Analyze Competitors: Product Gaps and Strategic Risks

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Analyze Competitors: Product Gaps and Strategic Risks

Coursera · Beginner ·📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ·1mo ago

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Analyzes competitors using a structured approach to identify product gaps and strategic risks for data-driven decision making

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In today's competitive landscape, understanding your product's position and anticipating competitor moves is critical. This course, Analyze Competitors: Product Gaps and Strategic Risks, provides a practical, hands-on introduction to the core techniques that every product manager and strategist needs. You will learn to move from gut feelings to data-driven decisions by mastering a structured approach to analyzing product offerings and evaluating strategic threats. Through real-world case studies like the "Streaming Wars" and Blockbuster's historic failure, you will learn to visually map competitive advantages using gap analysis and systematically prepare for future challenges with risk assessment frameworks. This course is for anyone who needs to make compelling, evidence-based recommendations about where to invest, how to differentiate, and how to defend their market position. You will build a Product & Risk Analysis Report, proving you can provide the actionable intelligence that product and strategy teams depend on to win.
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