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Week 1: Introduction and External analysis

Videoclip 1: Chapter 1 - Competitive advantage
Economic Value Created
“Economic value created” is the difference between perceived benefits gained
by a customer and the full economic costs




D=Demand, P=Price, MC=Marginal Cost, ATC=Average Total Costs

Left: Demand-curve is going down, higher price = less demand
MC and ATC cross: average total cost is the minimum; amount quantity
that will be solved

Total of economic value created (block + triangle):
Triangle: consumer surplus
Block (bottom): producer surplus

Economic Value created Example
 Value = 40 euros (how much are people willing to pay)
 Price = 30 euros
 Cost = 15 euros

 Consumer Surplus (value – price): 40 – 30 = 10 euros
 Producer Surplus (price – cost): 30 – 15 = 15 euros
 Economic value created (consumer + producer surplus or value – cost): 40
– 15 = 25 euros

Visualization of competitive advantage
Difference in a firm’s economic value created and the economic value created by
its rivals




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,Green is bigger  competitive advantage




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,Measuring competitive advantage
Always measured relative to other firms

Accounting Measures (Usually easy to calculate)
 Profit ratios (revenue/assets or sometimes employees)
 Liquidity ratios (how flexible in short-term money, paying short-term
debts)
 Leverage ratios (how easily get more money to finance new investments)
 Activity ratios (how quickly inventory is used; smaller things; processes)
Competitive advantage: Higher return on assets (ROA) than industry average
return on assets

Economic measures % (Typically not included in accounting measures)
 The cost of debt
 The cost of equity
 Weighted average cost of capital (WACC)  Percentage that investors
want back from the busines. If your returnal asset is higher than what
investors want  competitive advantage

Exam example:
WACC < ROA < Industry Avg. ROA
- WACC<ROA: in economic measures  firm is performing above
expectations
- ROA<Industry: in accounting measures  not positive, competitors on
average earn more

Competitive advantage Economic returns
Advantage Above normal
 Exceeding expectations
Parity Normal
 Meeting expectations
Disadvantage Below normal
 Failing expectations
Organization with competitive advantage  other organizations are pulled to
these activities, also coming in, more competition, performance goes down  on
the long run an organization can only expect parity

Example: Netflix

Intended versus emergent strategies




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, How did it happen that a strategy emergent over time?

Videoclip 2: External analysis – Strategy

Why external analysis?
Make more informed strategic choices
 Discover opportunities and threats (should be trends)
 Analyze potential for profits
 Understand the nature of competition

Levels of analysis
 General environment (biggest outside border)
 Industry (part of task environment; are also the people that live close to
organization e.g., Efteling wanted more land, people living around don’t
want that)
 Strategic group (similar strategic dimensions as your organization; e.g.,
Albert Heijn and Lidl)
 Individual firm (internal/competitor)
Mobility barriers: Barriers between strategic groups that make it harder to join
another strategic group.

Videoclip 3: General external environmeneral environment

General External environment
Focus on trends/changes. Broader than the industry itself!

Example:
1. Boeing: airplanes went down
 really bad for the industry,
but it should not be something
that is in the general
environment
2. Soft drink industry: political
organizations want to do
something about sugar in food
 general environment

Concepts of the general
environment (DESTEP)

 Demographics: Only numbers! Age, sex, marital status, income, ethnicity
and other personal attributes that might affect buying patterns (happens a
lot that something that’s in demographics is also in another category, e.g.,
number of divorces  also in economic, cultural)
 Culture: values, beliefs and norms that guide behavior in society
 Economic climate: the overall health of the economic systems within
which a firm operates (e.g., recession, threat for a lot of organizations, but
opportunity for Aldi/Lidl)
 Political and legal conditions: the law and legal system’s impact on
business, together with the general nature of the relationship between
government and business




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