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Michael Porter's generic strategies describe how a company can pursue competitive advantage across its chosen market scope. There are three generic strategies: lower cost, product differentiation, or focus. The focus strategy has two variants, cost focus and differentiation focus, so it is possible to see the concept in terms of four distinct ...
Porter's four corners model is a predictive tool designed by Michael Porter that helps in determining a competitor's course of action. Unlike other predictive models which predominantly rely on a firm's current strategy and capabilities to determine future strategy, Porter's model additionally calls for an understanding of what motivates the competitor.
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.
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. Porter's generic strategies detail the interaction between cost minimization strategies, product differentiation ...
In this model, four attributes are taken into consideration: factor conditions, demand conditions, related and supporting industries, and firm strategy, structure, and rivalry. According to Michael Porter, the model's creator, "These determinants create the national environment in which companies are born and learn how to compete." [1]
According to few scholars and critics, Bowman's Strategy Clock is an extended version to the Porter's Generic Strategies. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It is used as an approach which is widely conceived as a competitive strategy model to understanding competitive positioning and strategic choice. [ 7 ]
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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]