Industry: Sector Report Description: This industry profile is an essential tool to help your company gain an in-depth knowledge and competitive advantage in the industry. The profile is an assimilation of insider knowledge, market characteristics and economic indicators. It analyzes the critical success factors in the industry – how the industry has evolved and how competitive dynamics have impacted market behavior. Sectional Highlights -- Structure of the industry, market size, and growth rates have been
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[pic]Porter's Four Corners Model Porter’s four corners model is a predictive tool designed by Michael Porter that helps in determining a competitor’s course of action. Unlike other predictive models which predominantly rely on a firm’s current strategy and capabilities to determine future strategy, Porter’s model additionally calls for an understanding of what motivates the competitor. This added dimension of understanding a competitor's internal culture, value system, mindset and assumptions help
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business STRATEGIC AND COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS: Methods and Techniques for Analyzing Business Competition 1 © The MindShifts Group Pty Ltd Page 1 of 5 www.mindshifts.com.au STRATEGIC AND COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS: Methods and Techniques for Analyzing Business Competition By Craig Fleisher and Babette Bensoussan (Prentice Hall, 2002) Book Description Given the priority of competitiveness in modern companies, practitioners of competitive or strategic corporate intelligence (CI) need to come to terms with
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of companies (Beretta, Dossi and Grove, 1998). My aim for this essay is to explain the concept of benchmarking using a range of sources. I will also critically analyze how and why organizations use benchmarking as a weapon to persist in today’s competitive business environment to see if it really is that effective. Benchmarking is the continuous analysis of processes, functions, strategies, performances and many other aspects of a business compared with or between the “best-in-class” organizations
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bakery products, meats and seafood, produce, cheese and dairy, and wines. The company wants to expand with a new location. With the expansion, Kudler needs to focus on the marketing strategy and incorporate additional marketing research. Competitive intelligence and analysis helps Kudler redefine the marketing strategy. Importance of Marketing Research According Kerin, et. al. (2009), “Marketing research is the process of defining a marketing problem and opportunity, systemically collecting and
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------------------------------------------------- Dear Hiring Manager, I am applying for the Competitive Intelligence Analyst position at Google. Working at Google has always been a dream for me and this position excites me further because it involves my passion for research and keeping abreast of the technology industry. I do understand that my career path so far isn’t that of a typical intelligence analyst. However, I believe that many of the skills I gained during my five years as a business
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To perform an external audit, a company first must gather competitive intelligence and information about social, cultural, demographic, environmental, economic, political, legal, governmental and technological trends. 8) Freund argues that key external factors must not be hierarchical. 9) The I/O approach to competitive advantage advocates that internal factors are more important than external factors in a firm achieving competitive advantage. 10) An economic trend in America is the increasing
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1. Explain how Ben & Jerry’s is using business intelligence tools to remain successful and competitive in a saturated market. -Ben & Jerry’s is using BI software to track the ingredients and the life of each pint they sell. Their BI software can track anything from what supplier’s milk was used in making a certain pint to where the cherries used in the Cherry Garcia pint came from. The BI software helps Ben & Jerry’s “access, analyze, and act on customer information collected by the sales, finance
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Competitive Intelligence Term Paper Dr. Ahmed Nassar Prepared by Ahmed Ibrahim Ahmed El Mizayen 1. What is CI? he process of collecting and analyzing information about competitors’ strengths and weaknesses in a legal and ethical manner to enhance business decision-making. Competitive intelligence activities can be basically grouped into two main types – 1) Tactical, which is shorter-term and seeks to provide input into issues such as capturing market share or increasing revenues;
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Proctor & Gamble Competitive Intelligence Case Tristen Leeder RES/351 January 14, 2013 Instructor: Steve Roussas Abstract In this paper I will show the usefulness of corporate intelligence. While this tool is helpful in making solid business decisions effort needs to go into monitoring of the gathering process. Intelligence gathered by unethical means does more harm to an organization then good. The financial repercussions of involvement in corporate spying are steep, and the
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