2. Introduction
• Model developed in 1979
• Model developed in response to SWOT analysis
• Used as a Qualitative evaluation of company’s strategic position
• Five forces explain industry’s average prices and costs and hence
average industry profitability that a company needs to beat.
4. Bargaining Power of Buyers
Price Sensitive when the Product or
Service is ..
• Undifferentiated
• Expensive related to other costs
• Inconsequential
Price insensitive when the product or
service is ..
• Highly differentiated
• Inexpensive related to other
costs
• Consequential
5. Bargaining Power of Suppliers
• Supplier bargain to charge higher prices or more favorable terms. The
power of a supplier is governed by ..
oRelative size of supplier to buyer
oAlternatives
oSwitching costs
oVertical Integration
6. Threat of Substitute product or Services
• They are products or services that meet the same basic need of an
industries product in a different way. Not being direct rivals
substitutes are difficult to anticipate and can have an industry
changing effect.
• A key influence point for a substitute is the switching cost, note this
cost could be in the form of not just direct price but also convenience
7. Rivalry among Existing Players
• Increasing rivalry among existing players could compete away their
value by passing it out to customers or dissipating it in higher costs of
competing.
• Rivalry can be in the form of..
a) Price Competition
b) Advertising
c) New products
d) Increase in Customer service
8. Threat of New Entrants
• Entry barriers protect an industry from new companies who would
affect the remaining forces. A new entrant could
o Give buyers & suppliers more choice
o Could develop a substitute product or service
o Start a price war
10. Conclusion
• Each of the five forces has a clear, direct and predictable relationship
to industry profitability.
• The basic rule to understand is that the more powerful the force the
more pressure on prices or cost or both.