QUESTIONS AND ISSUES ON GENERIC BUSINESS LEVEL STRATEGIES
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What is meant by business level strategies?
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What are the bases of the business level strategies?
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What are the three questions that must be answered to formulate business level strategies?
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What impact does increasing market segmentation has on business strategies?
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What is the essence of the cost leadership strategy?
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What are some ways in which the cost leadership strategy may be implemented?
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What are the requisite core competencies in the cost leadership strategy?
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How is a cost leader protected from the five market forces even when they are threats?
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What are the strategic risks of the cost leadership strategy?
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What is the essence of the differentiation strategy?
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How would a company implement the differentiation strategy?
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What are the requisite core competencies of the differentiation strategy?
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How is a successful differentiator protected from adversarial competitive forces?
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What are the strategic risks of the differentiation strategy?
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What is the essence of the focus strategies?
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What are the two different types of focus strategy, how do they differ?
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How would you implement the focus strategies?
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How is a focuser protected from adversarial competitive forces?
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What are the strategic risks of the focus strategies?
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What are the ways in which a company may try to integrate cost leadership and differentiation strategies?
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What are the risks of the integrated cost leadership-differentiation strategy?
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What does ir mean to “get stuck in between the strategies”?