Defensive

These strategies aim to protect what you’ve already captured. You raise barriers, lobby for regulation, or delay action with strategic procrastination.

Defence isn’t passive. It’s about using time and policy to your advantage. It’s most useful when your position is strong but vulnerable to change.

📄️ Defensive regulation

Defensive Regulation: Using Government to Protect Your Market

📄️ Limitation of Competition

Limitation of Competition

📄️ Managing inertia

Managing Inertia: Countering Resistance to Change

📄️ Procrastination

Procrastination: Do nothing and allowing competition to drive a system to a more evolved form.

📄️ Raising barriers to entry

Raising Barriers to Entry: Increasing Expectations within a market for a range of user needs to be met in order to prevent others entering the market.

📄️ Threat acquisition

Threat Acquisition: Buying Potential Competitors