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Chapter 4
Exploring the External Environment:
Macro and Industry Dynamics
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OBJECTIVES
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THE COLA WARS
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THE COLA WARS (TIMELINE)
Unit of measure
Coca-Cola Pepsi
• An internal analysis is
just half of what is
Internal
needed to build
• Strengths strategy
• Weaknesses • The SWOT and more
complicated
• Capabilities
frameworks help us
• Relationships understand the full
• Etc. picture
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COMPARATIVE INDUSTRY – WIDE LEVEL OF PROFITABILITY, 1995 – 2004
Unit of measure
Weighted average return on invested capital
Percent
25
20
15
10
-5
Bever- Ciga- Pharma- Eating Steel Rail- Truck- Bott- Comp- Agri- Pre- Air- Wire-
ages rettes ceuticals esta- roads ing lers uters cul- pack lines less
blish- tural aged pro-
ments pro soft viders
ducts ware
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Source: Data from Standard and Poor’s CompuStat 6
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THE EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE ORGANIZATION
Unit of measure
Macro Environment
Political, Economic, Sociocultural,
Technological, Environmental, Legal
Industry Environment
Strategic Group
The Organization
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KEY QUESTION TO ASK
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UNDERSTANDING THE MACRO ENVIRONMENT USING A PESTEL ANALYSIS
Unit of measure
• How stable is the political environment?
Political • Tax policies
• Etc.
• Projected interest rates?
Economic • Inflation?
• Etc.
• Lifestyle trends?
Socio-cultural • Demographic changes?
• Etc.
• Level of government research funding?
Technological • How mature is technology?
• Etc.
• Is intellectual property protected?
Legal • Relevant consumer laws?
• Etc.
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PRESSURES FAVORING INDUSTRY GLOBALIZATION
Unit of measure
Markets Costs Governments Competition
Source: * Adapted
Footnotefrom M.E. Porter, Competition in Global industries (Boston: Harvard Business School Press,
1986); G. Yip, “Global Strategy in a World of Nations, “ Sloan Management review 31:1 (1989), 29-40 10
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COMPETITION DRIVES PROFITS TO A “NORMAL” LEVEL
Unit of measure
Profits
Competition (above
Profits normal)
(above
normal)
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KEY SUCCESS FACTORS AS BARRIERS TO ENTRY
Unit of measure
Global presence
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INDUSTRY FRAGMENTATION AND CONCENTRATION
Unit of measure
* Footnote
13
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CONCENTRATION IN SELECT U.S. INDUSTRIES
Unit of measure Others
Percent of market Top four competitors
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, “Economic Census: Concentration Rations”, Economic Census 2002 (accessed July
* Footnote
15,2005),www.census.gov/epcd/www/concentration.html 14
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ANALYZING INDUSTRY STRUCTURE USING FIVE – FORCES
Unit of measure
C Threat of New Entrants (and Entry Barriers)
om
• ple • Absolute cost advantages
Nu men • Proprietary learning curve
• mb
e
tor
s
• Relativ r of co • Access to inputs
Bar ev m
• r a pl • Government policy
Dif iers to lue a emen
• ficu
l co dde ts • Economies of scale
• Buyer ty of en mplem d • Capital requirements
Co p
mp erce gagin ent e Industry value chain –
lem p gc ntry • Brand identity
ent tion o o from raw materials and
exc f com mplem • Switching costs
lus other inputs, to channel
ivit plem ents • Access to distribution
y ent to end consumer
s • Expected retaliation
• Proprietary products
Supplier Power Degree of Rivalry Buyer Power (Channel and End consumer)
• Supplier concentration • Exit barriers • Bargaining leverage
• Importance of volume to supplier • Industry concentration • Buyer volume
• Differentiation of inputs • Fixed costs/value added • Buyer information
• Impact of inputs on cost or differentiation • Industry growth • Brand identity
• Switching costs of firms in the industry • Intermittent overcapacity • Price sensitivity
• Presence of substitute inputs • Product differences • Threat of backward integration
• Threat of forward integration • Switching costs • Product differentiation
• Cost relative to total purchases in industry • Brand identity • Buyer concentration vs. industry
• Diversity of rivals • Substitutes available
• Corporate stakes • Buyer’s incentives
Threat of Substitutes
• Switching costs
• Buyer inclination to substitute
• Price-performance tradeoff of
substitutes
• Varity of substitutes
Source: * Adapted from M.E. Porter, Competitive Strategy:
Footnote • Techniques
Necessity offorproduct
Analyzing Industries and Competitors (New York: Free Press,
or service
1980) 15
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CAUSES OF RIVARLY
Unit of measure
Barriers to Entry Barriers to Exit
In addition to entry
and exit barriers,
many factors drive
rivalry
• History of price wars
• Industry
concentration
• Market growth
• Strong brands • Few other opportunities
• Proprietary technology • Sunk investments • Etc.
• Start-up costs • Etc.,
• Etc.,
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SUPPLIER POWER
Unit of measure
Others 50
DeBeers 50
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17
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BUYER POWER ILLUSTRATIVE
Unit of measure
Industry A Industry B
Suppliers Buyers Suppliers Buyers
In industries
characterized with
many suppliers
and few buyers,
buyers often
capture a greater
Profits Profits share of profits
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THREAT OF SUBSTITUTES
Unit of measure
Soft drinks Movie rentals
Block buster
Coke Pepsi
Cable TV
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IMPACT OF COMPLEMENTOR
Unit of measure
Complementor: Three Examples
MPS player
Delta plane
orders
+
Lower costs from Boeing
American
Airlines
plane orders
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MAPPING STRATEGY GROUPS: U.S. BICYCLE INDUSTRY
Unit of measure
High
Cannondale, Gary
Fisher, Klein
Price/quality/image
Huffy,
Murray,
Brunswick
Trek Schwinn/GT
Specialized Mongoose
Low
Independent Independent Mass
dealers dealers and mass merchandisers
merchandisers only
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HOW WOULD YOU DO THAT? – U.S. AIRLINE INDUSTRY
Unit of measure
New
entrants?
How
Supplier Buyer
would you Rivalry?
power? power?
define the
industry?
Co
m ple
me
nto
Substitutes? r s?
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IMPORTANCE OF DYNAMIC STRATEGIC ANALYSIS
Unit of measure
Pineapple Pineapple
industry industry post
pre-1980s introduction
Fresh Del-Monte
introduces the “Extra
Sweet Gold” brighter
Fresh
color, sweeter,
Del-Monte
resistant to nothing
(70%)
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INDUSTRY LIFE CYCLE
Unit of measure
Market Size
Time
Source: Adapted from K. Rangan and G. Bowman, “Beating the Commodity Magnet,” Industrial Marketing Management 21 (1992), 215-224; P. Kotler,
“Managing
* Products through their Product Life Cycle,” in Marketing Management: Planning, Implementation, and Control, 7th ed (Upper Saddle River, NJ:
Footnote
Prentice Hall, 1991) 24
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TECHNOLOGICAL DISCONTINUITIES
Unit of measure
Example
In disk-drive industry,
Product-related virtually every new
generation of technology
led to demise of market
leader
Discontinuities
Southwest airlines
Process-related radically changed the
airline business model
by adopting new
processes (e.g., a
point-to-point model)
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WHEN INDUSTRIES DIVIDE OR COLLIDE
Unit of measure
Industries Divide Industries Collide
Launches
palm pilot/
creates Radio
3-Com first PDA
Cable
Invents
Modems Media
new Modems
conglomerate
interface
TV
Production
• Time Warner
• Viacom
TV • Disney
networks
• Etc.
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SCENARIO PLANNING
Unit of measure
An understanding of the big picture
and a plan to manage uncertainty
change in these areas, however, the compete more intensely. At the same time,
changing basis of competition, new business technical innovations have not developed as
Technological Change
models, human resource challenges, and quickly as many observers and analysts had
industry dynamics are different enough to predicted
pose significant challenges for many
financial-services companies
Technocracy 2005: Chameleon 2005:
The wide-scale adoption of the internet by Radical changes occurring in the playing field
U.S. consumers has led to massive and in technology make this a highly tumultuous
technological innovation for financial-services scenario for all credit unions. The nature of
Radical
companies, increasing their range of competition has evolved so much that banks and
distribution channels, as well as their credit unions compete directly – under the same
products, services, and geographic scope. rules of the game. This situation has caused a
Regulations and other changes in the playing wide-scale convergence of cultures among
field, however, have been slow to follow various financial-services providers, testing the
boundaries of the traditional credit-union mission
Source: * Adapted
Footnotefrom Credit Union Society, 2005: Scenarios for Credit Unions, an Executive Report (Madison, WI: Credit Union
Executives Society, 1999) 28
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SUMMARY
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