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PIMS Proprietary Tools for Strategic Analysis

PIMS Associates (PIMSA) consultants have access to a number of important proprietary tools for guiding and enhancing strategic analysis, including:

Business definition - PIMSA consultants help managers build a product/market matrix to help them "define their business" in terms of products, customers and competitors.

Business profile - PIMSA consultants use the PIMS findings (regarding the information required to support strategic thinking) and the PIMS data definitions as a guide to help management describe the business situation and opportunity. This description is used to identify and access the experience of comparable PIMS businesses.

Value map - A value map positions the product offering of a business relative to the offerings of its competitors in two-dimensional space. The business's position on the map is used to access the experience of PIMS comparables, and suggest and evaluate value enhancement strategies.

Strategic benchmarks - The experience of PIMS businesses, situationally comparable to a business under study, is used to establish strategy and performance benchmarks. pimsonline.com includes:

    • Profitability (Return on Sales, and Return on Investment)
    • Change in market share
    • Marketing budget (Salesforce, Advertising, Promotion and Other Marketing Expense)
    • Market attractiveness/competitive strength

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