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Porter wrote in 1980 that strategy targets either cost leadership, differentiation, or focus. [1] These are known as Porter's three generic strategies and can be applied to any size or form of business. Porter claimed that a company must only choose one of the three or risk that the business would waste precious resources.
Cost leadership is often driven by company efficiency, size, scale, scope and cumulative experience (learning curve). A cost leadership strategy aims to exploit scale of production, well-defined scope and other economies (e.g., a good purchasing approach), producing highly standardized products, using advanced technology. [2]
Michael Porter's Three Generic Strategies. Porter wrote in 1980 that strategy target either cost leadership, differentiation, or focus. [21] These are known as Porter's three generic strategies and can be applied to any size or form of business.
The Porter hypothesis has been applied to REACH. In one conclusion, [3] companies that adopt a cost leadership business strategy and have a relatively small product portfolio will fare better than companies that compete by product differentiation and have a larger number of chemicals that require regulation.
Michael Eugene Porter (born May 23, 1947) [2] is an American businessman and professor at Harvard Business School.He was one of the founders of the consulting firm The Monitor Group (now part of Deloitte) and FSG, a social impact consultancy.
By narrowing the market down to smaller segments, businesses are able to meet the needs of the consumer. Porter believes that once businesses have decided what groups they will target, it is essential to decide if they will take the cost leadership approach or differentiation approach. Focus strategy will not make a business successful.
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In his book Competitive Strategy, Michael Porter stated that there are only two basic competitive advantages, and thus only two main generic strategies: cost leadership and differentiation, and further, that attempts to achieve both at once will result in doing neither well. [10] Porter assumes a tradeoff between quality and price. [11]