Chapters 4 & 7. The Resource-Based View of the Firm (RBV), Value Chain Benchmarking, Leveraging International Competitiveness, & SWOT Analysis. Resource-Based Strategies. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Resource-based strategies attempt to exploit a company’s valuable and rare resources and competitive capabilities to deliver value to customers in ways rivals find it difficult to match
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Identifying Competitively Important Identifying Competitively Important Resources and CapabilitiesResources and Capabilities
Common types of valuable resources and competitive capabilities includeSkills or specialized expertise in a
competitively important capabilityValuable physical assetsValuable human assets or intellectual capitalValuable organizational assetsValuable intangible assetsCompetitively valuable alliances or
cooperative ventures
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Determining the Competitive Determining the Competitive Power of a Company ResourcePower of a Company Resource
Is the resource really competitively
Valuable?
Is the resource Rare and something rivals lack?
Is the resource hard to copy or Imitate?
Is the company Organized to take advantage of its resource strengths?
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RBV – Case Analysis ToolRBV – Case Analysis Tool
COMPANY: RESOURCE:
Resource Features
Yes/ Somewhat/ No
Comments
Valuable
Rare
Hard to Imitate
Well-Organized
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Value Chain BenchmarkingValue Chain Benchmarking
Focuses on cross-company comparisons of how certain activities are performed and costs associated with these activities
Purchase of materialsPayment of suppliersGetting new products to marketPerformance of quality controlFilling and shipping of customer orders
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Company Value ChainCompany Value Chain
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Value Chain Benchmarking – Case Value Chain Benchmarking – Case Analysis ExampleAnalysis Example
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Establishing International Establishing International OperationsOperations
Choosing between localized multicountry strategies or a global strategyDeciding upon the degree to vary
competitive approach country by country depends on cross-country differences in buyer preferences and market conditions
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Strategy Options for Entering and Strategy Options for Entering and Competing in Foreign MarketsCompeting in Foreign Markets
General strategic options for expanding outside a company’s domestic market include:Exporting
Using Value Chain Improvements to Using Value Chain Improvements to Build Competitive AdvantageBuild Competitive Advantage
Multinational and global companies are able to coordinate activities across borders to achieve competitive advantage by
Transferring knowledge and skills developed in one location to a location in another country
Shifting production to locations having excess capacity or underutilized personnel
Shift production between plants in different countries to take advantage of shifting exchange rates, energy costs, or changes in tariffs and quotas
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Using Profit Sanctuaries to Wage a Using Profit Sanctuaries to Wage a Strategic OffensiveStrategic Offensive
Profit sanctuaries are protected markets that provide multinational companies with substantial profitsA company’s domestic market is most likely
its chief profit sanctuary
Profit sanctuaries can give a multinational company added financial resources to wage a market offensive against a domestic-only competitor in its home market
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Leveraging Intl. competitiveness Leveraging Intl. competitiveness – Case Analysis Tool– Case Analysis Tool
COMPANY:
Location Advantages Comments
Value Chain Improvements Comments
Profit Sanctuaries Comments
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Taking Inventory of a Company’s Taking Inventory of a Company’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and ThreatsOpportunities and Threats
S W O T represents the first letter inS trengths
W eaknesses
O pportunities
T hreats
For a company’s strategy to be well-conceived, it must be Matched to its resource strengths and
weaknesses Aimed at capturing its best market opportunities
and defending against external threats to its well-being