The Resourced Based View
The resource-based view refers that internal factors are more important than external factors, this give to a company sustaining competitive advantage in the industry. The organizational performance will primarily be determined by internal resources that are divided in 3 categories: physical, human and organizational resources.
This analysis is used to determine the competitive advantages, the internal view to compete with the external issues in the industry. The resources than a company could have are:
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Rare: That are not common in the industry
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In-imitable: That it’s only produced by one firm or owner of the resource
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Valuable: That it creates value to reduce a company own weaknesses
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Non- substitutable: even if the resource is rare, valuable, if it is imitable the competence will make a counter with a substitutable resource and the prices of the product will decrease and reduce the profit.
Physical Resources
For Spot on carwash is important to have adequate physical resources, in order to offer the best service for the customers. The company requires a kit with all the necesary products of best quality, this product are innovative, because it prevent the use of water and as a result a perfeclty clean car (Rare).
We also need an office, which would be in pasadena, where the manager and the coordinator works, its also a physical space where customer can find us (Valuable). There is going to be the administrative employess (manager and coordinator), so basically the neccesary equipment to function in all the work activities are phones, desks, computers, printers, and office supplies. Also it is important to count with a good internet connection, so the coordinator could also schedule the clients that make its reservation thought the web page.
Human Resources:
Spot on carwash as being an organization with a very basic service, we want that our service can be different not just for washing the car but for dealing with the customers, and for that the most important resource is people. For this reason, we have special training in which all employees would learn how to be respectfull and friendly with the customers and an special training for the carwashers where the lear the special procedure for the carwashing process. (Valuable)
Organizational Resources:
In order to manage the human and physical resources is esencial to have estructured the organization with hierarchical levels and divided by areas, in this way the firm can develop all the processes structured and controlled. We also have a specific procedure to wash each car (Valuable) and our data base with all the customers information, are really important resouces for our organization.