Please answer the following questions for your assigned Porter paper company. 1. What are your firm's top 3 tangible assets, top 3 intangible assets, and top 3 capabilities? Tesla’s top 3 tangible assets, intangible assets and capabilities are going to focus with the industry of energy and automotive making. The top 3 tangible assets that Tesla has are their Solar and Energy Plant, PV Cell and Module Manufacturing and Technology Plant, and their Automotive Manufacturing Facility. The top 3 intangible assets of Tesla include the following, Developed Technology, Software, and Customer Relations. The top 3 capabilities of Tesla include their Energy and Storage/Systems, Technology and Automotive. 2. Which of these resources do you believe to be most important? Why? Having a company that is excelling with innovation, Tesla’s most important resource that they have, is the sun for their solar energy program. Solar energy is energy that is obtained from the natural resource of the sun, which is free, but requires the sun to be present to collect the energy. Solar panel are produced by using PV (photovoltaic) cells to collect the sun, that will then convert the sunlight that is collected into DC (direct current) …show more content…
However, Tesla Energy is a powerful, unnoticed side of the company, providing services within the United States, Canada and Great Britain. Tesla Energy offers a variety of solar panels, Powerwall, solar roofs for residential use. To expand the solar energy program, Tesla offers large scale solar and storage projects from commercial use, and even offering a utilities service. Utility services are currently being offered within the state of Hawaii and Connecticut, offering a dynamic capacity to reduce demands on distribution and transmission infrastructure, they have flexible ramping that supports current local systems, have an emergency backup system, that will enhance the system