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MGMT 386
Competitive Strategy
©2009 Prentice Hall11-2
Industry Analysis
• An important part of technology strategy is to analyze the attractiveness of an industry
• Some industries are more attractive than others, making the companies in them consistently more profitable than those in other industries
Assessing the Firm’s Current Position
• External Analysis Two common methods are Porter’s Five-Force Model
and Stakeholder Analysis. Porter’s Five-Force Model
1. Degree of existing rivalry. Determined by number of firms, relative size, degree of differentiation between firms, demand conditions, exit barriers.
2. Threat of potential entrants. Determined by attractiveness of industry, height of entry barriers (e.g., start-up costs, brand loyalty, regulation, etc.)
3. Bargaining power of suppliers. Determined by number of suppliers and their degree of differentiation, the portion of a firm’s inputs obtained from a particular supplier, the portion of a supplier’s sales sold to a particular firm, switching costs, and potential for vertical integration.
Assessing the Firm’s Current Position
4. Bargaining power of buyers. Determined by number of buyers, the firm’s degree of differentiation, the portion of a firm’s inputs sold to a particular buyer, the portion of a buyer’s purchases bought from a particular firm, switching costs, and potential for vertical integration.
5. Threat of substitutes. Determined by number of potential substitutes, their closeness in function and relative price.
6. Recently Porter has acknowledged a sixth force: the role of complements. If complements are necessary, industry will be influenced by their availability, quality, and price.
Factors Shaping theChoice of Company Strategy
Company’s Strategic SituationCraftthe
strategy
External Factors
Internal Factors
Social, political,
regulatory and
community factors
Competitive conditions
and industry attractiveness
Company opportunities and threats to
company’s well-being
Resource strengths,
capabilities, and
weaknesses
Influences of key
executives
Shared values and company
culture
Identify and
evaluate alternatives
Determine relevance of internal
and external factors
Strategic Thinking and Analysis Leads to Good Strategic Choices
1. Industry’s dominant economic traits2. Nature of competition & strength of
competitive forces3. Drivers of industry change4. Competitive position of rivals5. Strategic moves of rivals6. Key success factors7. Conclusions about industry attractiveness
Assess Industry & Competitive Conditions
1. Assessment of company’s present strategy2. Resource strengths and weaknesses,
market opportunities, and external threats3. Company’s costs compared to rivals4. Strength of company’s competitive position5. Strategic issues that need to be addressed
Assess Company Situation
IdentifyStrategic Optionsfor the
Company
Select the Best Strategyfor the
Company
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Five Forces Model
Assessing the Firm’s Current Position Stakeholder
Analysis1. Who are the
stakeholders.
2. What does each stakeholder want.
3. What resources do they contribute to the organization.
4. What claims are they likely to make on the organization.
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The Value Chain
• A description of the activities that are used to produce and deliver a product to customers
• Examining the value chain will help with technology strategy in several ways:1. Helps to determine where most of the value creation lies in an industry 2. Determine whether it makes sense to focus on a different stage of the
value chain if the locus of value creation in an industry changes 3. Offers insight into whether new or established firms will be more
effective at innovation 4. Suggests how companies can create competitive advantage at
different stages of the value chain5. Helps with decisions about ownership of different parts of the value
chain
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The Value Chain in Mobile Phones
Assessing the Firm’s Current Position
• Internal Analysis1. Identify the firm’s strengths and
weaknesses. Helpful to consider each element of value chain.
SupportActivities
Primary Activities
Technological DevelopmentTechnological Development
Human Resource ManagementHuman Resource Management
Firm InfrastructureFirm Infrastructure
ProcurementProcurement
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Firms often purchase a portionportion of their value-creating activities from specialty external suppliers who can perform these functions more efficientlymore efficiently
OutsourcingOutsourcingStrategic Choice to Purchase Some Activities From Outside Suppliers
Supplier Value Chain Firm Value Chain Channel Value Chain
Upstream Value
Perform valuable activities that complement the firm’s activities
Buyer Value Chain
Each firm must eventually find a way to become a part of some buyer’s value chain
Ultimate basis for differentiation is the ability to play a role in a buyer’s value chain
This creates VALUE!!
Value chains vary for firms in an industry, reflecting each firm’s unique qualities:
• History• Strategy• Success at Implementation
Value Chains are part of a Total Value SystemValue Chains are part of a Total Value System
2. Assess which strengths have potential to be sustainable competitive advantage
• Rare• Valuable• Durable• Inimitable
Resources are difficult (or impossible) to imitate when they are:
– Tacit– Path dependent– Socially complex– Causally ambiguous
Assessing the Firm’s Current Position
Competitive Advantage Sustainable
Competitive Advantage
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Controlling Key Resources
• Controlling key resources is most effective when resources are rare and are a rival good (keeps it from being used by two companies simultaneously)
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Controlling Key Resources
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Establishing a Reputation
• Reputation matters more in industries that serve consumers than industries that serve businesses because businesses are less likely to be swayed by perceptions than by the economics of a transaction
• By building a reputation, companies can attract customers more easily and keep them from shifting suppliers
• Brand names are more effective at appropriating the returns to investment in innovation in industries that serve consumers, particularly those that are strongly affected by perception
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Obtaining Architectural Control
• Architectural control allows firms to limit compatibility of their products to companies that are not a competitive threat, to bias compatibility to their own products, and to control the type and pace of product improvements
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The Learning Curve
Experience and Learning Curves
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Cost Effects ofNew vs. Old Technology
Old Technology
New Technology
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A Resource-Based View
• The creation of sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) depends on resources and capabilities
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Resources
• Resources fall into three major categories:1. Tangible: include plant and equipment, raw
materials, and financial reporting systems 2. Intangible: include trade secrets and relationships
with customers 3. Human: include employees’ knowledge, skills and
abilities • Resources are not a complete explanation for
competitive advantage• Different companies transform resources into
products and services in different ways
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Capabilities
• The knowledge or skills about how to undertake a particular activity
• Capabilities can be found in all parts of a company, such as in the skills, knowledge, and ability that employees have accumulated over time in the process of doing their job
• Other capabilities reside in an organization’s processes, such as those for product development, production, purchasing, supply chain management, and marketing
• Competitive advantage occurs only when efforts to transform resources into products are valuable, rare, non-substitutable, difficult to imitate, and durable; otherwise, it will not be superior to that of other firms
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Core Competencies
• Capabilities are core competencies if they are used to generate value across a wide range of firm activities
• Core competencies are often created through the coordination of different activities or technologies
• Core competencies allow firms to expand successfully into new product markets
Identifying Core Competencies and Capabilities
• Core Competencies: A set of integrated and harmonized abilities that distinguish the firm in the marketplace.
• Competencies typically combine multiple kinds of abilities.• Several core competencies may underlie a business unit.• Several business units may draw from same competency.• Core competencies should:
– Be a significant source of competitive differentiation– Cover a range of businesses– Be hard for competitors to imitate
Identifying Core Competencies and Capabilities
Mobilizing Company Resources to Produce Competitive Advantage
Competitive Advantage
Core Competencies
Distinctive Competencies
Competitive Capabilities
Company Resources
For a capability to be a Core For a capability to be a Core Competency, it must be:Competency, it must be:
Core CompetenciesCore Competencies
Differential knowledge or skill in the organizationDifferential knowledge or skill in the organization
Difficult for others to imitate Difficult for others to imitate
Essential to product characteristics critical to customerEssential to product characteristics critical to customer
Applicable to a variety of end products and marketsApplicable to a variety of end products and markets
Core Competencies must be:
NonsubstitutableNonsubstitutableCapabilities that do not have strategic equivalents, such as firm-specific knowledge or trust-based relationshipsCapabilities that do not have strategic equivalents, such as firm-specific knowledge or trust-based relationships
ValuableValuable
RareRare
Costly to ImitateCostly to ImitateCapabilities that other firms cannot develop easily, usually due to unique historical conditions, causal ambiguity or social complexityCapabilities that other firms cannot develop easily, usually due to unique historical conditions, causal ambiguity or social complexity
Capabilities that are possessed by few, if any, current or potential competitorsCapabilities that are possessed by few, if any, current or potential competitors
Capabilities that either help a firm to exploit opportunities to create value for customers or to neutralize threats in the environmentCapabilities that either help a firm to exploit opportunities to create value for customers or to neutralize threats in the environment
CORE PRODUCTS AND END PRODUCTS
• COMPETENCE
• CORE PRODUCTS (in business units)
• END PRODUCTS (to markets)
Strategy
An integrated and coordinated set of actions taken to exploit core competencies and gain a competitive advantage.
Business Business Level Level StrategyStrategy
Business Business Level Level StrategyStrategy
Actions taken to provide value to Actions taken to provide value to customers and gain a competitive customers and gain a competitive advantage by exploiting core advantage by exploiting core competencies in specific, individual competencies in specific, individual product markets.product markets.
Actions taken to provide value to Actions taken to provide value to customers and gain a competitive customers and gain a competitive advantage by exploiting core advantage by exploiting core competencies in specific, individual competencies in specific, individual product markets.product markets.
CoreCompetency
The resources and capabilities that have been determined to be a source of competitive advantage for a firm over its rivals.
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Core Rigidities
• The inability to do new things in areas outside of the firm’s core competencies
• Often limit the way in which people can work together or solve problems, and what activities they believe are acceptable and unacceptable
Risk of Core Rigidities• When firms excel at an activity, they can become
over committed to it and rigid. Incentives and culture may reward current
competencies while thwarting development of new competencies.
Dynamic capabilities are competencies that enable the firm to quickly respond to change.
• E.g., firm may develop a set of abilities that enable it to rapidly deploy new product development teams for a new opportunity; firm may develop competency in working with alliance partners to gain needed resources quickly.
Strategic Intent• Strategic Intent: A long-term goal that
is ambitious, builds upon and stretches firm’s core competencies, and draws from all levels of the organization.
• Typically looks 10-20 years ahead, establishes clear milestones
• Firm should identify resources and capabilities needed to close gap between strategic intent and current position.
BCG Growth-Share Matrix
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Source: Adapted from Strategic Management in GE, Corporate Planning and Development, General Electric Corporation. Used by permission of General Electric Company.
Strategic Groups in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Multi-technology, Multi-attribute Matrix
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SWOT MATRIX
STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES
OPPORTUNITIES SO STRATEGIES
WO STRATEGIES
THREATS ST STRATEGIES
WT STRATEGIES
SWOT Analysis -- What to Consider
Potential Resource Strengths
Potential Resource Weaknesses
Potential Company Opportunities
Potential External Threats
• Powerful strategy
• Strong financial condition
• Strong brand name image/reputation
• Widely recognized market leader
• Proprietary technology
• Cost advantages
• Strong advertising
• Product innovation skills
• Good customer service
• Better product quality
•Alliances or JVs
• No clear strategic direction
• Obsolete facilities
• Weak balance sheet; excess debt
• Higher overall costs than rivals
• Missing some key skills/competencies
• Subpar profits . . .
• Internal operating problems . . .
• Falling behind in R&D
• Too narrow product line
• Weak marketing skills
• Serving additional customer groups
• Expanding to new geographic areas
• Expanding product line
• Transferring skills to new products
• Vertical integration
• Openings to take MS from rivals
• Acquisition of rivals
• Alliances or JVs to expand coverage
• Openings to exploit new technologies
• Openings to extend brand name/image
• Entry of potent new competitors
• Loss of sales to substitutes
• Slowing market growth
• Adverse shifts in exchange rates & trade policies
• Costly new regulations
• Vulnerability to business cycle
• Growing leverage of customers or suppliers
• Shift in buyer needs for product
• Demographic changes
PORTER- BUSINESS STRATEGY AND TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY• Identify all distinct technologies and sub-technologies
in value chain• Identify potentially relevant technologies in other
industries or under development• Determine likely path of change in key technologies• Determine which technologies and potential changes
are most significant to competitive advantage and industry structure
• Assess a firm’s relative capabilities in important technologies and cost of making improvements
• Select a technology strategy, encompassing all-important technologies that reinforce company strategy
• Reinforce business-unit technology strategies at the corporate level
Strategy and Competitive Advantage
• The relationship between strategies and resources and capabilities:
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Strategic Dissonance
• Strategic dissonance occurs when what managers want to accomplish and what companies are doing are misaligned
• It indicates the need to change strategy• Companies are most successful in responding to
strategic dissonance by: Evaluating Information on the Misalignment Gathering Information from Frontline Employees Devoting Organizational Resources to the New
Direction
Alignment of Technology and Business Strategy
Actual and Perceived Utility
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Distribution of Adopters
• Normal distribution is the most common pattern of adoption of new products and services
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The Normal Distribution of Adopters
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Groups of Adopters
Innovators: adopt new technology immediately
Early adopters: follow the innovators
Early majority: adopt new technology just before the average for the market
Late majority: adopt after other customers have adopted the technology successfully
Laggards: prefer to avoid adoption as long as possible
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S-Curves of Adoption
• The S-shaped pattern indicates that there is an acceleration point at which a market “takes off” by: Pointing out that different groups of customers adopt
new products at different points in time for different reasons
Providing information about the right promotional strategy
Indicating appropriate pricing strategy Providing estimated demand growth over time Providing information about the financial
attractiveness of a market at different points in time
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The Adoption S-Curve
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Crossing the Chasm
• The need to sell to the mass market to achieve an adequate return on investment
• For companies to segment the early majority of the market and focus on the portion of the majority that is underserved by existing products
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Crossing the Chasm
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Identifying the Take-off Stage
• If there is an accelerated rate change in demand
• When the customer base begins to shift away from the innovators and early adopters
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How to Cross the Chasm
• Need to show how it provides value to customers
• Need to develop a complete solution to customers’ problems
• Need to pursue a vertical marketing strategy rather than a horizontal marketing strategy
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