Porters three generic strtegies
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This document discusses Porter's three generic strategies for achieving competitive advantage: cost leadership, differentiation, and focus. Cost leadership involves becoming the low-cost producer through economies of scale and other cost advantages. Differentiation requires a firm to uniquely position itself along dimensions valued by customers. Focus involves targeting a narrow scope within an industry and tailoring strategy to a specific segment or segments. The focus strategy has two variants: cost focus and differentiation focus.
Porters three generic strtegies
- 1. Porters Three generic Strategies to be competitive Maxwell Ranasinghe
- 2. Porter's Generic Competitive Strategies (ways of competing) A firm's relative position within its industry determines whether a firm's profitability is above or below the industry average. The fundamental basis of above average profitability in the long run is sustainable competitive advantage.
- 3. There are two basic types of competitive advantage a firm can possess: low cost or differentiation. The two basic types of competitive advantage combined with the scope of activities for which a firm seeks to achieve them, lead to three generic strategies for achieving
- 4. Three strategies cost leadership, differentiation, focus. ( per say is not a strategy but a way) The focus strategy has two variants, cost focus and differentiation focus.
- 6. 1. Cost Leadership In cost leadership, a firm sets out to become the low cost producer in its industry. The sources of cost advantage are varied and depend on the structure of the industry. They may include the pursuit of economies of scale, proprietary technology, preferential access to raw materials and other factors
- 7. A low cost producer must find and exploit all sources of cost advantage If a firm can achieve and sustain overall cost leadership, then it will be an above average performer in its industry, provided it can command prices at or near the industry average.
- 8. 2. Differentiation In a differentiation strategy a firm seeks to be unique in its industry along some dimensions that are widely valued by buyers. It selects one or more attributes that many buyers in an industry perceive as important, and uniquely positions itself to meet those needs. It is rewarded for its uniqueness with a
- 9. 3. Focus The generic strategy of focus rests on the choice of a narrow competitive scope within an industry. The focuser selects a segment or group of segments in the industry and tailors its strategy to serving them to the exclusion of others.
- 10. The focus strategy has two variants. (a) In cost focus a firm seeks a cost advantage in its target segment (b) differentiation focus a firm seeks differentiation in its target segment. Both variants of the focus strategy rest on differences between a focuser's target segment and other