Kim Warren on Strategy

Strategy insights and living business models

· Briefing

Strategy Dynamics Briefing 35: Undermining a competitor

Appraising competitors often involves assessing their strengths and weaknesses in some way, comparable to parts of the SWOT approach that management might use to assess their own business. But such approaches are qualitative and high-level, and quite inadequate for designing and implementing specific competitive campaigns. A more rigorous approach …

Kim Warren

competitor analysis, profit curves, Strengths and weaknesses, SWOT, undermining a competitor

· Strategy

Industry 'power curves' for real competitive strategy

Now here’s a really useful tool from McKinsey. Using ‘power curves’ to assess industry dynamics shows the value of seeing the size-distribution of competitors in an industry. It…

Kim Warren

banking, biotech, chemicals, competitive strategy, competitor analysis, destroying competitors, industry power curve, mckinsey, software, targeting competitors

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Strategic Management Dynamics

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