Week XXXXXXXXXXCisco Q3. How will the organisational capabilities translate to core competencies that give Cisco a sustainable competitive advantage in their industry? Week XXXXXXXXXXWalmart China Q3....

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Ques 1.How will the organizational capabilities translate to core competencies that give Cisco a sustainable competitive advantage in their industry.
Cisco Company shows that collaboration can be good way to learn in case of small and medium scale business. Cisco believes in a mixed balance of both organic growth (in house development) and in organic growth (acquisitions) (Salam, 2020). The company keeps on doing acquisitions under one huge roof. Every acquisition has its own unique development quality. Like, in the year only 2012, cisco acquired Meraki for US 12 billion dollars to provide optimize solution in the cloud services. It is a customer centric company, where customer needs and demands is the utmost priority. The company started dealing in building infrastructure that allows internet to work. However, with the passing of the time, company did not stop recognizing the distinct market demand. The existing infrastructure of the company has huge market penetration. This assists the cisco to gather more customer base with intelligible data to work with. The sustainable advantage of the cisco is the curious mix of the old and new world economics. Old world economics talks about things like first mover advantage and customers that are lock in. New world economics talks about how growth can be so explosive; it values user growth above both profit and revenue. It is about how frictionless the modern world is and how quickly amazing things can happen. Cisco uses this strategy to listens customers closely and to understand the change required. Company focuses on building strong networking structure. It uses the combination of storage servers, networks and related management together in a packed solution to serve software and virtualization to the customers. Cisco’s core competency includes only one thing and that is network performance. It stands out of the crowd and launch its own hyper converged solutions. Company facilitates visualization through cloud computing video and collaboration. The company keeps moving forward, picking vendors knowing in which segment, it outshines the most and give benefits to the cisco. This core competency facilitates sustainable competitive advantage in their industry (Chatterjee, 2016).

Ques 2. Identify the challenges Walmart need to overcome affecting their implementation of international strategy.
When Walmart first arrived in China, the shops had come with much fanfare. It believed that the Walmart stores opening up in major cities nationwide would deliver lower prices for Chinese consumers. The stores had failed to capture the hearts of Chinese consumers. Walmart failed to recognize many other factors (except low price and fine quality) that impact on business and it is important to deal with them. First challenge is corruption; China has a history of having many corrupted officials at different levels and on the ground. China has a diverse local and national political environment, which is hard to deal with. Walmart has to pay hefty charges and even force to shut down operations in many place due to the intervention of political people. China is competitive and is unique in terms of culture, consumer preferences, tastes, and government regulations (Michelson, 2018). Another challenge is understanding culture, Companies hoping to break into...