Analyzers

There are only one or two functioning VP-8 Image Analyzers yet around.

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Analyzers, those companies that follow Prospectors into promising areas with the intent to produce a better product at a lower price, have a distinctive competence in combining product and process innovations.

Fit, Failure, and the Hall of Fame Raymond E. Miles 1994

Analyzers typically do not originate these products but use their process engineering and manufacturing skills to make a new product even better and their considerable marketing skills to sell it.

Fit, Failure, and the Hall of Fame Raymond E. Miles 1994

Prospectors that grow very large—General Motors in the 1960s, for example—may become more like Analyzers.

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Most Analyzers operate with a base of established products to which they add carefully chosen new products.

Fit, Failure, and the Hall of Fame Raymond E. Miles 1994

Analyzers can experiment with lateral resource-allocation mechanisms that speed up decision making to meet changing market conditions as, for example, some firms use internal markets to guide resource flows among units.

Fit, Failure, and the Hall of Fame Raymond E. Miles 1994

For example, Prospectors make heavier investments in research and development than Defenders, who in turn tend to invest more heavily in special-purpose equipment than either Prospectors or Analyzers.

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However, Analyzers are especially challenged by unusually fast-paced change at either the product or process level.

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Analyzers keep both Prospectors and Defenders alert—forcing Prospectors to continue to innovate by matching some of their best offerings at a lower price and forcing Defenders to make new investments in efficiency by approaching their price levels with goods or services of more advanced design.

Fit, Failure, and the Hall of Fame Raymond E. Miles 1994

Analyzers know how to move a few new products or services from the project phase to efficient production through a carefully coordinated sequence.

Fit, Failure, and the Hall of Fame Raymond E. Miles 1994