1. Identify and consider industry key success factors (KSFs) of General Motors? Key Success Factors are the strategy elements, product and service attributes, operational approaches, resources, and competitive capabilities that are essential to surviving and thriving in the industry. Please be very thorough and lengthy with response. With resources and where they can be located.
2. I need an competitor analysis over General Motors based on the following: A Framework for Competitor Analysis
Current Strategy- to succeed in predicting a competitor's next moves, company strategists need to have a good understanding of each rival's current strategy, as an indicator of its pattern of behavior and best strategic options. questions to consider... how is the competitor positioned in the market? what is the basis for its competitive advantage? what kinds of investments is it making (as an indicator of its expected growth trajectory)?
Objectives- An appraisal of rival's objectives should include not only its financial performance objectives but strategic ones as well (which may be concerns about market share). Strategic and performance objectives.
Resource and Capabilities- rival's strategic moves and counter-moves are both enabled and constrained by the set of resources and capabilities the rival has at hand. Key strengths and weaknesses.
Assumptions- how a rival's top managers think about their strategic situation can have a big impact on how the rival behaves. Held about itself and the industry.
Also, please consider key competitors and identify strategic group of General Motors.
Please be very thorough and lengthy with each response. Give URL to references