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warrantee and service New car financing and insurance Used car sales and service,?,7,Turbulent industries,Profit pools are especially important and useful in industries undergoing deregulation and/or technological change Such changes can open new profit pool opportunities and drain old ones Choke points may change or be eliminated Opportunities for either forward or vertical integration may emerge Current vertical integration may be disintermediated,?,8,Creating and managing a profit pool,Profit pool analysis may indicate new opportunities or threats Imperatives Be open to a new perspective on your business and industry Developing new strategy may require overturning elements of the current strategy Be open to reevaluate the role played by current competitors Be vigilant to identify possibility that new entrants may seek to enter your industry with radical strategies,?,9,Looking Ahead: Profit Pools and the Five Forces,Profit pools are computed by multiplying the size of the revenue by the unit profit margin Essentially an accounting process no theory Most valuable in situations in which external conditions are essential stable and/or unimportant (Often dominated by internal data alone) The five forces tells us (which will study next) the underlying determinants that determine both the revenue size and the unit profit margin The profit drivers which allow us to forecast the direction of change,?,10,Marakon Runners,Thomas A. Stewart Fortune Sept. 28, 1998,?,11,Marakon Associates’s Approach to Corporate Strategy,Consultants to