Finance and Accounting

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this is assignment question:
Capstone 1-5: OUTLINE YOUR STRATEGY
Assignment:
At the beginning of the simulation, your team faces an unusual business situation – all companies and products are identical to each other. In the real world this situation rarely if ever occurs. The closest analog might be a highly regulated industry.

Looking into the future, the simulated industry will rapidly differentiate. Nothing you can do will stop it. Given time, the industry will evolve into a state where competitors occupy defendable strategic positions. There are two important questions. “How long will the process take?” “Will two or more competitors attempt to occupy the same position?”

Let’s use an analogy. Picture a flat landscape. Now imagine several hills placed on the landscape. Each of the hills represents a strategy. Your success depends upon how quickly you can identify a hill, and how high you can climb it. Your hope is that you will choose a hill that nobody else picks, and that you can defend it against competitors. Complicating this is the fact that some hills are more attractive than others. Further, the more companies trying to climb a particular hill, the more difficult it is for each of them to successfully climb it.

Are there methods and techniques that will help you identify and select these strategic hills? Yes, the general topic is widely discussed. Let’s look at one of the most commonly referenced, Michael Porter’s “Generic Strategies”. Read the description offered on The QuickMBA website at http://www.quickmba.com/strategy/generic.shtml (A quick search of www.google.com for “Porter Generic Strategies” will turn up hundreds of alternate references. The QuickMBA’s one page summary is an excellent overview of the topic, but feel free to examine others.)