THE COMPETITIVE STRATEGY ANALYSIS OF EXPRESS INDUSTRY BASED ON TIME-BASED COMPETITION

Jiuguo Zhao

2011

Abstract

This paper introduces a Time-based Competitive Strategy into express industry, which seeks to establish competitive advantage for express companies. According to analyzing the feasibility of time management based on VRIO model, it can be considered that time-based competition is an effective strategy to help express company obtain success. The strategy includes four connotations and two methods. It requires the express companies to integrate time saving, precision control, quick response and customer-oriented into competition. Simultaneously, to be a time-based competitor, express delivery enterprises have to pay more attention to the time management of the whole operational process and the optimizing of customer-oriented services.

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in Harvard Style

Zhao J. (2011). THE COMPETITIVE STRATEGY ANALYSIS OF EXPRESS INDUSTRY BASED ON TIME-BASED COMPETITION . In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: DMLSC, (ICEIS 2011) ISBN 978-989-8425-55-3, pages 502-506. DOI: 10.5220/0003580305020506


in Bibtex Style

@conference{dmlsc11,
author={Jiuguo Zhao},
title={THE COMPETITIVE STRATEGY ANALYSIS OF EXPRESS INDUSTRY BASED ON TIME-BASED COMPETITION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: DMLSC, (ICEIS 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={502-506},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003580305020506},
isbn={978-989-8425-55-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: DMLSC, (ICEIS 2011)
TI - THE COMPETITIVE STRATEGY ANALYSIS OF EXPRESS INDUSTRY BASED ON TIME-BASED COMPETITION
SN - 978-989-8425-55-3
AU - Zhao J.
PY - 2011
SP - 502
EP - 506
DO - 10.5220/0003580305020506