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Business is more global than it's ever been. And with every passing year, competition between different organizations in different countries is likely to become ever more intense.
For us as consumers, this is great! It creates a downward pressure on prices that benefits everyone. However for us as businesspeople and employees, it creates a strong need for ever-increasing efficiency, innovation, and intelligent deployment of limited resources, if we're to be competitive in this global market.
For organizations to deploy their resources effectively, they need to understand how global competition is likely to play out. An important part of this is understanding how the business conditions in one country differ from those in another country. This is the subject of "Porter's Diamond."
On one level, this seems a topic suited only to the boardrooms of large multi-national conglomerates. However, on another level, this is an issue that all organizations, and all individuals, have to consider as they think about how they'll succeed in this fast-changing world.
In his book, The Competitive Advantage of Nations, Michael Porter introduced his model for analyzing the areas of strength and weakness that can give a country, or industry within a country, a competitive advantage or disadvantage. The model is known as "Porter's Diamond" and includes four key elements (we'll explain these in detail below):
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