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Strategy and Competitive Advantage — Part 5
How businesses choose markets, build a position and make durable strategic decisions.
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- 01Where strategy is really decided: funding, hiring, escalation and what you tolerateA strategy that never says what to stop has not been written yet. How to turn priorities into real choices, check capacity and attention, and match evidence to how reversible a decision is.
- 02Which dependencies in your schedule are real? Testing the logic behind the datesA schedule looks calculated, but its length rests on claims that one task must wait for another. How to test what enforces each link, buy out resource links and find time honestly.
- 03Who can change what the job is for? Drivers, unwritten expectations and involvement that fits the phaseScope does not creep on its own; people move it, one request at a time. How to decide who may redefine a job, surface expectations before they harden and involve people at the right time.
- 04Who can say no? Reaching the people who decide when you sell to larger organisationsIn big customers, many people can approve and a few can refuse, and procurement can only move price. How to map who decides, reach the outcome owner early and know who will carry your case.
- 05Who is the assessment for? Certifications, maturity ratings and real improvementAn assessment done to win tenders and one done to improve are different exercises. How to name the audience first, choose the right approach and fund improvement separately.
- 06Why business development is everyone's jobNothing moves in a business until someone wins a customer. Why business development matters at every level, what it really involves, and how non-salespeople can do it well.
- 07Win a focused market, then scale: pilot markets, market sizing, product metrics, distribution and the next marketHow start-ups and small firms can dominate a focused first market, size the opportunity, measure product traction, build distribution and expand to the next market with discipline.
- 08Winning market share and building entry barriers: penetration strategies, options and objections, and lawful moatsHow to grow share in an existing market: ten market-penetration strategies, removing customers' options and objections, and twelve legitimate barriers that protect your position.
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