You will know that you need to have a competitive advantage or competitive edge as the basis for your unique selling proposition.
Are you clear on the dimensions?
For years, I talked about this as the ABCD Rule.
Your Advantage needs to be Better, Cheaper or Different.
Then I came across an article I wrote on the difference between vertical differentiation and horizontal differentiation where I went further.
I said your Advantage needs to be Better, Cheaper, Different, Easier or Faster.
This became the ABCDEF Rule.
This gives you five broad directions to think about when you are considering your customer value strategy and your customer value attribute map (also known as the strategy canvas in Blue Ocean Strategy). These will help you to be clear on which factors are your order winners and which are order qualifiers.
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