Session 3 Flashcards
What are Ohmae’s 3 C’s?
Customers, Company, Competitors
What are Porter’s Five Competitive forces?
- Threat of new entrants (Capital requirements, regulations, knowledge, brand image)
- Bargaining power of buyers (Undifferentiated products, consumers have more power and can easily switch, large buyers have more power than small)
- Bargaining Power of suppliers
- Threat of substitutes
- rivalry among existing firms (If one or few companies dominate the market, it is said to be highly concentrated and tough to enter)
What are the components of SWOT analysis?
Internal Assessment:
1. Strengths
2. Weaknesses
External Assessment:
Opportunities
Threats
What are Strengths and weaknesses?
Core competencies: a company’s expertise or skills in key areas that directly product superior perfomrnace. Not what it does, but what it is good at and better at than others
What are opportunities and threats?
Opportunities: Favourable factors or trends in external environment that the company can exploit to its advantage
Threats: Unfavorable factors or treats that may present a challenge to the company’s performance
What are the 5 environmental forces that generally create threats and opportunities?
- Social
- Economic
- Technological
- Competitive
- Regulatory
What are the key points to consider for social environmental forces?
Demographics, lifestyle trends, customer needs, buying trends, ethical issues
What are the key points to consider for Economic environmental forces?
Economic growth, inflation rates, unemployment levels, exchange rates, customer confidence levels
What are the key points to consider for for Technological environmental forces?
Present and future state of technology, competing technologies, innovations, customer use of technology, legislation on technology
What are the key points to consider for competitive environmental forces
Direct competitors, indirect competitors, intensity of competition, success of competitors
What are the regulatory forces that influence marketing (environmetal forces)
Current and future laws, lobbying, econlogical and environmental issues, present and future political climate
What is a BCG matrix?
Helps firms analyse and design businesses and products to achieve objectives, such as enhances profits, sales or maket share. It is a report card on today’s businesses and products, does NOT provide insign into long term (More than 1 year)
It is a tool that uses business or product’s relative market share and the growth of the market in which the business/product operates to develop a strategy for growth
What is the formula for market share?
= My sales/ (My sales + Competitor’s sales)
What is the formula for relative market share?
= My sales/Leading Competitor’s sales
What is the formula for growth rate?
= (Sales now - Sales before)/Sales before