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Michael Porter has argued that a firm's strengths ultimately fall into one of two headings: cost advantage and differentiation. By applying these strengths in either a broad or narrow scope, three generic strategies result: cost leadership, differentiation, and focus. These strategies are applied at the business unit level.
Porter five forces analysis is a framework to analyze the level of competition within an industry and business strategy development. It draws upon industrial organization (IO) economics to derive five forces that determine the competitive intensity and therefore attractiveness of an Industry.his analysis is associated with its principal innovator Michael E. Porter of Harvard University. Porter referred to these forces as the micro environment, to contrast it with the more general term macro environment.