As a part of the Strategy Assignment during MBA. We tried to create a Strategic Landscape of Google Inc. This is one of the best presentations we ever made. I made it with my friends Abhishesh Kumar Sharma and Virindersingh Villkhoo

1. GOOGLE Strategic Analysis

5. The Industry Stats

6. Country Analysis Country Users (Mn) Usage Growth (2000-2007) US 210.00 120.80% China 162.00 620.00% Japan 86.30 83.30% India 42.00 740.00% Brazil 39.15 682.8% World 1173.00 225.00%

8. Google Products (>60) Standalone Applications AdWords Editor Gmail Notifier Hello Pack Photo Screensaver Picasa Secure Access GTalk SketchUp Desktop Extension Blogger Web Comments Browser Sync Dashboard Widgets Send to Phone Toolbar Communication & publishing 3D Warehouse Blogger Calendar, Docs& Spreadsheets Dodgeball FeedBurner Gmail, Orkut YouTube Reader Mobile Products Blogger Mobile Calendar Gmail News iGoogle Reader Maps Mobile Web Search Maps Ride Finder Analytics Directory Google Mini SMS Search Mash Advertising AdSense AdWords Audio Ads Click-to-Call Grants TV Ads

22. Continuous Innovation

25. Value Chain

26. Dynamic View Resource Endowments Resource Commitment Activities Buying many sites, Opening offices in many Countries, Huge investment in R&D, Continuous investment in increasing Database Searching for various avenues, Continuous innovation, Developing people, learning new technologies

35. Top Competitors

37. Strengths Analysis Weaknesses Analysis

41. Inorganic Growth - List of Google acquisitions 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Xunlei Adscape – Video Game advertising Trendalyzer Tonic Systems Marratech GreenBorder Panoramio FeedBurner PeakStream Zenter Grand Central – VOIP dMarc Broadcasting – Radio Advertising Measure Map Upstartle @Last Software Orion Neven Vision JotSpot YouTube- Video Sharing Endoxon 2Web Technologies Phatbits Urchin S/W Inc. Dodgeball Reqwireless Current Comm. Group Android Skia Akwan InfoTech AOL (5% stake) -Internet

42. 5 year Performance

45. The Growth Share Matrix