Target Strategic Plane. (Industry value chain,cost, differentiation, and value innovation)
Order Description
Our client is Target
The assignment: provide a strategic plan for Target in regards the points A and B

a careful analysis of what makes your client “special,” what its sources of competitive advantage are, whether (and for how long) they are sustainable, what factors or developments would constitute potential threats to their position. In addition, you should include an analysis of their strategy. Does it fit neatly into one of the three strategy types we discussed in class (cost, differentiation, value innovation)
If you choose your frameworks carefully and analyze your client’s situation clearly using those frameworks, you are about half way there. In addition, you need to draw CLEAR CONCLUSIONS from your analyses. Your consulting team only adds value to the client through your analyses and the conclusions you draw from them! Therefore, the frameworks and theories are necessary for you to generate insightful analyses – they do not add value in and of themselves!
do research, analyze information, and draw insightful conclusions.

A. (Determine the role played by each stage of the value chain, and analyze how industry revenues break down along the vc) (Draw the industry’s value chain (vc) and analyze the linkages between the various participants

#3 Industry Value chain

B. Give an analysis of Targets Strategy (cost, differentiation, and value innovation).
#10 Applied Differentiation Advantage

#11 Generic Strategies and Value Innovation

#12 Blue Ocean Strategy, Applied Value Innovation, Value Creation