their changes in the function of time and space.
After that, suitable measures to fully exploit opportunities and strengths while minimizing weaknesses and avoiding threats are formed, offering optimal solutions to problems encountered during the strategy formulation process of the company. Structure of the capstone project Introduction Chapter 1: Theoretical foundation on business strategy Chapter 2: Analysis of the current situation of Viglacera Float Glass Company (VIFG) Chapter 3: Developing business strategy for VIFG by 2015, recommendations and solutions Conclusions Page 3 CHAPTER 1 THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS ON BUSINESS STRATEGY 1. Nature of business strategy 1. Concept of business strategy The definition of business strategy has emerged long before and refers to “The science of planning and monitoring activities” (Webster’s New World Dictionary).
This term stems from the military. As the goods economy has become more advanced, the term has been used in the business field. There are more than one approach to the understanding of strategy, but they all unite at the point stating that a strategy must be specific to a particular industry or enterprise, appropriate to existing resources, and feasible. In the modern perspective: “Strategy is a set of complex activities aimed at mobilizing potential resources of an organization to achieve a certain goal.
According to Alfred Chandler (Harvard University), “Strategy includes the determination of the basic long-term goals and the objectives of an enterprise and the adoption of courses of action and the allocation of resources necessary for carrying out these goals”.