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On the basis of your company's latest financial statements and all the other available data regarding your company's performance that appear in the industry report, list the three measures of financial performance on which your company did best and the three measures on which your company's financial performance was worst.
What hard evidence can you cite that indicates your company's strategy in wearable video cameras is working fairly well (or perhaps not working so well, if your company's performance in this segment is lagging that of rival companies)?
What hard evidence can you cite that indicates your company's strategy in UAV drones is working fairly well (or perhaps not working so well, if your company's performance in this product category is lagging that of rival companies)?
What resource strengths and resource weaknesses does your company have? What external market opportunities for growth and increased profitability in wearable video cameras exist for your company? What external market opportunities for growth and increased profitability in UAV drones exist for your company? What external threats to your company's future well-being and profitability do you and your co-managers see? What does the preceding SWOT analysis indicate about your company's present situation and future prospects? Where on the scale from "exceptionally strong" to "alarmingly weak" does the attractiveness of your company's situation rank?
What are the key elements of each rival company's value chain (Figure 4.3) in the wearable video camera market segment?
What are the key elements of each rival company's value chain (Figure 4.3) in the UAV drone market segment?
Do a competitive strength assessment (Table 4.4) for your company and two other companies in either the camera segment or the drone segment that you and your co-managers consider to be very close competitors. Which of the three companies is competitively strongest? Which is competitively weakest? Does the strongest company appear to have a significant competitive advantage over the other two companies? Why or why not?
Which one of the five generic competitive strategies best characterize your company's strategic approach to competing successfully in wearable video cameras?
Which one of the five generic competitive strategies best characterize your company's strategic approach to competing successfully in UAV drones?
Which makers of wearable video cameras in your industry appear to be employing a low-cost provider strategy? A broad differentiation strategy? A best-cost-provider strategy?
Which makers of UAV drones in your industry appear to be employing a low-cost provider strategy? A broad differentiation strategy? A best-cost-provider strategy?
Which rival companies appear to be concentrating more/less attention on wearable video cameras versus UAV drones and/or some geographic regions versus other regions?
Which digital camera companies in your industry appear to be employing a best-cost provider strategy?
Which rivals appear to have no clear competitive strategy approach in cameras? In drones?
What is your company's action plan to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage over rival companies? List at least three (preferably more than three) specific kinds of decision entries on specific decision screens that your company has made or intends to make to win this kind of competitive edge over rivals.
What are the primary components of your company strategy for wearable video cameras?
What are the primary components of your company strategy for camera-equipped drones?
What is your company's strategy for growing the business?
What are the 3-4 chief elements of your company's production strategy (as concerns worker compensation, PAT training, use of overtime, adding additional workstations, robotics upgrades, and so on)?
What are the 3-4 chief elements of your company's marketing strategy in wearable video cameras (as concerns pricing, advertising, P/Q rating, warranties, number of camera models, sales promotions, and deployment of all the other weapons of competitive rivalry to outmaneuver rival camera companies)?
What are the 3-4 chief elements of your company's marketing strategy in UAV drones (as concerns pricing, P/Q rating, warranties, number of models, and deployment of all the other weapons of competitive rivalry to outmaneuver rival makers of UAV drones)?
What are the 3-4 chief elements of your company's finance strategy as concerns use of long-term debt, debt repayment, dividend payments, sales/purchases of stock, use of cash, and approaches to achieving a good credit rating?
What options for being a first-mover does your company have? Do any of these first-mover options hold competitive advantage potential?