scholarly journals Dynamics on the Boston Consulting Group's planning matrices

1985 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 109-115
Author(s):  
C. G. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Strategic Thinking ◽  
Competitive Dynamics ◽  
Strategic Positioning ◽  
Gain Matrix ◽  
Competitive Action

Strategies based on the growth share matrix as a resource allocation tool require that broad categories of businesses are either funded, milked, or divested depending on their strategic positioning on the portfolio chart. Dynamics on the chart are important and this article explores the implications of changing positions of the businesses concerned using the growth gain matrix. The little-used technique of frontier curves, which relates growth rate to cash usage, is elucidated. Because management cannot act in a vacuum and competitive action is inevitable, a checklist for competitive profiling is provided. Competitive dynamics on the growth share matrix are explored least the unwary fall into the trap of conventional strategic thinking.

scholarly journals COOPETITION UNDER ALLIANCE? APPLYING AWARENESS-MOTIVATION-CAPABILITY COMPETITIVE DYNAMICS PERSPECTIVE

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 701-716 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei-Lun CHANG ◽  
Chia-Ling CHIU
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Airline Industry ◽  
Competitive Dynamics ◽  
Senior Managers ◽  
Control Cost ◽  
High Resource ◽  
Airline Alliances ◽  
Competitive Action ◽  
High Level

Airline companies join airline alliances to cope with the high level of competition in the airline industry. However, pressure within an alliance is substantial. This study used competitor mapping and awareness-motivation-capability competitive dynamics to analyze airline alliances. The results revealed that alliances compete to recruit airline companies, and the power differences in the alliances are considerable; only a few of the airline companies within the alliance possess power. In addition, we interviewed 2 senior managers to confirm the results of the analysis. A detailed content analysis was performed to test each hypothesis. The findings revealed that companies with low market commonality and high resource similarity can cooperate through resource allocation. We also discovered that the main competitive action was derived from disallowing local airline companies to join an alliance. Leading companies in the alliance generally negotiated for the entire alliance indirectly. This research suggests that companies cooperate not only to control cost but also to increase service quality.

The Basic Principles of Competitive Strategy

2015 ◽  
pp. 693-718
Author(s):  
Nabyla Daidj
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
External Environment ◽  
Strategic Thinking ◽  
Strategic Analysis ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Complex Dynamic ◽  
Strategic Positioning ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages

Firms operate in a more and more complex, dynamic, less predictable environment. This situation requires following different approaches of strategic positioning and strategic planning and developing new patterns of strategic thinking. There are several strategic models and tools. Most of them have advantages and disadvantages. In spite of these limitations, these models must be examined. The purpose of this chapter is to conduct a strategic analysis (external and internal diagnoses). It familiarizes the reader with the forces that shape competition in a company's external environment and then analyzes internal strategic capabilities for identifying strategic sustainable competitive advantage.

Competitive Dynamics and Resource Allocation: Antecedents, Interactions, Consequences

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (1) ◽  
pp. 17801
Author(s):  
Aldona Kapacinskaite ◽  
Tim Folta ◽  
Yue Maggie Zhou ◽  
Aldona Kapacinskaite ◽  
Evan Rawley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Competitive Dynamics

New Harmonious Development of the College Sports Game Status and Strategic Thinking

2011 ◽  
Vol 50-51 ◽  
pp. 709-712
Author(s):  
Jian Yong Di ◽  
Yan Mei Yang ◽  
Kai Lei Xi ◽  
Xiao Feng Xu
Keyword(s):  
Game Theory ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Strategic Thinking ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
College Sports ◽  
Educational Resource ◽  
Harmonious Development ◽  
Education Resources ◽  
Decision Making Behavior

This paper introduces game theory to analysis of the development of college sports in the emerging imbalance. In the new social conditions, the paper is to explore the deep interaction of decision-making behavior in college educational resource allocation. Aim at exploring to make college physical education resources optimize the mode of cooperation, and promote the harmonious development of college sports.

scholarly journals Growth-Rate Dependent And Nutrient-Specific Gene Expression Resource Allocation In Fission Yeast

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Istvan T. Kleijn ◽  
Amalia Martínez-Segura ◽  
François Bertaux ◽  
Malika Saint ◽  
Holger Kramer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Growth Rate ◽  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Fission Yeast ◽  
Metabolic Enzymes ◽  
Specific Gene ◽  
Specific Gene Expression ◽  
Rate Dependent ◽  
Specific Regulation ◽  
Yeast Genes

Cellular resources are limited and their relative allocation to gene expression programmes determines physiological states and global properties such as the growth rate. Quantitative studies using various growth conditions have singled out growth rate as a major physiological variable explaining relative protein abundances. Here, we used the simple eukaryote Schizosaccharomyces pombe to determine the importance of growth rate in explaining relative changes in protein and mRNA levels during growth on a series of non-limiting nitrogen sources. Although half of fission yeast genes were significantly correlated with the growth rate, this came alongside wide-spread nutrient-specific regulation. Proteome and transcriptome often showed coordinated regulation but with notable exceptions, such as metabolic enzymes. Genes positively correlated with growth rate participated in every level of protein production with the notable exception of RNA polymerase II, whereas those negatively correlated mainly belonged to the environmental stress response programme. Critically, metabolic enzymes, which represent ~55-70% of the proteome by mass, showed mainly condition-specific regulation. Specifically, many enzymes involved in glycolysis and NAD-dependent metabolism as well as the fermentative and respiratory pathways were condition-dependent and not consistently correlated with growth. In summary, we provide a rich account of resource allocation to gene expression in a simple eukaryote, advancing our basic understanding of the interplay between growth-rate dependent and nutrient-specific gene expression.

scholarly journals Principles of cellular resource allocation revealed by condition-dependent proteome profiling

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eyal Metzl-Raz ◽  
Moshe Kafri ◽  
Gilad Yaakov ◽  
Ilya Soifer ◽  
Yonat Gurvich ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Steady State ◽  
Cell Growth ◽  
Ribosomal Proteins ◽  
Budding Yeast ◽  
Protein Translation ◽  
Metabolic Rates ◽  
Proteome Profiling ◽  
State Growth

Growing cells coordinate protein translation with metabolic rates. Central to this coordination is ribosome production. Ribosomes drive cell growth, but translation of ribosomal proteins competes with production of other proteins. Theory shows that cell growth is maximized when all expressed ribosomes are constantly translating. To examine whether budding yeast function at this limit of full ribosomal usage, we profiled the proteomes of cells growing in different environments. We find that cells produce an excess of ribosomal proteins, amounting to a constant ≈8% of the proteome. Accordingly, ≈25% of ribosomal proteins expressed in rapidly growing cells do not contribute to translation. This fraction increases as growth rate decreases. These excess ribosomal proteins are employed during nutrient upshift or when forcing unneeded expression. We suggest that steadily growing cells prepare for conditions that demand increased translation by producing excess ribosomes, at the expense of lower steady-state growth rate.

scholarly journals Adaptive evolution reveals a tradeoff between growth rate and oxidative stress during naphthoquinone-based aerobic respiration

2019 ◽  
Vol 116 (50) ◽  
pp. 25287-25292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amitesh Anand ◽  
Ke Chen ◽  
Laurence Yang ◽  
Anand V. Sastry ◽  
Connor A. Olson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Bacterial Species ◽  
Scale Model ◽  
Adaptive Laboratory Evolution ◽  
Lower Growth ◽  
Respiratory Quinone ◽  
A Genome ◽  
Clear Shift ◽  
Genome Scale

Evolution fine-tunes biological pathways to achieve a robust cellular physiology. Two and a half billion years ago, rapidly rising levels of oxygen as a byproduct of blooming cyanobacterial photosynthesis resulted in a redox upshift in microbial energetics. The appearance of higher-redox-potential respiratory quinone, ubiquinone (UQ), is believed to be an adaptive response to this environmental transition. However, the majority of bacterial species are still dependent on the ancient respiratory quinone, naphthoquinone (NQ). Gammaproteobacteria can biosynthesize both of these respiratory quinones, where UQ has been associated with aerobic lifestyle and NQ with anaerobic lifestyle. We engineered an obligate NQ-dependent γ-proteobacterium, Escherichia coli ΔubiC, and performed adaptive laboratory evolution to understand the selection against the use of NQ in an oxic environment and also the adaptation required to support the NQ-driven aerobic electron transport chain. A comparative systems-level analysis of pre- and postevolved NQ-dependent strains revealed a clear shift from fermentative to oxidative metabolism enabled by higher periplasmic superoxide defense. This metabolic shift was driven by the concerted activity of 3 transcriptional regulators (PdhR, RpoS, and Fur). Analysis of these findings using a genome-scale model suggested that resource allocation to reactive oxygen species (ROS) mitigation results in lower growth rates. These results provide a direct elucidation of a resource allocation tradeoff between growth rate and ROS mitigation costs associated with NQ usage under oxygen-replete condition.

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