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Dear All: “Vestas 11th Hour Racing has won Leg 1 of the Volvo Ocean Race, crossing the finish line in the River Tagus in Lisbon, Portugal on Saturday afternoon”. Congratulations! […]
Good Morning! Bonjour a Tous! The 7 sailing teams at the Volvo Ocean Race are near Lisbon. It seems they will be ready to arrive tomorrow. I would like to […]
The core business is one of the most important concepts we must understand in our companies when we wish to strategize. We profit from the “core”… and if you think […]
The Volvo Ocean Race 2017-2018 started last Sunday. We can follow the race “LIVE” at their website: Volvo Ocean Race 2017-2018. Also if you wish to get used to the Volvo […]
Today someone asked me why did I choose the Volvo Ocean Race 2017-2018 as the figure to share with you my knowledge, why didn’t I choose an African Safari or […]
Hi to all of you!!!! I hope you are happy, happy, happy with this weekend arrival. We are going to start with the Volvo Ocean Race this weekend. In Alicante. I […]
Have a happy day. Today I will like to continue with the topic of retaliation and corruption as accepted ways of threats of entry. Moreover, what terrifies me is that […]
Good morning to all of you. I hope you have started your week and you are really doing well with all your activities. Last Saturday I promised to continue with the […]
I am obsessed with the idea of marriage. To be single and heterosexual makes me pray every single day for that miracle. I have no idea who will marry me, […]
Dear all: Find my first approach of themes to cover for our 2017-2018 strategy ride. The content is designed to be understood by everyone who´leads or has beautiful businesses, entrepreneurs, […]
Have a beautiful Sunday. As I promised previously, I wished to deliver the section of the fifth force of Porter: Threat of Entry. I couldn´t upload my file yesterday because […]
Have a beautiful day, I wish you are happy and well. October is full of beautiful days. October as much as September are months full of amazing colors. The sky […]
I have written a new version of this post today (September 4th, 2024). I have kept the old original version below (October 12th, 2017). I hope you can correspond with […]
Today is the turn of the fourth force of Porter: Bargaining Power of Buyers. Let me start today, by sharing with you, what Professor Robert Grant has written in relation […]
Successful Differentiation creates lasting market power and influence over customers or competitors. The traditional metric to measure market power and influence has been the “relative market share”. Relative market share […]
Dear all: Find attached my set of slides about the Bargaining Power of Suppliers. These key determinant factors are likely to be important in determining the bargaining power of suppliers […]
Good day to all of you. Let´s pray for peace in this world, please. I can´t explain how horrified I was to see at the TV the latest attack in […]
Good morning to all of you: Meanwhile, I am writing about the determinants factors of Suppliers and Buyer´s Bargaining Power, I can´t wait to clarify the following. I perform my […]
Today I will like to share with you the following: There are things in life without substitutes… such as having a baby, for example. There are no substitutes for having […]
Dear and beautiful audience: Someone posted a question, asking why did I consider the rest of retailers as substitutes of “Toys R Us”, instead of naming the substitutes of “Toys […]
Dear all: Yes, I know it is Saturday, and we deserve to rest. But I wished to share this video about “Toys R Us” before going to my Saturday fitness […]
Today I will like to continue with the Threat of Substitutes Porter´s Force. I set up the table with “Toys R Us” example because I wished to share with you […]
Good Morning to all. Hope you are thriving in every possible way. As I promised last week, I will continue with Porter´s Threat of Substitutes Force. I hope to finish […]
It has been raining. And natural disasters are happening. But, what to do, when natural disasters happen frequently, such as Harvey, Irma, José, and María? And recently, the two Mexican […]
Have a beautiful weekend for tous: Please remember, Porter´s industry competitive analysis has been a wonderful starting point. Do not dismiss Porter even though there are other strategy models around. […]
Good morning to all. I decided to start this blog some months ago because I really wish to help others. I decided to help people through knowledge explained in the […]
Have a good day. Today we will start with the second force from Porter´s Industry Analysis Model. It is called Substitutes. Competition depends on the extent to which products in […]
Hello, here in my hometown is the celebration day of Independence from Spain. The celebrations included several parades with students marching bands, military bands, parades of the Salvadoran legends characters and […]
We have almost finished with the first competitive force, Industry Rivalry. I have tried to explain with common words, with simple terms and humble examples, what is the meaning of […]
Bonjour a tous!!! Today we will continue with the first competitive force of Porter´s Model. This day is the turn to understand the meaning of the next key determinant factor: […]
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