Explain the two types of related diversification strategy with the help of examples.
What will be an ideal response?
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There are two types of related diversification strategy: related-constrained and related-linked.
When executives consider business opportunities only where they can leverage their existing competencies and resources, the firm is using related-constrained diversification. The choices of alternative business activities are limited-constrained-by the fact that they need to be related through common resources, capabilities, and competencies. ExxonMobil's diversification move into natural gas is an example of related-constrained diversification.
If executives consider new business activities that share only a limited number of linkages, the firm is using related-linked diversification. For example, Amazon began business by selling only one product: books. Over time, it expanded into CDs and later gradually leveraged its online retailing capabilities into a wide array of product offerings. As the world's largest online retailer, and given the need to build huge data centers to service its peak holiday demand, Amazon decided to leverage spare capacity into cloud commuting. Amazon also offers a variety of consumer electronics as well as proprietary content that can be streamed via the internet and is free for its Prime service.
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