"It's the really severe recalls, where perhaps the materials turned out to be unsafe or there's a major malfunction that are leading to competitor responses.
We must pay close attention to and understand global, national, regional and local economic trends, market trends, consumer trends, industry trends and competitor responses.
The individual items in the scale measure a respondent's level of agreement with perspectives relating to the firms' collection of information on customer needs and competitor responses (see Appendix 1).
Competition: Competition means that competitors' responses influence the value of different alternatives.
Yet many firms fail to think systematically about how rivals will react to their plans and traditional planning does a poor job of taking competitors' responses into account, says John McDermott, head of strategy at Xerox, an office-equipment company.
Thus, agreements that set price ranges, establish formulae for rates of change in prices, or provide guidelines for competitors' responses to changes in their cost structures are all violations, even though they neither establish a precise common price nor eliminate all possible price competition.
Trump said Putin is a "good competitor," in response to a question about Germany's plans to build the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.
The analyst said the "Samsung marketing machine is huge and a very tough competitor". In response to those concerns, Chang noted that "based on the scale we have, we're obviously going to have to play smart". Macquarie analyst Daniel Chang said in a research note that HTC is sandwiched between Apple and Samsung.
Questions like, what are we going to do about that competitor's response?
