Re:The Irrelevance of Porter’s Five Forces for the B2B Softw...
by ghaff on Thursday April 14, 2022 @03:50PM
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All models are wrong. Some are useful.
That said, I agree with at least some of the points. Competitive Strategy would seem like a very incomplete work today that (as far as I know, it's been years) probably doesn't pay a lot of attention to coopetition--which may not even have been coined at the time--and things like ecosystems.
That said, we do still talk about competitive moats for businesses and VCs are certainly willing to pay a lot of money to help build those moats.
That said, I agree with at least some of the points. Competitive Strategy would seem like a very incomplete work today that (as far as I know, it's been years) probably doesn't pay a lot of attention to coopetition--which may not even have been coined at the time--and things like ecosystems.
That said, we do still talk about competitive moats for businesses and VCs are certainly willing to pay a lot of money to help build those moats.