This chapter discusses evaluating a company's external environment using two frameworks:
1) PESTEL analysis to assess the macro-environmental factors outside a company's control including political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal factors.
2) Porter's Five Forces model to analyze industry competition including threats from new entrants, substitute products, supplier and customer bargaining power, and competitive rivalry.
It also covers identifying driving forces that cause industry change over time such as technological advances, regulatory changes, and shifting customer demographics to help companies prepare strategic responses.
This chapter discusses evaluating a company's external environment using two frameworks:
1) PESTEL analysis to assess the macro-environmental factors outside a company's control including political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal factors.
2) Porter's Five Forces model to analyze industry competition including threats from new entrants, substitute products, supplier and customer bargaining power, and competitive rivalry.
It also covers identifying driving forces that cause industry change over time such as technological advances, regulatory changes, and shifting customer demographics to help companies prepare strategic responses.
This chapter discusses evaluating a company's external environment using two frameworks:
1) PESTEL analysis to assess the macro-environmental factors outside a company's control including political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal factors.
2) Porter's Five Forces model to analyze industry competition including threats from new entrants, substitute products, supplier and customer bargaining power, and competitive rivalry.
It also covers identifying driving forces that cause industry change over time such as technological advances, regulatory changes, and shifting customer demographics to help companies prepare strategic responses.
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Chapter 3: Evaluating a Company’s External Environment
The Strategically Relevant Factors in the Company’s Macro-Environment
Everyone company operates in a broad ‘marcro-eviroment” that comprises of 6 principals o Political factors o Economic conditions in the firms general environment (local, country, regional, worldwide) o Sociocultural forces o Technological factors o Environmental factors o Legal/regulatory conditions Firm has no direct control The macro-environment encompasses the broad environmental context in which a company's industry is situated. PESTEL analysis can be used to assess the strategic relevance of the six principal components of the macro-environment: Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Environmental, and Legal/Regulatory forces.
Assessing the Company’s Industry and Competitive Environment
Five Forces Frame Work o Most powerful and widely used tool for diagnosing the principal competitive pressures in a market is the 5 forces framework o Holds the competitive pressures on companies within an industry come from 5 sources Competition from rival sellers Rivalry increases when buyer demand is nrowinn slowly or declininn. Rapidly expanding buyer demand produces enough new business for all industry members to grow without having to draw customers away from rival enterprises. Rivalry increases as it becomes less costly for buyers to switch brands Rivalry increases as the products of rival sellers become less stronnly differentiated. Rivalry is more intense when there is excess supply or unused production capacity, especially if the industry's product has hinh fixed costs or hinh storane costs. Rivalry intensifies as the number of competitor’s increases and they become more equal in size and capability. Rivalry is stronner when hinh exit barriers keep unprofitable firms from leavinn the industry. Competition from potential new entrants Competition from substitute products Supplier bargaining power Customer bargaining power
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o The Choice of Competitive Weapons
May resort to marketing tactics such as special sales promotions, heavy advertising, rebates, low-interest-rate financing to drum up additional sales Rivals may race one another to differentiate their products by offering better performance features or higher quality or improved customer service or a wider product selection. Ex: discounting prices, offering coupons, advertising products, innovating to improve, introducing new or improve features (fig. 3.2) o Competitive Pressures Associated with the Threat of New Entrants New entrants threaten the position of rival firms since they usually compete fiercely for market share and add to the production capacity and number of rivals in the process Threat of new entry increases the competitive pressures in an industry because firms lower prices and increase defensive actions in an attempt to deter new entry when the threat of entry is high Threat depends The expected reaction of the incumbent firms to new entry Barriers to entry o Competitive Pressures from Sellers of Substitute Products Companies in one industry are vulnerable to competitive pressure from the actions of companies in a closely adjoining industry whenever buyers view the products of the two industries as good substitutes. Ex: Equal, Splenda, Sweet ‘N’ Low o Competitive Pressures Stemming From Supplier Bargaining Power Whether the suppliers of industry members represent a weak or strong competitive force depends on the degree to which suppliers have sufficient barnaininn power to influence the terms and conditions of supply in their favor. Suppliers with strong bargaining power can erode industry profitability by charging industry members higher prices, passing costs on to them and limiting their opportunities to find better ideas Ex: Micscroft and Intel supply PC, known to charge PC makers premium prices o Competitieve Presues Stemming from Buyer Bargaing and Price Sentibiity Strong competitive pressues on industry members depends on The degree to which buyers have bargaining power The extent to which buyers are price sensitive Buyers with strong bargaiing power can limit industry profitability by demanding price concesions, better payment terms or additional features and services that icnerase the indtruy members’ costs
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Buyer sensitivity limits the profit potential of industry members by
restricting the ability of sellers to raise prices without losing revue sales Buyer Bargaining Power is strong when: Buyer demand is weak in relation to industry supply Industry noods are standardized or differentiation is weak. Buyers' costs of switchinn to competinn brands or substitutes are relatively low. Buyers are larne and few in number relative to the number of sellers. Buyers pose a credible threat of intenratinn backward into the business of sellers. Buyers are well informed about sellers' products, prices, and costs Buyer’s power is weak when: Buyer price sensitivity increases when buyers are earninn low profits or have low income Buyers are more price-sensitive if the product represents a larne fraction of their total purchases. The strongest of the 5 forces determines the extend of the downward pressure on an indsutry’s profitability o The most extreme case of a “competitively unattractive” industry occurs when all five forces are producing strong competitive pressures: Rivalry among sellers is vigorous, low entry barriers allow new rivals to gain a market foothold, competition from substitutes is intense, and both suppliers and buyers are able to exercise considerable leverage o intense competitive pressures from just one of the five forces may suffice to destroy the conditions for nood profitability and prompt some companies to exit the business.
Complementors and the Value Net
Complementors are the producers of complementary products, which are products that enhance the value of the focal firm's products when they are used together.
Industry Dynamics and the Forces Driving Change
Driving Forces are the major underlying causes of change in industry and competitive conditions Driving forces analysis has 3 steps o Identifying what the drives forces are o Assessing whether the drivers of change are, on the whole, acting to make the industry more or less attractive o Determining what strategy changes are needed to prepare for the impact of driving forces
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Identifying the Forces Driving Industry Change
o Changes in an industry’s long-term growth rate o Increasing globalization o Emerging new interest capabilities and applications o Shifts in buyer demographics o Technological change and manufacturing process innovation o Product innovation o Entry or exit of major firms o Diffusion of technical know-how across companies and countries o Changes in cost and efficiency o Reductions in uncertainty and business risk o Regulatory influences and government policy changes o Changing societal concerns, attitudes and lifestyles Most important part of driving forces analysis is to determine whether the collective impact of the driving forces will increase or decrease market demand, make competition more or less intense and lead to higher or lower industry profitability The real payoff of driving forces analysis is to help managers understand what strategy changes are needed to prepare for the impacts of the driving forces
Strategic Group Analysis
Strategic group mapping: a technique for displaying the different market or competitive positions rival firms occupy in the industry Strategic Group: is a cluster of industry rivals that have similar competive approaches and market positions o Consists of those industry members with similar competitive approaches and positions in the market: Having comparable product-line breadth Emphasizing the same distribution channels Depending on identical technological approaches Offering the same product attributes to buyers Offering similar services and technical assistance o Typical Variables include Price/quality range (high, medium, low) Geographic coverage (local, regional, national, global) Product-line breadth (wide, narrow) Degree of service offered (no frills, limited, full) Distribution channels (retail, wholesale, Internet, multiple) Degree of vertical integration (none, partial, full) Degree of diversification into other industries (none, some, considerable) o Strategic group maps reveal which companies are close competitors and which are distant competitors o Some strategic groups are more favorable positioned than others because they confront weaker competitive forces and/or because they are more favorable impacted by industry driving forces
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Key Success Factors
KSFs: are the strategy elements, product and service attributes, operational approaches, resources and competitive capabilities that are essential to surviving and thriving in the industry o Vary from industry to industry, and over time within the same industry, and in importance as drivers of change and competitive conditions change o Derived from a SWOT analysis – today we looked at “OT” part (external factors) - next chapter “SW” (internal factors) that provides a multuple framework for determunung competutuve outlook Can be deduced by asking the same three questions o On what basis do buyers of the industry’s product choose between the competing brands of sellers? o Given the nature of competitive rivalry prevailing in the marketplace, what resources and competitive capabilities must a company have to be competitively successful? o What shortcomings are almost certain to put a company at a significant competitive advantage?
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