Competitve Strategy

Part 1. What commonalities were observed across the strategic situations in the six cases in the course?
While the six cases appeared to be very different in terms of product offerings, competitive environment, relative market position, and product lifecycles there were a surprising number of similarities in strategic concepts that cut across all of the cases. In fact, upon careful examination of these concepts, many of them appear to be universal in nature and can be applied to many strategic settings. It is these universal strategic concepts that we will focus on in this essay.
One of the most unconventional concepts covered in the cases was how the laws of physics can apply to business strategy: in particular, that size counts. This was a factor in each of the cases to one degree or another whether it applied to research and development resources, distribution channels, capital, existing market share, or leverage from a powerful parent company. Size often equates to resources...