ವ್ಯವಹಾರದಲ್ಲಿ ಓಡಾಟ ಬಹು ಸಹಜವಾದ ಕೆಲಸ, ಸಮಯದ ಕೊರತೆ ಇದ್ದಾಗ ಅತ್ಯಂತ ವೇಗದಿಂದ ತಮ್ಮ ತಮ್ಮ ಸ್ಥಳಗಳಿಗೆ ಹೋಗ ಬೇಕಾದರೆ ವಿಮಾನದ ಬಳಕೆ ಕಡ್ದಾಯವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಆದರೆ ವೈಮಾನಿಕ ಉದ್ಯಮದಲ್ಲಿ ವೆಚ್ಚ ಹೆಚ್ಚು, ಇದನ್ನು ತನ್ನ ಗ್ರಾಹಕರಿಗೆ ಕೈಗೆಟಕುವಂತೆ ಮಾಡಲು ಈ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆ ಗಳು ತಮ್ಮ ಕಾರ್ಯವನ್ನು ಅತ್ಯಂತ ದಕ್ಷತೆಯಿಂದ ನಿರ್ವಹಿಸಬೇಕಾಗುತ್ತದೆ.
ಈ ಕಾರ್ಯ ದಕ್ಷತೆಯನ್ನು ಪಡೆಯಲು ಅವುಗಳು ತಮ್ಮ ಕಾರ್ಯವನ್ನು ಮಿತಕ್ರಯದ ಬೆಳಕಿನಲ್ಲಿ ನೋಡ ಬೇಕಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಇದನ್ನು ಸಿಧ್ಧಿಗೊಳಿಸಲು ವೈಮಾನಿಕ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಗಳು ಅವುಗಳ ವಾಹಕ ವಿಮಾನಗಳನ್ನು ಏಕ ರೂಪಿಯಾಗಿಸುತ್ತವೆ, ಇದರಿಂದ ಅದರ ಪೋಷಣೆಯ ವೆಚ್ಚವು ಕಡಿಮೆಯಾಗುವುದು, ಅದರ ಕಾರ್ಯ ಕರ್ಮಿಗಳ ಕೌಶಲ್ಯದ ಮೇಲೆ ಹೆಚ್ಚು ನಿವೇಶನ ಹೋದ ಬೇಕೆಂದಿರುವುದಿಲ್ಲ ಇತ್ಯಾದಿ ಇತ್ಯಾದಿ. ಅಂತೆಯೇ ಈ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಗಳು ತಮ್ಮ ಸೇವೆಯನ್ನು ಕೇವಲ ಸಂಪರ್ಕಕ್ಕೆಂದು ಮೀಸಲಿಟ್ಟು, ಗ್ರಾಹಕರ ಯಾವುದೇ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿನ ಬೇಡಿಕೆಗೆ ಶುಲ್ಕವನ್ನು ಪಡೆದು ಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತಾರೆ. ದುಬಾರಿ ವಿಮಾನದ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಯನ್ನು ಹೊಲಿಸಿದಾಗ ಇದು ಅದರ ವಿರುದ್ಧ ದಿಕ್ಕಿನಲ್ಲಿರುವಂತ ವ್ಯವಹಾರ ಪ್ರತಿಕೃತಿ.
ನಾವು ಈ ಅಂಕಣದಲ್ಲಿ ಕೇವಲ ವೈಮಾನಿಕ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಗಳ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಚರ್ಚಿಸಿದ್ದೇವೆ, ಆದರೆ ಈ ವ್ಯವಹಾರ ಪ್ರತಿಕೃತಿಯನ್ನು ಉಪಯೋಗಿಸ ಬಹುದಾದ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಗಳು ಈ ಅಂಕಣದ ಹಿಂದಿನ ಮೂಲ ತತ್ವಗಳನ್ನು ಅನುಸರಿಸುತ್ತಾರೆ.
ಆಂಗ್ಲ ಅಂಕಣ: http://somanagement.blogspot.com/2011/05/business-models-low-cost.html
If there is one industry where low cost plays a major deciding factor, it is in transportation. Businesses spend a handsome amount on their travel, and they try to minimize this cost center. For businesses the trade off is between time and amount they spend – and in fact air-travel would be of greatest help for the time pressed businessmen.
It is pretty well reported that airline industry makes the losses perpetually and getting into it makes life hard. The whole of the airlines industry tries to keep itself efficient and operational for a long time. At one end, there are the high end luxury focused carriers and at the other there are the low cost, no-frills. We discussed the luxurious ones at another point; today we limit our discussion to low-cost carriers.
The challenge in this model is to keep the cost low, and yet give a really satisfying customer experience. Cutting the frills is one common way – you pay for everything other than your flight. The other costs that they incur would be those of fleet maintenance (so buy only a particular type of air craft); choose only particular routes; probably innovate on the cargo shipping models etc, or make connected flights routes etc. All these can easily improve the way this business operates for its profitability.
Though we have explained using the example of the airline carrier and the transportation industry, the underlying principle of Standardization is the major policy a firm intending to have this business model has to follow. Standardization forms an important key for these kinds of firms, which gives them efficiency in the support activities, and thereby keep their costs low, and provide a reasonable offering at low price to their customer too.
Read in Kannada: http://somanagement.blogspot.com/2011/05/blog-post.html
In the earlier blog on Business model, we had a brief discussion on the premium business model, where the company providing could charge more given their ability to create an image that stands out. Today we talk about value added reseller as a business model.
If we have closer look at most of the industries around us, we begin realizing that major portions of the companies work at creating a certain single component of the final product that consumer’s purchase. There is another company that puts together all the individual single components from various vendors to help solve an issue that bothers the end consumer.
As most of the consumers of products, limit their interest to the usage of the product in discussion and the construction of the product is of interest only to a few people, these companies try to extract a premium using the components that are of greater worth. Given this situation, there are companies which outsource the component manufacturing to other companies while these companies focus on enhancing the usage of the product to the consumers through the product features.
Even after this, the overall experience of the product remains with the `end reseller of the product. They deliver the product, but also its service, its experience as a whole; and cater to the specific audience. This gives them the name value added reseller. Their value addition varies with what they provide, sometimes just the storage, and in some cases the experience. They make their money through value addition!
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In our discussion on business model, we today look at a very unique business model – the premium business model.
A lot of people intent to have a lifestyle, which distinguishes them from the normal people. It is about a status symbol that they try to communicate in everything they do. This is the core value that, this business model relies on.
Most of us have heard about – “Mercedes”. Their cars are known world over as being very costly and only affordable by the really elite. What makes these cars cost really such an exorbitant amount?
It is said that Mercedes uses their aircraft components in their cars. Though there is no visible advantage for users with these kinds of components, it focuses on the mindset of the people who want to portray a different lifestyle. This aspiration for a higher lifestyle enable them afford shelling out more for their purchase and thereby makes the companies charge their “extra” which could offset their limited customer base.
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In the earlier blog on Business Models, we discussed about Networks. In today’s blog, we discussed about online content.
In an earlier blog, we mentioned the importance of information in business. The criticality of information ensures there is business advantage, and the insights one receives from these gives a life-time lead. This is why we find a lot of news channels, giving us news about the government, the people sentiments, etc which have an impact from us.
An old adage says – “History Repeats”, having a good understanding of the history gives us an ability to move ahead with confidence.
Finding such historical knowledge at one place would be of great value to the business community. One of the largest such collection is the Harvard Business Review cases. The knowledge repository of this kind is worth millions to provide a competitive advantage helping business executives hone their skills.
This method of charging people for quality content – is all this business model has on offer. Simple yet impactful.
Read in Kannada:
http://somanagement.blogspot.com/2011/04/blog-post_26.html