Exploring Corporate Strategy 8e, © Pearson Education The Focus of Part 1: The Strategic Position  How to analyse an organisation’s position in the external environment  How to analyse the determinants of strategic capability  How to understand an organisation’s purposes, taking into account corporate governance, stakeholder expects and business ethics  How to address the role of history and culture in determining an organisation’s position

The Strategic Position 2: The Environment

Exploring Corporate Strategy 8e, © Pearson Education Learning Outcomes (1)  Analyse the broad macro-environment of organisations in terms of political, economic, social, technological, environmental and legal factors  Identify key drivers in this macro- environment and use these key drivers to construct alternative scenarios with regard to environmental change

Exploring Corporate Strategy 8e, © Pearson Education Learning Outcomes (2)  Use five forces analysis in order to define the attractiveness of industries and sectors for investment and to identify their potential for change  Identify strategic groups, market segments, and critical success factors, and use them in order to recognise strategic gaps and opportunities in the market

Exploring Corporate Strategy 8e, © Pearson Education Exhibit 2.1 Layers of the business environment The Organisation

Exploring Corporate Strategy 8e, © Pearson Education The Macro-Environment PESTEL Scenarios Key drivers

Exploring Corporate Strategy 8e, © Pearson Education PESTEL Framework PoliticalEconomic Technological EnvironmentalLegal Social

Exploring Corporate Strategy 8e, © Pearson Education The PESTEL Framework

Exploring Corporate Strategy 8e, © Pearson Education What Are Key Drivers for Change? Key drivers for change are environmental factors that are likely to have a high impact on the success or failure of strategy.

Exploring Corporate Strategy 8e, © Pearson Education What is a Scenario? Scenarios are detailed and plausible views of how the business environment of an organisation might develop in the future based on key drivers for change about which there is a high level of uncertainty.

Exploring Corporate Strategy 8e, © Pearson Education Industries and Sectors Competitive forces Competitive cycles Industry life cycle

Exploring Corporate Strategy 8e, © Pearson Education Exhibit 2.2 The Five Forces Framework Competitive rivalry Potential entrants Buyers Substitutes Suppliers

Exploring Corporate Strategy 8e, © Pearson Education The Threat of Entry: Barriers to Entry Scale and experience Access to supply and distribution channels Expected retaliation Legislation or government action Differentiation

Exploring Corporate Strategy 8e, © Pearson Education Why Are Substitutes a Threat? Substitutes can reduce demand for a particular class of products as customers switch to alternatives. Price/performance ratio Extra-industry effects

Exploring Corporate Strategy 8e, © Pearson Education The Power of Buyers Are buyers concentrated? What are the costs of switching? Does backward vertical integration exist?

Exploring Corporate Strategy 8e, © Pearson Education The Power of Suppliers Are suppliers concentrated? What are the costs of switching? Does forward vertical integration exist?

Exploring Corporate Strategy 8e, © Pearson Education Degree of Competitive Rivalry  Competitor balance  Industry growth rate  High fixed costs  High exit barriers  Low differentiation

Exploring Corporate Strategy 8e, © Pearson Education Managerial Implications  Which industries should we enter or leave?  What influence can we exert?  How are competitors differently affected?

Exploring Corporate Strategy 8e, © Pearson Education Other Issues in a Five Forces Analysis  Define the ‘right’ industry  Determine whether industries are converging  Identify complementary products

Exploring Corporate Strategy 8e, © Pearson Education Exhibit 2.3 The Industry Life Cycle

Exploring Corporate Strategy 8e, © Pearson Education Exhibit 2.4 Cycles of Competition

Exploring Corporate Strategy 8e, © Pearson Education 2008 New entrants to a market should identify potential customers based upon the markets of established incumbent(s). There are three types of customers:  Undershot – willing to pay more for more functions/services  Overshot – find current offering more than adequate  Non-consumers – lack ability or the wealth for current service / products  For a new entrant, the best market is the non-consumer (also the least demanding) who is “below the radar” of the incumbents.  The second best target group is the Overshot Customer (specialist displacement for mainstream) who is willing to accept a more specialised product/service than the broader offering of the incumbent, or one who is looking for something cheaper and “good enough” (low end).  Usually, the products/services for the non-consumer market are relatively simple and affordable and make it easier for the customers to do something that they could not do before, or was much too difficult or costly. For instance, open source CMS and blog software have made it easy for anyone to set up a database-driven website. Previously, only large organisations could afford an enterprise system. Non-consumers, small & medium-sized businesses, have adopted these open source systems under the radar screen of the major vendors and created a new market.  Other factors include non-market conditions, such as new regulations, that change the way the market will behave. The requirements for compliance training have created a new market for cheap and easy training programs.  In order to address these markets of non-consumers or overshot customers, the entrant needs Asymmetric Skills & Asymmetric Motivation. The entrant must be able to do something that the incumbent firm is not capable of doing or not motivated to do. Web 2.0 has opened up a whole array of skills that can give an entrant an unfair advantage. 2-22

Exploring Corporate Strategy 8e, © Pearson Education What is Hypercompetition? Hypercompetition occurs where the frequency, boldness and aggressiveness of dynamic movements by competitors accelerate to create a condition of constant disequilibrium and change.

Exploring Corporate Strategy 8e, © Pearson Education Exhibit 2.5 Comparative Industry Structure Analysis

Exploring Corporate Strategy 8e, © Pearson Education Competitors and Markets Strategic groups Strategic customers Market segments

Exploring Corporate Strategy 8e, © Pearson Education What are Strategic Groups? Strategic groups are organisations within an industry with similar strategic characteristics, following similar strategies or competing on similar bases.

Exploring Corporate Strategy 8e, © Pearson Education Characteristics for Identifying Strategic Groups Scope of activities  Extent of product diversity  Extent of geographic coverage  Number of segments served  Distribution channels Resource commitment  Extent of branding  Marketing effort  Extent of vertical integration  Product quality  Technological leadership  Organisational size

Exploring Corporate Strategy 8e, © Pearson Education Benefits of Identifying Strategic Groups Understanding competition Analysis of strategic opportunities Analysis of mobility barriers

Exploring Corporate Strategy 8e, © Pearson Education What is a Market Segment? A market segment is a group of customers who have similar needs that are different from customer needs in other parts of the market.

Exploring Corporate Strategy 8e, © Pearson Education Exhibit 2.7 Some Bases of Market Segmentation

Exploring Corporate Strategy 8e, © Pearson Education Managerial Issues in Market Segmentation  How do customer needs vary by market?  What is the relative market share within market segments?  How can market segments be identified and ‘serviced’?

Exploring Corporate Strategy 8e, © Pearson Education What is a Strategic Customer? A strategic customer is the person(s) at whom the strategy is primarily addressed because they have the most influence over which goods or services are purchased.

Exploring Corporate Strategy 8e, © Pearson Education What are Critical Success Factors? Critical success factors (CSFs) are those product features with which a organisation must outperform the competition because they are particularly valued by a group of customers.

Exploring Corporate Strategy 8e, © Pearson Education Types of Opportunity In substitute industries In other strategic groups In targeting buyers For complementary products In new market segments Over time

Exploring Corporate Strategy 8e, © Pearson Education Case Example: The European Brewing Industry  Complete a PESTEL analysis of the European brewing industry.  Complete a five forces analysis for the industry.