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"Traditionally, when facing low-cost competition companies try to cut costs or innovate. But this can trap them in “never-ending cycles of hypercompetition”, D’Aveni says. Survival requires smarter and subtler responses.
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The author describes three types of commodity trap. First, there is deterioration, where low-end businesses enter with “lower cost, lower benefit” options that attract the mass market, much in the way Zara, the Spanish fashion chain, has done. In the deterioration trap, prices go down, and the benefits for customers go down too.
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The second type is proliferation. Here, either cheaper or more expensive alternatives with “unique benefits” attack different parts of an incumbent’s market – as Japanese and American motorcycle makers did to Harley-Davidson. Prices and benefits for customers may go up or down.
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Third, and perhaps most dramatically, there is escalation. Here, players offer more benefits for the same or lower price, squeezing everyone’s margins, as Apple has done with iPods. Prices go down and benefits for customers go up.
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In this world of commodity traps, D’Aveni says, managers will understand what the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland meant when she said: “Here you must run faster and faster to get nowhere at all!”
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To move on, companies must be resourceful, and “change the industry’s structure”, “redefine price” or “define new segments”.
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How do you avoid deterioration? Diesel, the fashion business, has done this by establishing expertise in denim products, the author says. Other high-end fashion companies have begun selling “baby cashmere” clothes, made from the first combing of a young goat. You need 20 goats to make one jumper. “This is a place where low-end players cannot follow,” D’Aveni writes."
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The author describes three types of commodity trap. First, there is deterioration, where low-end businesses enter with “lower cost, lower benefit” options that attract the mass market, much in the way Zara, the Spanish fashion chain, has done. In the deterioration trap, prices go down, and the benefits for customers go down too.
.
The second type is proliferation. Here, either cheaper or more expensive alternatives with “unique benefits” attack different parts of an incumbent’s market – as Japanese and American motorcycle makers did to Harley-Davidson. Prices and benefits for customers may go up or down.
.
Third, and perhaps most dramatically, there is escalation. Here, players offer more benefits for the same or lower price, squeezing everyone’s margins, as Apple has done with iPods. Prices go down and benefits for customers go up.
.
In this world of commodity traps, D’Aveni says, managers will understand what the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland meant when she said: “Here you must run faster and faster to get nowhere at all!”
.
To move on, companies must be resourceful, and “change the industry’s structure”, “redefine price” or “define new segments”.
.
How do you avoid deterioration? Diesel, the fashion business, has done this by establishing expertise in denim products, the author says. Other high-end fashion companies have begun selling “baby cashmere” clothes, made from the first combing of a young goat. You need 20 goats to make one jumper. “This is a place where low-end players cannot follow,” D’Aveni writes."
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Retirado daqui.
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