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Kabletown Vertical Integration Update

Mark Lee
Mark Lee

OverthinkingIt.com has obtained a leaked copy of a Kabletown corporate presentation detailing its resp

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Kabletown Vertical Integration Update CONFIDENTIAL NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION
Current Status ≒ Broadcast and Network Channels TV ≒ Kabletown Cable TV service ≒ Kabletown Broadband Internet Service Internet ≒ GE Phones Phone ≒ Kabletown Phone Service ≒ Kouchtown Couches 2 OverthinkingIt.com
New Competition IKEA UPPLEVA TV IKEA is a Swedish furniture company. The TVs are made in China. Integrated Blu-足Ray Player, Sound System, and Internet Video 3 OverthinkingIt.com
IKEA Vertical Integration TV ≒ UPPLEVA TV TV ≒ None, for now Networks TV Stands ≒ BEST DAL, HEMNES, MOSJ TV Stands Internet ≒ None, for now Phone ≒ None, for now Couches ≒ EKTORP, KIVIK, SANDBY Couches 4 OverthinkingIt.com
Kabletown Vertical Integration, Revisited TV ≒ NONE. (GE left TV business.) ≒ Broadcast and Network Channels TV Networks ≒ Kabletown Cable TV service TV Stands ≒ NONE. Internet ≒ Kabletown Broadband Internet Service ≒ GE Phones Phone ≒ Kabletown Phone Service Couches ≒ Kouchtown 5 OverthinkingIt.com
Kabletown/IKEA SWOT Analysis Helpful Harmful ≒ Handsome Executives ≒ Kouchtown couches are Internal Factors ≒ American Company expensive and uncomfortable ≒ Queen of Jordan ≒ No TVs or TV stands (Kabletown) ≒ TGS with Tracy Jordan ≒ IKEA lacks TV/broadband/ ≒ IKEA couches are inexpensive External Factors phone networks and comfortable ≒ Swedish is hard to pronounce ≒ IKEA can get consumers to assemble TV/broadband/ phone networks with (IKEA) instructions and Allen wrenches 6 OverthinkingIt.com
SWOT Analysis Conclusions IKEA is a direct threat to Kabletowns Vertical Integration strategy Allen wrenches = lower labor costs = unbeatable cost advantage My Harvard MBA really came in handy when putting that SWOT matrix together. By the way, did I mention that I went to HBS? 7 OverthinkingIt.com
Options: Pros & Cons Pros Cons Lobby FCC to ban the Virtually eliminates Bravo is developing a new letters 奪, 辰, and naming options for IKEA show called Re奪l Housewives 旦 in media properties of stersund Lobby Congress to Takes away IKEAs key First they came for the Allen make Allen wrenches competitive advantage wrenches, and I did not speak illegal in the US outBecause I was not an Allen wrench. Buy IKEA Market domination Takes forever to navigate in-足 store maze to get to the IKEA cash registers. Oh, look, $2 placemats! Shut down Kouchtown Cuts losses on failed Killing American Jobs is what product Obama does, not Kabletown 8 OverthinkingIt.com
Recommendations Cancel TGS with Tracy Jordan Lobby President Romney to declare war on Sweden Beat IKEA in Swedish Meatball market with Kabletown meatballs made from pink slime 9 OverthinkingIt.com

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Kabletown Vertical Integration Update

  • 1. Kabletown Vertical Integration Update CONFIDENTIAL NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION
  • 2. Current Status ≒ Broadcast and Network Channels TV ≒ Kabletown Cable TV service ≒ Kabletown Broadband Internet Service Internet ≒ GE Phones Phone ≒ Kabletown Phone Service ≒ Kouchtown Couches 2 OverthinkingIt.com
  • 3. New Competition IKEA UPPLEVA TV IKEA is a Swedish furniture company. The TVs are made in China. Integrated Blu-足Ray Player, Sound System, and Internet Video 3 OverthinkingIt.com
  • 4. IKEA Vertical Integration TV ≒ UPPLEVA TV TV ≒ None, for now Networks TV Stands ≒ BEST DAL, HEMNES, MOSJ TV Stands Internet ≒ None, for now Phone ≒ None, for now Couches ≒ EKTORP, KIVIK, SANDBY Couches 4 OverthinkingIt.com
  • 5. Kabletown Vertical Integration, Revisited TV ≒ NONE. (GE left TV business.) ≒ Broadcast and Network Channels TV Networks ≒ Kabletown Cable TV service TV Stands ≒ NONE. Internet ≒ Kabletown Broadband Internet Service ≒ GE Phones Phone ≒ Kabletown Phone Service Couches ≒ Kouchtown 5 OverthinkingIt.com
  • 6. Kabletown/IKEA SWOT Analysis Helpful Harmful ≒ Handsome Executives ≒ Kouchtown couches are Internal Factors ≒ American Company expensive and uncomfortable ≒ Queen of Jordan ≒ No TVs or TV stands (Kabletown) ≒ TGS with Tracy Jordan ≒ IKEA lacks TV/broadband/ ≒ IKEA couches are inexpensive External Factors phone networks and comfortable ≒ Swedish is hard to pronounce ≒ IKEA can get consumers to assemble TV/broadband/ phone networks with (IKEA) instructions and Allen wrenches 6 OverthinkingIt.com
  • 7. SWOT Analysis Conclusions IKEA is a direct threat to Kabletowns Vertical Integration strategy Allen wrenches = lower labor costs = unbeatable cost advantage My Harvard MBA really came in handy when putting that SWOT matrix together. By the way, did I mention that I went to HBS? 7 OverthinkingIt.com
  • 8. Options: Pros & Cons Pros Cons Lobby FCC to ban the Virtually eliminates Bravo is developing a new letters 奪, 辰, and naming options for IKEA show called Re奪l Housewives 旦 in media properties of stersund Lobby Congress to Takes away IKEAs key First they came for the Allen make Allen wrenches competitive advantage wrenches, and I did not speak illegal in the US outBecause I was not an Allen wrench. Buy IKEA Market domination Takes forever to navigate in-足 store maze to get to the IKEA cash registers. Oh, look, $2 placemats! Shut down Kouchtown Cuts losses on failed Killing American Jobs is what product Obama does, not Kabletown 8 OverthinkingIt.com
  • 9. Recommendations Cancel TGS with Tracy Jordan Lobby President Romney to declare war on Sweden Beat IKEA in Swedish Meatball market with Kabletown meatballs made from pink slime 9 OverthinkingIt.com