Advanced Competitive Strategy will introduce new topics and modules with even more real world examples and opportunities for student interaction than in the previous course Competitive Strategy (/learn/competitivestrategy).
In Advanced Competitive Strategy, we will look at how companies can build up and maintain their customer base by increasing switching costs and facilitating strategic customer lock-ins. We will find out how firms can increase their profits by pursuing suitable price discrimination and product differentiation strategies.
We will look at examples of what is acceptable behavior under the premises of EU competition and US antitrust policies and discover exciting ways of how companies can increase their returns by strategically making use of network effects and economies of size. We will further intensify our newly acquired knowledge about network effects and discuss strategies that are explicitly tailored to network markets.
We will analyze the workings of mergers and acquisitions and, moreover, support you in considering alternative strategies that can help companies grow organically.
Strategic Marketing, Business Modeling, Business Strategy, Consumer Behaviour, Business Development, Regulatory Compliance, Price Negotiation, Customer Retention, Market Analysis, Mergers & Acquisitions, Marketing, Growth Strategies, Business Economics, Market Dynamics, Competitive Analysis
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JL
Aug 3, 2020
Excellent course that is both clear and challenging. It provides my in depth knowledge and tools to establish/analysis competitive strategies and/or competitive life cycles.
NT
Aug 2, 2018
Thank you!All needed skills are efficiently explained and allow the student to understand and deal even with more complex and multi-pronged subjects.
From the lesson
Increase your Returns
In this module, we are going to discover two very important new concepts with which you can increase your business鈥檚 returns: Network effects and boundaries of the firm. We will find that considering these two concepts in formulating our business strategy can help us improve our strategy鈥檚 effectiveness and eventually increase our returns.