🏰 A Taxonomy of Moats →
September 23, 2019 • #A deep, thoughtful analysis of competitive advantages, walking through and differentiating each type:
An innovation is a type of competitive advantage (though not all competitive advantages are innovations) and the strategic job is to make that competitive advantage sustainable over time1, to maintain the advantage as a bulwark against competition. Mechanisms to deter or slow imitation are called, colloquially, moats. Moats draw their power to prevent imitation from one of four basic sources:
- The state,
- Special know-how,
- Scale, or
- System rigidity.
Bookmarking this one for future reference. An excellent baseline.
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