394 Pages
by
Routledge
394 Pages
by
Routledge
400 Pages
by
Routledge
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'Creating Value through Business Strategy' is the new edition of 'Creating Value: Shaping Tomorrow's Business', winner of the MCA price for best management in 1997.
This new edition provides constructive guidelines to readers to open their minds to the challenges of creating value. It extends and updates the reasons for the choice of the individual offering as the strategy unit and intensifies and extends the challenges to standard approaches and conventional thinking. Updates to all the material from the first edition are included and new examples have been added throughout.
The framework in a nutshell - Purpose, scope and basics; Fundamentals: the framework and its main building blocks - Objectives: what is business strategy for?; Competitive and corporate strategy: why centred on offerings?; Understanding competitive positioning and strategy - Differentiation creates private not public markets; Differentiation and its dimensions: classification of competitive strategies; Competitive positioning: differentiation and price; Competitive positioning in imperfect markets with dominant sellers; Competitive strategies for profit - Competitive strategy: what makes it profitable?; Competitive strategy: dynamics of positioning; Resources and business strategy - The theory of winning resources; Winning resources for the manager; The 'scissors' process for choosing a winning competitive strategy; Corporate strategy for clusters of offerings - Corporate strategy's task is to build financial value; False and valid tests of corporate strategy; The corporate raider or catalyst; Valuable clusters of offerings: relatedness; How do managers develop successful corporate strategies?; Other implications of the framework - Where in the world to sell and operate; Operating and organizational implications of this framework; Endpiece: business strategy for a new century; Glossary; References; Index.
Biography
Shiv S. Mathur, Alfred Kenypson
'an innovative, customer-led approach to strategy'
David J. Collis, Harvard Business School
'..stimulating, insightful, and challenges conventional thinking.'
Robert Grant, Professor of Management, Georgetown University, USA
'Rigorous, clear and well-argued'.
Patrick Barwise, Professor of Management and Marketing, London Business School.
