Selecting Foreign Markets 200 plus potential markets How to choose? Global Trade Practics

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Selecting Foreign Markets
Global Trade Practices
Chapter 5
200 plus potential markets
How to choose?
Quick simple models
More detailed “due“due-diligence”
– Initial selection
– Final analysis before investment
Experience
Never “fool“fool-proof”
– Develop “a sense” of the market
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Reasons for Ranking
No company has unlimited resources
Market potential (ROI) important in early
global expansion
Methodology for determining most
effective market expansion
Exercise allows systematic approach to
decision--making
decision
– Eliminates personal preference expansion
– Provides details for successful market entry
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Ranking with Analytical Model
Highlights factors for success
Previous markets can be used for
benchmarking
Data research provides base for marketmarketentry plan
Highlights nonnon-industry and product
specific barriers
Can be refined with experienceexperience- possibly
used in sales forecasts
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Selection Process
1) Developing Indicators (Selection Criteria)
a) Product Specific
b) Industry Size
c) Market Growth
2) Convert Data for comparison
3) Determine level of importance (weight)
4) Analyze
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Sample Decision Grid
Ghana
Togo
Benin
Standard
Product
Industry
Competition
Growth
Potential
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Country VS. Market Analysis
Country
– Historical/political
borders
– Data collection
– Tariffs
– Customs
– Focused Trade
Agreements
Market
– Trade alliances
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NAFTA
Mercosur
Andean Pact
African Trade Blocks
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– Monetary Unions
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Euro
Sefa
Eco
– Metro Areas or
economic zones
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A new model
New business units based on
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Investment
Industry
Information technology
Individual customers
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Challenges indicated by
Ohmae
Most data based on political boundaries
Strategy based on:
– Limited region within a country
– Regional market
market--entry
– Ranking based on overall opportunity vs. individual
countries
– Value chain decisions – borderless view
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Purchasing
Distribution
Marketing
Customer service
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Regional Slice of Global
Strategy
Pankaj Ghemawat
Harvard Business
Review
– December 19, 2005
Recognition of
differences in local
markets
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Clarification of “regions”
Geographic
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Global
Continental
Sub--continental
Sub
National
Intra--national
Intra
Local
Non Geographic
Dimensions
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Cultural
Administrative
Political
Economic
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Administrative Regions
Ghana’s Dual System
– Traditional Regions with
Chief
– Political Administration
Togbui Fita
Village of Kopeyia – Aflao Traditional Region
– Volta Political Region
Chief’s Council
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