GeMBA 01V01-Group10 Capstone Project Report ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This project report is the result of researching and writing during the winter of 2009. It has been an interesting and learning experience for our group. We are deeply thankful for all our teachers at Global Advanced Master of Business Administration Program for providing us with knowledge and instructions during our time of study. We would also like to give our heartfelt thanks to the authors who provide us with valuable books for our report.
We would also like to give special thanks to all staff at VietinBank Ben Thuy for their cooperation and positive spirit that helped and inspired us in writing. i GeMBA 01V01-Group10 Capstone Project Report TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1. Aims and Objectives. Theoretical and Practical Significance ………….
3 Chapter 1: Theoretical Background 4 1. Theory of Business Strategies ……………. Business Unit Strategy ………………………. Focused Growth Strategy …………….
Three basic competitive strategies. Competitive strategies for business basing on market share position … 6 1. Process of developing strategies. Defining mission and objectives …………………………………….
External environment analysis ………………………………. Internal business status analysis. Analysis of strategies and options …………………………. Tools of strategy formulation ……………………………….
Stage of information collection and systematization. Stage of Combination …………………….………………………… 12 ii GeMBA 01V01-Group10 Capstone Project Report 1. Large scale strategy matrix …………………………………. Stage of Decision ………………………………….
16 Chapter II: Analysis of business status of VietinBank Ben Thuy in recent years. History and Development ………………. Business results through the years ……………………………………. Analysis of factors affecting the operation of VietinBank Ben Thuy …….
Socio-cultural environment ……………………………………. Political and Legal Environment ………. Matrix for External Factors Evaluation (EFE)……………………. Evaluation of Opportunity and Threats.
Analysis of internal factors of VietinBank Ben Thuy ………………………… 36 2. 37 iii GeMBA 01V01-Group10 Capstone Project Report 2. Research and Development. Internal Factor Evaluation (IFE).
Evaluation of strengths and weaknesses …………………. The need to set up trading strategy for VietinBank Ben Thuy. 44 Chapter III: Business Strategies of VietinBank Ben Thuy from 2010 to 2015 46 3. The business mission of VietinBank Ben Thuy from 2010 to 2015.
Concrete targets from 2010 to 2015. Analysis of feasible trading strategies………. SWOT matrix Analysis……………………………………………………. SPACE matrix Analysis…………………………………………………….
Large Scale Strategy Analysis……………………………………………. Define replaceable trading strategy. Solutions to strategies…. Human resource development.
Effective recruitment of personnel. Training and re-training staff………………………………………. Human resource management and preferential treatments ……. 60 iv GeMBA 01V01-Group10 Capstone Project Report 3.
66 v GeMBA 01V01-Group10 Capstone Project Report LIST OF TABLES Table 2.1: Some indicators of business operations.2: Vietnam’s GDP Growth Rate over years.3: Nghe An Province’s GDP Growth Rate over years.4: Import-Export Turnover.5: Some indicators of capital mobilization and lending of commercial banks in 30 Nghe An province………………….4: Selected strategies according to priority. 56 LIST OF IMAGES Image 1.2: SPACE Matrix ……………………………………………………………… 14 Image 1.3: Large Scale Strategy Matrix………….1: Graph demonstrating SPACE matrix. 51 vi GeMBA 01V01-Group10 Capstone Project Report INTRODUCTION 1. Rationale Vietnam’s banking and financial market has been sharply developing in recent years, especially since Vietnam’s accession to WTO.
There is an increase of the opportunity as well as the challenge for all financial institutions, specifically for the commercial banks. However, Vietnam’s banking and financial market is in the early stage of development. Products and services provided by financial institutions are still relatively limited. They are mainly of traditional banking products; modern and specialized banking products are still scare.
This is the opportunity for potential financial institutions to capture and exploit the market. This is also the condition for banks to survive in the increasingly fiercely competing market. Each bank will have to build business strategies consistent with their specific characteristics in each stage of history in order to be able to quickly dominate the market, improve competitiveness, expand and promote new products and services. It is also important for each bank to create outstanding differences, bring more utility and value to customers.
To survive and to win in the competition is becoming crucial to every bank. In that situation, Vietnam Commercial Bank of Industry and Trade, Ben Thuy Branch (VietinBank Ben Thuy) is making gradual effort to confirm its position as well as to improve its competitiveness in Nghe An Province financial and banking market. Having been working for this bank for many years and fully aware of the situation, the authors have decided to choose the research topic: "Developing business strategies for Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade, VietinBank Ben Thuy Branch from 2010 to 2015", with the hope to contribute to the improvement of business efficiency of VietinBank Ben Thuy and bringing it to a new position in the Vietinbank system in particular and in the Vietnamese banking system in general. 1 GeMBA 01V01-Group10 Capstone Project Report 2.
Aims and Objectives The aim of this research is to develop business strategies for VietinBank Ben Thuy from 2010 to 2015 and to propose the solutions to implement these development strategies, to make VietinBank Ben Thuy become one of the best branches in the Vietinbank system and in Nghe An province banking market as a whole. In order to achieve that aim, the objectives of this research will be as follows: - Giving an introduction to the basic theory and the process in developing business strategy. - Analyzing external factors and internal factors to explore the strengths as well as the weaknesses of VietinBank Ben Thuy. - Identifying the business objectives basing on SWOT analysis, developing business strategies and proposing solutions to implement the strategies.
Scope and subject of the study The research subject is VietinBank Ben Thuy. The research will limit to strategic issues and strategy management in the banking sector. As the analysis data are collected from VietinBank Ben Thuy, the result of this research is only applicable at this bank. Methods of the stdudy - The approaches: This research includes the general approaches such as: individual approach, historical approach, quantitative and qualitative approach.
- Method of processing and analyzing data: statistic method is used to describe, analyze, and synthesize the assessment of business performance in VietinBank Ben Thuy. Matrix analysis such as EFE , IFE, SWOT, SPACE are also used in this research. - Sources of information: secondary information from books, the Internet and report from VietinBank Ben Thuy and State Bank of Nghe An province. 2 GeMBA 01V01-Group10 Capstone Project Report 5.
Theoretical and Practical Significance The research is based on the theories relating to strategic management to make the SWOT analysis of VietinBank Ben Thuy and develop business strategies as well as propose solutions to implement these strategies, especially with Vietnam's accession to WTO and the full commitment of the banking sector in 2015. It is of both theoretical and practical significance in the sense that it brings the authors not only more insights into the field of strategy administration but also a golden chance for them to understand more about the field of banking as well as Vietinbank Ben Thuy, thereby to help them to find the ways to improve it. Structure This report consists of three chapters: Chapter 1: Theoretical Background Chapter 2: Analysis of business status of VietinBank Ben Thuy in recent years. Chapter 3: Business Strategies of VietinBank Ben Thuy from 2010 to 2015.
3 GeMBA 01V01-Group10 Capstone Project Report CHAPTER 1 THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 1. Theory of business strategies 1. Basic Concepts There are many definitions of business strategy depending on the viewpoint of each author. According to Chandler (cited in Le The Gioi et all, 2009), "business strategy of an enterprise is the determination of the objectives and purposes of the long-term business and the application of a series of actions as well as the allocation of resources needed to implement its goals." In his definition of strategy with five Ps, Mintzberg (cited in Le The Gioi et all, 2009) generalizes aspects of strategy management as follows: Plan: The sequence of consistently intended actions Pattern: The consistent behavior over time, intentionally or unintentionally Position: The harmony between the organization and its environment Perspective: The ways to deeply understand about the world Ploy: The specific methods to deceive opponents Business strategy does not specifically aim to outline how to achieve that goal because it is the duty of the numerous supported programs and other strategic functions.
It just creates the frame of thinking to guide the action. Business strategy is usually defined as three levels: - Company's Strategy: relating to the overall purpose and scope of organization. - Business' Strategy: relating to successful competitive methods on the specific market. - Functional Strategy: are strategies facilitating company’s and business’s strategies to effectively implement basing on components in terms of resources, processes, people and the necessary skills.
4 GeMBA 01V01-Group10 Capstone Project Report 1. Business Unit Strategy 1. Focused Growth Strategy Each company's strategy is applicable to business unit level. However, at the business unit, it is important to pay attention to the focused growth strategy because the focused object of this strategy is the product and its market.
This strategy aims to improve the competitive position of companies with existing products basing on increasing the marketing activities or changing the marketing campaigns without changing any product. There are three main strategies: - Market Penetration: Seeking for increased market share for products and services currently available in the market through marketing efforts. - Market Development: Developing products and services into new markets. - Product Development: Increasing sales by innovating available products and services.
Three basic competitive strategies. Costs-Leadership Strategy Costs-Leadership Strategy is the combination of actions to provide products or services with features accepted by customers with the lowest cost comparing to all competitors. The company's purpose of applying Costs-Leadership Strategy is to gain competitive advantages against its rivals in which its production and distribution cost is less than that of rivals. Differentiation Strategy The objective of the differentiation strategy is to gain the company's competitive advantage by developing products (goods or services) that attract customers with some unique and important characteristics.
The company tries to make the differences to satisfy customers' needs in ways that competitors can not do with the intention of requiring a price increase (a price significantly above industry average). 5 GeMBA 01V01-Group10 Capstone Project Report The ability to generate income by asking for a price increase (rather than reducing costs as in the case of the cost-leadership strategy) allows company following the differentiation strategy to gain competitive advantage against its rivals and to earn profit more than the industry's average. The price increase in the differentiation strategy is actually higher than that required by the cost-leaders, and customers are willing to pay for it because they believe in the quality of differentiated products are distinctive value. Focused Strategy Focused Strategy is the third competitive strategy.
The main difference with the above two strategies is that it directly serves the needs of the customer group or limited customer segment. A Focused Strategy will focus on specific market gap that can be determined in terms of geography, customer type, or by product segments. For example, a geographical gap can be defined by region or even by location. A customer can be selected among upper, middle, lower class or the youth.
Competitive strategies for business basing on market share position. Despite being in the same company, each business unit can have different market shares in the market. Market-Leading Unit - Market Expansion Strategy: Seeking for new regional sales, finding new customers, developing new tools and encouraging the use of more products. - Defense Strategy: Helping the business unit to maintain its market-leading position on its current market.
The market-leading unit is always threatened by other competitors, especially those units with important positions in the market. Therefore, the business unit must defense to protest against the continuous attacks of competitors. - Market Share Expansion Strategy: attacking to gain market shares of small competitors with acquisition of their business units.