Strategy Flashcards
Attributes of Defender / Niche
- locate and maintain in a relatively stable product / service
product domain thorugh high quality or low price
Cooper’s 5 Strategy Statements
Guru of NPD - 1980s
- Differentialted
- Low budget, conservative
- Technology push
- Not in the game
- High best, diverse
Attributes of Reactors / Reactive
not successful
- not agreesive until business is threatened
= no strategy
Attributes of Analyzers / Fast Followers
- seldom first but often have better products
- tryo to maintain stablitity but innovate at edges at market
- internal efficiencies / reliable, high quality products
- monitors competition, brings more cost effective products
Arena Assessment
how the market looks
Top left - Wildcats (high risk)
Bottom left - Dogs
Top Right - Stars (good bets)
Bottom Right - Cash Cow (conversative bet)
Disruptive Technologies
- introduces different value prop
- typically different technology basis
Sustaining Technologies
- discontinuous or tweaking or incremental
- improve established product
- same customers
- same technology
Contents of a Business Model
- Customer Value Proposition
- Profit Formula
- Key Resources
- Key Processes
Wheelright & Clark
“Product strategy should answer 4 questions…”
- Who are the target customers
- What products will be offered
- How will they reach the customers
- Why will customers prefer our products to our competitors
Maximize Market leverage from common technology
Process
- segment markets
- identify growth areas
- define current platforms
- analyze competing products
- consider future platforms initiatives
Project Execution
PROJECT TEAM
composition
organization
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
reviews and evaluation
decision making
tools
PROBLEM SOLVING
info gathering
conflict resolution
functionality integrity
Alliance or Partnered Projects
Firm buys a newly designed product or process from another firm
4 Types of Product / Process Development Projects
- New core product
- Next generation product
- Addition to product family
- Add-on and enhancements
Performance Measures for Development Projects
Time to market
Productivity
Quality
5 factors involved in the choices about platform generations
- Technology evolution
- Competition
- ROI
- Customer Support
- Available resources
Linking product / market strategy to specific development projects raises 2 critical issues
- The number, timing and rate of change of platform products
- the number, timing, frequency and relationship of derivative products
Critcal issues in the Product / Market Strategy
- The # of core products
- The 3 of enhanced products
- The frequency of new product introductions
Product / Market planning and strategy addresses 4 important questions
- What products will be offered (breadth and depth)
- Who will be the target customers?
- How will the product reaach the customers (distribution)
- Why will customers prefer ours to the competition?
Invention considerations (issues)
Timing, pre-requisities, resources and specific outsome are largely unpredictable
cause delay, back tracking and disappointment
“Great Leap Forwarde” Technology Strategy
making infrequent but large scale changes in technology that substantially advance the state of the art
“Rapid Inch Up” Technology Strategy
Frequent, small changes in technology that cumulatively lead to continuous performance improvement
After focus is defined, what does the technology strategy need to establish?
The timing and frequency of implementation
Partly technical and introducing into market
Fist step in creating a Technology Strategy?
“Focus” - defines those capabilities to achieve a distinctive advantage to competitors
What Technology Strategies include
“know how” that needs to create, produce and market its product and deliver to its customers
Use “know hows” and “know whys”
Typical Product Hierarchy
- Strategic Plan
- Portfolio Platform
- Program
- Project
- Sub Project
Open Innovation
Use external and internal resources for ideas
external and internal paths to market
use external licenses and processes
Technology Strategy & Planning Objectives
Guides acquistion, development, application of technology for competirive advantage
(includes manufacturing proce4ss and service delivery)
Diversification Strategy
New markets with new products
Product Development Strategy
new products to better satisfy existing market needs
Market Development Strategy
open new markets for established products
Market Penetration Strategy
Further growth from existing products in existing markets
Laying the foundation for projects
- setting out the strategy
- building capabiltity
- acquiring development resources
- defining objectives
- selecting projects
Benefits of a Platform Strategy
- focus on key decisions @ the right time
- enables rapid deployment and consistency
- longer term view of the product strategy
- operational efficiencies
- recognize when product becomes obsolete
Brand
The identify of a specific product
Can be
- symbol
- name
- color combo
- slogan
Strategy
A plan of action to reach a particular goal
Techniques used in Strategic Planning
- SWOT Analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats)
- PEST Analysis - political, economic, social and technical
STEER Analyis - socio-cultural / eco, ecological Regulatory
EPISTEL - environmental, political, informative, social, technical, economic and legal
Strategic Planning
process of defining the strategy or direction and
making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy
including people and capital
Product Innovation
creation and subsequent introduction of good that is new or improved on previous good or service of its kind
Product (noun)
thing or things produced by labor of effort
Balanced Scorecard
Often used to evaluate the performance of the business and progress towards objectives
Strategic Management
entails specifying the co’s mission, vision and objectives
developing policies and plans (projects and programs) to achieve its objectives
allocating resources to implement the policies, plans and programs
Benefits of effective development efforts
Market position
Resource utilization
Organizational renewal and enhancement
Development Strategy Framework
Pre-planning
align technical and product marketing strategies
Problems in New Product and New Process Development
- Moving toward
- mismatches between functions
- lack of product distinctiveness
- unexpected technical problems
- problem solving delays
- unresolved policy issues
Final Element of a Developmental Strategy
Post Project Learning
Integrating / Linking project mgmt elements to Developmental Strategy
Project Strategy
Project Execution
Project Performance
Project Performance Measures
- Lead times
- People, resources
- Project cost
- Project effectivness
Project Strategy
PROJECT CONTENT
- knowledge base
- company views and procedures
PROJECT FOCUS
- scope and context complexity
PRE-PROJECT PLANS
- phases and objectives
- performance measures
- incentives
Strategic Business Unit (SBU)
A business unit w/in the overall corporate identity which is distinguishable from other units because it serves a defined external market.
conducts strategy planning in relation to products in the market
What was TEAM formerly known as?
Team of Destiny
Who is TEAM
is a leadership development co founded by Woodward and Brady in 1999 in Michigan
Brand Equity
marketing efforts andf outcomes that accrue to a product with its brand name compared to others with the same product without the brand name
Market
variety of systems, institutions, procedures, social relations and infrastructures where partners engage in exchange
Mission Statement
Formal, short written statement of the purpose of the company.
- guides actions of the company
- spells out overall goal
- provides sense of direction
- decision making guide
Loss Leader
product sold at a low price (at or below cost) to stimulate other profitable sales
(marketing promotion)
Markov Theory
In probablility theory -
a Markov model is a stochastic model that assumes Markov property
This assumption enables reasoning and computation that would otherwise be intractable
Arena
Event simulation software developed by Rockwell.
Uses SIMAN processor and simulation language
user builds an experimental model by placing models that represented processes or logic
Customer Franchise
the cumulative image of a product, held by the consumer, resulting from long exposure to the product or marketing of the product