We plan on being in the electric car business. Our first priority will be to obtain an electric car plant. With one drive unit only fetching $100, drive plant alone is not at all profitable. Meanwhile, Electric car is worth $600 at the very least. Our reasoning behind not purchasing the Autonomous vehicle plant is because it is easily obtainable. In round 2 we realized that since electric vehicle is needed to make an autonomous vehicle, autonomous segment is not very profitable (without also owning an electric car). We also found that autonomous vehicle factory is easily rentable in the market. Because it is highly unlikely that we will be able to purchase both autonomous vehicle plant and electric car plant, we will invest in the electric car plant. We feel confident that we can find a factory capacity on rent on a marginal profit sharing basis with another group, thus maximizing our profits.
Please answer the questions below:
1. Briefly explain SWOT analysis.
2. What is most likely to yield competitive advantages? Which companies do you think will be most successful, and why?
3. What impacts on the market do you expect from latest game news?