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All the Right Moves
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

All the Right Moves

Annotation Markides (chairman, strategic and international management department, London Business School) contends that the essence of business strategy is to allow a company to create and exploit a unique strategic position in industry, and helps managers zero in on critical choices that lie at the heart of all innovative strategies. He approaches strategic thinking as a creative process, and poses key questions for readers to ask as he guides them through a framework for developing strategic thinking skills.

Fast Second
  • Language: en

Fast Second

Discover why being a "fast second" is often more financially rewarding than being at the cutting edge. If you get there first, you'll lead the pack, right? Not necessarily! The skill-sets of most established companies, say strategy experts Constantinos Markides and Paul Geroski, are far better suited to scaling up newly created markets pioneered by others (in other words, being "fast seconds") than to creating these markets from scratch. In Fast Second, they explore the characteristics of new markets, describe the skills needed to create and compete in them, and show how these skills match up with different types of companies. Drawing on examples of successful fast-second firms such as Microsoft, Amazon, Canon, JVC, Heinz, and many others, they illustrate how to determine which new markets have the potential to be successful and how to move into them before the competition does, when to make a move into a new market, how to scale up a market, where to position a company in the market, and whether to be a colonizer or a consolidator. Order your copy today!

Strategy, Innovation, and Change
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 567

Strategy, Innovation, and Change

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-05-15
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  • Publisher: OUP Oxford

Any organization must ask three interrelated questions in order to develop its strategy: where are we, where do we want to be, and how will we get there? While the questions do not change over time, the realities and environments that companies face do. Given today's realities, how should companies answer these questions as they face the challenges of the 21st century? In this book, leading business school educators use their academic, yet managerially-relevant, research to explore these questions. They divide the book into three sections - Understand Your Situation, Develop Your Options, and Lead the Change - and take the reader through some of the latest thinking that helps answer these qu...

Diversification, Refocusing, and Economic Performance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

Diversification, Refocusing, and Economic Performance

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  • Published: 1995
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

This work examines the causes and consequences of the "refocusing" phenomenon, where companies have stopped diversifying and begun focusing once more on their core product lines. Coverage includes a discussion of the effects of refocusing on market value, profitability and organizational structure.

Game-Changing Strategies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 135

Game-Changing Strategies

Game-Changing Strategies explains the reasons behind this puzzle and presents practical ideas on how established firms could not only discover new radical business models but also grow them next to their existing business models. The challenge for established firms is not the discovery of a new business model?the real challenge is how to make two business models coexist. This book offers advice on how established firms can implement structures and processes that make the new business model less conflicting and more palatable to the existing business.

Strategic Thinking for the Next Economy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 478

Strategic Thinking for the Next Economy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001-05-24
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  • Publisher: Jossey-Bass

From the acclaimed MIT Sloan Management Review comes a compendium of cutting-edge thinking about corporate strategy. Focusing on strategic imperatives of the new economy, leading thinkers in the field present their views in four general areas: strategy and value creation; flexibility in a volatile world; strategy making in uncertain times; and strategies for growth in fast-paced markets. Strategic Thinking for the New Economy shows that designing a successful strategy is a never-ending quest-and that effective strategic thinking is a process of continuously asking questions and thinking through issues in a creative way. The book's expert contributions include: * Sumantra Ghoshal, Christopher...

The Future of the Multinational Company
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 282

The Future of the Multinational Company

Recent Events -from September 11, to the anti-globalization protests to the collapse of the high-tech boom have accentuated the sense that the global economy is moving into uncharted waters Bringing together the leading authorities on globalization and international business The Future of the Multinational Company looks ahead to the new challenges facing multinational firms and predicts what the multinational company will look like in ten years time. Brings together the leading authorities in the field of global / international busi-ness. Accademically rigourous but accessible · Addresses a topic of concern to practitioners and academics alike

Strategy for Business
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 404

Strategy for Business

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002-02-05
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  • Publisher: SAGE

`This excellent volume brings together some of the most influential readings in business strategy and explores the content and process of business strategy... a comprehensive introduction to the literature and will become required reading for students of economics, organizational behaviour and business' - Costas Markides, London Business School This dynamic selection includes classics in the field of strategy which continue to provide the theoretical background of more recent innovative work. This is a course reader for The Open University undergraduate course Business Behaviour in a Changing World (B300).

Sony vs Samsung
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 235

Sony vs Samsung

"Sony vs. Samsung is business history at its best! It explores the divergent fortunes of these two electronics giants in the last decade and identifies the true reasons behind Sony's decline and Samsung's rise. Contrary to popular belief, Chang shows that success (or failure) does not simply arise from different strategies. Rather, it emerges from major decisions that are deeply rooted in the companies' organizational processes and their executives' political behavior. This book is a must-read for any senior executive." —Constantinos Markides, Robert P. Bauman Professor of Strategic Leadership and Chairman, Strategy Department, London Business School "Sea-Jin Chang has produced that rarity...

Get Better at Flatter
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 223

Get Better at Flatter

When should organizations think about adopting a flat structure? And what does it take to make it work? Is it even the silver bullet that we’ve been told it is? Often we have heard about how businesses should organize in non-traditional ways to succeed in today’s world: be ‘agile’, or adopt approaches such as ‘holacracy,’ ‘RenDanHeYi’ or ‘scrum’. But what do these concepts actually mean? Are they even helping us to custom-tailor flat structures to our needs? Leading expert, Markus Reitzig, provides a no-holds barred account of flat organizational structures, taking the good with the bad and asking the reader to balance the opportunities and challenges that come with less ...