Nigeria firms go global

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Nigeria Firms Go GlobalLBS Alumni

©, Professor Nachum, 2011

How Successful Global Companies Identify Opportunities?

1. Identify Relevant Criteria for Them

How Successful Global Companies Identify Opportunities?

1. Identify Relevant Criteria for Them

2. Assign Weight to Criteria

Most Attractive?

GDP per capita, $

Market growth, % Market size

Infrastructure

Political risk 2010 [2007]

GDP per capita Population

GDP, Bil.$

Population, mil.

Nigeria 3005 2.5 2.8 972 174 2.6 7.0 [7.0]S. Africa 6886 0.6 1.5 684 53 3.2 7.0 [7.0]Senegal 1046 -0.2 2.9 31 14 2.3Kenya 1245 2.9 2.7 124 44 2.4 7.5 [6.5]Ghana 1858 5.4 2.1 103 26 2.7 5.9 [3.9]Ethiopia 505 7.7 2.6 129 94 2.2 5.1 [4.1]Egypt 3314 0.4 1.6 909 82 2.9 5.4 [4.4]India 1497 5.6 1.2 6,783 1,252 2.9 4.5 [4.5]China 6807 7.1 0.5 16,161 1,357 3.7 4.8 [3.8]Russia 14,611 1.1 0.2 3,623 143 2.6 6.5 [3.4]Brazil 11,208 1.6 0.9 3,013 200 2.9 5.4 [4.4]US 53,042 1.5 0.7 16,768 316 4.2 5.3 [3.2]UK 41,781 1.1 0.6 2,453 64 4.2 4.6 [6.6]

How Successful Global Companies Identify Opportunities?

1. Identify Relevant Criteria for Them

2. Assign Weight to Criteria

3. Narrow Down Alternatives

How Successful Global Companies Identify Opportunities?

1. Identify Relevant Criteria for Them

2. Assign Weight to Criteria

3. Narrow Down Alternatives

4. Systematically Compare Alternatives

Guts versus data in a global world: Foreign, Complex, Big

Data

How Successful Global Companies Identify Opportunities?

1. Identify Relevant Criteria for Them

2. Assign Weight to Criteria

3. Narrow Down Alternatives

4. Systematically Compare Alternatives

5. Evaluate Ability to Exploit

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Hofstede Culture IndexExploit opportunities:Home/foreign countryFirm-specific

US Hollywood films: Box office revenues

Create their Own World of Opportunity

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How Successful Global Companies Identify Opportunities?

1. Identify Relevant Criteria for Them

2. Assign Weight to Criteria

3. Narrow Down Alternatives

4. Systematically Compare Alternatives

5. Evaluate Ability to Exploit

Where Next? Three Most Attractive Opportunities

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