Richard Anthony D'Aveni

Beating the Commodity Trap (eBook, ePUB)

How to Maximize Your Competitive Position and Increase Your Pricing Power

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Commoditization-a virulent form of hypercompetition-is destroying markets, disrupting industries, and shuttering long-successful firms. Conventional wisdom says the best way to combat commoditization is differentiation. But differentiation is difficult and expensive to implement, and keeps you ahead of the pack only temporarily.

In Beating the Commodity Trap, Richard D'Aveni provides a radical new framework for fighting back. Drawing on an in-depth study of more than thirty industries, he recommends first identifying the commoditization trap you're facing:

-Deterioration: Low-end firms enter with low-cost/low-benefit offerings that attract the mass market-as Zara did to high-end fashion companies.

-Proliferation: Companies develop new combinations of price paired with several unique benefits that attack part of an incumbents' market-as Japanese motorcycle makers did to Harley-Davidson.

-Escalation: Players offer more benefits for the same or lower price, squeezing everyone's margins-as the iPhone did in mobile devices.

The author provides a tool for diagnosing your competitive position and shows how to strengthen it while also boosting your pricing power-by destroying the commoditization trap confronting you, escaping it, or turning it to your advantage.

Illustrated with a wealth of examples, this concise, practical guide gives you the framework and tactics you need to battle commoditization.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harvard Business Review Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781422156162
• Artikelnr.: 49583977

Autorenporträt

D'Aveni, Richard Anthony

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The Three Commodity Traps, From Diamonds to Glass
Chapter 2: The Deterioration Trap, How to use market power to beat the low-end competitors
Chapter 3: The Proliferation Trap, How to manage multiple threats to your competitive position
Chapter 4: The Escalation Trap, How to manage escalating competition while prices fall
Chapter 5: The Diamond in the Rough, How to keep finding your best competitive position as market dynamics change
Appendix: Tips for Doing Price-Benefit Analysis