topic 8 (strategic direction) Flashcards

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Ansoff’s matrix

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market penetration, product devlopment, market devlopment and diverfication

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market penertration is

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same market, same product

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3
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how to achieve market penertration

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  • Reduce prices
  • Brand repositioning
  • Promotion
  • Loyalty schemes
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evaluation of market penertration

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  • Least risky as business has experience
  • Unlikely to need significant new market research
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market development is

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new market, same market

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methods of market development

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  • Exploring foreign markets
  • Using e-commerce
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Evaluation market development

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  • Logical strategy
  • Often more risky then product development
  • Existing products may not suit new market
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8
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product development is

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same market , new product

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9
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evaluation of product delvelopment

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  • Whether there is spare capacity
  • Being first to the market is important
  • A good way of exploiting existing customer base
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diversification is

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new prodcut new market

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Evaluation of diversification

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  • Risky strategy
  • No direct experience of the product or market
  • Few economies of scale (initially)
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Approaches to diversification could be

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  • Innovation: develop new solutions
  • Acquire an existing business in the market
  • Extend an existing brand into the new market
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poters geneic strategies

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Finding a way of achieving a sustainable competitive advantage over the other competing products and firms in the market. this can be achieved through one of 3 generic strategies
- cost leadership
- differentiation
- focus

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a low cost strategy is

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a strategy where the objective is to become the lowest-cost operator. This typically involves production on a large scale which enables the business to exploit economies of scale

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why is low cost a competitive advantage

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  • Leadership cost
    Lowest-cost operator can also offer the lowest prices
  • Sustainable markets
    Standard products
    Little product differentiation
    Branding relatively unimportant
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a strategy of differntation aims to

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offer a product that is distinctively different from the competition, with the customer valuing that differentiation

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ways to achive differentation are

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  • Superior product quality
  • Branding
  • Wide distribution
  • Sustained promotion
18
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bowman’s strategic clock

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  1. low price and low added value
  2. low price
  3. hybrid
  4. differentiation
  5. focused differentiation
  6. risky high margins
  7. monopoly pricing
  8. loss of market share
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bowman’s strategic clock (1)

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low price low added value
not very competitive position
very little precived value
bargain basement strategy

20
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bowman’s strategic clock (2)

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low price
cost minimization stratagem required to be successful
intense competition
low profit margins

21
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bowman’s strategic clock (3)

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hybrid
- involves some element of low price
- also product differentiation
- aim to convince consumers there is good added value price

22
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bowman’s strategic clock (4)

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differentiation
- offer highest level of precived added value
- branding is key
- as well as product quality

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bowman’s strategic clock (5)

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focused differentiation
- aims to position a product at highest price levels
- positioning strategy adopted by luxury brands
- aim to achieve premium prices by highly targeted segmentation, promotion and distribution
- can lead to high profit margins

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bowman’s strategic clock(6)

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risky high margins
- high risk strategy
- sets high prices without offering anything extra in terms of perceived value
- other than in the short-term this is an uncompetitive strategy

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bowman’s strategic clock(7)

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monopoly pricing
- only one business offering the product
- doesn’t need to care bout value perceived
- tightly regulated

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bowman’s strategic clock (8)

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loss of market share
- position is recipe for disaster in any competitive market
- middle range or standard price for a product with low perceived value
- unlikely to win over customers as will be much better options