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Improvement Project of Science Construction CS

Abstract Science Construction’s business is in planning, developing and building road projects. The major of its clients are municipalities, city governments, and other public sector entities. While the bankruptcy rates for these clients is very low, when economic downturns happen, their ability to pay in a timely fashion also suffers. This leads to businesses such as Science Construction needing to take on additional debt and to find creative methods in order to stay afloat during times of recession. Methods such as selling accounts receivables at discounted rates and taking larger lines of credit through banks and other lending institutions are some of the ways organizations can remain viable when their cash inflows have turned into a trickle. Science Construction is asking the Turkish Courts to postpone their bankruptcy proceedings for a year while they attempt to restructure. Through this, suggestions such as forcing shareholders to pay their debt to the organization, gaining credi
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What is Netflix?


Netflix is an American entertainment organization established on August 29, 1997, in Scott's Valley, California by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph. It provides streaming media and video-on-demand on the web and DVD via mail. In 2013, Netflix ventured into film and TV production, and online distribution. Starting in 2017, the organization has its home office in Los Gatos, California.
Blockbuster LLC, once in the past Blockbuster Entertainment, Inc., also called Blockbuster Video or just Blockbuster established by David Cook. It began as American-based supplier of home movie and computer game rental provider through video rental shops, DVD-via mail, online gushing, video on demand, and a film theater. Blockbuster turned out to be globally known all through the 1990s. At its top in 2004, Blockbuster had 84,300 employees around the world, incorporating around 58,500 in the United States and around 25,800 in different nations, and had 9,094 stores.
Netflix started its business activities in 1998. In 1998, Netflix joined with TOSHIBA and started the business promotional strategy of offering free DVDs with the buy of new TOSHIBA's DVD players. Later amid the year, NETFLIX picked up a credible acknowledgment when it sold 10,000 copies of BILL CLINTON's trial in Monica Lewinsky case. The firm soon quit selling DVDs. Rather it guided every one of its clients to the Amazon.com site. Consequently, Amazon promoted Netflix on its mainstream site. 
Since Netflix establishing in the late 1990s, the organization had changed the essence of the business and compromised the presence of such entrenched giants as Blockbuster, in extensive part as a result of its easy-to-understand membership model, approach of no late fees, and utilization of analytics to use client information to give a prevalent client experience and develop its online business media platform.
Netflix's interest in information collection, IT frameworks, and progressed analytics, for example, exclusive information mining strategy and algorithms for the client and product matching played a vital job in the two its procedure and business success. However, the explosive development of the computerized media advertise presents a genuine test for Netflix's business going ahead.
Netflix's competitive advantage:
Differentiation:
 a) Movie Selection
A wider selection of genres
New & old movies
b) Convenience
No late fees
Keep movies as long as needed

c) Revenue Model
Membership fees, monthly
d) Lean Operations
Low operation costs
Minimal Inventory
No Brick-and-Mortar location
Customer Preferences
Uses Big Data to personalize(Cinematch algorithm)
Development of own series
Able to promote with little advertising
Reasons for Blockbuster's Failure:
Flexibility

Return Dates - Very strict, customers could not hold movie as long as need be.
Inventory - Customer choice was limited to what was on hand in the store.
Mailing service never fully integrated with the brick-and-mortar stores.
Blockbuster should have:
Focused on customer preference - Could have used big data to do so
Focused on technological advances
Developed subscription models to rival Netflix - Integrate fully with brick-and-mortar stores
Netflix's partnership with other TV manufacturing companies:
Netflix partnership with hardware and device manufactures played the biggest role in their success.
They partnered Kindle, Apple, Wii, Xbox, Android, PS3, and many others. We can see the Netflix button on every branded TV remote control(LIRC) nowadays.
Disruptive Innovation
Developments that radically modify markets.
Leaps forward as opposed to gradual technological improvements.
Radical changes that rebuild or make whole markets.
Regularly from outside a market's value network, yet incumbents some of the time disrupt their own market.
New items, procedures or models of business.
Netflix is an extraordinary case of disruptive innovation. Its DVD-via mail model turned the video rental business on its head and helped push an industry titan, Blockbuster, into bankruptcy. As a start-up and outcast, Netflix had the capacity to see that Blockbuster underserved numerous clients. Accordingly, Netflix made a business that offered greater moderateness, openness, and accessibility to these under-served clients.
Conclusion:
The key to a successful business on the Internet is not the formulation of a conceptual strategy but the execution of that strategy.
To execute effectively, content ownership has to be exploited.

References:
Why Blockbuster Failed. (2018, April 25). Retrieved from https://www.siamtek.com/why-blockbuster-failed/
Satell, G. (2014, September 21). A Look Back At Why Blockbuster Really Failed And Why It Didn't Have To. Retrieved from https://www.forbes.com/sites/gregsatell/2014/09/05/a-look-back-at-why-blockbuster-really-failed-and-why-it-didnt-have-to/#18a7ce2a1d64
Times, S. (2011, March 1). How Netflix Bankrupted And Destroyed Blockbuster [INFOGRAPHIC]. Retrieved from https://www.businessinsider.com/how-netflix-bankrupted-and-destroyed-blockbuster-infographic-2011-3
Fontinelle, A. (2014, September 24). Economics of Hulu, Netflix, Redbox and Blockbuster. Retrieved from https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/092414/economics-hulu-netflix-redbox-and-blockbuster.asp

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