Risks That Are Associated with Selecting and Implementing the Business Level Strategy

There are five type of business strategies and each type had its own risk when selecting and implementing it. For cost leadership strategy, the risks that are associate with this strategy are a loss of competitive advantage to newer technologies, which allows rivals to produce at lower cost, a failure to detect changes in customers' need and the ability of competitors to imitate the cost leader's competitive advantage through their own unique strategic actions. Competitors sometimes do learn to imitate the cost leader's strategy and if this happened, cost leader should take corrective action that is to even lowed the price again.…