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1 Written Assignment – 7 Question: After reading the case “Compsis at a Crossroads,” consider the international position of the firm. Analyze the U.S. market and, using specifics from the case study, explain each of the four components of the Diamond Model and then apply them to the Compsis. Based on your analysis of this model, select and justify your choice for the optimal international business strategy for the firm. Then, select and justify the best market entry option for Compsis to implement possible US expansion.

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Compsis at a Crossroads

Anonymous Business School, University of the People BUS 5117: Strategic Decision Making and Management Dr. Darnetta Sharpe October 20, 2021

3 Compsis at a Crossroads The Porter Diamond, appropriately alluded to as the Porter Diamond Theory of National Advantage, is a model that is intended to assist with understanding the upper hand that countries or gatherings have because of specific elements accessible to them, and to clarify how legislatures can go about as impetuses to advance a nation's situation in a universally aggressive financial climate (James, 2020). It consists of four major components, i.e., demand conditions, factor conditions, related and supporting industries, and firm strategy, structure, and rivalry (Ketchen & Short, 2012). Venture into worldwide business sectors has been standardized because of slackened boundaries of passage and global exchange relations. Notwithstanding, this doesn't kill a portion of the difficulties that an organization stands to look at during extension. A portion of these difficulties incorporates worldwide rivalry, political, social, and monetarily related issues. To make such incredible strides, organizations are needed to have adequate assets like capital, specific expertise/ability, and important gear or hardware. For this errand, we will check out the instance of Compsis (Henderson & Reavis, 2009). Description of the Case and Identification of Major Issues Compsis, set up in 1989, is an association arranged in the Brazilian mechanical city of Sao Jose dos Campos has its greatest helpline is the structures coordination organization for electronic toll collection (ETC). The business was investigating new unions outside of Brazil in Latin America, Extraordinary England, India, and Pakistan (Lehrich et al., 2009). Compsis gave progressed traffic light, vehicle global positioning framework, and attractive direction framework close by the SICAT administration. Starting in 2005, SICAT was the essential type of revenue and the most exceptional answer for the organization (Lehrich et al., 2009). Compsis' product was particularly refined and, in this way, exorbitant, they experienced a loss on non-gradual

4 assets when they considered India as the public authority was cost-touchy (Henderson & Reavis, 2009). One of the organization's most prominent issues was that although they had figured out how to foster programming that was demonstrated to be more compelling and basic, in any case, it appeared it would prefer to be hard to persuade a client to update. The following paper will analyze and apply the four components of the Diamond Model to Compsis. Further, based on the analysis, the paper will provide an optimal international business strategy for the firm, and finally will justify the best market entry option for Compsis to implement possible US expansion. US Market Analysis and Diamond Model and its Application to Compsis With its most recent SICAT ETC program, Compsis can supply innovatively progressed administrations and products, and the organization started looking to the (US) in 2005. The US was an adult market for ETC where prospective clients were looking for state-of-the-art innovation from an industry chief. The US ETC market was loaded with a guarantee since it was bigger and quickly ascending than all the Spanish-speaking Latin American nations joined. With a strong venture into the US, Compsis could give its answer and differentiate its nearby activity. In the US, the ETC market is presently controlled by huge verifiable firms (Lehrich et al., 2009). Diamond Model Analysis Demand Condition Request from the home market is the critical factor in popular conditions (Ketchen & Short, 2012). For an industry to enjoy a serious benefit, there should be a reasonable interest for the item or administration from the home market. Compsis had a more noteworthy client base in their homegrown district (Brazil). Notwithstanding, Brazil was yet an arising economy and still

5 has not yet developed. Compsis was introducing an exceptionally complex item to somewhat little market size in its homegrown nation which, consequently, influenced the rate at which clients could move up to more modern items as they were touchy to costs (Lehrich et al., 2009). Not at all like in other worldwide business sectors like the US and Australia, the market development pace of Brazil was consistent ("Porter's diamond model," 2018). Compsis' developments in Brazil were further developed than what the clients appeared to require and accordingly, the organization was wary with regards to the number of customers that would update once the new SICAT adaptation was dispatched. Even though Compsis has had an undertaking close by Phillips in Australia, it didn’t have a solid market presence there because of the bombed contract. Factor Conditions Factor conditions apply to the different sorts of assets inside a country that could conceivably be available. Assets incorporate things like HR, assets for cash, normal assets, framework, and assets for data (Ketchen and Short, 2012). Checking out Compsis product offering and its refinement, the organization approached the necessary assets that included talented work, capital, and expert information to work and rule the Brazilian homegrown market. Compsis had solid binds with Brazilian colleges, for example, Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica (ITA) and the Universidade do Vale do Paraiba (UNIVAP) (Lehrich et al., 2009). The organization's skill simply reached out to creating programming and therefore, needed to reevaluate the necessary equipment like high-goal cameras and sensors. Related and Supporting Industries One industry's prosperity will rely upon the achievement of related ventures or providers. The presence inside a country of internationally serious providers can be advantageous to the

6 organizations that utilize such providers (Ketchen and Short, 2012). Considering that Compsis didn't have the aptitude to foster the equipment but instead that their essential spotlight was on programming improvement, the organization could seek after associations with the organizations that supply programming, thusly they could take advantage of the economies of scale, consequently, altogether lessening costs (Lehrich et al., 2009). This common asset approach would permit Compsis and the accomplice organization to enter unfamiliar business sectors along with shared market hazards while making an upper hand. Firm Strategy, Structure, and Rivalry Organization technique, construction, and seriousness identify with the essential truth that opposition drives organizations to discover ways of expanding the usefulness and to make specialized turns of events (Ketchen and Short, 2012). Compsis enjoyed a more prominent serious benefit in Brazil because of the great relationship it had with the neighborhood government and expressway administrators. Also, it was known to have mechanical skills and quality items inside the business (Lehrich et al., 2009). The organization didn't have a clue how to explore unfamiliar business sectors as their group was somewhat little for mature business sectors. In these business sectors like the US and Australia, they would have to rival able, tenable organizations with demonstrated aptitude. Solutions and Strategies International Business Strategy for Compsis It appears to be that Compsis has positive boundaries and will be fruitful universally, given the use of the Diamond model to Compsis (Lehrich et al., 2009). Even though its nearby market has a political danger, because of supporting enterprises, great interest conditions, great factor conditions, and solid market strength, Compsis has had the option to build up a top-notch

7 framework. While going worldwide, a global organization can browse three explicit techniques, Multi-homegrown, Worldwide, and Transnational. With a multi-homegrown methodology, organizations might give custom labor and products or sell similar items or administrations with a worldwide procedure. At last, a center ground between the two past ones would be found by a transnational system. Due to the exceptional presence of the U.S. market and the customized needs of U.S. customers. A multi-homegrown arrangement is by all accounts generally great for Compsis. In Latin America, Europe, India, Pakistan, and the US, this will permit Compsis to arrive at a few distinct business sectors (Lehrich et al., 2009). Best Market Entry Option for Compsis The best advantage of infiltrating a market, for example, the US of America is that the market is an experienced ETC market that isn't that value touchy. Subsequently, giving a motivator to various market players to contend. To enter the ETC market of the US, Compsis has a huge load of decisions including exchanging its items, authorizing the product overall or in an on-request approach, setting up deals work environments in the US, teaming up with various firms, and so on Among every one of the other options, the best one is seen as assisting existing industry players and advancement firms in the And so on the business of the US where explicit strategy could be either making a joint undertaking or key partnership actually that both have a practically identical effect (Lehrich et al., 2009). To get through the US market, Compsis need to advance the leader item SICATXP as it holds the most upper hand. Conclusion The diamond model of Porter is a useful strategy for evaluating a domestic organization's advancement while going unfamiliar. Worldwide merchandise, custom items or administrations,

8 or a blend of both, perhaps presented by organizations that have global activities. For Porter's Diamond model, Compsis is by all accounts a solid competitor and ought to be globally fruitful.

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