A basic strategic planning step in businesses anywhere today is to identify a core competence — an area in which your company has what Michael Porter
calls sustainable competitive advantage, or, in the old fashioned terms of industrial economics, market power.
All the
real sustainable competitive advantages are ones that Indie Authors can build better than Publishers or Platforms — because they have no baggage and no existing paper book markets to protect.
«We believe investing in a concentrated portfolio of companies with a history of predictable earnings and
sustainable competitive advantages offers the potential for strong returns with lower volatility over the long term,» says Matthew Landy, portfolio manager of the Lazard Equity Franchise Portfolio.
A broader but more challenging opportunity may lie with smaller companies — you'll certainly find more entry & valuation opportunities, but it's always a struggle to assess
how sustainable their competitive advantage really is, or whether they even have one... they may simply have found a small & comfortable niche.
Each of these funds is thoroughly screened and regularly reviewed by the HSBC Global Funds Approvals & Research team7 - a global team of research analysts dedicated to helping enhance our clients» portfolios by identifying third party money managers that
show sustainable competitive advantages within their asset class.
Travis has also taught informal workshops
on sustainable competitive advantage, business valuation, and the wider applications of behavioral finance and prospect theory, in addition to running a concentrated deep value / special - situations equity portfolio, which has returned 69.53 % since inception in June 2006 relative to the S&P 500's -6.08 %.
Consolidating a sizable portfolio of tracks and race dates under a single umbrella provided the leading players
with sustainable competitive advantages in the form of superior ability to negotiate with NASCAR, lobby municipal and state governments and regulators, maintain pricing power for sponsorships and ticketing, and spread marketing and corporate expenses across a broader revenue base.
Core competencies: Based on the proposed foundation for
sustainable competitive advantage for the venture, this will be an analysis of the core competencies (functions and capabilities) that must be internal to the firm.
Phrases with «sustainable competitive advantage»