In my experience at strategy meetings, most executives spend too much time discussing competitors and not nearly enough time discussing customers: who they are, their key concerns, how they buy, why, and where.
At each month's review, they discussed competitor offerings, reviewed how his team's results helped created competitive differentiation for the company, and set near-term targets for how to outperform head-to-head competitors.
Twitter declined to discuss its competitors, citing rules limiting what companies can say beyond official filings while a stock offering is pending.
They declined to discuss a competitor, but said they believe there's a strong business case for Best Buy's corporate responsibility work.
"If all Blackwater personnel had to leave the country, there would be no one to provide security for the diplomatic mission in Baghdad, except the U.S. Army," said an executive at another security firm, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a competitor.
If the plan is going to be read by a potential business partner, discuss your competitors--both your competitors and your potential partners' competitors.
Yet as certain issues, notably pricing policy, cannot be discussed among competitors, the regulators will still have to get involved.
No fewer than 37 firms applied for leniency in exchange for helping the OFT, and another 40 admitted guilt in the hope of receiving a reduced sentence.The main violation was "cover pricing"—firms discussing with competitors the bids they planned to submit.
In "Alternative packages" section we discussed several competitors to d2o Because of their similarities, we conducted the strong scaling tests—as far as possible16 also with DistArray and compare the performance.
Mr. Greatrex declined to discuss Powerade's competitors.
