Does the increasingly global nature or business mean that all organisations need to change their strategies significantly to achieve higher profits?

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Exam Question June 2011:

The business world is becoming increasingly global. As a result of this, many companies, such as Costa Coffee and Dyson, have changed their strategies in relation to the markets they target or where they produce. Does the increasingly global nature or business mean that all organisations need to change their strategies significantly to achieve higher profits? Justify your answer with reference to Costa Coffee, Dyson and/or other organisations that you know. (40 marks)

The world is becoming a smaller place due to globalisation. It has helped communication around the world making everyone more connective. Companies all of a sudden have access to different countries and have more potential to grow and expand as developing countries have recently under gone rapid growth and industrialization causing new emerging market businesses can enter. This has put pressure on Weston business to expand into theses new regains because if they don't expand they would not be able to compete with competitors increase in expansion and corporate power.

Looking at Gap Inc I discovered that they changed their Ansoff Matrix strategy in order to expand and grow. Gap Inc decided it would be best to use the