General Motors Business Strategy Case Study
Key Learning Outcomes
- Understand the broad macro-environment of General Motors and the automobile industry in terms of political, economic, social, technological, environmental and legal factors (PESTEL/PEST/STEEPLE).
- Use our swot analysis example to gain an overall understanding of GM's strengths and weaknesses and strategic options arising from the opportunities and threats that have been identified from the Pestle analysis example on it's business environment.
- To apply strategy business models and frameworks such as Pestle/Pest/Steeple, Swot, etc to real company cases.
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Incorporated in 2009, General Motors manufactures and sells cars, automobile parts and provides automobile finance solutions which include retail loans and lease lending. The company operates in several segments which include G.M North America, international operations, South America and GM financial company (Reuters 2018).General Motors manufactures and markets brands like Cadillac, Chevrolet and GMC among others in and outside North America as well as in its various subsidiaries like in Asia (Reuters 2018).The company is the US market leader with market shares of 17.16% followed by Toyota Motor Corporation with 14.44 and Ford Motors company 13.86%(Statista 2018).The company’s revenue declined from$149million in 2016 to $145 million in 2017 while its profit margin increased from 8.05% to 8.15% in 2017(Orbis 2017).