CREATING COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Flashcards
Refers to factors that allow a company to produce goods or services better or more cheaply than its rivals.
These factors allow the productive entity to generate more sales or superior margins compared to its market
rivals.
Competitive Advantage
➢Competitive Advantage is attributed to a variety of factors including these 6.
- Cost Structure
- Branding
- Quality of Product Offerings
- Distribution Network
- Intellectual Property
- Customer Service
5 TYPES OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
- PATENTS
- COPYRIGHTS
- TRADEMARKS
- FRANCHISES
- TRADE SECRETS
allows the inventor exclusive rights to the invention, which
could be a design, process, an improvement, or physical invention such
as a machine. Technology and software companies often have patents for
their designs
PATENT
provides authors and creators of original material the
exclusive right to use, copy, or duplicate their material.
COPYRIGHT
– a symbol, phrase, or insignia that is recognizable and
represents a product that legally separates it from other products.
TRADEMARK
A ___________is exclusively assigned to a company, meaning the company
owns the _________ so that no others may use or copy it
TRADEMARK
a license that a company, individual, or party, called the
franchisee, purchases allowing them to use a company’s(the franchisor)
name, trademark, proprietary knowledge, and processes
FRANCHISE
A company’s process or practice that is not public
information, which provides an economic benefit or advantage to the
company or holder of this.
TRADE SECRET
3 components into constructing a competitive advantage
- BENEFIT
- TARGET MARKET
- COMPETITORS
To construct a competitive advantage, a company must be able to
detail the benefit that they provide to their target market in ways that _________________
other competitors cannot.
strategies that strongly position the company against competitors and
give the company the strongest possible strategic advantage.
COMPETITIVE STRATEGIES
3 APPROACHES TO MARKETING STRATEGY
- ENTERPRENEURIAL MARKETING
- FORMULATED MARKETING
- ENTREPRENEURIAL MARKETING
by wits; no belief in formal marketing (MS)
Entrepreneurial Marketing
development of formal marketing strategies.
FORMULATED MARKETING STRATEGIES
4 BASIC COMPETITIVE STRATEGIES AND ITS FORMS
- overall cost leadership
- differentiation
- focus
- differentiation focus
DEFINE “MIDDLE OF THE ROADERS”
Try to be good on all competitive strategies
3 COMPETITIVE POSITION STRATEGIES
- MARKET LEADER
- MARKET CHALLENGER
- MARKET NICHER
3 SUB CATEGORIES OF MARKET LEADER
- EXPAND TOTAL MARKET
- PROTECT MARKET SHARE
- EXPAND MARKET SHARE
2 SUB CATEGORIES OF MARKET CHALLENGER
- FULL FRONTAL ATTACK
- INDIRECT ATTACK
2 SUB CATEGORIES OF MARKET NICHER
- NICHER
- MULTIPLE NICHING
AS A MARKET LEADER, increasing the overall size of the potential customers means to ______________
COMPPOSITIONSTRATS
EXPAND TOTAL MARKET
AS A MARKET LEADER, maintaining their position while preventing competitors from stealing their customers is to ________________
PROTECT MARKET SHARE