• THE STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF INDUSTRIES
✔ Structural Determinants of the Intensity of Competition
✔ Structural Analysis and Competitive Strategy
✔ Structural Analysis and lndustry Definition
• GENERIC COMPETITIVE STRATEGIES
✔ Three Generic Strategies
✔ Stuck in the Middle
✔ Risks of the Generic Strategies
• A FRAMEWORK FOR COMPETITOR ANALYSIS
✔ The Components of Competitor Analysis
✔ Putting the Four Components Together-The Competitor Response Profile
✔ Competitor Analysis and Industry Forecasting
✔ The Need for a Competitor Intelligence System
• MARKET SIGNALS
✔ Types of Market Signals
✔ The Use of History in Identifying Signals
✔ Can Attention to Market Signals Be a Distraction?
• COMPETITIVE MOVES
✔ lndustry Instability: The Likelihood of Competitive Warfare
✔ CompetitiveMoves
✔ Commitment
✔ Focal Points
✔ A Note on Information and Secrecy
• STRATEGY TOWARD BUYERS AND SUPPLIERS
✔ Buyer Selection
✔ Purchasing Strategy
• STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS WITHIN INDUSTRIES
✔ Dimensions of Competitive Strategy
✔ Strategic Groups
✔ Strategic Groups and a Firm’s Profitability
✔ Implications for Formulation of Strategy
✔ The Strategic Group Map as an Analytical Tool
• INDUSTRY EVOLUTION
✔ Basic Concepts in lndustry Evolution
✔ Evolutionary Processes
✔ Key Relationships in lndustry Evolution
• COMPETITIVE STRATEGY IN FRAGMENTED INDUSTRIES
✔ What Makes an lndustry Fragmented?
✔ Overcoming Fragmentation
✔ Coping with Fragmentation
✔ Potential Strategic Traps
✔ Formulating Strategy
• COMPETITIVE STRATEGY IN EMERGING INDUSTRIES
✔ The Structural Environment
✔ Problems Constraining lndustry Development
✔ Early and Late Markets
✔ Strategic Choices
✔ Techniques for Forecasting
✔ Which Emerging lndustries to Enter
• THE TRANSITION TO INDUSTRY MATURITY
✔ Industry Change during Transition
✔ Some Strategic Implications of Transition
✔ Strategic Pitfalls in Transition
✔ Organizational Implications of Maturity
✔ lndustry Transition and the General Manager
• COMPETITIVE STRATEGY IN DECLINING INDUSTRIES
✔ Structural Determinants of Competition in Decline
✔ Strategic Alternatives in Decline
✔ Choosing a Strategy for Decline
✔ Pitfalls in Decline
✔ Preparing for Decline
• COMPETITION IN GLOBAL INDUSTRIES
✔ Sources and Impediments to Global Competition
✔ Evolution to Global lndustries
✔ Competition in Global lndustries
✔ Strategic Alternatives in Global lndustries
✔ Trends Affecting Global Competition
• THE STRATEGIC ANALYSIS OF VERTICAL INTEGRATION 300
✔ Strategic Benefits and Costs of Vertical lntegration
✔ Particular Strategic Issues in Forward lntegration
✔ Particular Strategic Issues in Backward lntegration
✔ Long-Term Contracts and the Economics of Information
✔ Illusions in Vertical lntegration Decisions
• CAPACITY EXPANSION
✔ Elements of the Capacity Expansion Decision
✔ Causes of Overbuilding Capacity
✔ Preemptive Strategies
• ENTRY INTO NEW BUSINESSES
✔ Entry through Internal Development
✔ Entry through Acquisition
✔ Sequenced Entry