Friday, 29 June 2012

CHAPTER 2 - IDENTIFYING COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES

Hye , hello , nihao my beloved reader :)


Today i'm going to explain about this chapter which is identifying competitive advantages.

Did you understand what means by competitive advantages , first- mover advantages and environmental scanning ? NO ? good , i'm going to tell you right now (excited) :P . hihi



  1. COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE is a product or service that organization's customers place a greater value on than similar offerings from a competitor. For example before we have fire fly , MAS follow Air Asia.
  2. FIRST - MOVER ADVANTAGES occur when organization can significantly impact its market share by being first to market with competitive advantage. For example , Air Asia have 1st advantages strategy and at the same times others company trying to follow.
  3. ENVIRONMENTAL SCANNING is the acquisition and analysis of events and trends in the environment external to an organization. For example , blog , have competitive advantage , we have to scan online :)


 MAS follow Air asia ~~

Okay , lets proceed with 3 common tools to analyze and develop competitive advantages :
  1. Five forces model
  2. The three generic strategies
  3. value chain
Next , lets go through one by one.  Firstly is Five forces model.  It contain :
  • Buyer power
  • supplier power
  • Threat of substitute products and services
  • Treat of new entrants
  • Rivalry among existing competitors
Secondly is 3 generic strategies contain :
  1. Broad cost leadership
  2. Broad differentiation
  3. Focused strategy
And lastly is Value chain :

 A  business process is standardized set of activities that accomplish a specific task , such as processing customer order. Besides that the value chain approach views an organization as a series of processes , each of which adds value to the product or service for each customer and  value chain must enable the organization to provide unique value to its customer.

Okay , it is clear ?  If clear , alhamdulillah , if not , please re-read this. haha . That's all . see for the next entry :) ~~~~









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