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Masters in Engineering and Management of Technology Masters in engineering Design. Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation Rui Baptista. Market Research and Structural Analysis of Industries. Opportunity and Market.
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Masters in Engineering and Management of TechnologyMasters in engineering Design Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation Rui Baptista
Opportunity and Market • Potential market: a significant group of people with a need that is not being satisfied adequately • Potential for an opportunity: • There is a technology that allows us to supply an effective solution to satisfy that need • Alternatives being offered by competition are inferior or more costly • It is possible to develop, produce and place the product in the market at a cost which is lower than what consumers are willing to pay Entrepreneurship - Rui Baptista
Drawing Industry Boundaries: Identifying the Relevant Market • What industry is BMW in: • World Auto industry? • European Auto industry? • World luxury car industry? • Key criteria: GEOGRAPHY and SUBSTITUTABILITY • On the demand side : • Where are the buyers located? Are they willing to substitute across countries? • Are buyers willing to substitute between types of cars? • On the supply side : • Where are the manufacturers located? Are they able to switch production across countries? • Are manufacturers able to switch production between types of cars? Entrepreneurship - Rui Baptista
The Target Market Entrepreneurship - Rui Baptista
Questions Raised by Market Research • What are the main differences between customer groups/market segments • How to identify customers in each segment? • What are the costs to make the product known and place it next to the relevant market? • How much are the consumers willing to pay for the product? • What is the minimum size required for the market to be profitable? Entrepreneurship - Rui Baptista
Market Assessment Entrepreneurship - Rui Baptista
Concepts in Strategy • Core Competencies resources and capabilities available to the firm that are indispensable to produce and commercialize its products and that are not easily replicated by competitiors • Competitive Advantage distinct competencies held by a firm that allow it to attain a favorable position in the market - commercialize better and/or cheaper products • Sustainable Competitive Advantage occurs when the distinct competencies held by a firm that allow it to attain a favorable position in the market are not easily replicated by competitiors Entrepreneurship - Rui Baptista
Competencies Efficiency – low costs per unit produced Innovation and product improvements Quality/reliability Diversification/customization, access to consumers Process innovation Establishment of a critical mass of consumers Examples Ryanair; easyJet; Ibis/Accor; Zara; Alcoa; Wal-Mart; Worten Intel, Nokia, Motorola; Pfizer; Eli Lilly; 3M; Apple; Audi; BMW Mercedes; IBM; JP Morgan Hewlett Packard; Disney; General Electric; Dell; Amazon.com Toyota; McDonald’s; Ikea Microsoft; Adobe; SAP; Oracle; Armani; Ralph Lauren Sources of Competitive Advantage Entrepreneurship - Rui Baptista
Defining the Business Model Entrepreneurship - Rui Baptista
The Basic Framework of Strategy: the Link Between the Firm and Its Environment THE FIRM Goals & Values Resources & Capabilities Structure & Systems THE INDUSTRY ENVIRONMENT Competitors Customers Suppliers STRATEGY STRATEGY Entrepreneurship - Rui Baptista
Objectives of Industry analysis • To understand how industry structure drives competition, which determines the level of industry profitability. • To assess industry attractiveness • To use evidence on changes in industry structure to forecast future profitability • To identify opportunities to change industry structure to impose industry profitability • To identify Key Success Factors Entrepreneurship - Rui Baptista
From Environmental Analysis to Industry Analysis The natural environment The national/ international economy • THE INDUSTRY • ENVIRONMENT • Suppliers • Competitors • Customers Demographic structure Technology Government & Politics Social structure Social structure • The Industry Environment lies at the core of the Macro Environment • The Macro Environment impacts the firm through its effect on the Industry • Environment Entrepreneurship - Rui Baptista
Determinants of Industry Profitability (Revenues-Costs) • The value of the product to customers • The intensity of competition • Relative bargaining power at different levels within the value chain 3 key influences: Entrepreneurship - Rui Baptista
The Spectrum of Industry Structures Perfect Competition Oligopoly Duopoly Monopoly Concentration Many firms A few firms Two firms One firm Entry and Exit Barriers No barriers Significant barriers High barriers Product Differentiation Homogeneous Product Potential for product differentiation Information Perfect Information flow Imperfect availability of information Entrepreneurship - Rui Baptista
Porter’s 5 Competitive Forces Framework SUPPLIERS Bargaining power of suppliers INDUSTRY COMPETITORS Threat of substitutes Threat of new entrants POTENTIAL ENTRANTS SUBSTITUTES Rivalry among existing firms Bargaining power of buyers BUYERS Entrepreneurship - Rui Baptista
Threat of Potential Entrants New entrants’ threat to industry profitability depends upon the height of barriers to entry. The principal sources of barriers to entry are: • Capital requirements • Economies of scale • Absolute cost advantages • Proprietary product differentiation (e.g. brand identity) • Access to channels of distribution • Government Policies: legal and regulatory barriers • Threat of retaliation Entrepreneurship - Rui Baptista
Threath of Substitutes Extent of competitive pressure from producers of substitutes depends upon: • Switching costs • Buyers’ propensity to substitute • Price-performance characteristics of substitutes • Network externalities Entrepreneurship - Rui Baptista
Bargaining Power of Buyers Buyer’s price sensitivity Relative bargaining power • Switching Costs • Cost of purchases as % of buyer’s total costs • How differentiated is the purchased item? • How intense is competition between buyers? • How important is the item to quality of the buyers’ own output? • Size and concentration of buyers vs. sellers • Buyer volume • Buyer’s information • Ability to backward integrate Note: analysis of supplier power is symmetric Entrepreneurship - Rui Baptista
Rivalry Between Incumbents (Established Competitors) The extent to which industry profitability is depressed by aggressive price competition depends upon: • Industry growth – product/technology life cycle • Concentration (number and size distribution of firms) • Diversity of competitors (differences in goals, cost structure, etc.) • Product differentiation • Excess capacity and exit barriers • Cost conditions • Extent of scale economies • Ratio of fixed to variable costs Entrepreneurship - Rui Baptista
Applying 5 Forces Analysis Forecasting Industry Profitability • Past profitability is a poor indicator of future profitability • If we can create or foresee changes in industry structure we can induce changes on competition and profitability • Strategies to Improve Industry Profitability • What structural variables affect profitability? • Which of those variables can be changed by individual or collective strategies? Entrepreneurship - Rui Baptista
Entrepreneurial Industry Evaluation Entrepreneurship - Rui Baptista
Entrepreneurship and Dynamic Competition Porter’s framework assumes: • industry structure drives competitive behavior • Industry structure is stable But competition also changes industry structure Schumpeterian Competition: A “perennial gale of creative destruction” where innovation overthrows established market leaders Hyper-competition: intense and rapid competitive moves, creating disequilibrium through continuously creating new competitive advantages and destroying, neutralizing or making obsolete opponents’ competitive advantages—overlapping product/technology life-cycles Entrepreneurship - Rui Baptista
Applying the 5 Forces to Digital/E-Business Markets • The more unstable is industry structure—the less • helpful is analysis based upon industry structure • Taking account of time—willingness to endure losses • today in order to reap profit tomorrow • General structural features of digital, networked • industries: • Low Entry Barriers + Extreme Scale Economies + Network • Externalities = Winner-take-all markets = Intense competition Entrepreneurship - Rui Baptista
Porter’s Framework in the Knowledge Economy Network externalities: the suppliers of complements create value for the industry and can exercise bargaining power SUPPLIERS Bargaining power of suppliers INDUSTRY COMPETITORS Threat of substitutes Threat of new entrants POTENTIAL ENTRANTS SUBSTITUTES Rivalry among existing firms Bargaining power of buyers BUYERS Entrepreneurship - Rui Baptista
Identifying Key Sucess Factors Pre-requisites for success Pre-requisites for success What do customers want? How may the firm survive competition? • Analysis of competition • What drives competition? • What are the main dimensions of competition? • How intense is competition? • How can we obtain a superior competitive position? • Analysis of demand • Who are our • customers? • What do they want? • What drives competition? • What are the main • dimensions of competition? • How intense is competition? • How can we obtain a • superior competitive position? KEY SUCCESS FACTORS Entrepreneurship - Rui Baptista
Entrepreneurial Industry Evaluation Entrepreneurship - Rui Baptista