The Competitive Edge

Author : Michael E. Porter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781416595847

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Competitive Advantage by Michael E. Porter Pdf

Now beyond its eleventh printing and translated into twelve languages, Michael Porter’s The Competitive Advantage of Nations has changed completely our conception of how prosperity is created and sustained in the modern global economy. Porter’s groundbreaking study of international competitiveness has shaped national policy in countries around the world. It has also transformed thinking and action in states, cities, companies, and even entire regions such as Central America. Based on research in ten leading trading nations, The Competitive Advantage of Nations offers the first theory of competitiveness based on the causes of the productivity with which companies compete. Porter shows how traditional comparative advantages such as natural resources and pools of labor have been superseded as sources of prosperity, and how broad macroeconomic accounts of competitiveness are insufficient. The book introduces Porter’s “diamond,” a whole new way to understand the competitive position of a nation (or other locations) in global competition that is now an integral part of international business thinking. Porter's concept of “clusters,” or groups of interconnected firms, suppliers, related industries, and institutions that arise in particular locations, has become a new way for companies and governments to think about economies, assess the competitive advantage of locations, and set public policy. Even before publication of the book, Porter’s theory had guided national reassessments in New Zealand and elsewhere. His ideas and personal involvement have shaped strategy in countries as diverse as the Netherlands, Portugal, Taiwan, Costa Rica, and India, and regions such as Massachusetts, California, and the Basque country. Hundreds of cluster initiatives have flourished throughout the world. In an era of intensifying global competition, this pathbreaking book on the new wealth of nations has become the standard by which all future work must be measured.

Author : Rita Gunther McGrath
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781422191415

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The End of Competitive Advantage by Rita Gunther McGrath Pdf

Are you at risk of being trapped in an uncompetitive business? Chances are the strategies that worked well for you even a few years ago no longer deliver the results you need. Dramatic changes in business have unearthed a major gap between traditional approaches to strategy and the way the real world works now. In short, strategy is stuck. Most leaders are using frameworks that were designed for a different era of business and based on a single dominant idea—that the purpose of strategy is to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. Once the premise on which all strategies were built, this idea is increasingly irrelevant. Now, Columbia Business School professor and globally recognized strategy expert Rita Gunther McGrath argues that it’s time to go beyond the very concept of sustainable competitive advantage. Instead, organizations need to forge a new path to winning: capturing opportunities fast, exploiting them decisively, and moving on even before they are exhausted. She shows how to do this with a new set of practices based on the notion of transient competitive advantage. This book serves as a new playbook for strategy, one based on updated assumptions about how the world works, and shows how some of the world’s most successful companies use this method to compete and win today. Filled with compelling examples from “growth outlier” firms such as Fujifilm, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Infosys, Yahoo! Japan, and Atmos Energy, The End of Competitive Advantage is your guide to renewed success and profitable growth in an economy increasingly defined by transient advantage.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821368954

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Quality Systems and Standards for a Competitive Edge by Anonim Pdf

This book responds to the challenge of providing a comprehensive account of quality systems for private sector development: what works and what doesnt on the ground, and why. This volume provides a thorough analysis of the diversity of institutions, linkages, and arrangements involved in quality systems, identifying success factors in countries quality strategies. It explains why quality and standards matter for export growth, for productivity, for industrial upgrading, and for diffusion of innovation, all central ingredients in improving economic growth and generating real gains in poverty reduction. It provides a detailed blue print for implementing effective National Quality Systems. Quality and Standards Matter is a valuable tool for policymakers confronted with the challenges of building trade competitiveness in the new global economy.

Author : James Lee Anderson,Martin Cohen
Publisher : Bantam Books
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1982-07-01
Category : Exercise
ISBN : 0553203584

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The Competitive Edge by James Lee Anderson,Martin Cohen Pdf

Author : Geoffrey Caine,Renate Nummela Caine
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : 0810840618

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The Brain, Education, and the Competitive Edge by Geoffrey Caine,Renate Nummela Caine Pdf

Interprets the tension between traditional public education and the technology that seeks to overtake it, and explains what can be done to promote a successful educational system.

Author : Robert H. Hayes,Steven C. Wheelwright
Publisher : New York : Wiley
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1984-06-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822004926614

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Restoring Our Competitive Edge by Robert H. Hayes,Steven C. Wheelwright Pdf

Recommends a manufacturing strategy that develops production facilities, uses appropriate management systems, and establishes firm relationships with suppliers.

Author : David A. Garvin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Air conditioning
ISBN : 9780029113806

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Managing Quality by David A. Garvin Pdf

Case study research conducted in 1981 in nine US companies and seven Japanese companies.

Author : Edmund R. Gray,Terence C. Krell,Larry R. Smeltzer
Publisher : Macmillan College
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Competition
ISBN : 0023462205

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Student Study Guide to Accompany Management, the Competitive Edge by Edmund R. Gray,Terence C. Krell,Larry R. Smeltzer Pdf

Author : Jeffrey Brown
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781414313306

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The Competitive Edge by Jeffrey Brown Pdf

At work, in sports, and in everyday life, you're constantly surrounded by the pressures of competition. In The Competitive Edge,celebrated sports psychologist Dr. Jeffrey Brown offers principles you can use to guide your character towards victory. He shows how to become a legitimate winner every time you compete—regardless of whether you come out on top. Whether you compete against others in sports or business—or compete within yourself to achieve personal goals—the means by which you win tells the real story as to whether or not you are a champion. Teaches the reader to redefine victory and aggressively pursue it in every competitive situation. Demonstrates the importance of maintaining strong integrity and high character. Strategies for winning appropriate for court and field, workplace, and home. Illustrates the challenges, risks, and rewards involved in doing what is right through examples from real life, biblical history, media, and popular culture

Author : Julia Middleton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781472904829

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Cultural Intelligence by Julia Middleton Pdf

Right now, vast amounts of time and money are being invested all round the world in building global brands and organisations. But where are the global leaders who will lead them? Leaders who can cross cultural boundaries: between east and west, and north and south; between faiths and beliefs; between public, private and voluntary sectors; and between the generations? Where are the leaders who can lead in what Julia calls the "magnet cities†? of the world: where the world's most talented young people will convene? Because these people will simply turn their backs on bosses who demand that their teams think and behave alike. The race is on to develop leaders with CQ. And this book is designed to give readers a decisive head start. In the process, Julia has spoken to leaders all round the world, and invited them to tell their own CQ stories: successful and disastrous, serious and funny, poignant, pragmatic and often highly personal. The result is surprising, challenging and frequently uncomfortable (there is no simplistic advice here about how to exchange business cards in the correct local manner). But the ambition is huge. As is the prize for the next generation of leaders who see the opportunity she outlines - and grasp it.

Author : Robert Hayes,Gary Pisano,David Upton,Steven Wheelwright
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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OPERATIONS,STRATEGY,AND TECHNOLOGY: PURSUING THE COMPETITIVE EDGE by Robert Hayes,Gary Pisano,David Upton,Steven Wheelwright Pdf

Market_Desc: Management; Graduate students of operation management Special Features: · AUTHOR RECOGNITION: Dr. Robert Hayes, Emeritus, Harvard Business School, is the most recognizable academic authority in the field of Operations Management. He is the author and co-author of numerous trade and college books. His Wiley book, Restoring Our Competitive Edge: Competing Through Manufacturing has sold 60,000 copies, and is now in its 15th printing. It was chosen by The American Association of Publishers in 1984 as the best business book on business, management and economics. His article with William Abernathy, Managing Our Way Toward an Economic Decline is generally regarded as the most widely read reprint article in the history of Harvard Business Review.· PREVIOUS TRACK RECORD: Robert Hayes has co-authored two successful hybrid trade/college books. In 1984, he authored Restoring Our Competitive Edge: Competing Through Manufacturing (60,000 sold, of which approximately 20,000 were sold to the college market). In 1990 he was the lead author of Dynamic Manufacturing, for Free Press, (55,000 sold)· AUTHOR PROMOTION: Dr. Hayes maintains an excellent relationship with top executives at Hewlett-Packard, Canton Timken and other Fortune 500 companies, and he will send them complimentary copies to stimulate bulk purchases. Also, the authors will promote the book both to the Production Management Society and The Decision Science Institute. In addition, Dr. Upton will use the text in his executive education courses at Harvard Business School.· COLLEGE MARKET: This book will be strongly considered as the course book for the graduate level operations management course at the top-flight colleges and universities. About The Book: Hayes is a founder of the Operations Strategy field, and all four authors are on the Harvard Business School faculty. In Operations, Strategy, and Technology: Pursuing the Competitive Edge--the long-awaited follow-up to the highly successful classic, Restoring Our Competitive Edge--Bob Hayes, Gary Pisano, Dave Upton, and Steve Wheelwright take a fresh look at the foundations of corporate success. This book addresses the basic principles that guide the development of a powerful operations organization, and describes how a company's operating and technological resources can be applied to create a sustainable competitive advantage in today's new (global and IT-intensive) economy. Achieving a competitive advantage through superior operations is what the authors refer to as the operations edge.

Author : Patrick M. Lencioni
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118266106

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The Advantage by Patrick M. Lencioni Pdf

There is a competitive advantage out there, arguably more powerful than any other. Is it superior strategy? Faster innovation? Smarter employees? No, New York Times best-selling author, Patrick Lencioni, argues that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre ones has little to do with what they know and how smart they are and more to do with how healthy they are. In this book, Lencioni brings together his vast experience and many of the themes cultivated in his other best-selling books and delivers a first: a cohesive and comprehensive exploration of the unique advantage organizational health provides. Simply put, an organization is healthy when it is whole, consistent and complete, when its management, operations and culture are unified. Healthy organizations outperform their counterparts, are free of politics and confusion and provide an environment where star performers never want to leave. Lencioni’s first non-fiction book provides leaders with a groundbreaking, approachable model for achieving organizational health—complete with stories, tips and anecdotes from his experiences consulting to some of the nation’s leading organizations. In this age of informational ubiquity and nano-second change, it is no longer enough to build a competitive advantage based on intelligence alone. The Advantage provides a foundational construct for conducting business in a new way—one that maximizes human potential and aligns the organization around a common set of principles.

Author : Franklin W. Dixon
Publisher : Simon Pulse
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 0671504460

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Competitive Edge by Franklin W. Dixon Pdf

Someone is out to sabotage the entire 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta--turning the fields of competition into a terrorist battleground. Suddenly, the Hardys are running to catch a saboteur, in the one game that could turn deadly at any moment.

Author : Jeff Brown,Liz Neporent,Editors of Runner's World Maga
Publisher : Rodale Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781623363499

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Runner's World The Runner's Brain by Jeff Brown,Liz Neporent,Editors of Runner's World Maga Pdf

As a runner, your biggest asset (or sometimes your greatest enemy) is your brain. What you think and feel on and off the road also has a huge influence over how you perform once you lace up. Runner's World The Runner's Brain shows you how to unlock and capture the miraculous potential of the body's most mysterious and intriguing organ and rewire your mind for a lifetime of athletic success. The book is based on cutting-edge brain science and sports psychology that author Dr. Jeff Brown uses every day in his private practice and as part of the medical team of several major road races including the Boston Marathon. Full of fascinating insights from runners of all abilities-including champion marathoner Meb Keflezighi and other greats-the book includes trustworthy information that's been proven to work both in the lab and on the road.

Author : Phyllis K. Sokol
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0070595119

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EDI by Phyllis K. Sokol Pdf

The business advantages of EDI are enormous--if the advance work is done correctly. This text guides the manager through a comprehensive assessment of EDI as a strategic business decision. Uses "on'site", industry-specific case study examples.