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Live output GB310 Competitive Strategy Week of Oct 13

Week of Oct 13. Course Brief.

One screen. Sources on disk, not from memory. Ready before you walk into office hours.

Due Friday 5:00 p.m.Two-page memo — position vs. operational effectiveness.
Wednesday office hoursBring one question the PDFs do not answer.

This week’s pile

SY
SyllabusGB310 Fall 2026, weeks 6–7 — due dates only.
PD
Porter“What Is Strategy?” — assigned PDF on disk.
CS
CaseLocal grocer deciding whether to add delivery.

What I read

Porter: operational effectiveness is not strategy. Strategy is a distinct position and the trade-offs that protect it. Doing the same things better is not a position.

Case: the grocer can copy a delivery app in a month. Rivals can too. The live question is which customers they will stop serving if they staff vans.

What is due

Friday 5:00 p.m. Two-page memo — position vs. operational effectiveness, using the grocer.
Wednesday office hours Bring one question the PDFs do not answer.

Three questions for the professor

  1. If every rival can stand up delivery, is “we deliver” a position or an operation?
  2. The case never names who they would stop serving. Is that the trade-off we are supposed to name?
  3. Does the memo want a recommendation, or only the frame from Porter?

This brief does not write the memo. It does not invent a quote. It gets the next twenty minutes of office hours ready from files already on the laptop.

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