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Article: The Soft*Letter quiz: what's your competitive IQ? (software industry) (Industry Trend or Event)
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- Soft-Letter
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- May 29, 1996
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Sooner or later, every decent software niche seems to attract a thundering herd of competitors -- many with deep pockets, solid products, and talented management. When the inevitable shakeout occurs, technology and marketing skills are rarely the critical success factors. Instead, the winners tend to have the best-developed competitive instinct, a quality of toughness and focus that ultimately helps them prevail over their less-intense rivals.
Certainly Microsoft is the obvious example of a company with a genius for competition. But who else has a similar knack for winning? Based on more than a decade of industry-watching, we've come up with our own checklist of ...