Competitor

These are strategies for dealing with rivals you can't ignore or strategically absorb.

The aim is to erode their advantage, waste their resources, or trap them in bad bets. If you're too small to confront directly, these indirect plays can level the field.

📄️ Ambush

Surprising competitors with significant and unexpected technological advances.

📄️ Circling and Probing

Testing the waters in a competitor’s territory through small-scale incursions.

📄️ Fragmentation Play

Splintering a rival's market to erode their stronghold.

📄️ Misdirection

Deliberately sending false or misleading signals to competitors to obscure your true intentions.

📄️ Reinforcing Competitor Inertia

Exploiting a competitor's reluctance or inability to change.

📄️ Restriction of Movement

Limiting a rival's ability to maneuver or adapt.

📄️ Sapping

Attacking a competitor on multiple fronts simultaneously to weaken their capacity to respond.

📄️ Talent Raid

Removing or absorbing key talent from a rival organization.