Essay Problem: Spotify- Management
Question A: What is Spotify's business-level strategy?
a. What is their intended strategy? (The strategy they intended to use from the beginning.)
b. Did they develop any non-realized or emergent strategies? (Strategies that they had to unexpectedly create but did not originally intend to.)
c. Do they have any competitive advantage over their competition? (cost, uniqueness, etc.)
d. Are there any disruptive technologies? If so, what are they and how should the company react?
e. Does Spotify implement a cost leadership or differentiation strategy?
Question B: Five Forces Analysis (technique for understanding an industry, by examining the following)
a. Competitors in an industry
b. Potential new entrants to the industry
c. Substitutes for the industry's offering
d. Suppliers to the industry
e. Industry's buyers
The purpose of a five forces analysis is to identify how much profit potential exists in an industry.
Question C: Organization (how the company is organized)
a. Simple structure or functional structure or multidivisional structure or matrix structure
b. Which of those organizational structures does Spotify use? Go into detail explaining it.
c. Has Spotify used the same organizational structure the entire time? Did they ever change their organizational structure? Or just simplify it?
d. Output control or behavioral control or clan control? Which of these organizational control systems does Spotify use and go into detail explaining.
The response should include a reference list. Using double-space, Times New Roman 12 pnt font, one-inch margins, and APA style of writing and citations.