Strategy: Competitive analysis
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Business operating systems
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Scaling Up Coaches on Differentiation, Decisions, and COVID Leadership
Bill Gallagher
November 11, 2020
Business operating systems
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Competitive analysis
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Management
7
- Most companies cannot prove their differentiation — coaches must dismantle self-delusion first.
- Misalignment at the top is always the root cause of problems below.
- Optimal decision teams are small, cross-functional, and include a single accountable final voice.
How SpaceX disrupted the aerospace industry with vertical integration
Acquired
May 26, 2020
Business models
10
Case studies
9
Competitive analysis
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- SpaceX nearly went bankrupt on its fourth and final funded launch attempt.
- Vertical integration cut rocket costs to one-tenth of NASA's own estimates.
- A $1.6B NASA contract on Christmas Eve 2008 saved the company and changed spaceflight.
Competitive analysis
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Adversarial interoperability: how startups can compete with tech giants
Y Combinator
November 27, 2019
Competitive analysis
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Compliance & regulation
8
Resilience & grit
6
- Platforms use copyright law and CFAA to block the tactics they used to win.
- A Ninth Circuit ruling lets founders scrape public data without CFAA liability.
- Building marginal-legal products creates the constituency that changes the law.
Long-term planning
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How to find disruptive strategy using the IDEAS process
Bill Gallagher
March 13, 2019
Long-term planning
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Competitive analysis
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Culture building
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- Disruptive ideas look crazy at first — that's what protects them
- 70% of transformative innovations came from employees, not founders
- A window firm 10x'd by acquiring its own distributors for exclusivity
Competitive analysis
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Four steps to finding your inside growth differentiator
Bill Gallagher
January 9, 2019
Competitive analysis
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Branding
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- Your real differentiator is already inside your business — stop looking outward.
- Define your core customer in 15 words or you don't know them yet.
- Standing for one thing beats standing for four, every time.
Competitive analysis
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How SanDisk Competed Against Apple in the MP3 Market
Noah Kagan
September 6, 2017
Competitive analysis
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Niche selection
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Business models
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- SanDisk became the world's second-largest MP3 player behind Apple.
- Microsoft's Zune failed by copying Apple's price and positioning.
- Win by owning segments a dominant player ignores, not their turf.
Business operating systems
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Rockefeller's business habits applied to modern company growth
Bill Gallagher
April 1, 2017
Business operating systems
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Competitive analysis
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- Priorities, metrics, and rhythms are Rockefeller's three execution pillars
- Locking up railroad contracts gave Rockefeller an unfair competitive advantage
- Score one habit, work on it for three months, then move on