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Strategic Objective

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Strategic
Management
The Concept of Market
Position
and
The Strategic Objectives

Objectives


The Concept of Market Position





Philip Kolter
Ries and Trout

The Strategic Objectives



Strategic Thrust
Strategic Objectives
Build
 Hold
 Niche
 Harvest
 Divest


The Concept of Market
Position
by Philip Kolter



Market Leader




Market Challenger




The firm has a relatively large share of the market, but a smaller share than the market leader.

Market Follower




The firm which has the largest share in the relevant product market.

The firm holds a market share smaller than the market leader or potential challenger; it prefers to follow rather than to attack.

Market Nicher


A smaller firm which targets segments …show more content…

and R. Singh (1981) Marketing Warfare in the 1980s, Journal of Business Strategy, Winter, 30-41.

Strategic Objectives:
Strategic Objectives - Hold


Position defense




Flanking defense




The company identifies its points of weakness and guards against attacks upon them by competitors.

Pre-emptive defense




The company continues to do what it is already doing but does it better.

The company launches an attack on a competitor before the competitor attacks it.

Counter-offensive defense


The company strikes back aggressively against any competitor’s attack.

Strategic Objectives:
Strategic Objectives - Hold


Mobile defense




The company increases it strength by entering new geographic territories and/or new market segments, and by diversifying into other businesses.

Strategic withdrawal


The company recognizes that it had a weakness which it cannot properly defend and deliberately chooses to move out of that product-market, using its resources in a more beneficial way.

Strategic Objectives:
Strategic Objectives - Niche


Niche Objectives
A company may decide to pursue a a small market segment or even a segment within a segment in order to avoid competition with

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