Market analysis Flashcards
Know your market
Technologies & processes
Products
Markets and customers
Competitors
Channels
Buying centre and buying patterns
Culture
Economic/political situation
Legal regulations (promote or blocking)
Market analysis, why?
To take underpinned target, investment, development but also change strategic decisions. Use the knowledge in your sales/marketing approach (fit to the customers & show them your added value for the future)
Market research steps
- Define the problem & research objectives
- Design the research method: fit to the objectives
- Collect the data
- Analyse and concluded (related to objectives)
- Present the findings in a meaningful way -> Decide!
2 approaches for business development
- Engineering driven (capability push)
- Market/Customer driven (opportunity pull)
Tools for market analysis
- DESTEP-analysis (macro-environment)
- Competition (5 forces model)
- SWOT analysis
- BCG matrix
- Bench marking
- Value chain (Porter)
DESTEP-analysis stands for..
Demography
Economic
Social-Cultural
Technological
Ecology
Political
Competition analysis (5 forces), why?
- No competition (might be a reason or good chance)
- The availability & power influences the behaviour of all market participants
Types of market
Pure competition (easy to enter, freedom to choose)
Monopolistic competition (often differentiate on product)
Oligopolistic competition (a few dominant players)
Pure monopoly (often government products, small & niche markets)
Types of competition
Brand competition: similar offerings to the same target customer
Industry competition: companies making the same offering to the same markets
Form competition: companies making the same offering but for other markets
Generic competition: different offerings competing for the euro’s (substitutes)
5 Forces model
Rivalry among existing firms
Threat of new entrants
Threat of substitute products
Determinents of buyer power
Determinents of supplier power
SWOT analysis
External analysis: identify the opportunities & threats
Internal analysis: identify the strength & weaknesses
Product Portfolio matrix
gives an overview of the offerings and developments and their future perspectives
To help a business consider growth opportunities by reviewing its portfolio of products to decide
Where to invest (in the offering and/or marketing)
To discontinue
To develop new products
Question marks
Low share, high growth markets
Requires cash to create share & develop futher
Star
High growth, high share
Needs heavy investment
(eventually become cash cows)