Value Chain
Autor: dhomunoumesh • September 23, 2015 • Essay • 623 Words (3 Pages) • 874 Views
What makes it for a firm to achieve competitive advantage?
- Initial conditions: Firms were privileged in some way in its very early periods. (first mover advantage)
- Managerial decisions: Competitive advantage is the result of superior managerial performance.
The frameworks for Competitive positioning:
- Porter
- Resource Based View of the firm
- The delta model
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Porter Focus of Strategic Attention: Industry/Business Porter (1980) argues that it is the industry structure within which the organizations compete and how they position themselves against that structure which determines how profitable individual firms will be….It is an Outside In theory Types of Competitive Advantage: Low cost or Differentiation Being a low cost producer in an industry provide some attractive defenses against the 5 competitive forces:
Differentiation strategy comes into play whenever buyers’ needs and preferences are too diverse to be satisfied by a standardized product. A successful differentiator studies buyers’ needs and behavior carefully and learn what they consider important and valuable. Then the differentiator incorporates one or several of those features into its product offerings to encourage buyers for its brand over the brands of its rivals. Basic Unit of Competitive Advantage: Activities Porter describes two major categories of business activities:
| Resource Based View Focus of Strategic Attention: Corporation The resource based view of competition draws upon the resources and capabilities that reside within an organization or that an organization might want to develop in order to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage…It is an Inside Out strategy. Types of Competitive Advantage: Resource Capabilities / Core Competencies A core competency or strategic capability can be thought of as a cluster of attributes that an organization possesses which in turn allows it to achieve competitive advantage. It may simply be that the organization has configured its collection of resources in such a way that allows it to compete more successfully. Dell and Benetton clothing are classic examples of firms that have achieved core competence in the way they configure their respective value chain. Basic Unit of Competitive Advantage: Core Products/ Strategic Architecture Factors that help in attaining competitive advantage in the resource based view model are listed as follows: (definition of Tangibles, Intangibles and Organizational Capabilities)
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