Discuss the following:
"Competitor Analysis"
1. Examine service categories commonly provided by nursing homes. Determine two specific service categories that you believe are common factors of competition among nursing homes. Justify your response.
2. Analyze the main service area factors for healthcare organizations factors. Suggest two consumer factors and two service area factors that could provide a competitive advantage to a walk-in clinic.
Conducting a Competitor Analysis
1. Examine three barriers that you believe represent the most significant obstacles to an effective competitor analysis. Propose a strategy to overcome each of the three barriers that you have identified.
2. Analyze Michael Porter's technique for a competitive analysis. Determine one factor for each of Porter's five forces of an environmental analysis that apply to the organization that you selected.