a) Categorize the major sources of Costco’s strategy into three hypotheses – resources, knowledge/ capabilities, and integration/ core competences.
{To answer this, you may prepare a brief table like follows
Resources — [Identify resources of Costco and how it uses them strategically]
Knowledge/ Capabilities – [Identify knowledge/ capabilities of Costco, and how it uses them strategically]
Integration/ core competencies – [Identify integration/ core competencies of Costco, and how it uses them strategically
b) identify at least three reasons for the entropy faced by Ford in the past giving specific examples observed from the video. Identify the different types of change/ dynamic capability Ford leveraged to rebuild itself.
c) Compare and contrast the type of marketplace in which Costco operates with that of Ford. How do these different marketplaces influence the behaviors of these two firms?
Here is the material and case you need to use to answer the question
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-9BH5JrRzE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-9BH5JrRzE-viedo case
And case costco – see file
Another two file is the material about resource,knowledge, capabiliyties, dynamic capability
