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Note 19
Generic Strategies—
Product-Market Growth
Strategies
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Figure Note 19-1 - The Ansoff Product/Market Growth Matrix
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Market Penetration
Options to grow via market penetration
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Product Development
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- Product improvements - Adding new product features or improving product performance is a typical strategy in a highly competitive market that came into its maturity phase of the product lifecycle.
- Product innovations - Synergies can be exploited when a company introduces a new product targeted to the existing customer base.
- Product line-extensions - When a company introduces under its successful brand name in a given product category, it intends to grow via line-extensions.
- Cross selling - Involves selling new products or services to its existing customers.
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Market Development
It is expanding sales of existing products to new geographic markets or to new segments
It requires:
Building brand awareness and brand image
Accessing new distribution channels
Confronting new competitors
Formulating new marketing strategies
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Diversification
Taking a new product to a new market is the strategy with the highest risk
It has the lowest probability of success
It needs the highest amount of resources
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Diversification
Ways of diversification
Related diversification
A company enters a new market with a new product attaining synergies by sharing assets or competencies across businesses
Unrelated diversification
A company enters a new market with a new product not related to the existing product markets
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Diversification
Forward and backward integration
Forward integration occurs when a company decides to move downstream the product flow
Backward integration means that a company moves upwards
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Figure Note 19-2 - Strategic Planning within the Ansoff Matrix
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- The risk of diversification can be reduced when a company plans its growth across time.
- Before entering a new market with a new product, a company can develop a new product for the existing market.
- Next, it can take the product that has been successfully introduced in the existing market to a new market.
- Alternatively, it could introduce an existing product to a new market to gain market knowledge, create brand awareness and brand image, get access to distribution channels, and then develop a new product for this market.
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Figure Note 19-3 - Building from the Core and Identifying Adjacencies
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- Strategy consultant and author Chris Zook has suggested that firms should identify their core - their essential, enduring, and defensible strengths.
- The first requirement in considering opportunities with regard to their relationship to the firm’s core is to define that core rigorously and accurately.
- Once the firm has clarified its core strengths it should look for opportunities that build upon those strengths.
- There are firms and situations for which growth is an unrealistic objective.
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- Product improvements - Adding new product features or improving product performance is a typical strategy in a highly competitive market that came into its maturity phase of the product lifecycle.
- Product innovations - Synergies can be exploited when a company introduces a new product targeted to the existing customer base.
- Product line-extensions - When a company introduces under its successful brand name in a given product category, it intends to grow via line-extensions.
- Cross selling - Involves selling new products or services to its existing customers.
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- The risk of diversification can be reduced when a company plans its growth across time.
- Before entering a new market with a new product, a company can develop a new product for the existing market.
- Next, it can take the product that has been successfully introduced in the existing market to a new market.
- Alternatively, it could introduce an existing product to a new market to gain market knowledge, create brand awareness and brand image, get access to distribution channels, and then develop a new product for this market.
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- Strategy consultant and author Chris Zook has suggested that firms should identify their core - their essential, enduring, and defensible strengths.
- The first requirement in considering opportunities with regard to their relationship to the firm’s core is to define that core rigorously and accurately.
- Once the firm has clarified its core strengths it should look for opportunities that build upon those strengths.
- There are firms and situations for which growth is an unrealistic objective.
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