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Market Size: Actual and Potential

Size refers to volume of sales within a particular
market
Submarkets
Smaller segments within the larger market that are
quite distinct based on defined features

Large subdivided within the shampoo market

include antidandruff , medicated

Sources that help identify actual market

size include
Governments, trade associations,
competitors financial reports.
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Figure 4.1

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Potential Market: The User Gap

Considerations in terms of
New use of the existing product
A new user group for the existing product
Increased frequency of use

These factors can dramatically change the

size and prospects of the existing market
Ghost Potential possibility of existing
potential but can not be exploited due to external
reasons.
Small market size can be good

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Market Growth
Estimated market size in future
Percentage increase in sales and profits
even without increasing market share.
Market growth will correspond with product
lifecycle
Growth pattern and the Driving Forces
Driving Forces and Growth Factor analysis
Forecasting growth
Demographic Trends
Sales of related equipment
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Detecting Maturity and Decline

Price pressure caused by overcapacity and the lack
of product differentiation
Buyer sophistication and knowledge
Substitute products or technologies
Saturation
No growth sources
Customer disinterest

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Porters Five-Factor Model of

Market Profitability
Competition
Competition
among
among
existing
existingfirms
firms
Threat
Threat of
of
Potential
Potential
Entrants
Entrants
Bargaining
Bargaining
Power of
of
Power
Suppliers
Suppliers
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Industry
Profitability

Threat of
of
Threat
Substitute
Substitute
Products
Products
Bargaining
Bargaining
Power
Power of
of
Customers
Customers

Source: Adapted from Michael E. Porter, Industry Structure

Competitive
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Strategy: Keys to Profitability Financial Analysis Journal,July-August 1980,p.33.

Cost Structure
Cost structure analysis will provide into the
key success factors
Examination of the Value Chain to explore
where Cost advantages can be created

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Distribution Systems
What are the alternative distribution
channels?
What trends are observed in terms of
growing importance and channel
emergence?
Who has the power in the channel, what
are the trends of shifting power?

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Market Trend
What are current market trends?
What's changing
How important?

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Small opportunities are often the

beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes

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How do you differentiate between

the two
What is driving it?
Solid foundations
Driven by demographics not influence

Accessibility in main stream

Niche vs Broad

How broad is its influence?

Multiple industries will be influenced

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Key Success Factors

Assets and competencies that provide the
basis for competing successfully
Strategic necessities
Strategic Strengths

Found in value chain

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Risks of
High-Growth
Market
Competitive
CompetitiveRisk
Risk
Overcrowding
Overcrowding
Superior
Superiorcompetitive
competitive
entry
entry

FirmLimitations
Limitations
Firm
Resourceconstraints
constraints
Resource
Distribution
Distribution
unavailable
unavailable

Market Changes
Changes
Market
Changing KSFs
KSFs
Changing
New technology
technology
New

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Disappointing growth
growth
Disappointing
Price instability
instability
Price
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The quality of decision is like the welltimed swoop of a falcon that enables it
to strike and destroy its victim.
- Sun Tzu

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