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Author : James W. Fredrickson
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Strategic planning
ISBN : UCAL:B4353615
Author : Boston Consulting Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Business planning
ISBN : STANFORD:20501002199
Author : Carl W. Stern,George Stalk, Jr.
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998-03-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0471248339
a collection of the best thinking from one of the most innovative management consulting firms in the world. For the past thirty-five years, The Boston Consulting Group has been shaping the way business is done the world over, and now, Perspectives on Strategy offers a unique opportunity to acquaint readers with a broad selection of the firm's contributions. A compilation of seventy-five of BCG's most influential articles and thought pieces, this book is an indispensable source of fresh ideas, insights, and practical lessons for managers, executives, and entrepreneurs in every industry. Here is a sampling of what's inside: * "[Business] competition is a battle royal in which there are many contenders, each of whom must be dealt with individually. Victory, if achieved, is more often won in the mind of a competitor than in the economic arena." * "The majority of products in most companies are cash traps. . . . [They] are not only worthless, but a perpetual drain on corporate resources." * "Use more debt than your competition or get out of the business." * "Displacement of high-cost competitors by lower prices benefits the customer." * "As a strategic weapon, time is the equivalent of money, productivity, quality, even innovation." * "When brands become business systems, brand management becomes far too important to leave to the marketing department." * "The winning organization of the future will look more like a collection of jazz ensembles than a symphony orchestra." * "Most of our organizations today derive from a model whose original purpose was to control creativity." * "Dumping should be encouraged. It is a gift from the nation that provides the products." * "Taxes should be levied when, and only when, individuals disinvest in order to consume. Capital still at work should not be taxed at all." The Boston Consulting Group is an innovator in business strategy worldwide. In fact, BCG and its founder, Bruce D. Henderson, may be best known internationally as the creators and architects of the discipline of business strategy. Innovative business concepts originating at the firm include "cash cow," "experience curve," "segment-of-one(r) marketing," "time-based competition," and "capabilities-based competition." Now, for the first time, BCG's most influential writings are gathered in a comprehen-sive collection, offering serious-minded readers access to BCG's thinking on the theory, development, and practice of business strategy. One way BCG shares its insights on strategy is through a series of publications known as Perspectives. Perspectives offer sharply focused views and recommendations on strategic business topics. Distributed to executives worldwide, Perspectives are typically no more than 1,200 words in length. This book brings together many of the most influential Perspectives, as well as several acclaimed articles published in the Harvard Business Review. Both timely and timeless, the seventy-five pieces included here are among the most innovative, controversial, and stimulating to have appeared over the past three decades. An anthology of the most provocative thinking from one of the world's most esteemed management consulting firms, Perspectives on Strategy is essential reading for senior managers, executives, entrepreneurs, and students of strategy and business.
Author : Colin S. Gray
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199674275
"Companion though stand-alone work to my earlier book, The strategy bridge"--Pref.
Author : Carl W. Stern,Michael S. Deimler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118429129
A collection of the best thinking from one of the most innovative management consulting firms in the world For more than forty years, The Boston Consulting Group has been shaping strategic thinking in business. The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy offers a broad and up-to-date selection of the firm's best ideas on strategy with fresh ideas, insights, and practical lessons for managers, executives, and entrepreneurs in every industry. Here's a sampling of the provocative thinking you'll find inside: "You have to be the scientist of your own life and be astonished four times:at what is, what always has been, what once was, and what could be." "The majority of products in most companies are cash traps . . . .[They] are not only worthless, but a perpetual drain on corporate resources." "Use more debt than your competition or get out of the business." "When information flows freely, reputation, more than reciprocity,becomes the basis for trust." "As a strategic weapon, time is the equivalent of money, productivity,quality, even innovation." "When brands become business systems, brand management becomes far too important to leave to the marketing department." "The winning organization of the future will look more like a collection ofjazz ensembles than a symphony orchestra." "Most of our organizations today derive from a model whose original purpose was to control creativity." "Rather than being an obstacle, uncertainty is the very engine of transformation in a business, a continuous source of new opportunities." "IP assets lack clear property lines. Every bit of intellectual property you can own comes with connections to other valuable innovations."
Author : F.A.J. van den Bosch,A.P. De Man
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1997-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0792398955
The purpose of this book is to focus on the contribution of one of the most prominent scholars in the strategy field, Michael Porter, from both a practitioner, that is Chief Executive Officer (CEO), perspective, and from a research perspective. Using such a dual perspective may improve the relevance of strategy research for the business community. Four leading chief executives, two from European multinationals (Royal Dutch/Shell Group and Unilever N.V.) and two from important Dutch public organizations (the Port of Rotterdam and the Ministry of Economic Affairs), were invited to reflect on Porter's contributions to four levels of analysis: (1) business level strategy, (2) corporate level strategy, (3) regional competitiveness and finally (4) national competitiveness. Against this background, the book is structured as follows: Chapters 2 to 8 deal with the four mentioned levels of analysis from a dual perspective - theoretical and managerial. The two final chapters aim to find out how Porter's theories are related to each other and whether and how the different levels of analysis can be connected.
Author : John Saee
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : International business
ISBN : 9780415385954
This book represents an eclectic collection of international research articles and empirical studies on corporate strategy, intended to equip readers with the latest knowledge to understand its theoretical and operational complexity.
Author : Martin Reeves,Knut Haanaes
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781625275875
You think you have a winning strategy. But do you? Executives are bombarded with bestselling ideas and best practices for achieving competitive advantage, but many of these ideas and practices contradict each other. Should you aim to be big or fast? Should you create a blue ocean, be adaptive, play to win—or forget about a sustainable competitive advantage altogether? In a business environment that is changing faster and becoming more uncertain and complex almost by the day, it’s never been more important—or more difficult—to choose the right approach to strategy. In this book, The Boston Consulting Group’s Martin Reeves, Knut Haanæs, and Janmejaya Sinha offer a proven method to determine the strategy approach that is best for your company. They start by helping you assess your business environment—how unpredictable it is, how much power you have to change it, and how harsh it is—a critical component of getting strategy right. They show how existing strategy approaches sort into five categories—Be Big, Be Fast, Be First, Be the Orchestrator, or simply Be Viable—depending on the extent of predictability, malleability, and harshness. In-depth explanations of each of these approaches will provide critical insight to help you match your approach to strategy to your environment, determine when and how to execute each one, and avoid a potentially fatal mismatch. Addressing your most pressing strategic challenges, you’ll be able to answer questions such as: • What replaces planning when the annual cycle is obsolete? • When can we—and when should we—shape the game to our advantage? • How do we simultaneously implement different strategic approaches for different business units? • How do we manage the inherent contradictions in formulating and executing different strategies across multiple businesses and geographies? Until now, no book brings it all together and offers a practical tool for understanding which strategic approach to apply. Get started today.
Author : Camilleri, Mark Anthony
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781522558361
The marketing of a destination necessitates effective strategic planning, decision making and organization. Notwithstanding, the destination managers should possess relevant knowledge and understanding on traditional and contemporary marketing channels to better engage with prospective visitors. Strategic Perspectives in Destination Marketing is a collection of innovative research on the methods and applications of branding in the tourism, travel, and hospitality industry sectors. This book provides students and practitioners with a good understanding of the tourism marketing environment, destination branding, pricing of tourism products, tourism distribution channels, e-tourism, as well as on sustainable and responsible tourism practices, among other topics. It explores the socio-economic, environmental, and technological impacts of tourism through various regional-focused empirical studies and contemporary discussions. This book is ideally designed for managers, travel agents, tourism professionals, executives, marketing agencies, academicians, researchers, and graduate-level students seeking current research on the applications of branding strategies in the tourism sector.
Author : Paul Leinwand,Cesare R. Mainardi
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781625275219
How to close the gap between strategy and execution Two-thirds of executives say their organizations don’t have the capabilities to support their strategy. In Strategy That Works, Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi explain why. They identify conventional business practices that unintentionally create a gap between strategy and execution. And they show how some of the best companies in the world consistently leap ahead of their competitors. Based on new research, the authors reveal five practices for connecting strategy and execution used by highly successful enterprises such as IKEA, Natura, Danaher, Haier, and Lego. These companies: • Commit to what they do best instead of chasing multiple opportunities • Build their own unique winning capabilities instead of copying others • Put their culture to work instead of struggling to change it • Invest where it matters instead of going lean across the board • Shape the future instead of reacting to it Packed with tools you can use for building these five practices into your organization and supported by in-depth profiles of companies that are known for making their strategy work, this is your guide for reconnecting strategy to execution.
Author : David Faulkner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415251532
This is the most comprehensive collection to date on all aspects of strategy. The articles selected here discuss key themes, including:* different conceptions of strategy, such as the classical, rational models of Porter, the empirical, emergent emphasis of Mintzberg, and the competence based models of Grant and others * the relationship between strategy and other subjects including economics and organizational studies * scenario planning, networks, strategic groups and knowledge, and other key new developments * the implications of globalization and international management * key strategic decisions including diversification and mergers and acquisitionsWith a new introduction by the editor and an extensive index, this collection is an invaluable reference tool and teaching aid.
Author : John M. Collins
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 1019 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781597974004
Provides an overview of the principles, theories, policies, and other fundamentals of modern warfare and their applications in the twenty-first century.
Author : S. Raghunath,Elizabeth L. Rose
Publisher : Springer
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137544681
This volume fills a gap in the international business literature, offering the perspectives of researchers who are deeply embedded in one key emerging market, India. With the global economy changing dramatically, firms from emerging markets are playing increasingly important roles in both outward and inward internationalisation. International Business Strategy offers profound insights into international business activities in this rapidly-evolving environment, in which multinational corporations from emerging markets are now influential players. Reflecting the complex nature of India itself, the chapters employ a variety of theoretical lenses to shed light on a wide range of issues encountered by Indian businesses, from some of the world’s largest corporations to small, entrepreneurial firms.
Author : Steven W Guerrier,Wayne C Thompson,Barry M Blechman,George Rathjens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000301588
Bringing together proponents and opponents of the Strategic Defense Initiative, this book includes original essays by leading experts on every aspect of the issue. The collection provides a valuable introduction to the many complex questions involved in any serious consideration of the SDI. The contributors explore such issues as the strategic impl
Author : Bob de Wit
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1473725151
Strategy takes a truly global perspective. Contrasting viewpoint readings encourage discussion and debate, and illustrative cases help to acknowledge the importance of strategy in the world of business. Unlike most other books on the subject, the philosophy at the heart of this text is that an understanding of the topic of strategy can only be gained by grappling with a wider diversity of insights from many prominent thinkers, and the clear recognition that there is no simple answer to the question of what strategy is. This textbook bridges West and East, North and South, with readings, cases, quotes and insights from around the globe.