till possessed a high economic potential.
The principal threat to Dickenson was that the firm would not be able to generate the short term financial resources required to satisfy its credi tors to the extent that such creditors would allow the firm the time required to exploit its primary strategic opportunity.
5) Relative competitive strengths:
Dickenson's principal competitive strengths are that (a) the firm owns its precious metals physical resource base, (b) it has nearly completed the con version of the processing operation to permit suc cessful exploitation of the existing ore resource, and (c) the firm has a strategic plan for the effective exploitation of the existing ore resource.
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