map-competitive-arena

A strategic group map plots competitors on a 2-axis grid to reveal competitive structure and mobility barriers. It identifies at least three groups, profiles their basis of competition, and highlights winner archetypes within the market.

A mobility barrier matrix identifies obstacles preventing firms from moving between strategic groups within an industry. You need it when analyzing competitive structure across Arena, Pre-arena, or Mature markets to understand group stability and competitive advantage.

To generate a competitive arena map, supply the industry scope, focal layer, and market triggers. The process produces a validated competitive-arena.md file containing a 2-axis visualization, group profiles, mobility barriers, and an optional arenas overlay.

Yes, strategic group analysis applies to Arena, Pre-arena, and Contested mature markets across jurisdictions. When upstream sizing classifies the market as an arena, the analysis adds an arenas overlay to the standard competitive structure mapping.

Validating competitive analysis claims requires applying V/C/A/I provenance tagging to all strategic group profiles and mobility barrier data. This enforces discipline rules and ensures every assertion in the competitive-arena.md output is traceable to its source.

Identifying winner archetypes requires profiling each strategic group's members, basis of competition, and trajectory. The analysis explicitly designates a winner archetype for each group or states that none is emerging within the current competitive structure.