TEchNOLOGy TRaNSFER MODEL - Javna agencija
TEchNOLOGy TRaNSFER MODEL - Javna agencija
TEchNOLOGy TRaNSFER MODEL - Javna agencija
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KNOWLEDGE FOR BUSINESS IN BORDER REGIONS<br />
2.4.2 The Strategic Core<br />
The strategic core represents the “heart of your company”. When determining your business model, ask yourself the following<br />
questions:<br />
• What products/services do we offer?<br />
• Who are our most important customers?<br />
• What are our core competencies?<br />
These questions, although they seem very easy to be answered should be handled with extreme care. For example when evaluating<br />
core competencies, try to thoroughly examine all areas of your value chain in order to determine the particular strengths of your<br />
company relative to other organizations in the industry. Few companies are likely to build world leadership in more than five or six<br />
fundamental competencies. When determining your most important customers, the ABC-model has proven to be very successful.<br />
2.4.3 Customer Perception<br />
Customer perception comprises the marketing side of your business model. The following main questions should be considered for<br />
your analysis:<br />
• What customer value do we offer?<br />
• What are our competitive advantages in terms of product-differentiation?<br />
• What‘s our positioning?<br />
• What‘s our image?<br />
• What‘s our promotion strategy?<br />
A key success factor in this context is to determine a clear unique selling proposition (USP) that describes in a simple and easy-tounderstand<br />
manner in what ways your product or service differs from that of your competitors. When trying to find a distinctive USP,<br />
the concept of the competitive innovation advantage (CIA) which was developed by Prof. Volker Trommsdorff, a professor at the technological<br />
university Berlin, has proven to be very successful. He describes the CIA via five different attributes including corresponding<br />
critical factors that should serve as a checklist for the assessment and the development of competitive innovation advantages.<br />
These attributes and critical factors are shown in the graph below:<br />
Graph 2: Defining the CIA – Competitive Innovation Advantage<br />
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