An approach that is UNLIKELY to help a company's low-cost provider strategy succeed is

1. possessing resources and capabilities to keep costs below those of its competitors.
2. pursuing cost-effective management of value chain activities better than rivals.
3. deploying effective leveraging of cost drivers.
4. having the innovative capability to bypass certain value chain activities being performed by rivals.
5. evolving the capabilities to simultaneously deliver lower cost and higher-quality/differentiated features.