What are the two different generic business strategies available to firms?

What will be an ideal response?


There are two fundamentally different generic business strategies-differentiation and cost leadership.

A differentiation strategy seeks to create higher value for customers than the value that competitors create, by delivering products or services with unique features while keeping costs at the same or similar levels.

A cost-leadership strategy, in contrast, seeks to create the same or similar value for customers by delivering products or services at a lower cost than competitors, enabling the firm to offer lower prices to its customers.

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