Showing posts with label competition. Show all posts
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Monday, July 9, 2012

Management Strategy: Achieving Sustained Competitive Advantage Review

Management Strategy: Achieving Sustained Competitive Advantage
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This book is not too heavy and indepth. It is very easy reading and offers great information. This book complements tha case studies in the author's other book
"Winning Moves"

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Management Strategy: Achieving Sustained Competitive Advantage, 2e, by Alfred Marcus, is a brief, focused paperback text, allowing ample time for the instructor to incorporate other materials commonly used in this course, such as cases, readings, and/or simulations.The text focuses on how making winning moves depends on finding profitable patterns that repeatedly meet customer demands for solutions. Whereas many strategy books have lost sight of the purpose of strategy and fail to show how decisions actually affect business performance and, ultimately, outcomes, Management Strategy focuses on the types of analyses and strategic moves required, given the industry, environment, and a company's internal resources. In eight chapters, this textbook builds upon the analysis process and demonstrates how strategy impacts an organization's position in comparison to its competitors, both in terms of the cost and quality of its products and the scope of businesses in which it is involved (vertical and horizontal integration), as well as its global versus domestic reach. The outcomes that come from analyzing an organization also determine the extent to which the organization will strive to be an innovator as opposed to being a follower.

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Monday, December 26, 2011

Essentials of Strategic Management: The Quest for Competitive Advantage Review

Essentials of Strategic Management: The Quest for Competitive Advantage
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I am always happy when I can find the product I need at an affordable price in great condition. This was my experience when I ordered strategic management textbook.

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Essentials of Strategic Management responds head-on to the growing requests by business faculty for a concisely-written strategic management text that's robust and theory-driven and supported with a compelling collection of cases.This text was written with four objectives in mind:1) Although relatively brief in length, the text provides students with an up-to-date and thorough understanding of essential strategic management concepts and analytic tools; 2) It simplifies the task of demonstrating student learning through course embedded assessment; 3) The concepts are supported by contemporary, well-written cases involving headline strategic issues; and lastly, 4) The text serves as the theoretical foundation of a teaching approach incorporating a business strategy simulation.

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Saturday, November 19, 2011

Modern Competitive Strategy Review

Modern Competitive Strategy
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Since Gordon Walker is my strategy professor at SMU, I may be a bit biased, but let me say that this book is actually *readable*, a rare quality in a textbook. Not only that, but it is concise and features several original frameworks for analysis such as Walker's V-C model. I'm not a strategy expert (yet) but this book helps me to better articulate the strategic insights that I do have. If you're an MBA student considering a strategy class that uses this textbook, I advise you to put the time in reading, because this book makes it painless.

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Modern Competitive Strategy, 3e, by Gordon Walker, provides a concise, rigorous, and broad synthesis of the theory and empirics of the strategy field. The approach is eclectic, reflecting the diversity of the discipline, drawing on studies in industrial and institutional economics, economic and organizational sociology, mainstream strategy, and finance and marketing when appropriate. Both single business and corporate-level organizations are covered. Ideal for current and budding managers, many short cases, company examples, and practical tools are used to illustrate the concepts. The material is appropriate for either a full semester course or a single module in MBA programs, advanced undergraduate courses, EMBA and executive education classes.

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