Health Care

(2)-Medtronic’s Competitive Relevance:
Review Exhibit 4-6. Identify Medtronic’s highly valued competitive relevant strengths (hint, there are only 3)? Can’t figure out how it boils down to three when there seem to be 5.

a) Leadership in selected business segments

b) Integrated product line focused on the manufacture and sales of device based medical therapies

c) entrepreneurial culture

d) patents and trademarks

e) strong intellectual capital underlying key products

(3)-Cost of Care:
Based on Prof. Porter’s lecture, what is the primary reason a hip replacement in Sweden is $8000 verse $30,000 in the U.S?

(4)-Competitive relevance part 2:
Based on your strategic analysis of Duncaster and it’s competitors identify highly valued competitive relevant strengths for Duncaster and one of it’s competitors.
(5)-Competitive relevance:
Review Exhibit 4-6. Identify Medtronic’s highly valued competitive relevant strengths (hint, there are only 3)?
(6)Value Chain:
Discuss a Value Chain support activity and why is it so important in supporting service delivery? (please try and discuss a support activity that has not been discuss).

## please answer each part with more info and details and after each part i wanna add 2 sources.
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