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Strategic Insight in 3 Circles*
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A Management Seminar for EIGCA MembersCo-sponsored by Toro and EIGCA
October, 2011Presented by Mike Etzel
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• 70% of players who moved forward found the game more enjoyable
• 90% played faster or at least at the same speed as they normally did
• 91% like the concept enough to recommend it to a friend
• 52% said they would play more golf as a result of the program
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MARKETING consists of coordinated activities to plan, price, promote, and distribute want-satisfying offerings to targeted prospects
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Marketing is challenging because it…
• Emphasizes planning before action
• Requires discipline in implementation
• Makes the needs of the prospect, not the business or the offering, the focus
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MarketYou
Competition
The 3-Circles
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MarketYou
Competition
Determine How they Overlap
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You Market
Competition
Use the Interactions to Formulate Strategy
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Objectives
• Prepare to serve a defined market (a segment) better than the competition
• Identify unmet opportunities in that market segment
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The Core of Marketing
• Segmenting - Dividing the market into groups with similar purchase-related characteristics
• Targeting - Selecting one or more segments to pursue
• Positioning - Designing strategies and tactics for one or more specific segment(s)
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S-T-P Examples
• Ray Kroc with McDonald’s
• Herb Kelleher with Southwest Airlines
• Howard Schultz with Starbuck’s
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The area of the first circle
represents a market segment’s
requirements, needs or desired
attributes.
Segment’sDesiredAttributes
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Your Equitiesand Disequities
Next, add a circle that represents the value you are perceived to offer this segment
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YourEquities/Disequities
Segment’sDesired Attributes
These are the assets, skills, and capabilities the segment perceives you have to offer
Market segment’s requirements, needs or desired attributes
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YourEquities/Disequities
Segment’sDesired Attributes
How much does what you are viewed as offering overlap with this segment’s needs?
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YourEquities/Disequities
Segment’sDesired Attributes
… in other words …
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YourEquities/Disequities
Segment’sDesired Attributes
This is the value customers in this segment believe you can create for them
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YourEquities/Disequities
Segment’sDesired Attributes
This overlapping area is called positive value or “equities.”
PositiveValue orEquities
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YourEquities/Disequities
Segment’sDesired Attributes
You need to determine how much your firm’s equities overlap with this segment’s needs…
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YourEquities/Disequities
Segment’sDesired Attributes
These areas are also meaningful
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YourEquities/Disequities
Segment’sDesired Attributes
Maybe customers feel they don’t need some of the value you create (yet?)
Disequities andPotential Equities
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YourEquities/Disequities
Segment’sDesired Attributes
Disequities andPotential Equities
… and there likely are needs the segment has that are unmet…
Unmet needs
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YourEquities/Disequities
Segment’sDesired Attributes
Disequities andPotential Equities
Next it is important to recognize…
Unmet needs
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YourEquities/Disequities
Segment’sDesired Attributes
Disequities andPotential Equities
Some of this space is shared with competitors…
Unmet needs
Equities
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Equities
Disequities/potential equity
Unmet need
Segment’sDesired Attributes
YourEquities/Disequities
Competitor Equities/disequities
… there are competitors who also create value for customers…
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Segment’sDesired Attributes
YourEquities/Disequities
Competitor Equities/Disequities
When Competitors are added…
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Segment’sDesired Attributes
YourEquities/Disequities
Competitor Equities/Disequities
Every unique area in the model takes on meaning…
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Segment’sDesired Attributes
YourEquities/Disequities
Competitor Equities/Disequities
BPoints of Parity
… Area B contains the table stakes… value you must createto be in the game…
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Segment’sDesired Attributes
YourEquities/Disequities
Competitor Equities/Disequities
BPoints of Parity
… Area A is your unique value to customers, the most important concept in competitive strategy…
AYour points of Difference
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Segment’sDesired Attributes
YourEquities/Disequities
Competitor Equities/Disequities
BPoints of Parity
Yet, the competitor has desirable points of difference as well…
AYour points of Difference
CTheir pointsof Difference
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Segment’sDesired Attributes
YourEquities/Disequities
Competitor Equities/Disequities
BPoints of Parity
Your profitability depends upon the relative size and importance of your Area A compared to competitors’ Area C
AYour points of Difference
CTheir pointsof Difference
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Segment’sDesired Attributes
YourEquities/Disequities
Competitor Equities/Disequities
BPoints of Parity
Area D …? This is value we both create that may not seem valuable to the customer !
AYour points of Difference
CTheir pointsof Difference
DCommon disequity/Potential equity
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Segment’sDesired Attributes
YourEquities/Disequities
Competitor Equities/Disequities
BPoints of Parity
… and each competitor has its own unique area of “non-value.”
AYour points of Difference
CTheir pointsof Difference
DCommon disequity/Potential equity
EYour disequity/Potentialequity
FTheir disequity/Potentialequity
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Segment’sDesired Attributes
YourEquities/Disequities
Competitor Equities/Disequities
BPoints of Parity
Most significantly for the future, every customer/segment has “white space”
AYour points of Difference
CTheir pointsof Difference
DCommon disequity/Potential equity
EYour disequity/Potentialequity
FTheir disequity/Potentialequity
G
“White Space”
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Segment’sDesired Attributes
YourEquities/Disequities
Competitor Equities/Disequities
BPoints of Parity
… an area representing customers’ needs that haven’t yet been met…
AYour points of Difference
CTheir pointsof Difference
DCommon disequity/Potential equity
EYour disequity/Potentialequity
FTheir disequity/Potentialequity
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“White Space”
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Segment’sDesired Attributes
YourEquities/Disequities
Competitor Equities/Disequities
BPoints of Parity
This is the model… it captures value as the CUSTOMER Perceives it
AYour points of Difference
CTheir pointsof Difference
DCommon disequity/Potential equity
EYour disequity/Potentialequity
FTheir disequity/Potentialequity
G
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Conducting a 3-Circle Analysis
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Ten-Step Process
• Identify a Context • Gather External (Outside) Data
– Customer analysis– Sorting data into 3 circles– Deeper diving
• Gather Internal (Inside) Data– Firm’s resources– Competitors’ resources– Overlaps
• Analyze the Data– Align capabilities with market needs– Factor in change
– Identify growth options and tactics
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Step 1: The Context
• Market - organizations with needs to satisfy, money to spend, and a willingness to spend it.
• You - you, your firm, or a unit of your firm
• Competition - one or more organizations pursuing the market being analyzed
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Customers’ Desired Attributes
Segment A
Priorities, rather than major differences, often distinguish segments of a market
Segment C
Segment B
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Market Segmentation
• Market Segments - Prospects in a broader market who share demand-related characteristics and can be most effectively served by a tailored marketing program.
• Markets segments are based on:– Particular need/benefit and/or priorities
– Particular behaviors
– Observable characteristics
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Step 1 Outcome Is a Context Statement
“My goal is to figure out how (I/we/my company/division) can grow by creating more value for (customer/market segment) than (my competitor) does.”
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Step 2: Customer Analysis
• An internal and external exercise to determine the segment’s:– Desired benefits– Perceptions of your capability– Perceptions of your competitor’s
capability
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A “Before” View of a Market Segment
• Put yourself in the shoes of the customer• Using the “Before” Worksheet:
– List the top reasons customers in this segment choose a design firm
– Estimate the importance of each reason as low, medium, or high
– Estimate how the segment rates your firm and the selected competitor on each reason (below expectations = 1, meets expectations = 2, exceeds expectations = 3)
– Anticipating Step 4: Probe why you believe each reason is important using laddering
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An “After” View of the Segment
• Do the same thing using the “After” Worksheet but this time use information OBTAINED DIRECTLY FROM THE SEGMENT– Talk to recent buyers– See the equity and disequity questions in the
Analysis Guide– Be a good listener– Anticipating Step 4: Probe beyond the obvious
responses using laddering
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Reconciling Before and After Worksheets
• Resolving differences:– Confirms the value of getting outside yourself– Produces new insights
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Step 3: Sorting
• You now know the segment’s:– Important needs and their priorities– Perception of your capabilities– Perception of the competition’s capabilities
• Place these dimensions in the 3-circle worksheet
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Step 4: Deep Diving
• Determining the “why” of choice attributes– Attributes are good; consequences are better
• “Laddering” is a frequently used probing technique
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Laddering Technique
• A simple technique for identifying what drives choices.– It consists of repeating probes and listening to the
answers• For “Before” Worksheet:
– “Why is (attribute) important to customers”– “What do customers really get from (attribute)”
• For “After” Worksheet:– “Why is (attribute) important to you”– “How do you benefit from (attribute)”
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Completing Step 4
• Add to the 3-Circle Worksheet the reasons (the consequences to the buyer) why each attribute is important to the segment– Consequences are often assumed or
“hidden”– Success of a strategy often turns on
understanding consequences
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Capabilities, Resources, Assets,Culture, Social Capital,Leadership, Structure, Knowledge
Capabilities, Resources, Assets,Culture, Social Capital,Leadership, Structure, Knowledge
INSIDE is where you find the capabilities, resources, and assets used to create customer value.
YOU
Competition
Step 5 & 6: Assessing CARs
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Step 5: Your Capabilities, Resources, and Assets
• Develop an organized list of your organization’s capabilities, resources, and assets– Weak versus strong– Heavily utilized versus under utilized– Core versus peripheral
• Test your assessments externally
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Step 6: Competitor’s Capabilities, Resources, and
Assets
• Develop an organized list of your competitor’s capabilities, resources, and assets
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Step 7: Overlap Assessment
• Identify capabilities, resources and assets that:– You have in common with the competitor
• Unlikely sources of distinctiveness
– Are unique to you• Potential sources of differential advantage
– Are unique to the competitor• Potential sources of differential disadvantage
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Step 8: Align Perceptions and Realities of Capabilities, Resources, and Assets
• Compare the results from Step 2 (Customer Analysis) and Steps 5, 6 and 7 (Your and Competitor’s CARs)– What characterizes the CARs?
• Unique?• Substantive?• Difficult to duplicate?• Is the market informed?
• Add these to the 3-Circle Worksheet
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Step 9: Dynamics
• How is the market changing or likely to change?– Size of the circles– Overlaps– Needs of the market– Your attributes– Competitor’s attributes
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Step 10: Growth Opportunities
• Strategy questions addressed by the model:– Can we identify, build, and defend meaningful differentiation?– Do we have hidden capabilities that could enhance customer
value?– Are there disequities we can eliminate or improve? – Do competitors have advantages we can neutralize?– What unmet segment needs provide new growth opportunities?
• Identify value numerator and denominator ideas– Use the 3-Circle Worksheet– Develop tactics to accomplish the goals– Estimate the likelihood of success (costs versus return)
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Conclusions
• Strengths of the 3-Circle planning model– Puts strategy ahead of tactics– Focuses on the market– Addresses all potential areas of strategy– Can be conducted at different levels of complexity– It works!