Bcg Matix
Placing products in the BCG matrix results in 4 categories in a portfolio of a company:
BCG STARS (high growth, high market share)
- Stars are defined by having high market share in a growing market.
- Stars are the leaders in the business but still need a lot of support for promotion a placement.
- If market share is kept, Stars are likely to grow into cash cows.
BCG QUESTION MARKS (high growth, low market share)
- These products are in growing markets but have low market share.
- Question marks are essentially new products where buyers have yet to discover them.
- The marketing strategy is to get markets to adopt these products.
- Question marks have high demands and low returns due to low market share.
- These products need to increase their market share quickly or they become dogs.
- The best way to handle Question marks is to either invest heavily in them to gain market share or to sell them.
BCG CASH COWS (low growth, high market share)
- Cash cows are in a position of high market share in a mature market.
- If competitive advantage has been achieved, cash cows have high profit margins and generate a lot of cash flow.
- Because of the low growth, promotion and placement investments are low.
- Investments into supporting infrastructure can improve efficiency and increase cash flow more.
- Cash cows are the products that businesses strive for.
BCG DOGS (low growth, low market share)
- Dogs are in low growth markets and have low market share.
- Dogs should be avoided and minimized.
- Expensive turn-around plans usually do not help.
And now, let's put all this into a picture:
Main Steps of BCG Matrix * Identifying and dividing a company into
SBU.
* Assessing and comparing the prospects of each SBU according to two criteria :
1. SBU’S relative market share.
2. Growth rate OF SBU’S industry. * Classifying the SBU’S on the basis of BCG matrix. * Developing strategic objectives for each
SBU.
Benefits
BCG STARS (high growth, high market share)
- Stars are defined by having high market share in a growing market.
- Stars are the leaders in the business but still need a lot of support for promotion a placement.
- If market share is kept, Stars are likely to grow into cash cows.
BCG QUESTION MARKS (high growth, low market share)
- These products are in growing markets but have low market share.
- Question marks are essentially new products where buyers have yet to discover them.
- The marketing strategy is to get markets to adopt these products.
- Question marks have high demands and low returns due to low market share.
- These products need to increase their market share quickly or they become dogs.
- The best way to handle Question marks is to either invest heavily in them to gain market share or to sell them.
BCG CASH COWS (low growth, high market share)
- Cash cows are in a position of high market share in a mature market.
- If competitive advantage has been achieved, cash cows have high profit margins and generate a lot of cash flow.
- Because of the low growth, promotion and placement investments are low.
- Investments into supporting infrastructure can improve efficiency and increase cash flow more.
- Cash cows are the products that businesses strive for.
BCG DOGS (low growth, low market share)
- Dogs are in low growth markets and have low market share.
- Dogs should be avoided and minimized.
- Expensive turn-around plans usually do not help.
And now, let's put all this into a picture:
Main Steps of BCG Matrix * Identifying and dividing a company into
SBU.
* Assessing and comparing the prospects of each SBU according to two criteria :
1. SBU’S relative market share.
2. Growth rate OF SBU’S industry. * Classifying the SBU’S on the basis of BCG matrix. * Developing strategic objectives for each
SBU.
Benefits