Competitive Strategy

Competitive Strategy
Author: Michael E. Porter
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Total Pages: 396
Release: 1998
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780684005775

In this pathbreaking book, Michael E. Porter unravels the rules that govern competition and turns them into powerful analytical tools to help management interpret market signals and forecast the direction of industry development.

The End of Competitive Advantage

The End of Competitive Advantage
Author: Rita Gunther McGrath
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2013-05-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1422191419

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.

Judo Strategy

Judo Strategy
Author: David B. Yoffie
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781591391265

Shows readers how to turn competitors’ strength to their advantage. Selling Points Yoffie-Kwak provide insightful analysis of leading companies’ judo strategies through in-depth case studies of Palm Computing, RealNetworks, and CNET Networks, among others The “Users’ Guide to Judo Strategy”—a section at the end of the book—offers a summary of the principles of judo strategy that readers can apply to their own business situations. Packed with the insights of world-class managers and strategists, Judo Strategy describes how companies can become giant-killers, while also teaching readers how to protect their hard-fought position from challengers in the wings.

Competition Demystified

Competition Demystified
Author: Bruce C. Greenwald
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 651
Release: 2005-08-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1101218436

Bruce Greenwald, one of the nation's leading business professors, presents a new and simplified approach to strategy that cuts through much of the fog that has surrounded the subject. Based on his hugely popular course at Columbia Business School, Greenwald and his coauthor, Judd Kahn, offer an easy-to-follow method for understanding the competitive structure of your industry and developing an appropriate strategy for your specific position. Over the last two decades, the conventional approach to strategy has become frustratingly complex. It's easy to get lost in a sophisticated model of your competitors, suppliers, buyers, substitutes, and other players, while losing sight of the big question: Are there barriers to entry that allow you to do things that other firms cannot?

Matter

Matter
Author: Peter Sheahan
Publisher: BenBella Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2016-01-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1941631770

People want to buy from, work for, and partner with companies that matter. So how do you build a company that matters? Companies and people that matter have successfully become the obvious choice in the hearts and minds of their customers, their employees, and their communities. They elevate themselves by consistently finding ways to solve the most pressing needs their markets face. The result? They create more value year after year and build a sustainable, differentiated organization. In Matter, Peter Sheahan and Julie Williamson show you how to identify the place where you can create the most value—your edge of disruption—at the intersection of old and new, where your existing profits, reach, and reputation enable you to create the markets of the future. This is the place where the most important problems are solved and where the fewest people can solve them. Your edge of disruption is where your opportunity to matter is found. Matter uses extensive case studies of real companies that have successfully become the obvious choice in their markets—from high-profile corporations like Adobe and Burberry to lesser-known brands like Littlefield and BlueShore Financial. Their stories define innovative and impactful approaches to business that you can use to influence and partner with the right customers and clients to win in our radically changing world. Through their journeys, you will find the inspiration and courage to lean in to complexity and solve the higher value problems that matter most. Don't just read this book—use it to identify and act on opportunities to create the most value and accelerate your own journey to becoming a person and a company that matters.

The Purpose Revolution

The Purpose Revolution
Author: John Izzo , Ph.D.
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2018-03-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1626569673

Discover the Purpose Advantage! Customers, employees, and investors are no longer satisfied with companies providing good products, good prospects, and good profits—they want them to do some social good, too. These “purpose-driven” companies do better on nearly every traditional metric: greater customer loyalty, higher retention, more innovation, and a healthier bottom line. But a nice mission statement and donations to charity won't make your company stand out. Using scores of real-world examples and practical exercises, John Izzo and Jeff Vanderwielen help leaders find a truly authentic purpose, one that is a natural fit for them and their organization. They describe concrete actions leaders can take to ensure that employees own it, customers and recruits connect with it, and every corporate action and activity reflects it.

America's Great-Power Opportunity

America's Great-Power Opportunity
Author: Ali Wyne
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2022-04-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1509545557

It has become axiomatic to contend that U.S. foreign policy must adapt to an era of renewed “great-power competition.” The United States went on a quarter-century strategic detour after the Cold War, the argument goes, basking in triumphalism and getting bogged down in the Middle East. Now China and Russia are increasingly challenging its influence and undercutting the order it has led since 1945. How should it respond to these two formidable authoritarian powers? In this timely intervention, Ali Wyne offers the first detailed critique of great-power competition as a foreign policy framework, warning that it could render the United States defensive and reactive. He exhorts Washington to find a middle ground between complacence and consternation, selectively contesting Beijing and Moscow but not allowing their decisions to determine its own course. Analyzing a resurgent China, a disruptive Russia, and a deepening Sino-Russian entente, Wyne explains how the United States can seize the "great-power opportunity" at hand: to manage all three of those phenomena confidently while renewing itself at home and abroad.

Gain Competitive Advantage

Gain Competitive Advantage
Author: Kgadi Mmanakana
Publisher: Kgadi Mmanakana
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2022-08-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0639721486

How many times do we persist to force something to work that we already know won’t work? Like holding views, leadership styles and culture that no longer serve our workforce and businesses? How many times do we conform to being stuck in the rut, the bare minimum, and the comfortable zone over restructuring the organizations to make things work, stopping the production of a product that is a nice-to-have (a money bleeder) and investing in what will give sustainable returns? Sometimes to save yourself, your business, you will need to do the hard things. Most people and businesses didn’t swiftly adapt to the Covid19 induced disruption. There were tears that were shed, short-term mistakes and losses made, anxiety and gut-wrenching fear experienced. However, that knowing that that was going to be the "New Normal" enabled them to do it afraid. And that’s bravery. Leading at the edge of chaos, through crisis and recessions is not easy. Changing organizational culture which at times get you face to face with your own biases and ineffective outlook, is not easy. For a person who’s used to having the final say is not easy to “allow” your workforce to be entrepreneurial and let their innovative ideas catch fire. For an ever-solo entrepreneur may not be easy to start delegating and “losing control”. All these necessary calls for change and transformation require you to be brave and courageous. They require brave leadership and courageous culture. In Gain Competitive Advantage, the author, Kgadi Mmanakana, introduces brave leadership and courageous culture as the birthplace of competitive advantage and shares 10 practical strategies that business leaders, team leaders, managers, divisional directors and executives can use to unlock employee engagement, drive team performance and build resilience to maintain relevance in a constantly changing world.

Stronger

Stronger
Author: Serhiy Zhadan
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2021
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300251254

An examination of how America can strengthen its approach to China by building on its existing advantages “This book is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding how the United States can renew its advantages in its competition with China.”—Ambassador Susan E. Rice, former U.S. National Security Advisor “Ryan Hass has provided an indispensable and timely contribution to understanding our critical path forward with China.”—Jon M. Huntsman, former U.S. Ambassador to China and Russia Ryan Hass charts a path forward in America’s relationship and rivalry with China, a path rooted in the relative advantages America already possesses. Hass argues that while competition will remain the defining trait of the relationship, both countries will continue to be impacted—for good or ill—by their capacity to coordinate on common challenges that neither can solve on its own, such as pandemic disease, global economic development, climate change, and nuclear nonproliferation. Hass makes the case that the United States will have greater success in outpacing China economically and outshining it in questions of governance if it focuses more on improving its condition at home than on trying to impede Chinese initiatives. He argues that the task at hand is not to stand in China’s way and, in the process, turn a rising power into an enemy but to renew America’s advantages in its competition with China.