generic strategies available to a firm: differentiation or cost leadership. Both strategies can be applied either into a focused market or a broad market. Do you agree that these are the only two strategies available? Are they mutually exclusive? Why or why not? Porter’s Generic Strategies Target Scope Advantage Advantage Low Cost Product Uniqueness Broad(Industry Wide) Cost Leadership Strategy Differentiation Strategies Narrow (Market Segment) Focus Strategy(low cost) Focus Strategy(differentiation)
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Customer focused low cost leadership strategy Low cost strategy is centered on the capability of the company to produce and deliver products of competitive quality at lower costs. Cost leadership strategy is much more than cost reduction initiatives that get lot of prominence in strategic planning and review session of any company as a means to improve the bottom line of a company by improving its efficiency. Some companies use their efficient cost structures to protect their markets from the competitors
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GENERIC STRATEGIES: A firm positions itself by leveraging its strengths. Michael Porter has argued that a firm’s strength usually falls into one of two headings: • Cost advantage • Differentiation By applying these strengths in either a broad or narrow or narrow scope‚ three generic strategies result: • Cost leadership • Differentiation • Focus These strategies are applied at business unit level. They are called generic strategies because they are not firm or industry dependant. Cost Leadership:
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Cost leadership and differentiation strategies are popular research topics within the field of strategy and have been widely discussed‚ in particular since Michael Porter presented his model of generic strategies in 1980. Some rearchers‚ in fact‚ refer to this model as being among the most significant contributions to the strategic management literature. Whether cost leadership and differentiation strategies are mutually exclusive is a far less discussed issue however‚ as evidenced by the relatively
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TYPES OF COMPETITIVE STRATEGIES Apple Inc. Cost Leadership Strategy Cost leadership strategy has been highly adopted by Apple Inc in its endeavors of ensuring competitiveness and success in the technology industry. The company’s management has been able to draw policies and strategies that are aimed at ensuring that the company is the lowest cost producer and distributor. • By lowering the cost of production and management‚ Apple Inc has been given golden opportunities on determining prices
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Cost Leadership By definition‚ a cost leadership strategy involves placing great emphasis on efficiency in all organizational activities in order to reduce the overall costs of products delivered to customers. Low cost leadership strategy will work effectively when the organization can provide products/services at a lower cost than the competition. The followings are the realms that we identified as factors for IKEA’s pursuit for “Cost-Leadership” 1. Mail-Order Service‚ Distribution of Catalogue
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Competitive Strategies Following on from his work analysing the competitive forces in an industry‚ Michael Porter suggested four "generic" business strategies that could be adopted in order to gain competitive advantage. The four strategies relate to the extent to which the scope of a businesses’ activities are narrow versus broad and the extent to which a business seeks to differentiate its products. The four strategies are summarised in the figure below: The differentiation and cost leadership strategies
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Proceedings of the 13th Asia Pacific Management Conference‚ Melbourne‚ Australia‚ 2007‚ 431-436 Competitive Strategy for Low Cost Airlines Hongwei Jiang RMIT University‚ Australia Abstract The aim of this paper is to identify challenge faced to Low-Cost Carriers (LCCs) or Low-Cost Airlines and provide new insights into the development and competitive strategy for LCCs. LCCs are still a relatively new phenomenon in Australia since Virgin Blue and Jetstar came to the market. There are over 30 LCCs
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STRATEGIES TO FIGHT LOW COST RIVALS In this new era‚ which global industry is growing very fast‚ it makes most company everywhere in the world trap on war of price. Most companies should invest a lot of money‚ people‚ and time to fight they rivals .Last but not Least‚ each company has to grow with a right strategy. The steps to get the best strategy on the Price War situation is strategy development and implementation : A. Critical Success Factors : 1. Environmental Analysis - identify
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Low-cost Leadership Program The best way for an organization to implement a low cost leadership-training program is to use a variety of approaches; this will maximize organizations efforts to have well trained employees with a focus on long-term development. In the case of a non-profit organization‚ the best way to set up a low-cost-leadership-training program would be to set-up a training committee. The committee would be composed of entry-level managers‚ upper management‚ and executives. This
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