Time to re-position?

Early-warning signals that the positioning of your business may need to take advantage of emerging opportunities:

• Nascent industries emerge.
• Nontraditional competitors start to appear.
• The positioning of a key competitor changes.
• The rise of new customers.
• Consumption patterns are being influenced by affordable new offerings from new technologies (think iPod).
• Customers are defecting.
• Loss of market share in select key segments.
• Emergence of new business models and new management models.
• Pressure on profit margins.
• Unexpected decline in cash flow from operations.
• Decline in customer satisfaction.