Business Model Analysis
Key Benefits
- Evaluating the potential for cost efficiencies, increased competitive advantage and product differentiation
- Evaluating new commercial models and their critical success factors before the re-design of a business model is implemented
- Implementing strategic cost management
- Optimizing supply chain and manufacturing efficiencies
- Facilitating effective outsourcing decisions and supply chain management
- Benchmarking corporate functions and operating models against examples of 'best in class' practice
- Evaluating the benefit from cost versus structural changes to a value chain
- Understanding and optimizing trade-offs between comparative advantage at a country-specific level versus competitive advantage achieved at a firm-specific level
- Challenging internal assumptions and decision-making
- Maximizing market positioning versus a key player
The extent to which a competitor represents a threat depends substantially on its business model and how it creates value for its customers, its partners, and itself.
It is predicted that in the future, business model innovation will be more critical to an organization’s success than product innovation, and understanding competitors’ business models is a pre-requisite to winning against them in the marketplace.
CIS’ Business Model Analysis enables clients not only to defend, grow and maintain their competitive position against key market players but also to inform internal strategies and processes.
CIS’ Business Model Analysis can be used to profile a competitor at a global, regional, country or product level. It provides detailed insight into competitors’ cost structures, operating models, current capabilities and future strategies, as well as highlighting areas of key competitive threat.
Our program enables the client to directly benchmark its own business model against the competition and drives the assessment of potential cost efficiencies in order to maximize profits.
The program provides:
- The underlying economic logic of a competitor organization
- The operating structure, behavior and dynamics of a competitor’s business model
- The customers, products, sales channels and the revenue structure of a competitor
- The structure of a competitor’s value chain
- A breakdown of the key activities of a competitor at an individual functional level
- The level of value added to a competitor organization through the means of cost advantage or differentiation
- Strategies from key activities that will enable the client to attain sustainable competitive advantage
- The position of an enterprise within its value network and the nature of its business relationships