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Understanding Business

12th Edition

ISBN:9781259929434

Author:William Nickels

Publisher:William Nickels

Chapter1: Taking Risks And Making Profits Within The Dynamic Business Environment

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Transcribed Image Text:Focused strategies keyed either to low-cost or differentiation are especially appropriate for situations where Copyright © by Glo-Bus Software, Inc. Copying, distributing, or 3rd party website posting isexpressly prohibited and constitutes copyright violation O the industry has many different niches and segments, thereby allowing a focuser to pick a competitively attractive niche that is not only suited to its competitively valuable resources and capabilities but also lessens the risk of overcrowding that occurs when too many rivals attempt to focus their energies on the same target segment. O the industry is growing rapidly, a company can achieve a big enough volume to fully capture all the available scale economies, and the product offerings of most rival sellers are weakly differentiated. O buyers have low costs in switching from one seller's brand to another, buyer, bargaining power is relatively strong, and buyers' needs and uses of the product are diverse. O the industry contains five or more well-defined market segments and most buyers are either price sensitive or value-conscious. O not many buyers are price sensitive or value-conscious.

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