Describe your organization’s competitive environment.

Within your response, include answers to the following questions:

Area P.2a. Competitive Environment

(1) What is your competitive position?

What is your relative size and growth in your industry or markets served?

What are the numbers and types of competitors for your organization?

(2) What are the principal factors that determine your success relative to your competitors?

What are any KEY changes taking place that affect your competitive situation?

(3) What are your KEY available sources of comparative and competitive data from within your industry?

What are your KEY available sources of COMPARATIVE DATA for analogous PROCESSES outside your industry?

What limitations, if any, are there in your ability to obtain these data?

Notes:

N1. Principal factors (P.2a[2]) might include differentiators such as price leadership, design services, e-services, geographic proximity, and warranty and product options.

For additional description of this Area, see P.2 Organizational Challenges description.

2005 Criteria Items: 1.1 - 1.2 - 2.1 - 2.2 - 3.1 - 3.2 - 4.1 - 4.2 - 5.1 - 5.2 - 5.3 - 6.1 - 6.2 - 7.1 - 7.2 - 7.3 - 7.4 - 7.5 - 7.6 - P.1 - P.2

Areas: 1.1a-1.1b-1.2a-1.2b-1.2c-2.1a-2.1b-2.2a-2.2b-3.1a-3.2a-3.2b-4.1a-4.1b-4.2a-4.2b-4.2c-5.1a-5.1b-5.1c-5.2a-5.2b-5.3a-5.3b-6.1a-6.2a-6.2b-7.1a-7.2a-7.3a-7.4a-7.5a-7.6a-P.1a-P.1b-P.2a-P.2b-P.2c