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1 . I want you each to select just one strategy and describe what it would look like for Delta to engage in your selected

1. I want you each to select just one strategy and describe what it would look like for Delta to engage in your selected strategy.
2. Discuss what considerations you would need to make given the Life-Cycle that the Industry is in.9 Growth Strategies
Intensive - doing more of what we currently do.
Market penctration - selling more of our current product to our current
market/customers (cg, more Burger Kings in Cape Girardeau)
Market development- selling the same product, but to a new market (opening a
Latino restaurant in Sikeston)
Prosuct develogement-improwing on a current product and selling it to the current
market (cg, Whopper, Whopper with cheese)
Innowation - Original or novel ideas
Innovation - Create a new product life cycle and thereby make similar existing
products obsolete
Integrative - working up and down the product chain.
Vertical Integration - Backwand -(buy suppliers)(c.g, US Steel buying coal mines)
Vertical Integration - Forward (buy customers)(c.g., US Steel buying GM)
Harizontal (buy competitors)
Diversification - doing things we don't currently do.
Concentric-new product, technically related, new market (c.g, Holiday Inn buying
Panera)
Conglamenate-new product, technically unrelated, new market (c.g, Holiday Inn
buying Delta Steam Ship Lines [hauls coal])
Honixontal - new product, technically related, current market (e.g, Coke moving into
Desani bottled water)
3 Survival Strategies:
Turnaround - retrenchment through one or both of the following:
A. Cost reduction
B. Asset reduction
Divestiture - if retrenchment fails, sale of a firm or a major component of a firm
Liguidation - firm is sold in parts, occasionally as a whole, for its tangible asset value,
can be a bealthy practice.
Life Support Strategy:
Bankruptcy - usually takes on one of the two following forms:
A. Liquidation bankruptcy (Ch7)- complete distribution of assets to creditors at
a fraction of amount owed
B. Reonganization bankruptcy (Ch 11)- ask creditors to temporarily frecze chims,
convinee creditors they have good strategic plan, provides maximum payment
of debt in the future if successful
3 Partnership Strategies:
loint Ventures - a commercial entity is created by two or more capable parent
companies, and equity position is taken.
Strategic-Alliances - companies involved take no equity position in each other, in
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