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Competition Analysis in 3 Simple Steps

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Step 1: Being Competitive Means?

What does it mean to be competitive? What is the purpose of competition? And finally, when all does it mean to compete? Every business needs to be clear on these questions.

I have used this very often with the client to get them to focus on right competition and the expected outcome of being competitive:

Competitive Advantage

Step 2: Listing Competition

Competitive landscape is a spectrum. Not all competition is a threat. We need to list our potentials across the whole spectrum. I have used following 4 heading to help clients list out competition.

Competition Analysis Spectrum

Step 3. Competition Deep Dive

Identify key competition(s) from each block and do a deep dive. Here is one canvas to help structure it:

Competition Analysis Canvas

Conclusion

To revisit some thoughts:

  1. Be clear why business need to be competitive and expected outcome
  2. Competitive lanscape is a spectrum
  3. Not all competition is a threat (at a given point)
  4. Identify competitions from each block on the spectrum and do a deep dive

Dinker Charak

Dinker has over a decade of experience in building products across diverse domains such as Industrial Automation, Home Automation, Operating Systems, High Energy Particle Physics, Embedded Systems, Online Video Advertising, Messaging, K-12 education and Private Banking. He also founded Gungroo Software. He books '#ProMa: Product Management Tools, Methods & Some Off-the-wall Ideas' and 'The Neutrinos Are Coming and Other Stories' are available globally. He also manages adbhut.in, an Indian Sci-fi portal.

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