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Miles and Snow

The document describes four strategic types of companies: defenders, prospectors, analyzers, and reactors. Defenders focus narrowly on improving efficiency in their existing operations. Prospectors almost continually search for new opportunities and experiment with responses to trends. Analyzers operate efficiently in stable areas but watch competitors for ideas to adopt in more turbulent areas. Reactors perceive changes but are unable to respond effectively due to inconsistencies in their strategy and structure.

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Miles and Snow

The document describes four strategic types of companies: defenders, prospectors, analyzers, and reactors. Defenders focus narrowly on improving efficiency in their existing operations. Prospectors almost continually search for new opportunities and experiment with responses to trends. Analyzers operate efficiently in stable areas but watch competitors for ideas to adopt in more turbulent areas. Reactors perceive changes but are unable to respond effectively due to inconsistencies in their strategy and structure.

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Four Strategic types of Companies

1. Defenders are organisations which have narrow product-market domains. Top


managers in this type of organisation are highly expert in their organisation's
limited area of operation but do not tend to search outside of their domains for new
opportunities. As a result of this narrow focus, these organisations seldom need to
make major adjustments in their technology, structure, or methods of operation.
Instead they devote primary attention to improving the efficiency of their existing
operations.

2. Prospectors are organisations that almost continually search for market


opportunities, and they regularly experiment with potential responses to emerging
environmental trends. Thus, these organisations often are the creators of change
and uncertainty to which their competitors must respond. However, because of
their strong concern for product and market innovation, these organisations usually
are not completely efficient.

3. Analyzers are organisations that operate in two types of product-market


domains, one relatively stable, the other changing. In their stable areas, these
organisations operate routinely and efficiently through use of formalized structures
and processes. In their more turbulent areas, top managers watch their competitors
closely for new ideas, and then they rapidly adopt those that appear to be the most
promising.

4. Reactors are organisations in which top managers frequently perceive change


and uncertainty occurring in their organisational environments but are unable to
respond effectively. Because this type of organisation lacks a consistent strategy-
structure relationship, it seldom makes adjustment of any sort until forced to do so
by environmental pressures".

Organization strategy, structure and process, Miles & Snow, 1978: pp. 29.

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