Competitive Analysis for Business Growth
A practical guide to understanding rivals, positioning your offer, and making smarter business decisions
Competitive Analysis for Business Growth is a practical Business and Entrepreneurship course that teaches you how to study rivals with clarity and purpose. You’ll learn how to interpret market signals, compare offers, and use competitive intelligence to make smarter decisions that support growth.
Build a Competitive Analysis Framework for Smarter Business Decisions
- A practical guide to understanding rivals, positioning your offer, and making smarter business decisions
- Learn how to define your market, identify direct, indirect, and emerging competitors, and focus your research where it matters most
- Strengthen your ability to compare pricing, branding, customer experience, and marketing channels with confidence
- Discover market gaps and build a repeatable process for ongoing analysis in Business and Entrepreneurship
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This course walks you through the full competitive analysis process, from setting your objectives to building a system you can revisit as markets change. You’ll learn how to gather public data ethically, evaluate what competitors do well, and organize findings into useful tools such as SWOT analysis and strategic matrices.
As you move through the lessons, you’ll practice identifying the right competitive scope, building a relevant competitor list, and comparing products, services, pricing, positioning, and customer experience. The course also shows you how to assess strengths and weaknesses without overreacting to surface-level details, so your analysis stays grounded and actionable.
You’ll see how to translate insights into concrete business moves, including product improvements, pricing adjustments, messaging refinements, and channel decisions. By the end, you will have a repeatable framework for tracking competitors over time and a sharper understanding of where your business can stand out in the market.
Full lesson breakdown
Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.
Foundations and business value
1 lesson
Choosing the right arena to study
1 lesson
Direct, indirect, and emerging rivals
1 lesson
What you need to learn and why
1 lesson
Identifying relevant businesses
1 lesson
Sources, signals, and research ethics
1 lesson
Features, quality, and differentiation
1 lesson
Price structures and customer trade-offs
1 lesson
How competitors present themselves
1 lesson
Journey, support, and service signals
1 lesson
Promotion, distribution, and reach
1 lesson
Building a balanced competitor profile
1 lesson
Organizing insights for decision-making
1 lesson
Where your business can stand out
1 lesson
Actions for product, pricing, and messaging
1 lesson
Tracking change and staying current
1 lesson
Avoiding bias, overreaction, and shallow research
1 lesson
Creating a practical ongoing process
1 lesson
Professor Victoria Okafor
Professor Victoria Okafor guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.