Pepsi Porter's Five Forces

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In what way could Information Systems be beneficial towards our companies’ rivalry with other competitors? Fortunately, a man named Michael Porter has figured it out for the modern world. A company must first define its organisational strategy which then in turn determines the information systems that are used. The process in which this happens relates to several components, these are by, determining the company’s structure, moving on to the competitive strategy then the value chains involved relating to the business processes which then decides the design of various information systems. With this, Porter has developed three models to comprehend each component for our use. This assignment would outline the importance of the four competitive strategies, how it could be used in a business situation and how to sustain this competitive advantage over the market.
The first component that was aforementioned in the paragraph above was industry structure, to choose an industry structure; Porter has developed the five forces model as a guideline for newly established businesses. Several factors affect …show more content…

Whichever competitive strategy that has been chosen by a business, rivals are sure to follow your lead. Some of the ways to ensure sustainability is by having lucrative deals with outside companies, such as, Pepsi which has secured a deal with KFC by only supplying Pepsi to their consumers and not its competitors (Coca-Cola). Therefore this is considered to be a competitive advantage to Pepsi. Another way to keep having competitive advantage is by being proactive on the changes that your competitors have made. For example if the business have noticed that the competitors have started to follow the modifications that the business have previously made, it would be wise to already figure out new changes as to keep ahead of the

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