I am trying to make an evaluation of competitors to understand why some win (e.g. Bic and Star boards stands out as having about 50 % of the market share and others lose). Is it due to differences in resources? company size? Innovation (if so which ones were criticall) ? manufacturing (computer-aided designs?)? What factors led one to be more successful than another? Is it one innovation in particular? Is it because of their distribution strategies? It would be intersting to know one or two recent manufacturers who failed in the windsurfing market and understand why
I'm trying to focus on doing my own work.
Please stop asking ridiculous open questions so that you can fill in some fairly half arsed academic paper at some joke middle eastern institution.
Learn to spell critical.
Learn to spell interesting.
Learn to separate your pathetic diatribes begging for information to do your job for you into paragraphs.
Be consistent on whether you want to begin a sentence with a capital letter and whether you want to finish one with a full stop.
It would be interesting to know. It would also be interesting to DO SOME ****ING RESEARCH by, for example, searching on Boards Mpora (#1) for the threads that started after the demise of some of the major manufacturers. If you want the names of failed brands then people may be able to help you here.
The common approach to research is to find material that already exists AND SIT DOWN AND READ IT, EVEN IF IT TAKES A LONG TIME.
This is a rare skill nowadays but it could make you very rich. (#2)
Your approach seems to be to ask everyone else to assemble this information.
I've told you what you need to do (read the capitals if this post was too long). Please go away and do it. You will win some respect by doing some work.
When you have done it, post your findings in draft and we will all give you our opinions.
I am going to continue with my breakfast now before I go to work to DO MY OWN JOB.
References
#1 http://boards.mpora.com/forums/search.php?searchid=1078725
#2 www.theonion.com/articles/last-american-who-knew-what-the-****-he-was-doing,26268/ (NB replace four stars with a word that begins with F and relates to sex)
Moral...don't as the 'Pom silly questions in the morning before he gets his caffeine fix!
well... I guess they failed because they weren't good at doing business.
there. a poor answer for a poor research methodology.
