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[BS-3] Internal Analysis& Competitive Advantage, G7 (陳譽方 Sophie, 陳湘琳…
[BS-3] Internal Analysis&
Competitive Advantage
Resources and Capability
Resources
tangible
financial
more important?
more potential to create economic value
more difficult to access
physical
intangible
technology
relationships
human capital
Capabilities
a capacity to perform
be reliable
doesn't lead to peform superlatively
to actually do sth
may have product development capability or viral marketing capability
do need rarity
can even help to achieve parity
help to increase EVA
Customers' Needs
Channel Relationships
Right People & Culture
Capital
Personnel
Skill Level
Analytical Model
Price an Individual's Risk
Brand
Constant Changes Improvements Innovation
More Flexible and Configurable System
Competitive advantage
How to measure "better" performance?
Compare accounting profits
Accounting data is regularly collected and readily available for many firms
It can't analyze current competitive advantage and future performance
Stock market value
Project the future free cash flows or cash profits
A scenario for planning purposes.
Economic value added(EVA)
The cost incurred by the company for the average customer
The difference between the value generated
It's difficult to measure value.
Triangulate by using different approaches.
Sustained competitive advantage
Raise to questions
Heterogeneity
Where do these inter-firm differences in profitability come from?
Sustaining
How can these performance advantages be made durable?
Key to do better than others in your industry.
Overview Lecture
Strategic Management
Three Main Topics
Competitive advantage
Sustained competitive advantage
Sources of Competitive advantage
Align the firm's internal attributes with its external environment.
Activities of the firms
Three conceptual points of view
Focus on resources
Productive firm-specific assets that one firms own and another doesn’t
Emphasising capabilities
Great customer service, innovations, or low cost inventory management
Combination of few resources and a set of activities
Treats activities as the focus of analysis
Executes each activity whether it is more effective or not and how these activities are related
Value chain
in-bound logistics
Primary activities
Set of support activities
Research & Development
Human Resource Management
Procurement
Corporate infrastructure
Delivered to customer (after-sale-service)
Used for manufacturing firms
Raw materials or components come in
Value network
Service industries
Airlines
Aircraft operation
Aircraft yield management
Passenger amenities
Ground and gate crews
Branding& positioning
Route structure & scheduling
These inter- activity relationships become more definitive and clear
Map of important sets of activities & their relationship
sustained competitive advantage
4 potential challenges
threat to rarity
imitation
replication
different product development processes but achieve similar results
threat to value creation
non-durability
non-relevance
internal attributes: activity sets, resources, capabilities / to be durable and not degrade or erode
Barrier to imitation and replication
isolating mechanisms
complexity
elements can be combined in very many different ways, and success depends on a very precise combination
tacit knowledge
knowledge that cannot be easily explained and transferred to another
casual ambiguity
unclear where exactly a company’s performance advantages come from
property rights
trademark, copyrights, and patents
F-R-I framework (resource based view)
rare
inimitable
valuable
temporary competitive advantage
valuable and rare
competitive parity
valuable
sustained competitive advantage
valuable, rare, and inimitable
durability and relevance
a reflection of how much more dynamic and challenging the environment of business has become
Case introduction-Starbucks corporation
Competitive advantage
High quality coffee beans
99% of coffee is
“ethically sourced”
Maintain good relationships with growers
Multiple checks before shipment
software of automated roasting
machines
A third place
Consumers can “hang out” in the coffeehouse
Based on a sense of community to attract people to come together
Comfortable seats and atmosphere
Starbucks has innovated a number of
unique and signature drinks
History
late 1980s
Start to spread the coffeehouse culture in the USA
2018
Had grown about 29324 stores globally
1971
Begin by selling roasted whole coffee in Seattle
G7
陳譽方 Sophie
陳湘琳 Michelle
米蘭 Thel Hsu
米雪 Thonn
曾姿綺 Vicky
丁莞家 Ashley
王素玲 Ling
Firm performance
Company effects
Resulting from attributes of the company.
Drive company financial performance over long run
Industry effects
Resulting from being in a less/more industry.
Predict nearly 50% of profit performance.
Internal Analysis
The key sources of competitive advantage
How to sustain?
Why companies perform better than their competitors
merely valuable but not rare
a key goal for strategic management
lure away key resources