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Business Level Strategy
Strategies at SBU level
Bases of competition•Price•Differentiation•Hybrid•Focus
Achieving competitive advantage•Sustainability•Hypercompetition•Collaboration•Game theory
Detailed Choices•Directions•Methods
Needs/risks1. ‘No frills’ Likely to be segment
specific2. Low price Risk of price war and
low margins; need to be price leader
Price-based Strategiese.g. Japanese automakers, Indian Pharma, etc.
Price-based Strategies•‘no frills’ strategy – combine low price, low perceived value product benefits and a focus on a price-sensitive segment
•Low price strategy – achieve a lower price than competitors while maintaining similar perceived value product benefits
•When – Commodity/ commodity-like, price-sensitive customers, high buyer power and/or low switching costs, small no. of providers with similar market shares, to avoid major competitors
•Pitfalls – margin reduction, inability to reinvest, useless without a low-cost base
Needs/risks3. Hybrid Low cost base and
reinvestment in low price and differentiation
4. Differentiation a) without price premium
Perceived value added by user, yielding market share benefit
b) with price premium
Perceived value added sufficient to bear price premium
5. Focused differentiation
Perceived value added to a particular segment, warranting price premium
Differentiation-based Strategies
Differentiation (Route 4)
•Differentiation strategy – Provide products benefits that are different form those of competitors and that are widely valued by buyers
•Implications – who is the strategic customer? What is valued? Who are the competitors?
Hybrid strategy (Route 3)
•Hybrid strategy – simultaneously achieve differentiation and a price lower than competitors
•Implications – Better margins if the greater volumes can be achieved than competitors; clarity on activities on which differentiation can be built; May prove to be beneficial when entering new markets with established competitors•E.g. IKEA
Focused differentiation (route 5)
• – provide high perceived product benefits justifying a substantial price premium (usually in a niche)
•Issues – How to grow further?; Difficult when adopted as only part of an firm’s overall strategy; may conflict with stakeholder expectations; potential risks (niche vanishes, segments blurred, etc.)•E.g. Harley-Davidson
Needs/risks6. Increased price/standard value
Higher margins if competitors do not follow; risk of losing market share
7. Increased price/low value
Only feasible in monopoly situation
8. Low value/standard price
Loss of market share
Strategies destined to fail
Failure Strategies (route 6, 7 and 8)
• – does not provide perceived value-for-money in terms of product features, price or both
•In addition, firms may get ‘stuck in the middle’ leading to failure
Sustaining Competitive Advantage
Sustaining Competitive Advantage
Price-based Strategies•Accept reduced margin•Win a price war•Reduce costs•Focus on specific segments
Differentiation•Create difficulties of imitation•Achieve imperfect mobility (of resources/competencies)•Reinvest margin
Lock in•Achieve size/market dominance•First-mover advantage•Reinforcement•Rigorous enforcement
Price-based Strategies•Accept reduced margins – sell more volume/ cross-subsidize that business unit from elsewhere in its portfolio. E.g. Targeting BOP•Win a price war– leverage on lower cost structure; ‘deep pockets’ to bear short- mid-term losses to drive out competitors. E.g. Wal-Mart•Innovate in reducing costs – leverage specific capabilities to drive down costs across the value chain; e.g. Airtel•Focusing on market segment – single minded focus
Differentiation-based Strategies
•Create difficulties of imitation - transferability, preferred access, situation dependent, sunk costs•Imperfect mobility– can the resources/ capabilities be traded? Intangible assets (brand/reputation), Switching costs, Co-specialization•Reinvest margin– Imp. to achieve and sustain lower cost position
Lock-in
•Lock-in- when a firm achieves a proprietary position in its industry; becomes an industry standard. E.g. Microsoft•Dependent on– size or market dominance, first mover advantage, self-reinforcing, rigorous enforcement
Competitive Strategy in Hypercompetitive Conditions
Hoarding of Jet Airways in a Busy Road in Mumbai
What Happened Next…
A Few Days Latter…
And Finally …
Competitive strategies
Overcoming competitors’ barriers•Shorter life cycles•Undermine strongholds•Counter ‘Deep pocket’ advantages
Competing successfully•Pre-empt competition (new strategies)•Do not attack competitors’ weaknesses•Disrupt the market•Be unpredictable•Mislead competitors•A series of smaller moves
Overcoming competitors’ market-based moves•Block first mover advantages•Imitate product/market moves
Repositioning
RepositioningE.g. Position 5 to position 4
Overcoming competitors’ market-based moves
•Block first mover advantages (e.g. leapfrog, attack a particular segment, start with ‘no frills’ strategy)
•Imitate product/market moves
Overcoming competitors’ barriers•Shorter life cycles (e.g. for markets where technology advances are rapid)•Undermine strongholds (e.g. very different business models, e-business, etc.)•Counter ‘Deep pocket’ advantages` (e.g. avoid direct competition, build alliances)
Competing successfully•Pre-empt competition (new strategies) e.g. Sony•Do not attack competitors’ weaknesses•Disrupt the market, e.g. Apple•Be unpredictable•Mislead competitors•A series of smaller moves
Competition & Collaboration
Organizational Field- a community of organizations that partake of a common meaning
system and whose participants interact more frequently with one another than with those outside the field
•E.g. Silicon valley
Competition &
Collaboration
Stakeholder expectations
Increased buying power
Decreased risk of substitution
Increased selling power
Increased barrier to entry
Shared work with customers
Entry to New Markets
Increased selling powere.g. Working closely with the client…Intel works closely with OEMs
To increase buying powere.g. Working closely with Suppliers….Offering some suppliers preferred supplier status…. Many OEM use this strategy… e.g. Dell
To build barriers to entry or avoid substitutione.g. Industry bodies/trade associations are formed …. Coffee … tea
To gain entry and competitive powere.g. Joint ventures are formed…. For venturing into new/international markets
To share work with customerse.g. P&G’s co-creation with customersIn 2010, Harley-Davidson started ‘Crowdsourcing’ for Marketing and product ideas
PPPe.g. Lifebuoy Swasthya Chetna with Government of India, for selling soup to rural/low income populationMCX’s Gramin Suvidha Kendra – PPP with India Post