Overview of Competitive Strategy Development

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About this course

Build competitive strategies that create sustainable…

  • 3 lessons
  • 15 min
  • beginner

What you'll learn

  • Define sustainable competitive advantage and explain why it matters for long-term business success
  • Identify the two basic types of competitive advantage that organizations can pursue
  • Recognize the contributions of pioneering scholars to the evolution of competitive strategy thinking
  • Explain the five competitive forces that determine industry attractiveness and profitability
  • Distinguish between horizontal competition sources and vertical competition sources
  • Apply the Five Forces framework to evaluate industry structure and competitive intensity

Finishing the course

  • 12 knowledge-check questions along the way, so you know the ideas stuck before you move on.
  • Watching is free and needs no account. Sign in to save your progress. Pass each lesson's quiz (60%+) to earn the certificate. Each certificate has its own public verification link to share, marked quiz-verified.
  • Part of the Strategic Business Analysis and Competitive Strategy learning path. Enrol in the path and finish its required courses to earn one certificate for all of them.