What is a Second-mover Strategy? Meaning.
A Second-mover Strategy is created to benefit from
(quickly) following the first-mover. Often, the second mover is actually able
to capture a greater market share, despite having entered later. Compared
to a first mover, this strategy has some advantages:
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Lower research and development budgets. The second-mover
firm can learn from the experiences of the first mover firm, and
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Lower marketing budgets are necessary to educate the public
about a new type of product.
As a result, the second-mover can use its scale and resources
to focus on making a superior product or out-marketing the first mover.
Furthermore, second-movers often overwhelm the first movers by taking the
first-mover’s product from their niche consumer market to a mass market. They
know the importance of timing in terms of understanding when a market is ready
to accept a dominant design, and they enter the market just as the dominant
design is about to emerge. They polish the dominant design, and use their
size to capture the market.
Another term for second mover firms is "Fast Follower"
or also: "Fast Second". Microsoft is a classical and extremely successful
example of a company that is embracing this strategy.
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First-mover Advantage
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