Business Models & Competitive Strategies
Business Models & Competitive Strategies
- Value creation logic: What unmet need is being solved and why customers will pay.
- Value capture mechanism: Pricing power, margins, cost structure, and profit pools.
- Competitive differentiation: Why this offering is meaningfully different (not just better marketed).
- Sustainability of advantage: What prevents imitation or erosion over time.
- Industry structure & dynamics: Supplier power, buyer power, substitutes, entry barriers.
- Capability–strategy fit: Are required capabilities present or realistically buildable.
- Resource allocation coherence: Capital, talent, time aligned with strategic priorities.
- Competitive response modeling: How rivals will react and adapt.
- Scalability & unit economics: Do economics improve, degrade, or plateau with scale.
- Strategic trade-offs: What is deliberately not pursued.
- Risk exposure: Concentration risk, dependency risk, regulatory exposure.
- Boundary conditions: Markets, segments, or contexts where the model fails.
- Second- and third-order effects: Ecosystem reactions, platform dynamics, partner behavior.