In Europe, Ryan air operates the low cost passengers schedule
airline. Ryan air starting in 1985 by following the southwest airline. This
introduces the low cost concept in the Europe and make the airline market a low
cost to attract and capture more and more customers. This is going to be the first low most
airline n Europe that transfer from 86 bases more than 2000 flights on daily
basis, in 37 countries connect 215 destinations on the fleet of 430 Boeing 737
aircraft’s and also 240 Boeing 737 air crafts for future. This complete setup
make the Ryan air most growth traffic to 200m customers by FY24 and lower fare
airline this industry leading safety record from 33 years and having most
skilled aviation professional team more than 14500 members that provide on time
and excellent performance in the Europe.
In 2017, it maintains its record to deliver more than 1 billion customers.
this airline establish itself to become most leading organization with low fare
schedule through continuous improvement and expanded their services. It
provides too much benefit to all its people, passengers and shareholders in the
Europe. (corporate.ryanair.com,
2019)
Main body of the airline company “Ryan air”
Section 1: VRIO Analysis of the airline company “Ryan air”
For the development of best strategies, the ryan air internal
strategic capabilities must be consider and observed in detail. VRIO analysis
are going to used to determine the competencies and resources of the
organization and this model help to determine the performance of many functions
within the organization and analyze the resources of the organization. The
resources of the organization include technological, intellectual, financial,
organizational, reputation; and physical. On the basis of given resources
Ryan air develop its core competencies and properly develop a competitive
advantage. And to determine the performance of all resources VRIO model is
going to used by the organization of Ryanair.VRIO stands for Value, rare,
imitable and organization. Organization can aim such elements like capableness
and resources. To understand the significance of the different organizational
public presentation, it is indispensable to contract down and clear up the
nucleus competencies. (phdessay.com, 2019)
Value explains that how much the resources of the
organization can meet the need and requirement of the organization and
expectation of the customer within given resources. By working together the
subsidies of the government, its low price business model and airport charge
reduction, ryanair offer the lowest price to all its customers to capture
millions of customers from all around the world.
Rareness of ryanair is that the ryanair is the only airline
that has government subsidies and airport charge reduction with in short haul
budget airline businesses. Its mot strong and direct competitor Easy Jet has no
opportunity like this and having no resources like ryanair. This make Ryanair airport change reduction
and government subsidies more valuable and rarer. Because of its ability to
attract customers and its secondary routes, government subsidies and airport
change reduction are given to ryanair. It provides support for secondary
airport development in short time and bring more customers and tourists for
more consumption for government at local level. It is very hard to transfer the
resources.
Imitability means that it would be consider that comparison
of ryanair with other airlines without the given resources are consider a big
advantage of cost for organization and these resources are transfer with great
difficulty or imitated to other.
Organization explain the working of the Ryanair that it
deliver lowest cost and price successfully by making good use of its various
resources and capabilities. The deployment of resources become successful because of effective operating strategy and
marketing strategy , strong management team and effective CFO and build up its
competitive advantages. In short the Ryanair utilize all of its resources and
capabilities in most effective manner to maintain its leadership in cost and
offer lowest prices to all its customers and stuck them that must be consider a
competitive advantage for the organization. Here is a table that show the
utilization of resources as per VRIO model.
Competencies
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Physical
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Reputational
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Organizational
|
Financial
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Intellectual
|
Technological
|
Human resource
|
Tangible assets
|
Intangible assets
|
|
Valuable
|
Yes
|
No/yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No/yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Rare
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No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
Imitable
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
Exploited by organization
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Competitive implication
|
Sustainable competitive advantage
|
Competitive parity
|
Sustainable competitive advantages
|
Competitive parity
|
Sustainable competitive advantages
|
Competitive parity
|
Competitive disadvantage
|
Competitive parity
|
Sustainable competitive advantages
|
|
Only human resources are consider a competitive disadvantage
for the ryanair because its bad relationship with pilots are very much
highlighted so its no valuable and no rare and it is non organized and non
effectively deployed and arrange in the markets.
Key competencies:
The key competencies of the ryanair include strong
management team, financial stability, organizational structure and good brand
awareness. (ukessays.com, n.d.)
Section 2: SWOT analysis of the airline company “Ryan air”
In the strategic planning process, the cane of internal dn
external environment is very important for the organization. All those
environmental factors that determine internally the firm are consider as
strengths and weaknesses and those factors that affect externally are
opportunities and threats. So SWOT analysis provides detail help to making
accurate match of resources and capabilities of the organization with in
competitive environment. in strategy selection and formulation, it is
instrumental.
Strength of the airline company “Ryan air”
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Weakness of the airline company “Ryan air”
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Strong brand position and brand share
Low price enable the government subsidies and airport discount
Effective operation strategy
Strong profitability
Effective management team, chairman and CEO
First mover advantage
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Dependence on third pray service provider
Weak employee relationship
Poor human resource management policy
Secondary routes cause inconvenience for customers
No customer loyalty
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Opportunities of the airline company “Ryan air”
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threats of the airline company “Ryan air”
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Cost reduction in advance
Establish market share
Revenue income
Strong public branding
Technology impact on system and service
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Environmental charges
Increasing oil prices
Trade unions
Currency fluctuation
New competition
Possibility of being taken over
|
(ukessays.com, n.d.)
SWOT/TWOS analysis of the ryanair is a helping tool that
helps in evaluation to develop an impact on the airline industry at large scale
and influence the environment of ryanair. All these factors are developing an
atmosphere of competitive advantages and prepare the ryanair to handle with its
competitors and rivals in the militant aviation industry. the ryanair provide
on time service, low rates and safety of passengers but it also face poor
customer relationship by providing them wrong guidance. In low cost airline
there must be some weaknesses. but in the journey of ryanair, many
opportunities obtain by airline that provide great support to sustainable
growth and development. The achievable opportunities of ryanair are merger and
acquisition with other airlines, code sharing and sector consolidation,
significant hike in number of short distance travelers teamed and in macro
environment the market growth and with
them some major threats for the ryanair are natural disaster, competition from
local carriers, currency movement and fuel prices. (businessteacher.org.uk,
2019)
Pestle analysis: this analysis provides a framework that
defines the impact of external factors on the business of ryanair company on
macro environment. This external analysis shows that how these factors affect
the growth rate of ryanair and its market strategy and business case. Factors
are political, economic, technological, legal and environmental factors. Omn
the airline industry, the great impact going to appear with the political
system of countries and their inter relationships. For airline it is important
to follow the political policies of country where they run their business.
Ryanair is the low cost carrier but still it don’t want to merge with European
union emission trading system because it consider that tax is consider a burden
in term of revenue of the company. Profit margin also going down with the
increase of fuel prices. But company manages its revenue shortage by increasing
the volume of passengers. Aviation industry also influence by the legal factors
because it effects their operations and ryanair also face many problems in this
regard. The use of latest technologies like app and website for ticket booking
and advance help the organization to generate more revenue. Ryanair is
responsible at social level that try to maintain the environment and its lower
cost carrier provide opportunity to travel in just like modern planes with full
of latest technologies to minimize the pollution and cut down extra luxuries. (swotandpestle.com,
n.d.)
Porter five force analysis
This framework provides the structure of the industry with
depth. It provides the organization value and provides strong starting point
for strategic analysis. This model can determine in all the points that support
the organization and pinch points may discuss in details that effect the
organization. In the market, company has to face lot of competition and
pressure to maintain its profitable ratio. Here we are going to conduct five
force analyses for the ryanair to determine the industry attractiveness in the
market.
Competitive rivalry
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Substitutes of high threats, copied cost advantages, availability of
routes become limited and differential low factor.
|
Bargaining power of buyer
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Large volume not buying by customers, on service and price
transparency provided, price sensitive buyers and with other airline low
switching costs.
|
Bargaining power of suppliers
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Oil cost directly affected with the price of fuel aviation, only two
manufacturers are there airbus and Boeing. High switching costs
|
Threat of new entrants
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Required flight authorization, required high capital investment,
slots restricted and intensive industry of fuel and labor.
|
Threats of substitutes
|
Other modes of transport is also available, customer with low brand
loyalty and customers with low switching costs.
|
Many organizations want to change their management style and
strategies so for this purpose different organizations use different type of
models that help them to manage their new setup related to their business and
provide better management opportunities. Ryanair has complete management plan
and different strategies set by the organization to support all its operations
and run them smoothly and successfully. There
are many successful models that provide better methods and support to change
the overall management of the organization and make the operations of the
organization more effective and provide better results at the end. Kotter’s 8
step change model use to determine how the organization in actual change all of
its management and its leader approach towards the organization. Kotters model
include 8 steps that overlap with each other. These steps explain the climate
change, enabling and engaging the organization and sustaining and implementing
change. Successful change happen with strong committeemen, sense of momentum,
clears vision, clear and good communication, openness, strong leadership,
executed plan and well engagement stakeholders’ engagement.
Increase urgency means that people of the organization start
telling each other about adopting new change and they want to start work with a
new change. Build the guiding team means that a group of powerful people is
going to prepare and they start guiding people about the new and change work
and even start working. Right vision get means that the team of guidance
prepares the correct strategy and new vision for implement the change. Buy in
communication means that people are going to be ready to start purchasing with
new change and their behavior also going to be change more. Action empowers
means that many people are able to understand the change and they start act
like new vision. Short term wins creation means that people try to complete the
vision approach with a momentum and change can be resist by few people. Don’t
let up means that people after change going to perform their responsibilities
until they achieve their vision related to their work. Making of stick change
means that turnover of change leaders with new and winning behavior is going to
be continued instead of traditions.
According to this model, effective leader determine the
problem, find the solution of that problem and engaging the people that going
to change their behaviors according to requirements. They also focus on people
driven approach that guide people to determine the reason behind the change.
People are going to change when their feelings completely change with the power
of truth. So emotions belong to the change of heart it means see, feel and
change is natural phenomena. See means eye catching and compelling situations
that support people to know about the
problems and determine its solutions. Feel means that different ideas implement
strong emotions that give motivation to act differently in situations. Change
means new behavior and feeling going to be deployed and people do their work
with more efficiently to develop the new vision in reality. Change is different
but must be happen to maintain the momentum of work. ((Eds.), 2019)
Section 4: the airline company “Ryan air”
First of all, after the detail discussion of the ryanair, it
can be determine that the strategies of ryanair must be develop to determine l
lathe major issues of the organization and also maintain its low cost approach
for all the customers because its specialty attract the customers and make it
profitable organization. Through its core competencies, ryanair strategies must
be improvement making and waste minimization and better utilization of
resources. The core competencies define its ability to finish all those
operations that are not supportive and value added. By unnecessary processes
eradicated prices can be minimize. Careful planning must be required to
increase the efficiency so ryanair adopt improvement making strategy that
supports its corporate culture. The real-time
initiatives must be taken by the employees and then management as a whole
implement the change. The deficiencies of the organization cannot be detected
if the employees of the organization not properly connected with customers. Because
only employees may not give accurate suggestions related to new change so the
ryanair provide opportunities to all its employees to take better initiatives
for the betterment of the organization. The next core competence related to
maximize the ability of ryanair is to increase the number of routes offer by
maximizing the number of customers travel. This core competence show that
ryanair use its aircrafts more than before and multiple use its routes to make
its profitability higher than before by utilizing its resources more and more.
And employees must know that how to properly manage all the resources to get
better results and enhance the earnings ratio and this all would be happen with
the contribution of employees on different segments of business. (ukessays.com,
n.d.)
SFA evaluation of the airline company “Ryan air”
When business have multiple strategies then it is difficult
to select the best one for the business and face problems while implementing
and assessing the usefulness and effectiveness of strategy. An effective
approach and options must be selected to consider the suitability, feasibility
and acceptability of every option. Any strategy must be fulfilling at these
three criteria to become successful and ryanair also determine this model to
implement any sort of strategy. Suitability means that company determine is the
strategy is better to use to meet the requirements of the company or not. In
different criteria the suitability consider very important like capability,
expectations and environmental suitability. These types can be divided into
further categories according to the requirement of the organization. For
determine the suitability consider the strategy use the strength of company
effectively or strategy remove the difficulties that are identified.
Acceptability belongs to the stakeholder reaction, risk and measuring return
after the implementation of the strategy. Based on the benefits, returns must
be measured and financial and non financial effects must be determined.
Feasibility of this model decides finally about the implementation of the
strategy; determine the resources, abilities and capabilities of the business
to implement the strategies. Financial feasibility is also very important to
determine the future needs of the business by observing the cash flow, many
other financial test with break even analysis. It also determines how much
material, management power, equipment and man power is required to implement
the strategy. (oxfordcollegeofmarketing.com,
2019)
Summary/conclusion of the airline company “Ryan air”
Ryanair is a very well reputed and successful organization
that provide excellent services at most lowest price rate. They are well
organized and run successfully but still they have some problems and many
issues arise in their strategies. The resources and competencies must be
determine at every step to consider the effectiveness and strength of its
strategies and make more effective strategy that meet the requirements of the
organization and provide more profitable results in future and also engage all its
employees with customers and define a comfort zone for all the people.
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