Competitor Analysis (Task)
- Competitor Analysis
- the
requirements engineering
task during which the competing businesses of the
customer organization’s current business
enterprise
are identified, profiled, and analyzed
As illustrated in the preceding figure, Competitor Analysis is part of the following inheritance hierarchy:
The typical responsibilities of Competitor Analysis are to:
- Identify the competitors of the customer organization’s business enterprise.
- Profile and analyze these competitors.
- Enable the customer organization to modify its business (e.g., reengineer its processes,
reorganize itself, develop new or enhance existing applications).
Competitor analysis can typically begin when the following
preconditions hold:
Competitor analysis is typically complete when the following
postconditions hold:
- The different kinds of competitors have been profiled and
analyzed.
- The competitor analysis document has been developed,
evaluated, approved, and delivered to the customer
organization.
Competitor analysis typically involves the
business strategy team performing the following steps in an
iterative, incremental, and parallel manner:
- Identify the different kinds of competitors.
- TBD
Competitor analysis typically can be performed using the
following techniques:
Competitor analysis typically results in the production of
the following work products:
- Competitor analysis is usually performed during the
business strategy phase, but it can also be performed of
during the initiation phase if insufficient business
[re]engineering was required to justify a separate business
strategy phase.
- The questions asked during competitor analysis varies
depending on the application domain.
