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Porter Generic Strategies

&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;left&semi;margin&colon;0px 0px 0px 0&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Long term survival for the organization in the industry is difficult in today complex environment where national boundaries are transparent&comma; competition is complex and external environment can change at any time&period; The word change always remain same for the organizations&comma;  not updating products and services soon means that you will be soon out of the industry&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Porter suggested three strategies for the organization to retain the long term sustainable competitive advantage&period; The strategies are called as cost leadership&comma; differentiation and focus&comma; company can adapt one or more than strategies depends upon the resources and the level of competition&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Cost leadership<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Cost leadership strategy best fit in the industry where the customers are price sensitive and change in price impact on demand&period;  Utilization of assets&comma; refine processes can reduce the cost&period; If the organization have the ability to control over production  cost of product and service and easily quote low prices for their offering in the market by maintaining good quality&period; The organization can also survive in the situation when the country economic conditions are at low level and inflation increases with speed&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Dell computer provide personal computer and laptops at lower cost to their customers without sacrificing the quality because they have well defined processes and procedures&period; Southwest Airlines offer low cost traveling with comfort&comma; elimination of cost is possible for southwest by route selection and not providing extra luxuries services which increase the cost&period; Wal-Mart proper inventory management allows them to cut the cost result in variety of products at lower price&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Differentiation Strategy<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Why customer prefer your offering over your competitor if there is no price difference in this case cost leadership strategies never works&period; In Oil industry price are decided by authorities not by the organization&comma; differentiation is created by providing services and relax environment&period; Companies add new feature and value added feature in their offering which competition is missing out in their product&period; Disney is the organization totally based upon differentiation&semi; they provide the new experience to their customer&period; The organization where people are skillful and more involve in R &amp&semi; D can create differentiation with ease&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Focus Strategy<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Organization focuses on the segment to which they can provide better offering&period; These organizations are specialized on their domain and continuously bring improvement for customer satisfaction&period; BMW produce adopt focus strategy&comma; high pay executives are the niche for the organization&period; BMW is the expensive brand has limited market of potential customer that’s why they are enjoying better financial status&period;&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad2" id&equals;"quads-ad2" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;

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