An industry’s key success factors:
a) are best determined by studying the strategies of those companies in the industry’s best strategic group and those in the worst strategic group.
b) concern the particular product attributes, competencies, competitive capabilities, and intangible assets with the greatest impact on future success in the industry.
c) are mainly a function of an industry’s macro-environment and dominant economic features.
d) involve identifying the similarities in the strategies of rival companies; those strategy elements that are most commonly found in the strategies of rivals can be considered key success factors.
e) usually relate to technology and manufacturing-related capabilities and rarely to distribution or marketing capabilities.