Adaptor strategy: Adapting to the environment
As an adaptor, you accept the environmental conditions as given. Sources of your value creation lie outside your sphere of influence, and you accept this. You adapt to the environmental conditions as best you can and seek a defensible position within these conditions. You look for attractive business areas within the framework conditions and protect …
Which organizational competence is particularly valued in your industry? Is it , , , , , or ? How can you distinguish yourself from your competitors in the selected disciplines?
Sales leadership as a strategic characteristic
If your organization is strong in sales, you could develop this very special capability into a strategic competence. You could focus on and leverage this strength for third parties as well, for example by actively seizing and expanding cross-selling opportunities. If you focus on sales as a strategic capability, you should meet all the requirements …
Infrastructure leadership as a competitive advantage
If your organization has assets and/or capabilities that others need as infrastructure for their business, you could consistently build on that infrastructure to gain relative competitive advantage. Examples of infrastructure are server farms, storage media that can be made available in a cloud if necessary, network structures, but also ports, parking facilities, hotel real estate …
Innovation leadership as a structural core competence
If your organization is strong in innovation, you could highlight precisely this capability as your strategic core competence and develop it consistently. Consciously promote a working atmosphere that fosters creativity, create incubation spaces, focus your capacities on the , especially on research and development, but also on marketing. All operational functions and all activities should …
Design leadership as a strategic competence
If you have a strong design competence, you could develop this ability into your strategic competence and make it prominent in your activities, in your and in your . It is not only about , but also about the entire design process in the company from the strategic idea to implementation and marketing. The process …
Relationship leadership as a strategic competence
If your organization is strong in relationships, i.e. particularly good at building, intensifying and cultivating relationships with customers, suppliers and service partners, you could make this capability your strategic competence instead of merely using it as one capability among many others for your business. You could actively position yourself as an organizer or coordinator in …
Service leadership as a strategic orientation
If your organization provides good customer service that is recognized by customers, you could make it a strategic focus. Make sure that you pay an appropriate price for this special service quality. In a further step, take a consistent approach based on customer benefits and define a service concept which, if necessary, includes other relevant …
The perfect candidate for purchase
When searching for a suitable purchase candidate, a catalog of criteria is important. Depending on whether you are a buyer interested in a purely financial investment, a , different criteria will be on your wish list. Carefully check whether your acquisition candidates are economically healthy and do not have any “skeletons in the closet”. Thoroughly …
Due Diligence: Security for prospective buyers
What is due diligence? The term “due diligence” can be interpreted as “due care”. Due diligence is intended to enable prospective buyers who have submitted an indicative purchase offer to you to verify whether the information you have provided to them in the process to date, particularly with the files in the data room, is …