";s:4:"text";s:2583:"Keywords. It's difficult to establish. It's an advantage that keeps going for many years or decades.
Competitive advantage is illusive. You have to be able to combat today's fierce market forces and uncertainty. Surveying more than 53,000 U.S. consumers, the Natural Marketing Institute discovered that 58 percent of consumers consider a company’s impact on the environment in considering where to purchase goods and services and are more likely to purchase from companies that practice sustainable habits. Introduction. One of the primary things about being an effective technology industry analyst is that I have to clearly communicate our perspectives about the technology industry as a whole to my firms clients. In other words, your competitive advantage needs to be sustainable and able to endure the test of time for your company to be great.
When you do establish a competitive advantage — it's often fleeting. higher profit margin, greater return on assets, valuable resource such as brand reputation or unique competence in producing jet engines. Let us look at some of these activities in detail. Because most advantages can be duplicated within a period of time. Ideally, forever. Nearly everything can be considered as competitive edge, e.g. competitive advantages should be renewed, replicated, redeployed, or recombined to enhance growth and market share in a highly uncertain business world. Why Apple Has a Strong Competitive Advantage. In effect, the strategic planning process influences the alignment between the characteristics of the strategic plan and the characteristics of the workers in the organization, such that the strategic planning process also influences the performance of individual workers. #1: Apple designs ALL the software, firmware and hardware in unison. This requires more than just the regurgitation of information as we gather it in the field. Sustainable competitive advantage is another animal. Every company must have at least one advantage to successfully compete in the market.
This paper is empirically explored in many explorative, historical case studies to research the evolution path of firm’s strategic planning processes. Why? innovation.
market orientation. Innovation will become the strategic tool in this important competition for the improvement, creation, and enhancement of business to create competitive advantages equal to or better than those in foreign countries in order to realize sustainable development.