Strategy and Competitive Advantage
Winning business strategies are grounded in sustainable competitive advantage.
A company has competitive advantage whenever it has an edge over rivals
in securing customers and defending against competitive forces. There are
many sources of competitive advantage: making the highest-quality product,
providing superior customer service, achieving lower costs than rivals, having
a more convenient geographic location, designing a product that performs better
than competing brands, making a more reliable and longer-lasting product,
and providing buyers more value for the money (a combination of good quality,
good service, and acceptable price). To succeed in building a competitive
advantage, a firm must try to provide what buyers will perceive as "superior
value"-either a good product at a low price or a "better" product that is worth
paying more for.
This chapter focuses on how a company can achieve or defend a competitive
advantage1 We begin by describing the basic types of competitive strategies
and then examine how these approaches rely on offensive moves to build
competitive advantage and defensive moves to protect competitive advantage.
Strategy and Competitive AdvantageWinning business strategies are grounded in sustainable competitive advantage.A company has competitive advantage whenever it has an edge over rivalsin securing customers and defending against competitive forces. There aremany sources of competitive advantage: making the highest-quality product,providing superior customer service, achieving lower costs than rivals, havinga more convenient geographic location, designing a product that performs betterthan competing brands, making a more reliable and longer-lasting product,and providing buyers more value for the money (a combination of good quality,good service, and acceptable price). To succeed in building a competitiveadvantage, a firm must try to provide what buyers will perceive as "superiorvalue"-either a good product at a low price or a "better" product that is worthpaying more for.This chapter focuses on how a company can achieve or defend a competitiveadvantage1 We begin by describing the basic types of competitive strategiesand then examine how these approaches rely on offensive moves to buildcompetitive advantage and defensive moves to protect competitive advantage.
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