Gurus On Marketing
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General Electric Strategic Planning Matrix<br />
Because there are multiple factors affecting businesses, General Electric<br />
working with McKinsey & Co. has developed a multi factor<br />
approach to business portfolio analysis.<br />
Each business is rated in terms of two major dimensions. They are<br />
market attractiveness and business strength. The factors underlying<br />
market attractiveness are overall market size, annual market growthrate,<br />
historical profit margin, and competitive intensity, technological<br />
requirements, vulnerability to inflation, energy requirements, environmental<br />
impact and sociological, technological, economic and<br />
political factors. The factors underlying business strength are market<br />
share, share growth, product quality, brand reputation, distribution<br />
network, promotional effectiveness, productive capacity, productive<br />
efficiency, unit costs, material supplies, R & D performance and managerial<br />
personnel.<br />
The matrix is divided into nine cells (see over) representing the following<br />
positions:<br />
• Business strength (BS): Strong, medium and weak.<br />
• Market attractiveness (MA): High, medium and low.<br />
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