Exerpts of concepts from Michael E. Porter. From the books: Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; and a bit of Competitive Advantage of Nations. From the Course XIV.
The document discusses strategic planning and marketing plans. It covers 10 learning outcomes related to strategic planning, including understanding the importance of strategic marketing and marketing plans, developing business mission statements, setting objectives, conducting situation analyses, identifying competitive advantages, discussing strategic alternatives and target markets, describing marketing mix elements, and explaining the need for implementation, evaluation and control of marketing plans.
Using either Porter’s generic strategies or the Strategy Clock, identify examples of organisations following strategies of differentiation, low cost or low price, and stuck-in-the middle or hybrid. How successful are these strategies?
This document summarizes Porter's generic competitive strategies of cost leadership, differentiation, and focus. It explains that competitive advantage comes from low cost or differentiation. Cost leadership aims for overall low cost and broad market scope, while differentiation offers unique products/services. Focus strategy pursues either approach but targets a narrow customer segment or market niche. The document also discusses barriers to imitation that allow sustained competitive advantage and reasons why companies fail, such as inertia and prior strategic commitments limiting flexibility.
Strategic marketing managers have three main responsibilities:
1) Define the vision, mission, goals and objectives of the business unit.
2) Analyze the internal and external environment to identify core competencies and strategic alternatives.
3) Implement, monitor and control the marketing strategy to provide feedback for continuous improvement.
The document discusses strategic management and analysis tools such as Porter's Five Forces model and value chain analysis. It explains that Porter's Five Forces model analyzes the bargaining power of suppliers and buyers, threat of new entrants and substitutes, and competitive rivalry. The value chain breaks down a firm's activities into primary and secondary categories. The document also covers strategic choices like cost leadership, differentiation, and focus strategies. It discusses growth strategies such as internal expansion, mergers and acquisitions, and the financing sources to support growth through internal or external means.
The document summarizes Michael Porter's framework for competitive strategy. It outlines the five competitive forces that determine the intensity of industry competition: threat of new entry, power of suppliers, power of buyers, threat of substitutes, and rivalry among existing competitors. It then discusses how firms can gain a competitive advantage by positioning themselves in the industry where these forces are weakest or by influencing the competitive balance through strategic changes. The document also covers Porter's generic strategies of cost leadership, differentiation, and focus.
Michael Porter developed the 5 forces framework to analyze industry competition and inform business strategy. The 5 forces include the threat of new entrants, power of suppliers and customers, and threat of substitutes and industry rivals. Porter also described generic strategies of cost leadership, differentiation, and focus that companies can adopt based on 5 forces analysis. The document provides examples of each force and strategy to analyze competitive environments and guide strategic decision making.
The document discusses strategic planning and marketing plans. It covers 10 learning outcomes related to strategic planning, including understanding the importance of strategic marketing and marketing plans, developing business mission statements, setting objectives, conducting situation analyses, identifying competitive advantages, discussing strategic alternatives and target markets, describing marketing mix elements, and explaining the need for implementation, evaluation and control of marketing plans.
Using either Porter’s generic strategies or the Strategy Clock, identify examples of organisations following strategies of differentiation, low cost or low price, and stuck-in-the middle or hybrid. How successful are these strategies?
This document summarizes Porter's generic competitive strategies of cost leadership, differentiation, and focus. It explains that competitive advantage comes from low cost or differentiation. Cost leadership aims for overall low cost and broad market scope, while differentiation offers unique products/services. Focus strategy pursues either approach but targets a narrow customer segment or market niche. The document also discusses barriers to imitation that allow sustained competitive advantage and reasons why companies fail, such as inertia and prior strategic commitments limiting flexibility.
Strategic marketing managers have three main responsibilities:
1) Define the vision, mission, goals and objectives of the business unit.
2) Analyze the internal and external environment to identify core competencies and strategic alternatives.
3) Implement, monitor and control the marketing strategy to provide feedback for continuous improvement.
The document discusses strategic management and analysis tools such as Porter's Five Forces model and value chain analysis. It explains that Porter's Five Forces model analyzes the bargaining power of suppliers and buyers, threat of new entrants and substitutes, and competitive rivalry. The value chain breaks down a firm's activities into primary and secondary categories. The document also covers strategic choices like cost leadership, differentiation, and focus strategies. It discusses growth strategies such as internal expansion, mergers and acquisitions, and the financing sources to support growth through internal or external means.
The document summarizes Michael Porter's framework for competitive strategy. It outlines the five competitive forces that determine the intensity of industry competition: threat of new entry, power of suppliers, power of buyers, threat of substitutes, and rivalry among existing competitors. It then discusses how firms can gain a competitive advantage by positioning themselves in the industry where these forces are weakest or by influencing the competitive balance through strategic changes. The document also covers Porter's generic strategies of cost leadership, differentiation, and focus.
Michael Porter developed the 5 forces framework to analyze industry competition and inform business strategy. The 5 forces include the threat of new entrants, power of suppliers and customers, and threat of substitutes and industry rivals. Porter also described generic strategies of cost leadership, differentiation, and focus that companies can adopt based on 5 forces analysis. The document provides examples of each force and strategy to analyze competitive environments and guide strategic decision making.
Innovative competitive advantages in business notesAylya B.S
This paper is based on the role of innovation and competition in business which changed the trend of business. That made harder to sustain in an environment for a business man to be stable and requires constant management and analysis of the business, competitors, customers etc.
This document discusses Porter's three generic strategies for achieving competitive advantage: cost leadership, differentiation, and focus. Cost leadership involves becoming the low-cost producer through economies of scale and other cost advantages. Differentiation requires a firm to uniquely position itself along dimensions valued by customers. Focus involves targeting a narrow scope within an industry and tailoring strategy to a specific segment or segments. The focus strategy has two variants: cost focus and differentiation focus.
This document discusses competitive advantage and competitive strategies. It defines competitive advantage as offering greater value to consumers than competitors. Competitive strategies involve analyzing competitors to develop value-based relationships with customers. Key aspects of competitive strategy include competitor analysis, identifying strengths and weaknesses, and selecting which competitors to attack or avoid based on customer value. The document also outlines basic competitive positioning strategies like overall cost leadership, differentiation, and focus strategies.
This document outlines the five stages of an industry life cycle: embryonic, growth, shakeout, maturity, and decline. It describes the characteristics of each stage, including how competitive forces change as industries evolve. Strategic managers must understand how their industry is progressing through the life cycle and adapt their strategies accordingly, such as preparing for intense competition during the shakeout stage or focusing on cost minimization as the industry reaches maturity. Recognizing the current stage is important for developing strategies that consider future changes in competitive dynamics.
This document discusses competitive advantage and competitor analysis. It defines competitive advantage as an advantage over competitors gained by offering greater value to consumers. Competitor analysis is defined as the process of identifying key competitors, assessing their objectives, strategies, strengths, weaknesses, and reactions, and selecting which competitors to attack or avoid. The document outlines the steps in analyzing competitors and provides examples of analyzing companies like Walmart, McDonald's, Nike and Starbucks.
Entrepreneur 4: Business Strategies & Rapid Growth StrategiesBernard Leong
The 4th lecture focus on business strategy and models, rapid growth strategies (franchising, mergers & acquisitions), and an introduction to Moore's "Crossing the Chasm", Gartner's Hype Cycle and Porter's 5 Forces.
Michael Porter suggested three generic competitive strategies: cost leadership, differentiation, and focus. Cost leadership involves having the lowest costs in the industry to compete on price for a broad market. Differentiation targets a broad market by making the product or service unique in some way. Focus strategy involves targeting either a cost or differentiation advantage at a narrow market segment. Companies must choose one of these strategies to gain a competitive advantage.
This document discusses competitive strategy and competitive advantage. It defines competitive advantage as when one firm earns persistently higher profits than rivals within the same market. The main types of competitive advantage are lower costs, differentiation, focus. Michael Porter identified three generic strategies: cost leadership, differentiation, and focus. Firms can pursue integrated or hybrid strategies. Sustainable competitive advantage is durable, valuable, rare, difficult to imitate. The strategies for market leaders are defensive strategies like position defense. Challengers pursue attack strategies like frontal attack. Followers imitate and adapt. Nichers target small, overlooked market segments.
This document discusses evaluating a company's external environment through a PESTEL analysis and analyzing an industry's competitive forces using Porter's Five Forces model. It provides guidance on assessing factors like political/economic conditions, competitive rivalry, barriers to entry, supplier/buyer power, and substitutes. The document also covers evaluating industry drivers, competitors' positions, strategic profiles, key success factors, and the overall profit outlook. The goal is to understand external strategic factors and competitive dynamics affecting a company's performance.
Hyundai is launching the new Genesis model to target the premium car market and move away from its past strategy of focusing on low cost. To gain a competitive advantage, firms can pursue either a low cost strategy, differentiation strategy, or focused strategy. Michael Porter's model outlines how firms can analyze their value chain activities to lower relative costs or create unique differentiation to deliver extra value for customers.
This document outlines a strategy design process to help companies choose where to play and how to win. It involves understanding existing growth paradigms, defining a corporate strategy through industry and market analysis, developing a competitive strategy with a value proposition and core capabilities, and setting growth horizons and objectives and key results. The process includes 13 consulting sessions over 15 weeks to analyze the industry, customers, competition and develop the necessary strategy elements. It provides access to data analysts and tactical experts to support strategic development. The fees for this strategic design service are available upon request.
- A focus strategy involves concentrating resources on a narrowly defined market segment or niche. The firm aims to build a strong competitive advantage by focusing on the specialized needs of that niche.
- By focusing on a niche, businesses can compete through low costs, differentiation, or rapid response against larger competitors. The objective is to better serve niche buyers than rivals.
- Choosing a niche where needs are not met and developing expertise in it is key to success with a focus strategy. Examples include Family Dollar targeting low-income families and Ferrari/Rolls-Royce focusing on luxury cars.
Dyon tucker - business strategic planningdyontucker
Specializing In Design and Production. Dyon tucker use the highest Quality Bamboo In The World, And Work With Our Customers To Develop And Supply Original Designs Internationally.
This document provides an overview of Porter's five generic competitive strategies: low-cost provider, differentiation, best-cost provider, and focus/niche strategies. It includes definitions of each strategy, examples of companies that employ each strategy, and the characteristics that make a strategy suitable for a given competitive environment. The document also discusses the risks and pitfalls that companies should consider for each strategic approach.
This document provides an overview of Porter's generic strategies including cost leadership, differentiation, and focus strategies. It discusses Michael Porter, the creator of the generic strategies framework, and then defines each generic strategy and provides examples. For each strategy, it outlines the internal strengths companies need to succeed with that strategy and potential risks. It also discusses how Porter's five forces of competition, including rivalry, threats of substitution, buyer power, supplier power, and barriers to entry, relate to the different generic strategies.
The document discusses Michael Porter's generic strategies model which identifies three strategies for gaining competitive advantage - cost leadership, differentiation, and focus. It provides details and examples of each strategy. Cost leadership involves producing standardized products on a large scale at low cost. Differentiation focuses on making the product unique through features, quality, design or service. Focus involves targeting a narrow market segment and achieving either cost advantage or differentiation within that segment. The risks of each strategy are also outlined. The document then provides examples of Dell's successful implementation of virtual integration and targeting of customer segments to achieve cost leadership.
This document discusses Porter's generic strategies, including cost leadership, differentiation, and market segmentation. It defines each strategy and provides examples. Cost leadership involves having the lowest costs or acceptable prices to target a broad market. Differentiation focuses on standing out from competitors through branding, packaging, or other attributes. Market segmentation, also called focus strategy, targets specific niche markets to build expertise and charge premium prices. The document warns that failing to choose cost leadership or differentiation can result in being "stuck in the middle" without a competitive advantage.
Porter's generic strategies are cost leadership, differentiation, and focus. Cost leadership involves producing goods at the lowest cost relative to competitors. Differentiation involves unique features that create value for customers. Focus involves targeting a narrow market segment. International strategies include multidomestic, global, international, and transnational approaches. Entry mode strategies range from exporting to wholly owned subsidiaries.
Porter's strategies (generic strategies, five forces, diamond model) with ref...Sigortam.net
It is very hard to apply and understand Michael Porter's strategy frameworks. That's why i prepared this summary for myself and to whom feels same feelings about it...
Porter's generic strategies framework outlines three strategies for competitive advantage: cost leadership, differentiation, and focus. Cost leadership involves having the lowest production costs, differentiation means providing unique value, and focus means targeting a specific niche market. A company must choose between cost leadership or differentiation to achieve competitive advantage, as trying to be both risks being "stuck in the middle" without a clear strategy. However, some scholars argue successful companies like Toyota have combined strategies.
This document provides an overview of Unilever's strategic management process and strategic leadership. It discusses Unilever's vision and mission statements, which focus on sustainability leadership and meeting consumer needs. Porter's generic competitive strategies of cost leadership and differentiation are explained. The document also evaluates strategic frameworks like emergent vs. intended strategies and the risks of being "stuck in the middle." Students are assigned a case study analysis of Unilever's business strategy using Porter's model and a critical evaluation of the model's advantages and limitations.
This chapter discusses product and service strategy, brand management, and the offering portfolio. It covers modifying the offering mix through additions, development processes, and life cycles. Positioning strategies and repositioning are explained. Brand equity, branding decisions, and brand growth strategies like line extensions, brand extensions, new brands, and flanker/fighting brands are also outlined. The goal is to design offerings and brands that occupy distinct, valued positions in customers' minds relative to competitors.
Innovative competitive advantages in business notesAylya B.S
This paper is based on the role of innovation and competition in business which changed the trend of business. That made harder to sustain in an environment for a business man to be stable and requires constant management and analysis of the business, competitors, customers etc.
This document discusses Porter's three generic strategies for achieving competitive advantage: cost leadership, differentiation, and focus. Cost leadership involves becoming the low-cost producer through economies of scale and other cost advantages. Differentiation requires a firm to uniquely position itself along dimensions valued by customers. Focus involves targeting a narrow scope within an industry and tailoring strategy to a specific segment or segments. The focus strategy has two variants: cost focus and differentiation focus.
This document discusses competitive advantage and competitive strategies. It defines competitive advantage as offering greater value to consumers than competitors. Competitive strategies involve analyzing competitors to develop value-based relationships with customers. Key aspects of competitive strategy include competitor analysis, identifying strengths and weaknesses, and selecting which competitors to attack or avoid based on customer value. The document also outlines basic competitive positioning strategies like overall cost leadership, differentiation, and focus strategies.
This document outlines the five stages of an industry life cycle: embryonic, growth, shakeout, maturity, and decline. It describes the characteristics of each stage, including how competitive forces change as industries evolve. Strategic managers must understand how their industry is progressing through the life cycle and adapt their strategies accordingly, such as preparing for intense competition during the shakeout stage or focusing on cost minimization as the industry reaches maturity. Recognizing the current stage is important for developing strategies that consider future changes in competitive dynamics.
This document discusses competitive advantage and competitor analysis. It defines competitive advantage as an advantage over competitors gained by offering greater value to consumers. Competitor analysis is defined as the process of identifying key competitors, assessing their objectives, strategies, strengths, weaknesses, and reactions, and selecting which competitors to attack or avoid. The document outlines the steps in analyzing competitors and provides examples of analyzing companies like Walmart, McDonald's, Nike and Starbucks.
Entrepreneur 4: Business Strategies & Rapid Growth StrategiesBernard Leong
The 4th lecture focus on business strategy and models, rapid growth strategies (franchising, mergers & acquisitions), and an introduction to Moore's "Crossing the Chasm", Gartner's Hype Cycle and Porter's 5 Forces.
Michael Porter suggested three generic competitive strategies: cost leadership, differentiation, and focus. Cost leadership involves having the lowest costs in the industry to compete on price for a broad market. Differentiation targets a broad market by making the product or service unique in some way. Focus strategy involves targeting either a cost or differentiation advantage at a narrow market segment. Companies must choose one of these strategies to gain a competitive advantage.
This document discusses competitive strategy and competitive advantage. It defines competitive advantage as when one firm earns persistently higher profits than rivals within the same market. The main types of competitive advantage are lower costs, differentiation, focus. Michael Porter identified three generic strategies: cost leadership, differentiation, and focus. Firms can pursue integrated or hybrid strategies. Sustainable competitive advantage is durable, valuable, rare, difficult to imitate. The strategies for market leaders are defensive strategies like position defense. Challengers pursue attack strategies like frontal attack. Followers imitate and adapt. Nichers target small, overlooked market segments.
This document discusses evaluating a company's external environment through a PESTEL analysis and analyzing an industry's competitive forces using Porter's Five Forces model. It provides guidance on assessing factors like political/economic conditions, competitive rivalry, barriers to entry, supplier/buyer power, and substitutes. The document also covers evaluating industry drivers, competitors' positions, strategic profiles, key success factors, and the overall profit outlook. The goal is to understand external strategic factors and competitive dynamics affecting a company's performance.
Hyundai is launching the new Genesis model to target the premium car market and move away from its past strategy of focusing on low cost. To gain a competitive advantage, firms can pursue either a low cost strategy, differentiation strategy, or focused strategy. Michael Porter's model outlines how firms can analyze their value chain activities to lower relative costs or create unique differentiation to deliver extra value for customers.
This document outlines a strategy design process to help companies choose where to play and how to win. It involves understanding existing growth paradigms, defining a corporate strategy through industry and market analysis, developing a competitive strategy with a value proposition and core capabilities, and setting growth horizons and objectives and key results. The process includes 13 consulting sessions over 15 weeks to analyze the industry, customers, competition and develop the necessary strategy elements. It provides access to data analysts and tactical experts to support strategic development. The fees for this strategic design service are available upon request.
- A focus strategy involves concentrating resources on a narrowly defined market segment or niche. The firm aims to build a strong competitive advantage by focusing on the specialized needs of that niche.
- By focusing on a niche, businesses can compete through low costs, differentiation, or rapid response against larger competitors. The objective is to better serve niche buyers than rivals.
- Choosing a niche where needs are not met and developing expertise in it is key to success with a focus strategy. Examples include Family Dollar targeting low-income families and Ferrari/Rolls-Royce focusing on luxury cars.
Dyon tucker - business strategic planningdyontucker
Specializing In Design and Production. Dyon tucker use the highest Quality Bamboo In The World, And Work With Our Customers To Develop And Supply Original Designs Internationally.
This document provides an overview of Porter's five generic competitive strategies: low-cost provider, differentiation, best-cost provider, and focus/niche strategies. It includes definitions of each strategy, examples of companies that employ each strategy, and the characteristics that make a strategy suitable for a given competitive environment. The document also discusses the risks and pitfalls that companies should consider for each strategic approach.
This document provides an overview of Porter's generic strategies including cost leadership, differentiation, and focus strategies. It discusses Michael Porter, the creator of the generic strategies framework, and then defines each generic strategy and provides examples. For each strategy, it outlines the internal strengths companies need to succeed with that strategy and potential risks. It also discusses how Porter's five forces of competition, including rivalry, threats of substitution, buyer power, supplier power, and barriers to entry, relate to the different generic strategies.
The document discusses Michael Porter's generic strategies model which identifies three strategies for gaining competitive advantage - cost leadership, differentiation, and focus. It provides details and examples of each strategy. Cost leadership involves producing standardized products on a large scale at low cost. Differentiation focuses on making the product unique through features, quality, design or service. Focus involves targeting a narrow market segment and achieving either cost advantage or differentiation within that segment. The risks of each strategy are also outlined. The document then provides examples of Dell's successful implementation of virtual integration and targeting of customer segments to achieve cost leadership.
This document discusses Porter's generic strategies, including cost leadership, differentiation, and market segmentation. It defines each strategy and provides examples. Cost leadership involves having the lowest costs or acceptable prices to target a broad market. Differentiation focuses on standing out from competitors through branding, packaging, or other attributes. Market segmentation, also called focus strategy, targets specific niche markets to build expertise and charge premium prices. The document warns that failing to choose cost leadership or differentiation can result in being "stuck in the middle" without a competitive advantage.
Porter's generic strategies are cost leadership, differentiation, and focus. Cost leadership involves producing goods at the lowest cost relative to competitors. Differentiation involves unique features that create value for customers. Focus involves targeting a narrow market segment. International strategies include multidomestic, global, international, and transnational approaches. Entry mode strategies range from exporting to wholly owned subsidiaries.
Porter's strategies (generic strategies, five forces, diamond model) with ref...Sigortam.net
It is very hard to apply and understand Michael Porter's strategy frameworks. That's why i prepared this summary for myself and to whom feels same feelings about it...
Porter's generic strategies framework outlines three strategies for competitive advantage: cost leadership, differentiation, and focus. Cost leadership involves having the lowest production costs, differentiation means providing unique value, and focus means targeting a specific niche market. A company must choose between cost leadership or differentiation to achieve competitive advantage, as trying to be both risks being "stuck in the middle" without a clear strategy. However, some scholars argue successful companies like Toyota have combined strategies.
This document provides an overview of Unilever's strategic management process and strategic leadership. It discusses Unilever's vision and mission statements, which focus on sustainability leadership and meeting consumer needs. Porter's generic competitive strategies of cost leadership and differentiation are explained. The document also evaluates strategic frameworks like emergent vs. intended strategies and the risks of being "stuck in the middle." Students are assigned a case study analysis of Unilever's business strategy using Porter's model and a critical evaluation of the model's advantages and limitations.
This chapter discusses product and service strategy, brand management, and the offering portfolio. It covers modifying the offering mix through additions, development processes, and life cycles. Positioning strategies and repositioning are explained. Brand equity, branding decisions, and brand growth strategies like line extensions, brand extensions, new brands, and flanker/fighting brands are also outlined. The goal is to design offerings and brands that occupy distinct, valued positions in customers' minds relative to competitors.
Media Management 2011-Strategy Module - Jan 21_2Robin Teigland
Slides from my second lecture in the Strategy module in the 2011 Media Management Course at Stockholm School of Economics and the Royal Institute of Technology. here is more information on the course: http://nordicworlds.net/2011/01/21/strategy-course-focuses-on-virtual-worlds-and-gaming-industries/
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Competitiveness and GlobalizationChapter 1Strategic Manageme.docxmaxinesmith73660
The document discusses business competitiveness and strategy. It begins by defining key strategic terms like strategy, competitive advantage, and above average returns. It then discusses understanding strategy, defining it according to various scholars. Strategy is the pattern of resource allocation that enables firms to maintain or improve performance. The goal of strategy is to create a sustainable competitive advantage leading to above average returns.
Corporate Strategy Decisions and Their Marketing ImplicationsFreddy Haiyun
This document discusses corporate strategy decisions and their implications for marketing. It covers defining a company's mission, objectives, and scope. Expanding a company's growth through diversification or increasing market penetration is explored. Portfolio models like BCG matrix are presented to analyze resource allocation across business units. Maintaining ethical standards and social values benefits companies through building trust with customers and other stakeholders. Knowledge sharing across divisions and leveraging a strong corporate brand can also generate synergies.
The document discusses marketing research processes and analyzing markets and competition. It covers topics like conducting market segmentation using socio-demographic and needs-based approaches. Porter's five forces framework for industry analysis is explained. The importance of considering political, economic, social, technological, environmental and legal factors in the external environment is highlighted. Developing a marketing plan involves situation analysis, assessing market opportunities, defining marketing strategy, setting goals and budgets, and implementing and controlling the plan.
1. The document discusses various frameworks and techniques for strategic planning, including evaluating an organization's vision and mission, analyzing external and internal factors, and selecting strategic alternatives.
2. Key external factors that are analyzed include political, economic, social, technological, ecological, and international trends and conditions that may present opportunities or threats.
3. Internal factors analyzed include an organization's resources, capabilities, core competencies, and strengths and weaknesses.
4. Competitive profiles are developed to assess an organization's relative position compared to competitors based on important strategic factors.
5. Potential strategic alternatives are then evaluated using tools like SWOT, BCG, GE, and QSPM matrices to select strategies focused on
1. The document discusses various frameworks and techniques for strategic planning, including evaluating an organization's vision and mission, analyzing external and internal factors, and selecting strategic alternatives.
2. Key external factors that are analyzed include political, economic, social, technological, ecological, and international trends and conditions that may present opportunities or threats.
3. Internal factors analyzed include an organization's resources, capabilities, core competencies, and strengths and weaknesses.
4. Competitive profile analysis is used to assess an organization's relative position compared to competitors based on important strategic factors.
1. The document discusses various frameworks and techniques for strategic planning, including evaluating an organization's vision and mission, analyzing external and internal factors, and selecting strategic alternatives.
2. Key external factors that are analyzed include political, economic, social, technological, ecological, and international trends and conditions that may present opportunities or threats.
3. Internal factors analyzed include an organization's resources, capabilities, core competencies, and strengths and weaknesses.
4. Competitive profiles are developed to assess an organization's relative position compared to competitors based on important strategic factors.
5. Potential strategic alternatives are then evaluated using tools like SWOT, BCG, GE, and QSPM matrices to select strategies focused on
Lesson 6_Addressing competition and driving growth.pdfNajath8
This document discusses competitive strategies for different types of companies in an industry based on their market share. It begins by defining competitors and strategic groups. It then discusses strategies for market leaders, challengers, followers, and niche players. For market leaders, the strategies discussed are expanding total market demand, protecting market share, and expanding share. Defensive and offensive approaches are provided. For challengers, different attack strategies are outlined. Followers are discussed as imitators or adapters. Niche players are defined as focusing on small, profitable market segments. The document also covers product life cycles and how marketing objectives and strategies should differ for each phase - introduction, growth, maturity, and decline.
Seventh seminar for my Managing Marketing Processes course in the MGM program at the Stockholm School of Economics, http://www.hhs.se/EDUCATION/MSC/MSCGM/Pages/default.aspx
This document discusses key topics for business leaders to consider when developing strategies, including how to create an environment that drives innovation, analyzing future opportunities, and gaining a competitive advantage. It emphasizes understanding customers, competitors, and industry trends to formulate a strategy and outlines frameworks like PESTEL analysis, Porter's five forces, and the BCG matrix to evaluate the business environment and portfolio. The role of the leader is to communicate vision, motivate teams, set goals, and ensure outstanding results through strategic planning.
This document provides an overview of business strategy concepts. It defines strategy and outlines its key features and benefits. The document then discusses the strategic intent process, including vision, mission, objectives, formulation, implementation, and evaluation. It covers different types of strategies such as integration, intensive, diversification, and defensive strategies. The document also explains the three levels of strategy - corporate, business, and functional - and provides details on corporate and business-level strategies. Finally, it introduces the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) matrix model for portfolio analysis.
This document provides an overview of seminar 2, which focuses on aligning strategy and marketing planning processes. It discusses key concepts like an organization's mission, values, vision, generic strategies, and core competencies. The seminar includes a guest speaker from Loadimpact.com and an assignment where students analyze Loadimpact's mission statement, strategy, and recent marketing activities to evaluate how well its actions align with its stated goals and values.
The document discusses strategic analysis and industry/competitive analysis. It provides an overview of the key components of strategic analysis including assessing the external environment, industry conditions, competitors, and a company's internal resources. It then discusses the 7 questions that should be answered when conducting industry and competitive analysis: 1) industry's economic traits, 2) competitive forces, 3) drivers of industry change, 4) competitive positions of rivals, 5) competitive moves of rivals, 6) key success factors, and 7) overall industry attractiveness.
This document discusses the strategic plan of Faruki Pulp Mills. It analyzes the company's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats through a SWOT analysis. It also evaluates the political, economic, social, and technological factors in the industry through a PEST analysis. The document outlines Faruki's mission, objectives, marketing strategies, and sales growth strategies. It proposes evaluating strategies based on greatest yield and developing contingency plans with alternative businesses to mitigate risks.
An overview of 2010 market trends for Stage 2 small businesses. Stage 2 is marked by the realization among a company’s leadership team that something monumental within the business needs to change in order for growth to ensue or continue. It is characterized by recognizing that something that was once relatively simple – a fledgling business – is becoming complex as it evolves. It is an understanding that a firm has evolved from survival mode into a sustainable enterprise that marks Stage 2.
Phimation has identified that Stage 2 companies are faced with one or more of three
main business challenges:
o They’re trying to grow.
o They’ve stagnated.
o They’re transitioning leadership.
The problems are more complicated, your team is bigger, and the stakes are higher. As a Stage 2 leader, your company’s success hinges on your ability to implement unfamiliar management and strategy techniques into your business, and you need some guidance to learn how to do just that.
PowerPoint about collective intelligence and collaborative dialogue and thinking together at scale. Extracted and developed from the book "Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace" (2008, Earth Intelligence Network), Edited by Mark Tovey.
The significant concepts of Walter Kaufmann's book "Without Guilt and Justice." The New Integrity as a way to live one's life. Hopefully in an interesting and readable format.
Part three coaching_j_flaherty_09102105John Gillis
“This is heavy reading, but well worth it. Remember your college philosophy classes and associated textbooks? Well, Flaherty takes the beauty and probing questions of philosophy and creates practical use of them by applying them to the art of coaching. Flaherty relies heavily on a few of his favorite modern philosophers, and takes their discoveries and theories and converts them into assessment models, enrollment techniques, etc. What you end up with is a very lucid, free flowing book that allows the coach to see the client as a human being with varying motivations, competencies, agendas, etc., and frees us from the trap of attempting to coach our clients into becoming ourselves (someone with our values, motivations, etc.); instead allowing them to grow into their own self-correcting, self-generating person.” Amazon Customer "Child of the World.” She says it in a nutshell. Those philosophers include Fernando Flores, Humberto Maturana, and William Barrett, whom you might not have heard of; and several you probably have. But Flaherty simplifies into practicality and usability. If you coach, or want to be one, his work is stunningly necessary.
“This is heavy reading, but well worth it. Remember your college philosophy classes and associated textbooks? Well, Flaherty takes the beauty and probing questions of philosophy and creates practical use of them by applying them to the art of coaching. Flaherty relies heavily on a few of his favorite modern philosophers, and takes their discoveries and theories and converts them into assessment models, enrollment techniques, etc. What you end up with is a very lucid, free flowing book that allows the coach to see the client as a human being with varying motivations, competencies, agendas, etc., and frees us from the trap of attempting to coach our clients into becoming ourselves (someone with our values, motivations, etc.); instead allowing them to grow into their own self-correcting, self-generating person.” Amazon Customer "Child of the World.” She says it in a nutshell. Those philosophers include Fernando Flores, Humberto Maturana, and William Barrett, whom you might not have heard of; and several you probably have. But Flaherty simplifies into practicality and usability. If you coach, or want to be one, his work is stunningly necessary.
“This is heavy reading, but well worth it. Remember your college philosophy classes and associated textbooks? Well, Flaherty takes the beauty and probing questions of philosophy and creates practical use of them by applying them to the art of coaching. Flaherty relies heavily on a few of his favorite modern philosophers, and takes their discoveries and theories and converts them into assessment models, enrollment techniques, etc. What you end up with is a very lucid, free flowing book that allows the coach to see the client as a human being with varying motivations, competencies, agendas, etc., and frees us from the trap of attempting to coach our clients into becoming ourselves (someone with our values, motivations, etc.); instead allowing them to grow into their own self-correcting, self-generating person.” Amazon Customer "Child of the World.” She says it in a nutshell. Those philosophers include Fernando Flores, Humberto Maturana, and William Barrett, whom you might not have heard of; and several you probably have. But Flaherty simplifies into practicality and usability. If you coach, or want to be one, his work is stunningly necessary.
William Isaacs is a Senior Lecturer in the MIT Leadership Center at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His work builds on the roots of Lewin, Argyris, Senge, Bohm, et al. "…neither the enormous challenges human beings face today, nor the wonderful promise of the future on whose threshold we seem to be poised, can be reached unless human beings learn to think together in a very new way." http://www.ideaconnection.com/open-innovation-articles/00172-Thinking-Together-Part-1.html
William Isaacs is a Senior Lecturer in the MIT Leadership Center at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His work builds on the roots of Lewin, Argyris, Senge, Bohm, et al. "…neither the enormous challenges human beings face today, nor the wonderful promise of the future on whose threshold we seem to be poised, can be reached unless human beings learn to think together in a very new way." http://www.ideaconnection.com/open-innovation-articles/00172-Thinking-Together-Part-1.html
William Isaacs is a Senior Lecturer in the MIT Leadership Center at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His work builds on the roots of Lewin, Argyris, Senge, Bohm, et al. "…neither the enormous challenges human beings face today, nor the wonderful promise of the future on whose threshold we seem to be poised, can be reached unless human beings learn to think together in a very new way." http://www.ideaconnection.com/open-innovation-articles/00172-Thinking-Together-Part-1.html
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William Isaacs is a Senior Lecturer in the MIT Leadership Center at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His work builds on the roots of Lewin, Argyris, Senge, Bohm, et al. "…neither the enormous challenges human beings face today, nor the wonderful promise of the future on whose threshold we seem to be poised, can be reached unless human beings learn to think together in a very new way." http://www.ideaconnection.com/open-innovation-articles/00172-Thinking-Together-Part-1.html
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Defining “Strategy”
“…a consideration of the purposes the
development and explicit statement of a
strategy can serve for an organization:
1. To improve the ability of the firm to select basic,
long-term objectives for itself, and
2. To develop the means by which these objectives
can be achieved.”
C. Roland Christensen
Harvard University
Graduate School of Business Administration
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Defining “Strategy”
“A complete statement of
strategy, then, should convey both what a
company is trying to achieve and how it
hopes to achieve it.”
C. Roland Christensen
Harvard University
Graduate School of Business Administration
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Tests of Consistency
Internal Consistency
o Are the goals mutually achievable?
o Do the key operating policies address the goals?
o Do the key operating policies reinforce each
other?
Michael Porter, Competitive Strategy
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Tests of Consistency
Environmental Fit
o Do the goals & policies exploit industry
opportunities?
o Do the goals & policies deal with industry threats?
o Does the timing reflect the ability of the
environment to absorb the actions?
o Are the goals and policies responsive to broader
societal concerns?
Michael Porter, Competitive Strategy
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Tests of Consistency
Resource Fit
o Do the goals and policies match the resources
available to the company relative to competitors?
o Does the timing of the goals and policies reflect
the organization’s ability to change?
Michael Porter, Competitive Strategy
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Tests of Consistency
Communications & Implementation
o Are the goals well understood by the key
implementers?
o Is there enough congruence between the goals
and policies and the values of the key
implementers to ensure commitment?
o Is there sufficient managerial capability to allow
for effective implementation?
Michael Porter, Competitive Strategy
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General Analytical Techniques
Every firm competing in an industry has
a competitive strategy, whether explicit or
implicit…
Michael Porter, Competitive Strategy
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General Analytical Techniques
Every firm competing in an industry has
a competitive strategy, whether explicit or
implicit…there are significant benefits to gain
through an explicit process of formulating
strategy,
Michael Porter, Competitive Strategy
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General Analytical Techniques
Every firm competing in an industry has
a competitive strategy, whether explicit or
implicit…there are significant benefits to gain
through an explicit process of formulating
strategy, to insure that at least the policies
(if not the actions) of functional departments
are coordinated and directed at some
common set of goals. Michael Porter, Competitive Strategy
14
15. ManufacturingLabor
R & D
Purchasing Distribution
Sales
Marketing
Target
Markets
Product
Line
Finance &
Control
Objectives
For
profitability
growth,
market
share,
social
goals.
Goals
How the
business
is going
to
compete
Manufacturing
The Wheel of
Competitive
Strategy
Michael Porter, Competitive Strategy
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16. Wheel of
Competitive
Strategy
Personal
Values
Of the Key
Administrators
Industry
Opportunities
And Threats
Company
Strengths
And
Weaknesses
Broader
Societal
Expectations
Factors
Internal
to the
Company
Factors
External
to the
Company
Michael Porter, Competitive Strategy 16
17. “Although this process may be
intuitively clear, answering these
questions involves a great deal of
penetrating analysis. It is answering
these questions that is the purpose
of this book.”
Michael Porter, Competitive Strategy
Process for Strategy Formulation
17
18. What is the business doing now?
o Implicit/explicit current strategy.
What is happening in the environment?
o Industry/competitor/societal/strengths/
weaknesses.
What should the business be doing?
o Tests of assumptions and current strategy.
o Strategic alternatives.
o Strategic choice.
Process for Strategy Formulation
18
19. Forces of Industry Competition
Buyers
Suppliers
Potential
Entrants
Suppliers
Substitutes
Bargaining power
of suppliers
Threat of substitute
products/services
Bargaining power
of buyers
Threat of
new entrants
Industry
Competitors
Michael Porter, Competitive Strategy
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Threat of Entry
Six barriers to entry (and one)
o Economies of scale
o Product differentiation
o Capital requirements
o Switching costs
o Access to distribution channels
o Cost disadvantages independent of scale
o Government policy
Potential
Entrants
Michael Porter, Competitive Strategy
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Intensity of Rivalry
Firms are mutually dependent.
Numerous competitors?
Slow industry growth?
High fixed costs?
Lack of differentiation?
High strategic stakes?
Industry
Competitors
Michael Porter, Competitive Strategy
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Substitute Products
Products very different in form that can
provide the same function.
Limits industry profitability.
Limits bonanza in boom times.
Collective industry actions (quality
improvement, marketing efforts.)
Threat of substitute
products/services
Substitutes
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Bargaining Power of Buyers
Threat of backward integration.
Relative importance of product to buyer.
Cost enough to shop?
Large volume buyers.
Standard/undifferentiated products.
Low-profit buyers.
Buyers
Bargaining power
of buyers
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Bargaining Power of Suppliers
Threat of forward integration.
Dominated by a few companies?
Importance of the suppliers’ product to the
buyer’s business?
Substitute products?
Suppliers
Bargaining power
of suppliers
Michael Porter, Competitive Strategy
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Forces of Industry Competition
Buyers
Suppliers
Potential
Entrants
Suppliers
Substitutes
Bargaining power
of suppliers
Threat of substitute
products/services
Bargaining power
of buyers
Threat of
new entrants
Industry
Competitors
Michael Porter, Competitive Strategy
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Strategic Competitive Options
1. Positioning
o Take the structure of the industry as a given and
match strengths and weaknesses to it.
2. Influencing the balance
o Offensive – alter the causes of the forces.
3. Exploiting change
o Product life-cycle patterns.
4. Diversification Strategy
o “What is the potential of this business?”
Michael Porter, Competitive Strategy
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Three Generic Strategies
Strategic Advantage
Strategic
Target
Industry wide
Particular
Segment
Only
Uniqueness Perceived
By Customer Low Cost Position
FocusFocus
Overall
Cost LeadershipDifferentiation
Michael Porter, Competitive Strategy
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Competitor Analysis
There are four diagnostic components to a
competitor analysis: future goals, current
strategy, assumptions, and capabilities.
Understanding these four components will
allow an informed prediction of the
competitor’s response profile.
Michael Porter, Competitive Strategy
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31. Competitor’s Response Profile
Is the competitor satisfied with its
current position?
What likely moves or strategy shifts
will the competitor make?
Where is the competitor vulnerable?
What will provoke the greatest and
most effective retaliation by the
competitor?
Future Goals
At all levels of
management
and in multiple
dimensions
Current Strategy
How the business is
currently competing
Assumptions
Held about itself
and the industry
Capabilities
Both strengths
and weaknesses
What Drives
the
Competitor
What the Competitor
is Doing and Can Do
Michael Porter, Competitive Strategy
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Dimensions of Strategy
Specialization
Brand identification
Push vs. pull
Channel selection
Product quality
Tech leadership
Vertical integration
Cost position
Service
Price policy
Leverage
Relationships
Michael Porter, Competitive Strategy
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33. Specialization
Vertical Integration
High Vertical Integration Assembler
Full
line
Narrow
Line
Group B
Narrow line
assembler,
hi price, hi
tech, hi qual
Group C
Moderate line,
assembler, med
price, very hi
cust svce, low
qual, lo price
Group D
Narrow line,
highly automated,
low price, low
service
Group A
Full line,
vertically integrated
low mfg cost, low
service, moderate
quality
Strategic
Groups
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Life Cycle
Legitimate criticisms:
o Duration of stages varies widely from industry to
industry.
o Unclear what stage an industry is in.
o Not always S-shaped.
o Companies can affect shape through innovation
and repositioning.
o Competition associated with each stage is
different for different industries.
o No underlying rationale for “why?”
Michael Porter, Competitive Strategy
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Subdividing a Value Chain
FI
HRM
TD
P
IL O OL MS S
Marketing
Mgmt
Advertising Sales
Force
Admin
Sales
Force
Operation
Technical
Literature
Promotion
Michael Porter, Competitive Advantage
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The Value System
Supplier
Value Chains
Channel
Value Chains
Firm
Value Chain
Buyer
Value Chains
Channel
Value Chains
Channel
Value Chains
Buyer
Value Chains
Buyer
Value Chains
Supplier
Value Chains
Supplier
Value Chains
Single-Industry Firm
Michael Porter, Competitive Advantage
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Supplier
Value Chains
Channel
Value Chains
Business Unit
Value Chain
Buyer
Value Chains
Business Unit
Value Chain
Business Unit
Value Chain
Firm Value Chain
Diversified Firm
Supplier
Value Chains
Channel
Value Chains
Buyer
Value Chains
The Value System
Michael Porter, Competitive Advantage
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Cost Advantage
Cost is one of the two types of competitive
advantage. Cost is also of vital importance to
differentiation because a differentiator must
maintain cost proximity to competitors.
Michael Porter, Competitive Advantage
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Cost Analysis
The starting point for cost analysis is to
define a firm’s value chain and to assign
operating costs and assets to value
activities:
o Operating costs should be assigned to the
activities that employ, control or most influence
their use.
Michael Porter, Competitive Advantage
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49. gillis
Cost Analysis
The starting point for cost analysis is to
define a firm’s value chain and to assign
operating costs and assets to value
activities:
o Assets must be assigned to value activities in
some (consistent) way that will permit an
analysis of cost behavior.
Book or replacement value.
Translate to operating cost via capital
charges.
Timing should represent performance.
Not the precision of financial reporting. 49
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Cost Behavior
Managers recognize the importance of cost, and
many strategic plans establish “cost leadership” or
“cost reduction” as goals. However, the behavior of
cost is rarely well understood.
The absence of a systematic framework for cost
analysis in most firms underlies this problem.
A firm’s cost position results from the cost behavior
of its value activities.
Cost behavior depends on structural factors that
influence cost. These are termed cost drivers.
Michael Porter, Competitive Advantage
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Cost Drivers
1. Economies of scale.
2. Learning and spillovers.
3. The pattern of capacity
utilization.
4. Linkages.
5. Interrelationships.
Ten major cost drivers determine the cost
behavior of value activities:
Michael Porter, Competitive Advantage
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Cost Drivers
6. Integration.
7. Timing.
8. Discretionary policies not in
other drivers.
9. Location.
10. Institutional factors.
Ten major cost drivers determine the cost
behavior of value activities:
Michael Porter, Competitive Advantage
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Cost Advantage
A firm must attempt to quantify the
relationship between cost drivers and the cost
of a value activity whenever possible.
Isolating purchased inputs for separate
analysis will often yield additional insights.
Segment cost behavior is an additional factor.
A firm has a cost advantage if its cumulative
cost of performing all value activities is lower
than competitors’ costs.
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Cost Advantage
A firm’s relative cost position is a function of:
o The composition of its value chain versus the
value chains of its competitors.
(reconfigure the value chain)
o Its relative position vis-à-vis the cost drivers of
each activity.
(control the drivers better than competitors)
Michael Porter, Competitive Advantage
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Controlling Cost Drivers
1. Controlling scale:
Increasing scale by acquisitions, line extensions,
market expansions, marketing activity.
Boosting local or regional scale.
Assess the value of scale of different types.
2. Controlling learning:
Manage with the learning curve.
Keep learning proprietary (minimize spillover).
Learn from competitors.
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Controlling Cost Drivers
3. Controlling the effect of capacity utilization:
Level throughput.
Reduce the penalty of throughput variations.
Tapered integration (peak load suppliers)
4. Controlling linkages:
Exploit cost linkages within the value chain.
Work with suppliers and channels to exploit
vertical linkages.
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Controlling Cost Drivers
5. Controlling interrelationships:
Share appropriate activities.
Transfer know-how in managing similar activities.
6. Controlling integration:
Systematic examination of possibilities for
integration and de-integration.
7. Controlling timing:
Exploit first-mover or late-mover advantages.
Time purchase in the business cycle.
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Controlling Cost Drivers
8. Controlling discretionary policies:
Modify expensive policies that do not contribute
to differentiation.
Use technology to skew cost drivers.
Avoid frills.
9. Controlling location:
Optimize location.
10.Controlling institutional factors:
Do not take as a given.
Michael Porter, Competitive Advantage
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Three More…
11.Procurement and cost advantage.
12.Reconfiguring the value chain.
How can the activity be done differently or
eliminated?
Regrouping and/or reordering?
Coalitions with other firms?
13.Cost advantage through focus.
Dedication to a well-chosen segment.
Michael Porter, Competitive Advantage
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Sustainability & Implementation
Cost advantage will result in above-average
performance only if the firm can sustain it.
The success of cost leadership hinges on a
firm’s skills in actually implementing it on a
day to day basis.
Costs do not go down automatically or by
accident but rather as a result of hard work
and constant attention.
Everyone in a firm has the potential to
affect cost.
Michael Porter, Competitive Advantage
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63. gillis
Pitfalls - Cost Leadership Strategy
Exclusive focus on cost of manufacturing
activities.
Ignoring procurement.
Overlooking indirect or small activities.
False perception of cost drivers.
Failure to exploit linkages.
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Steps in Strategic Cost Analysis
1. Identify the appropriate value chain and
assign costs and assets to it.
2. Diagnose the cost drivers of each value
activity and how they interact.
3. Identify competitor value chains and assess.
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Steps in Strategic Cost Analysis
4. Develop a strategy to lower relative cost
position by controlling cost drivers or
reconfiguring the value chain and/or
downstream value.
5. Do not erode differentiation, except on
purpose.
6. Test for sustainability.
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Differentiation
A firm differentiates itself from its competitors
if it can be unique in something that is
valuable to buyers. Differentiation is one of
the two types of competitive advantage a firm
may possess.
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Differentiation
Firms view the potential sources of differentiation
too narrowly. They see differentiation in terms of
the physical product or marketing practices, rather
than potentially arising anywhere in the value
chain.
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Drivers of Uniqueness
1. Policy choices
o What activities to perform and how to perform
them.
2. Linkages
o Within the value chain.
o Supplier and channel.
3. Timing
o Early – preempt others.
o Late – employ more modern technology.
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Drivers of Uniqueness
4. Location
5. Interrelationships
o Shared sales forces, sister business units, etc.
6. Learning
o Proprietary vs. spillover to competitors
7. Integration
8. Scale
9. Institutional factors
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Buyer Value and Differentiation
A firm creates value for a buyer that justifies
a premium price (or preference at an equal
price) through two mechanisms:
o By lowering buyer cost
o By raising buyer performance
Differentiation requires that a firm be
uniquely able to create competitive
advantage for its buyer in ways besides
selling to them at lower price.
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Value Chain and Buyer Value
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Firm Value Chain Buyer Value Chain
A firm lowers buyer cost or raises buyer performance through
the impact of its value chain on the buyer’s value chain.
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Lowering Buyer Cost
Anything a firm can do that lowers the
buyer’s total cost of using a product (or other
buyer costs) represents a potential basis for
differentiation.
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Raising Buyer Performance
Understanding desirable performance from
the buyer’s viewpoint.
What creates differentiation for them?
Noneconomic goals (status, image, prestige).
For consumers, better satisfying needs.
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Buyer Perception of Value
Buyers often have a difficult time assessing
value in advance.
Cannot always gauge the performance of a
firm and its product even after use.
Buyers frequently do not understand all the
ways in which a supplier actually or
potentially might lower their costs or improve
their performance.
Often inferred or judged (signals of value).
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Signals of Value
Buyers will not pay for value that they do not
perceive, no matter how real it may be.
Price premium hinges on real and perceived
value.
Different decision makers value different
things about a firm.
Different signals of value will be convincing
to different decision makers.
The identity of the real buyer?
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Buyer Purchase Criteria
Use criteria – Purchase criteria that stem
from the way in which a supplier affects
actual buyer value through lowering buyer
costs or raising buyer performance.
Signaling criteria – Purchase criteria that
stem from signals of value, or means used by
the buyer to infer or judge actual value.
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Buyer Purchase Criteria Example
Frequency of
Sales Calls
Speed of Order
Processing
Channel Margin
Reliability of Service
Promotional Support
Advertising
Shelf Positioning
In-Store Displays
Availability
Taste
Nutritional Value
Texture
Appearance
Price
Availability
End user
Channels
Use Criteria Signaling Criteria
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Differentiation Strategy
Proliferate the sources of differentiation.
Make actual product use consistent with
intended use.
Employ signals of value to reinforce use criteria.
Employ information bundled with the product.
Exploit all sources of differentiation that are not
costly.
Control cost drivers, particularly signaling.
Reduce costs that do not affect buyer value.
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Routes to Differentiation
Change the rules to create uniqueness.
o Shift the decision maker.
o Educate the buyer about new bases for the
decision.
o Discover unrecognized purchase criteria.
o Preemptively respond to changing buyer or
channel circumstances.
o Reconfigure the value chain to be unique in
entirely new ways.
o Sustain differentiation by continued focus on
perceived value to buyers and growth of imitators.
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Pitfalls – Differentiation
Uniqueness that is not valuable.
Too much differentiation.
Too big a price premium.
Ignoring the need to signal value.
Not knowing the cost of differentiation.
Focus on the product vs. the whole value chain.
Failure to recognize buyer segments.
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Steps in Differentiation
1. Determine who the real buyer is.
2. Identify the buyer’s value chain and the
firm’s impact on it.
3. Determine ranked buyer purchasing criteria.
4. Assess the existing and potential sources of
uniqueness in a firm’s value chain.
5. Identify the cost of existing and potential
sources of differentiation.
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Steps in Differentiation
6. Choose the configuration of value activities
that creates the most valuable
differentiation for the buyer relative to cost
of differentiating.
7. Test the chosen differentiation strategy for
sustainability.
8. Reduce cost in activities that do not affect
the chosen forms of differentiation.
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Technology and Strategy
Technology pervades a firm’s value chain and
extends beyond those technologies associated
directly with the product. There is, in fact, no such
thing as a low technology industry if one takes this
broader view.
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Outbound
Logistics
Procurement
Technology Dev.
Human Resource Mgmt
Firm Infrastructure
Marketing
& Sales
Operations
(Mfg)
Inbound
Logistics
After-Sale
Service
The Value Chain Technologies
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Transportation
Mtl Handling
Storage &
Preservation
Commo Sys
Testing
Info Sys
Media
Audio &Video
Commo Sys
Info Sys
Process
Machine Tool
Mtl Handling
Packaging
Maintenance
Building
Design & Ops
Transportation
Mtl Handling
Storage &
Preservation
Packaging
Commo Sys
Info Sys
Diagnostic &
Testing
Commo Sys
Info Sys
Info Sys Technology Commo Sys Technology
Transportation Sys Technology
Product Tech Software Info Sys
Computer-aided design Pilot Plant
Training Motivation Research
Info Systems
Finance Planning
Budget Office
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Technology & Generic Strategies
Process for
the segment
value
Process for
the segment
cost
Quality
control, buyer
value
Learning
curve, scale
economies
Process
Tech
change
Meet the
needs of the
segment
Performance
for the
segment cost
Enhance
product quality
Reduce
product cost
Product
Tech
change
Differentiation
Focus
Cost
Focus
DifferentiationCost
Leadership
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Tech Leadership & Advantage
Pioneer the lowest
cost product design.
Be first down the
learning curve.
Low cost value
activities.
Lower cost of product
or value activities by
learning from the
leader’s experience.
Avoid R&D costs
through imitation.
Pioneer a unique
product.
Innovate in activities
to increase buyer
value.
Adapt more closely
to buyer needs by
learning from the
leader’s experience.
Tech Leadership Tech Followership
Cost Advantage
Differentiation
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Industry Segmentation
Segments of industry have a structure just as
industries do, and the strength of the five
competitive forces often differs from one part
of an industry to another.
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Forces of Industry Competition
Buyers
Suppliers
Potential
Entrants
Suppliers
Substitutes
Bargaining power
of suppliers
Threat of substitute
products/services
Bargaining power
of buyers
Threat of
new entrants
Industry
Competitors
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Crucial Strategic Questions
Where in an industry to compete?
In what segments will focus strategies be
sustainable because barriers can be built
between segments?
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Segmentation
Market Segmentation
o Differences in buyer needs.
o Differences in purchasing behavior.
o Focus on marketing activities.
Industry Segmentation
o Division of an industry into subunits for purposes
of developing competitive strategy.
o Differing value chains and buyer value chains.
o Competitive scope within an industry.
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Bases for Industry Segmentation
Structural bases for segmentation
o Differences in products or buyers create industry
segments if they alter one or more of the five
competitive forces.
o Structural analysis applies to industry segments.
Value chain differences and segmentation
o Differences in products and buyers also create
segments if they affect the requirements for
competitive advantage.
o Affect drivers of cost or uniqueness?
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Five Forces Among Segments
Threat of
Buyer
Power
Segment
Rivalry
Supplier
Power
Threat of
Mobility
Product
Varieties
Buyers
Substitution
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Segmentation Variables
1. The discrete product
varieties that are, or could be
produced.
Product Segments
2. The types of end buyers that
purchase the industry’s
products.
Buyer Segments
3. Alternative distribution
channels employed (Immediate
Buyer).
Channel Segments
4. Locality, region, country,
group of countries.
Geographic Segments
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New Ways of Segmenting
Are there other technologies or designs to
perform the required functions in the the
buyer’s value chain?
Could additional functions be performed by
an enhanced product?
By reducing the number of functions (and
price?) could the needs of some buyers be
better served?
Are there different bundles (narrower or
broader) that could be sold as a package?
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Steps - Segmentation Process
1. Identify the discrete product varieties, buyer
types, channels, and geographic areas in the
industry that have implications for structure
or competitive advantage.
2. Reduce the number of segmentation
variables by applying the significance test.
3. Identify the most meaningful discrete
categories for each variable.
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Steps - Segmentation Process
4. Collapse correlated variables together.
5. Plot two-dimensional segmentation matrices
for pairs of variables, and eliminate
correlated variables and null segments.
6. Combine these segmentation matrices into
one or two overall industry segmentation
matrices.
7. Test the matrices by locating competitors on
them.
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Alternative Focus Strategies
Buyer Type
Insurance
Companies Banks
Finance
Companies
Company A Company B Company C
Product
Varieties
Databases
Models
Consulting
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Segmentation and Strategy
Where in the industry a firm should compete?
How strategy should reflect this segmentation?
The attractiveness of a segment?
o Structural attractiveness.
o Segment size and growth.
o Firm position vis-a-vis a segment.
o Segment interrelationships.
o Segment spillover.
o Sustainability.
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Segmentation and Strategy
Sustainability of a focus strategy.
o Against broadly-targeted competitors.
o Against imitators.
o Against segment substitution.
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Pitfalls and Opportunities
Successful focus strategies must involve
compromise costs for competitors.
Identifying a new way of segmenting an
industry can be a major opportunity.
Broad targeting does not necessarily lead to
competitive advantage.
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Pitfalls and Opportunities
Broadly targeted firms often serve too many
segments.
The relevant segments and breadth of target
must be continually examined.
New technology is changing old assumptions
about segmentation.
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Segmentation and Strategy
Where one actually chooses to draw industry
boundaries is not so essential as long as both
segmentation and strategic interrelationships are
examined as part of structural analysis.
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Substitution
Use of Personal Computers in Small Businesses
0
20
40
60
80
Sales Dollars
Percentageof
Companies
Small Business
Computer
Manual Methods
Service Bureau
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Economics of Substitution
Current relative value/price (RVP)
o When there are no switching costs and the
product is consumed quickly, the relevant “relative
value/price” is solely a function of current
conditions.
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Economics of Substitution
Expected relative value/price (RVP)
o When there are costs of switching or the product
is durable, the attractiveness of a substitute is the
expected RVP over the planning horizon.
o Same as in differentiation, a substitute is valuable
if it lowers buyer cost or improves buyer
performance relative to the product.
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Corporate Strategy
Economic, technological, and competitive
developments are increasing the competitive
advantage to be gained by identifying and exploiting
interrelationships among distinct but related
businesses.
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Corporate Strategy
This has made horizontal strategy, which cuts
across divisional boundaries, perhaps the most
critical item on the strategic agenda facing a
diversified firm.
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Strategy Levels
Business Strategy
o Charts the course for a firm’s activities in
individual industries.
o Strategic business units (SBUs).
Corporate Strategy
o Addresses the composition of a firm’s portfolio of
business units.
o The concept of synergy.
Horizontal Strategy
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Horizontal Strategy
Coordinated set of goals and policies across
distinct but interrelated business units.
A concept of group, sector and corporate
strategy based on competitive
advantage, not on financial considerations or
stock market performance.
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Horizontal Strategy
Diversification philosophy is changing.
Emphasis is shifting from growth to
performance.
Technological change is proliferating
interrelationships and making them more
achievable.
Multipoint competition is increasing.
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Horizontal Strategy
Achieving interrelationships:
o Long been present.
o Unexploited and untapped.
o Organizational barriers to achieving
interrelationships in practice.
Synergy is vague
o Not one idea but three – tangible, intangible and
competitor.
o Intangible is the most ephemeral.
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Interrelationships
Tangible interrelationships
o Opportunities to share activities in the value
chain among related business units.
o There is a competitive advantage if sharing
lowers cost or enhances differentiation enough to
exceed the cost of sharing.
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Interrelationships
Intangible interrelationships
o Transference of management know-how among
separate value chains.
o Competitive advantage through transference of
generic skills from one business unit to another.
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Interrelationships
Competitor interrelationships
o Multipoint competitors necessarily link industries
together because actions toward them in one
industry may have implications in another.
o A firm may have to match an interrelationship or
face a competitive disadvantage.
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Explicit Horizontal Strategy Need
Business units will value interrelationships
differently and not agree to pursue them.
Business unit strategies will evolve in ways
that weaken interrelationships.
Pricing and investment decisions taken
independently may erode firm position.
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Explicit Horizontal Strategy Need
Business units will have a tendency to go
outside to form alliances.
Business units may ignore key potential
competitors.
Transfer of know-how among generically
similar business units will not occur.
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Formulating Horizontal Strategy
1. Identify all tangible interrelationships.
2. Trace tangible interrelationships outside the
firm.
3. Identify possible intangible interrelationships
Isolate value activities.
Identify new industries.
Generic strategies, buyer types, value chain
configuration.
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Formulating Horizontal Strategy
4. Identify competitor interrelationships.
Multipoints, patterns of interrelationships.
5. Assess the importance of interrelationships
to competitive advantage.
Advantages and costs of sharing.
Difficulties in matching the interrelationship.
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Formulating Horizontal Strategy
6. Develop a coordinated horizontal strategy.
Share appropriate value activities.
Coordinate strategic postures of related units.
Distinguish the horizontal goals of business units.
Coordinate offensive and defensive strategies.
Exploit important intangible interrelationships through
formal programs for exchanging know-how.
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Formulating Horizontal Strategy
Diversify to strengthen important
interrelationships or create new ones.
Sell business units that do not have
significant interrelationships with others
(or that make the achievement of important
interrelationships difficult).
7. Create horizontal organizational mechanisms
to assure implementation.
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Pitfalls
Misreading strategic contributions of
business units.
Misreading position vis-à-vis key diversified
competitors.
Portfolio management.
Negative leverage from sharing or
transferring know-how.
Making too much of an interrelationship.
Illusory interrelatedness.
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Achieving Interrelationships
Horizontal organization overlays the business unit
structure and facilitates collaboration. Mechanisms
include the grouping of business units, standing
committees, management systems, human
resources policies, etc.
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Achieving Interrelationships
Any firm with significant interrelationships
needs a horizontal corporate organization to
supplement its vertical organization.
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Interrelationship Impediments
Asymmetric benefits.
Loss of autonomy and control.
o Protection of turf.
o Perceived dilution of buyer relationships.
o Inability to “fire” a sister division.
o Conflicts over priorities in shared activities.
o Unfair blame for poor performance.
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Interrelationship Impediments
Biased incentive systems.
o Lack of credit for contributions.
o Measurement biases.
Capitalized assets vs. expenses.
Split revenues.
Differing business unit circumstances.
o Strong business unit identities.
o Differing cultures.
o Management, procedural, and geographic
differences.
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Interrelationship Impediments
Fear of tampering with decentralization.
o Dampening entrepreneurship.
o Desire for a consistent organization.
o Difficulty of measuring importance.
o Fear of providing “excuses.”
Interrelationships and equity.
o Fairness.
o “Carrying” other units.
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A New Organizational Form
Business unit managers will have to modify
their conception of what managing their own
business means.
Recognition of the value of
decentralization, and also:
Recognition of both vertical and horizontal
dimensions.
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A New Organizational Form
Modification of the narrow view of
autonomy.
Role of group and sector executives.
Less simplicity, greater ambiguity, more
subjectivity, and potentially more conflict.
More competitive advantage.
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Complementary Products
Complements are the opposite of
substitutes, because the sale of one promotes the
sale of another. They represent a form of
interrelatedness that involve a firm’s competitive
scope and how it should compete.
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Complementary Practices
Control over complementary products.
o Full range.
o “We sell both.”
Bundling
o Sell together only as a bundle, at a single price.
o “We only sell both together.”
Cross-subsidization
o Sell one product at terms that promote the sale
of another product.
o “We sell one to sell another.”
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Scenarios
Scenarios can be used as tools to understand
the strategic implications of uncertainty more
fully. A scenario is an internally consistent
view of what the future might turn out to be.
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Scenarios
Macroscenarios
o Macroeconomic and macropolitical factors.
o National or global environment.
o Rate of economic growth, inflation, protectionism,
regulation, energy prices, interest rates.
Industry Scenarios
o Move away from dangerous single-point forecasts.
o Make implicit assumptions explicit.
o Think beyond the confines of conventional wisdom.
o Translate uncertainty into its strategic implications.
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142. Identify the uncertainties that may affect
industry structure.
Determine the causal factors driving them.
Make a range of plausible assumptions about
each important causal factor.
Combine assumptions about individual factors
into internally consistent scenarios.
Analyze the industry structure that would
prevail under each scenario.
Determine the sources of competitive advantage
under each scenario.
Predict competitor behavior under each scenario.
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Identifying Industry Uncertainties
Hard to recognize.
Hard to detect discontinuous changes.
Hard to shed conventional wisdom.
Each element of industry structure must be
examined and placed into one of three
categories:
1. Constant
2. Predetermined
3. Uncertain
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Identifying Industry Uncertainties
List all industry trends and possible industry
changes mentioned by industry observers or
discussed internally:
o Long-run changes in growth - changes in buyer
segments served - buyer learning - reduction of
uncertainty.
o Diffusion of proprietary knowledge - accumulation
of experience.
o Product, marketing, process innovation.
o Structural change in adjacent industries - entries
and exits.
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Identifying Industry Uncertainties
o Product, marketing, process innovation.
o Structural change in adjacent industries - entries
and exits.
Independent uncertainties.
o Inside or outside the industry.
Dependent uncertainties.
o Determined by the independent uncertainties.
(e.g. advertising levels may be a function of
casual user demand).
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146. Forces of Industry Competition
Buyers
Suppliers
Potential
Entrants
Suppliers
Substitutes
Bargaining power
of suppliers
Threat of substitute
products/services
Bargaining power
of buyers
Threat of
new entrants
Industry
Competitors
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Chain Saw Industry Variables
A. Entry Barriers
o Will there be new proprietary product designs?
o How high will scale economies in manufacturing
be?
o In Marketing (media mix and spending rates)?
o How difficult will gaining access to each channel
be?
o What safety regulations will be enacted?
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Chain Saw Industry Variables
B. Buyers
o What will casual user demand be? (1)
o What will professional/farm demand be? (5)
o What will be the mix of dealer vs. nondealer
sales? (3)
o How significant will private labeling be? (4)
o Will distribution be direct or through distributors?
o How price sensitive will buyers be?
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Chain Saw Industry Variables
C. Competitors
o What will be the shape of the casual user
penetration curve? (2)
o How will traditional competitors behave?
o How will newly acquired competitors behave?
o Will additional foreign firms be attracted?
o How high will fixed costs be?
o How committed is each competitor to chain
saws?
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Chain Saw Industry Variables
D. Substitutes
o How much will electric saws penetrate vs. gas
saws? (6)
E. Suppliers
o Relatively constant.
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Chain Saw Industry Variables
Most important scenario variables
o What will casual user demand be? (1)
o What will be the shape of the casual user
penetration curve? (2)
o What will be the mix of dealer vs. non-dlr sales? (3)
o How significant will private labeling be? (4)
Less important scenario variables
o What will professional/farm demand be? (5)
o How much will electric saws penetrate vs. gas
saws? (6)
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Chain Saw Causal Factors
(1) What will casual user
demand be?
External
Social trends /Energy costs
Wood burning stove and fireplace
installations
Number of households formed
Channels selling casual saws
Internal
Marketing activity and product
changes by competitors
(2) What will be the shape of
the casual user penetration
curve?
External
Economic conditions
Pattern of energy price changes
Pattern of social trends
Replacement rate for saws
Channel strategies/chain saws
Internal
Marketing activity by competitors
Scenario Variables Causal Factors
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Chain Saw Causal Factors
(3) What will be the mix of
dealer vs. nondealer sales?
External
Channel product line policies
Consumer shopping habits
Ability of channels to provide
service
Usage patterns of casual saws
(spare parts usage, service, etc)
Internal
Channel policies of competitors
(4) How significant will
private labeling be?
External
Channel branding policies
Channel product policies
Internal
Channel policies of competitors
Branding policies of competitors
Scenario Variables Causal Factors
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Range of Assumptions/Chain Saw
(1) Level of casual
unit demand
Low Medium High
(2) Shape of casual
user penetration
curve
Steady
increase
Peaked
(3) Mix of dealer vs.
non-dealer sales
Dealers
dominate
High non-
dealer share
Short-term
shift to non-
dealers, return
to dealers in
long term
(4) Extent of private
label vs. branded
sales through
nondealers
High percent
branded
High percent
private label
Scenario Variables Assumptions
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Consistent Scenarios – Chain Saw
Low Medium High
Casual User Demand
Shape of the
Casual User
Penetration
Curve
Steady
Rise
Peaked
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Consistent Scenarios – Chain Saw
Casual User Demand
Channel
Mix
Med/
Steady
Low/
Steady
High/
Steady
High/
Peaked
Dealers
Dominate
High %
Through
Non-dealers
Short-term
Shift to
Non-dealers
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Consistent Scenarios – Chain Saw
1 2
3 4 5
876
9
10
Low/
Steady
High/
Peaked
Med/
Steady
High/
Steady
High %
Branded
High %
Branded
High %
Private
Label
High %
Private
Label
Casual User Demand
Channel
Mix
Dealers
Dominate
High %
Through
Non-dealers
Short-term
Shift to
Non-dealers
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“It’s the level underneath, not
the level on the surface, that
affects relationships.”
Marianne Williamson
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Seek to understand the level
underneath and you will grow in:
Confidence
Context
Certainty
Courage
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Course XIV*
Thank you.
Please come again.
First Light LLC
John Gillis (Principal)
jgillis767@aol.com
248-770-0485
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* Course XIV is named in honor of the
original Course XIV, which was the
“Department of Social Science and Economics”
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT)
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