Strategic Supremacy

Author : Richard A. D'Aveni,Robert E. Gunther,Joni Cole
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Competition
ISBN : 9780684871806

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Strategic Supremacy by Richard A. D'Aveni,Robert E. Gunther,Joni Cole Pdf

HYPER-COMPETITION, 'the modern-day analogue to The Art of War' (Fortune), gave managers no holds barred strategies to create chaos, seize control of their industries, and rout rivals. Now, Richard D'Aveni shows how managers in large and mid-size global companies can defend themselves from these hyper-competitive attacks, squash revolutionary upstarts, and fashion a favourable world for themselves. Throughout history, great powers have built and reshaped their territory, absorbeed or deflected revolutions (most of which fail anyway), and managed their relations with one overriding aim: strategic supremacy. Here, D'Aveni demonstrates how global corporations can do likewise in a hyper-competitive world. They must reconceptualize traditional portfolios into powerful competitive arsenals he calls 'spheres of interest' (like Disney and Microsoft); douse disruptions using counter-revolutionary tactics (Anheuser-Busch bought the microbrew industry); contain competitors of equal size (like NBC did ABD; and master the art of competitive configuration (like Proctor & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson).

Author : Richard A. D'aveni
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780743217637

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Strategic Supremacy by Richard A. D'aveni Pdf

Are upstart competitors taking deadly aim at your company's products and markets? Richard A. D'Aveni, author of the famous attacker's handbook Hypercompetition, presents coun-terrevolutionary strategies and tactics that any industry leader or established company can use to defend itself against revolutionaries, disrupters, or hypercompetitors. The secret lies in making the rules, not breaking them, D'Aveni says, because rule makers still rule. Arguing that "profits and prosperity come not from revolution but stability and orderly change," D'Aveni presents a commanding framework that will enable any resource-rich or clever defender to gain Strategic Supremacy by being first to define the playing field. D'Aveni demonstrates how global powerhouses such as Disney, Microsoft, and Procter & Gamble have achieved preeminence by reconceptualizing their product portfolios as powerful competitive arsenals he calls "spheres of influence." Essentially a new way to compete by restructuring portfolios around a core geographic/product market, spheres enable any company to influence the behavior and positioning of rivals. In immensely readable prose, D'Aveni describes how prevailing spheres of influence can be used to create legal business equivalents to a "concert of powers" and other industry structures that mix cooperation with competition. Just one of the potent functions of a corporate sphere, D'Aveni shows, is to contain competitors of equal size (as NBC contained ABC). Spheres can also be used to stabilize an entire industry's global power system. A glance at the detailed table of contents will provide a sense of the wealth of new information contained in this essential handbook of global warfare, including "how-to" tools the reader will need to measure and map the pattern of competitive pressure in any industry and to interpret the meaning and strategic implications of these pressure patterns for his or her position within the industry's power hierarchy.

Author : Andrei Martyanov
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780998694764

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Losing Military Supremacy by Andrei Martyanov Pdf

"Marytanov explains why and how the US armed forces have lost the military supremacy they thought they once had and how Russia, which supposedly had been defeated in the Cold War, succeeded not only in catching up with USA, but actually surpassing it in many key domains such as long range cruise missiles, diesel-electric submarines, air defenses, electronic warfare, air superiority and many others. Andrei Martyanov's book is an absolute 'must read' for any person wanting to understand the reality of modern warfare and super-power competition." THE SAKER While exceptionalism is not unique to America, the intensity of their conviction and its global ramifications are. This view of its exceptionalism has led the US to grossly misinterpret—sometimes deliberately—the causative factors of key events of the past two centuries. Accordingly, the wrong conclusions have been derived, and very wrong lessons learned. Nowhere has this been more manifest than in American military thought and its actual application of military power. Time after time the American military has failed to match lofty declarations about its superiority, producing instead a mediocre record of military accomplishments. Starting from the Korean War the United States hasn’t won a single war against a technologically inferior, but mentally tough enemy. The technological dimension of American “strategy” has completely overshadowed any concern with the social, cultural, operational and even tactical requirements of military (and political) conflict. With a new Cold War with Russia emerging, the United States enters a new period of geopolitical turbulence completely unprepared in any meaningful way—intellectually, economically, militarily or culturally—to face a reality which was hidden for the last 70+ years behind the curtain of never-ending Chalabi moments and a strategic delusion concerning Russia, whose history the US viewed through a Solzhenitsified caricature kept alive by a powerful neocon lobby, which even today dominates US policy makers’ minds. Martyanov’s former Soviet military background enables deep insight into the fundamental issues of warfare and military power as a function of national power—assessed correctly, not through the lens of Wall Street “economic” indices and a FIRE economy, but through the numbers of enclosed technological cycles and culture, much of which has been shaped in Russia by continental warfare and which is practically absent in the US.

Author : Michel Robert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Competition
ISBN : 0970998503

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Strategic Supremacy Pure and Simple by Michel Robert Pdf

Author : Carmine Garzia
Publisher : EGEA spa
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-26T00:00:00+02:00
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788823812147

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Managing the Strategic Innovation Process by Carmine Garzia Pdf

Strategic innovation is the development of new forms of positioning that enable firms to redefine the way to do business, offering greater non-monetary value to customers and a higher level of cost effectiveness. Strategic innovators deliver their superior value proposition by developing new markets and leveraging on innovative forms of distribution and communication. Strategic innovators can remain competitive and achieve profitable growth within competitive environments that are characterised by discontinuity, instability and uncertainty. The book investigates strategic innovation through a process model, built on a multiple case study analysis of innovative firms, that explains the dynamics of innovative strategy generation and implementation.

Author : Kenneth I. Primozic,Edward A. Primozic,Joe Leben
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0070519269

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Strategic Choices by Kenneth I. Primozic,Edward A. Primozic,Joe Leben Pdf

Author : Paul W. Dobson,Ken Starkey,John Richards
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781405142366

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Strategic Management by Paul W. Dobson,Ken Starkey,John Richards Pdf

This highly popular introduction to strategic management has nowbeen revised to take account of the latest developments in thefield. New edition of a highly popular introduction to strategicmanagement. Provides a clear framework for understanding the issues incorporate strategy, supported by current case examples. Revised to take account of the latest development in thefield. Now features twelve new cases. Includes new chapters on issues relating to the resource-basedview of the firm, innovation, learning, and the ‘neweconomy’. Includes a new concluding chapter looking at present and futureissues in strategic management. Continues to combine the latest management concepts with andemphasis on current business applications and implementation.

Author : Michel Robert
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780071785754

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The New Strategic Thinking by Michel Robert Pdf

Bestselling author Michel Robert gives you his trademark pure and simple rules for developing solid business strategies In this anticipated follow-up to his previous bestsellers, management expert Michel Robert unveils his practical and proven methodology for you to plan and implement effective corporate strategies. Featuring a detailed explanation of how Robert used his approach to turn around Caterpillar as well as case studies of leading companies that utilize Robert’s method, The New Strategic Thinking shows you how to assemble a strategy team, identify your company’s driving force, determine the focus of the strategy (product, customer, or market), and launch initiatives company wide.

Author : Björn B. Schmidt,Bjö Schmidt
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN : 3631600933

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The Dynamics of M&A Strategy by Björn B. Schmidt,Bjö Schmidt Pdf

China's banking sector has witnessed significant inbound M&A traffic by developed market banks in recent years. At the same time, Chinese banks have risen to become some of the world's biggest banks. Along with these massive market values and financing capabilities have come global ambitions culminating in first outbound M&A moves. This study exploratively researches the relationship between developed market banks' inbound M&A into China and Chinese banks' outbound M&A. Based on a conceptual discussion, case studies and expert interviews an explanation model is developed outlining the drivers and barriers of Chinese banks' outbound M&A and the factors in the inbound-outbound relationship. This model enables developed market banks to analyse potential M&A reactions by incumbents. Finally, dynamic M&A market entry strategies are derived, which explicitly account for future incumbent outbound M&A moves.

Author : Dong Sun Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135978204

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Power Shifts, Strategy and War by Dong Sun Lee Pdf

Marked changes in the balance of power between states in the international system are generally seen by IR scholars as among the most common causes of war. This book explains why such power shifts lead to war breaking out in some cases, but not in others. In contrast to existing approaches, this book argues that the military strategy of declining states is the key determinant of whether power shifts result in war or pass peacefully. More specifically, Dong Sun Lee argues that the probability of war is primarily a function of whether a declining state possesses a ‘manoeuvre strategy’ or an ‘attrition strategy’. The argument is developed through the investigation of fourteen power shifts among great powers over the past two centuries. Shifts in the balance of power and the attendant risks of war remain an enduring feature of international politics. This book argues that policymakers need to understand the factors influencing the risk of war as a result of these changes, in particular the contemporary shifts in power resulting from the rise of China and from the growth of nuclear proliferation.

Author : Cyrus Roberts Vance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : United States
ISBN : UCSD:31822021788948

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Meeting the Challenges of a Changing World by Cyrus Roberts Vance Pdf

Author : David C. Atkinson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469630281

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The Burden of White Supremacy by David C. Atkinson Pdf

From 1896 to 1924, motivated by fears of an irresistible wave of Asian migration and the possibility that whites might be ousted from their position of global domination, British colonists and white Americans instituted stringent legislative controls on Chinese, Japanese, and South Asian immigration. Historians of these efforts typically stress similarity and collaboration between these movements, but in this compelling study, David C. Atkinson highlights the differences in these campaigns and argues that the main factor unifying these otherwise distinctive drives was the constant tensions they caused. Drawing on documentary evidence from the United States, Great Britain, Australia, Canada, South Africa, and New Zealand, Atkinson traces how these exclusionary regimes drew inspiration from similar racial, economic, and strategic anxieties, but nevertheless developed idiosyncratically in the first decades of the twentieth century. Arguing that the so-called white man's burden was often white supremacy itself, Atkinson demonstrates how the tenets of absolute exclusion--meant to foster white racial, political, and economic supremacy--only inflamed dangerous tensions that threatened to undermine the British Empire, American foreign relations, and the new framework of international cooperation that followed the First World War.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1970-10-10
Category : United States
ISBN : UFL:31262096839146

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Commanders Digest by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edward N. Luttwak
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674067936

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The Rise of China vs. the Logic of Strategy by Edward N. Luttwak Pdf

As the rest of the world worries about what a future might look like under Chinese supremacy, Luttwak worries about China’s own future prospects. Applying the logic of strategy for which he is well known, he argues that the world’s second largest economy may be headed for a fall unless China’s leaders check their military ambitions.

Author : Desmond Ball
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520363304

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Politics and Force Levels by Desmond Ball Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.