The Structural Analysis of Industries

Description
structural determinants of the intensity of competition, Porter’s Five Forces Model and structural analysis and competitive strategy.

An Abstraction From The Book “COMPETITIVE STRATEGY” by Michel Porter

Contents
? Introduction ? Structural Determinants Of The Intensity Of

Competition
? Threat Of Entry ? Barriers To Entry ? Expected Retaliation ? Bargaining Power Of Suppliers

? Bargaining Power Of Buyers ? Pressure From Substitute Product ? Intensity Of Rivalry Among Existing Competitors

? Entry Barriers And Exit Barriers
? Structural Analysis And Competitive Strategy ? Conclusion

Introduction
? What is Industry?
?Why Structural Analysis is needed?
? Formulation Of competitive Strategy ? Intensity Of Competition

Structural Determinants Of The Intensity Of Competition
? Return On Investment
? Five Competitive Forces ? Short Run Factors

Porter’s Five Forces Model

Porter’s Five Forces Model
Threat of Threat of New New Entrants Entrants

Threat of New Entrants
Economies of Scale

Barriers to Entry

Product Differentiation Capital Requirements Switching Costs Access to Distribution Channels Cost Disadvantages Independent of Scale Government Policy Expected Retaliation

Porter’s Five Forces Model
Threat of New Threat of Entrants New Entrants

Bargaining Power of Suppliers

Bargaining Power of Suppliers
Suppliers are likely to be powerful if:

Suppliers exert power in the industry by: * Threatening to raise prices or to reduce quality Powerful suppliers can squeeze industry profitability if firms are unable to recover cost increases

Supplier industry is dominated by a few firms Suppliers’ products have few substitutes Buyer is not an important customer to supplier

Suppliers’ product is an important input to buyers’ product
Suppliers’ products are differentiated Suppliers’ products have high switching costs

Porter’s Five Forces Model
Threat of New Entrants

Bargaining Power of Suppliers

Bargaining Power of Buyers

Bargaining Power of Buyers
Buyer groups are likely to be powerful if: ? Buyers are concentrated or purchases are large relative to seller’s sales
? Purchase accounts for a significant fraction of

supplier’s sales
? Products are undifferentiated
? Buyers face few switching costs

? Buyer has full information
? Product unimportant to quality ? Buyer presents a credible threat of backward

integration

Porter’s Five Forces Model
Threat of New Entrants

Bargaining Power of Suppliers

Bargaining Power of Buyers

Threat of Substitute Products

Threat of Substitute Products
? Products that can perform the same functions.
? All firms in the industry compete with each other. ? Can limit the potential returns. ? More attractive price –performance alternatives get

industry profits. Eg: High fractose corn syrup

Threat of Substitute Products
Keys to evaluate substitute products: Products with improving price/performance tradeoffs relative to present industry products Example: Electronic security systems in place of security guards Fax machines in place of overnight mail delivery Products with similar function limit the prices firms can charge

Porter’s Five Forces Model
Threat of New Entrants

Bargaining Power of Suppliers

Rivalry Among Competing Firms in Industry

Bargaining Power of Buyers

Threat of Substitute Products

Rivalry Among Existing Competitors
Intense rivalry often plays out in the following ways:
Jockeying for strategic position Using price competition Staging advertising battles Increasing consumer warranties or service

Making new product introductions

Occurs when a firm is pressured or sees an opportunity :
Price competition often leaves the entire industry worse off Advertising battles may increase total industry demand, but may be costly to smaller competitors

Rivalry Among Existing Competitors
Cutthroat competition is more likely to occur when:
Numerous or equally balanced competitors Slow growth industry

High fixed costs
High storage costs Lack of differentiation or switching costs

Capacity added in large increments
Diverse competitors High strategic stakes

High exit barriers

Structural Analysis And Competitive Strategy
Approaches For An Effective Competitive Strategy :
? Positioning The Firm ? Influencing the Balance Of Forces ? Exploiting Change ? Diversification Strategy

Conclusion
? It is common to find people getting confused between

industry definition and business definition.
? The Business Definition is about focusing on the products,

customers and markets that the firm competes in.
? According to Industry Definition It encapsulates not only

the process by which the products are made and delivered but also alternate processes that can be adopted for making similar products so that efficiencies and effectiveness of various processes can always be monitored.



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