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Competitive Dynamics
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Designing Competitive Strategies
Market-Leader Strategies
Expanding the Total Market
New Users
Market-penetration strategy (Those who might use it but do not)
New-market segment strategy (Who never use it)
Geographical-expansion strategy (Those who live elsewhere)
New Uses (Hot tea to ice Tea)
More Usage (By quantity of consumption or frequency of consumption)
Defending Market Share (Continuous Innovation)
Premium Performance: CAT produces high quality of pdts
Extensive dealership: Largest number of dealership
Superior service: World wide parts and service system
Full-line strategy: Full line of construction equipment
Good financing: Offering good terms to their customers
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Designing Competitive Strategy
Analyzing the latent demand and satisfying the
customer needs (Proactive Marketing):
Responsive Marketer (Find stated need and fills it)
Anticipative Marketer (Looks ahead into what needs
customers)
Creative Marketer (Discovers and produces solutions
of customer did not ask)
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Designing Competitive Strategies
Defense Strategies (Defensive Marketing)
Position Defense (Most desirable market space; Crest for cavity)
Flank Defense (Protect the weak front or sides for counter attack)
Preemptive Defense (Attack before enemy start its offense; like
guerilla attacking)
Counteroffensive Defense (When attack the respond with counter
attack; FedEx and UPS..UPS for Airborne..FedEx..Ground Delivery)
Mobile Defense
Market broadening (Oil company for coal, nuclear, hydroelectric
etc.)
Market diversification (Shifting to unrelated industry)
Contraction Defense
Planned contraction
(Strategic withdrawal, giving up weaker territory and invest stronger
one)
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Designing Competitive Strategies
Market-Challenger Strategies
Defining the Strategic Objective and Opponent(s)
It can attack the market leader (Canon grabbed Xerox with desk
copier)
It can attack firms of its own size that are not doing the job and
are underfinanced (firms charging excessive price or not satisfying
customers)
It can attack small local and regional firms
Choosing a General Attack Strategy
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By passing enemy attacking easier markets
(Coke bought Tropicana; orange juice)
Geographic or
segmental
Attackers matches
opponents products,
advertising, price and
distribution
With superior
resources and
believes to break the
will of opponent
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Designing Competitive Strategies
Market-Follower Strategies
Innovative imitation
(Product imitation)
Product innovation
Four Broad Strategies:
Counterfeiter (duplicates the leaders product and sell in
black market)
Cloner (Pdts, name and packaging with slight variation)
Imitator (copies something from the leader but maintains
differentiation in packaging, advertising, pricing and
location)
Adapter (takes leaders products and adapts or improves
them) Most of the Japanese Firms had done it before.
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Designing Competitive Strategies
Market-Nicher Strategies
High margin versus high
volume Product-feature
Nicher Specialist Roles specialist
Job-shop specialist
End-user specialist
Quality-price specialist
Value-added reseller
Service specialist
Vertical-level specialist Channel specialist
Customer-size specialist
Specific-customer specialist
Geographic specialist
Product or product-line
specialist
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Product Life Cycle
Figure
Long-Range Product Market Expansion
Strategy (P = Product; M = Market)
Characteristics