Preface | p. xiii |
What Is Strategy? | p. 1 |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Strategy Defined | p. 2 |
Strategic Thinking Continues to Evolve | p. 2 |
Strategy Versus Tactics | p. 5 |
Strategy Forces Trade-offs | p. 6 |
Strategy Should Focus on Value Creation | p. 7 |
Strategy Is About Creating Options | p. 10 |
Strategy: An Ecosystem Perspective | p. 11 |
Strategy as Alignment | p. 12 |
Is All Strategy Planned? | p. 13 |
Multiple Levels of Strategy | p. 13 |
The Role of Stakeholders | p. 13 |
Vision and Mission | p. 14 |
Strategic Intent and Stretch | p. 16 |
Strategy and the Nonprofit Sector | p. 17 |
The Strategy Formulation Process | p. 19 |
Steps | p. 19 |
Strategy and Planning | p. 21 |
Evaluating Strategic Options | p. 22 |
Criteria | p. 22 |
Shareholder Value | p. 23 |
Strategy and Performance | p. 26 |
Introduction | p. 26 |
From Good to Great-About Hedgehogs and Flywheels | p. 28 |
The 4+2 Formula for Sustained Business Success | p. 31 |
Excelling at Four Primary Practices | p. 32 |
Embracing Two of Four Secondary Practices | p. 34 |
Strategy and Performance: A Conceptual Framework | p. 36 |
Strategy, Purpose, and Leadership | p. 38 |
Strategy and Organizational Change | p. 39 |
The Balanced Scorecard | p. 44 |
Performance and Control | p. 47 |
The Role of the Board | p. 48 |
Analyzing the External Strategic Environment | p. 53 |
Introduction | p. 53 |
Globalization | p. 54 |
Understanding Globalization | p. 55 |
Regionalism: A Stepping Stone on the Path Toward a Global Economy? | p. 56 |
New Powerhouses: India and China | p. 56 |
Global Tectonics and Their Strategic Implications | p. 58 |
Global Tectonics | p. 59 |
12 Global Trends | p. 59 |
A Global Knowledge Economy-Strategic Implications | p. 68 |
Risk and Uncertainty | p. 69 |
Scenario Analysis | p. 70 |
Global Futures: The Global Scenario Group | p. 71 |
A New Compact Between Business and Society? | p. 73 |
Analyzing an Industry | p. 77 |
Introduction | p. 77 |
What Is an Industry? | p. 78 |
Industry Structure and Porter's Five Forces Model | p. 78 |
Industry Evolution | p. 82 |
Four Trajectories of Change | p. 83 |
Industry Structure, Concentration, and Product Differentiation | p. 84 |
Product Life Cycle Analysis | p. 85 |
New Patterns | p. 88 |
Methods for Analyzing an Industry | p. 89 |
Segmentation | p. 89 |
Competitor Analysis | p. 90 |
Strategic Groups | p. 92 |
Analyzing Product/Market Scope | p. 93 |
Market Analysis | p. 93 |
Growth Vector Analysis | p. 94 |
Gap Analysis | p. 95 |
Profit Pool Analysis | p. 96 |
Analyzing an Organization's Strategic Resource Base | p. 97 |
Introduction | p. 97 |
Strategic Resources | p. 98 |
Physical Assets | p. 99 |
Analyzing a Company's Financial Resource Base | p. 99 |
Human Capital: A Company's Most Valuable Strategic Resource | p. 105 |
Organizational Strategic Resources | p. 106 |
The Importance of Brands | p. 108 |
Core Competencies | p. 109 |
Forces for Change | p. 111 |
Internal Forces for Change | p. 111 |
Company Life Cycle Forces for Change | p. 111 |
Strategic Forces for Change | p. 113 |
Stakeholder Analysis | p. 114 |
Formulating Business Unit Strategy | p. 116 |
Introduction | p. 116 |
Foundations | p. 117 |
Strategic Logic at the Business Unit Level | p. 117 |
How Much Does Industry Matter? | p. 117 |
Relative Position | p. 118 |
The Importance of Market Share | p. 118 |
The PIMS Project | p. 119 |
Formulating a Competitive Strategy | p. 120 |
Key Challenges | p. 120 |
What Is Competitive Advantage? | p. 121 |
Value Chain Analysis | p. 122 |
Porter's Generic Business Unit Strategies | p. 125 |
Differentiation or Low Cost? | p. 125 |
Requirements for Success | p. 127 |
Risks | p. 129 |
The Saga of Dell | p. 129 |
Critique of Porter's Generic Strategies | p. 130 |
Value Disciplines | p. 132 |
Product Leadership | p. 132 |
Operational Excellence | p. 133 |
Customer Intimacy | p. 134 |
Designing a Profitable Business Model | p. 136 |
Business Unit Strategy: Contexts and Special Dimensions | p. 140 |
Introduction | p. 140 |
Emerging, Growth, Mature, and Declining Industries | p. 141 |
Strategy in Emerging Industries | p. 141 |
Strategy in Growth Industries | p. 142 |
Strategy in Mature and Declining Industries | p. 143 |
Industry Evolution and Functional Priorities | p. 144 |
Fragmented, Deregulating, and Hypercompetitive Industries | p. 147 |
Strategy in Fragmented Industries | p. 147 |
Strategy in a Deregulating Industries | p. 148 |
Strategy in Hypercompetitive Industries | p. 152 |
Competitive Reactions Under Extreme Competition | p. 154 |
Business Unit Strategy: Special Dimensions | p. 156 |
Speed | p. 156 |
Pressures to Speed | p. 157 |
Requirements of Speed | p. 159 |
Methods to Speed | p. 160 |
Creating Value Through Innovation | p. 161 |
Global Strategy Formulation | p. 172 |
Introduction | p. 172 |
Globalization and Industrial Clustering | p. 173 |
Porter's National Diamond | p. 175 |
Industry Globalization Drivers | p. 177 |
Global Strategy Formulation | p. 181 |
Global Strategy Dimensions | p. 182 |
Entry Strategies | p. 189 |
Region/Country Analysis | p. 191 |
How Wal-Mart Went Global | p. 192 |
Global Strategy and Risk | p. 198 |
Types of Risk | p. 198 |
Global Strategy-Exploiting Similarities and Differences | p. 200 |
Corporate Strategy: Shaping the Portfolio | p. 203 |
Introduction | p. 203 |
The Economics of Scale and Scope | p. 204 |
Economies of Scale | p. 205 |
Economies of Scope | p. 205 |
What Is "Core"? | p. 207 |
Growth Strategies | p. 208 |
Concentrated Growth Strategies | p. 210 |
Vertical and Horizontal Integration | p. 211 |
Diversification Strategies | p. 214 |
Growth and Strategic Risk | p. 226 |
Disinvestments: Sell-offs, Spin-offs, and Liquidations | p. 229 |
Pitfalls | p. 229 |
Corporate Strategy: Managing the Portfolio | p. 232 |
Introduction | p. 232 |
Managing a Portfolio of Businesses | p. 233 |
Early Perspectives: Management as "Structure Follows Strategy" | p. 233 |
The BCG Approach to Portfolio Management | p. 234 |
General Electric Business Screen | p. 237 |
MACS: McKinsey's Market-Activated Corporate Strategy Framework | p. 237 |
Life Cycle Matrix | p. 241 |
Limitations of Portfolio Analysis Techniques | p. 242 |
The Value-Based Approach to Portfolio Management | p. 243 |
The Resource-Based Approach to Portfolio Management | p. 245 |
Using a Portfolio Approach for Managing Alliances | p. 246 |
The Role of the Corporate Office | p. 247 |
Corporate Strategic Planning | p. 249 |
From Strategic Planning to Strategic Management | p. 250 |
Corporate Strategic Planning as a Process | p. 252 |
Limitations of Strategic Planning | p. 254 |
Horizontal Strategies for Managing a Portfolio | p. 254 |
Resource Sharing | p. 255 |
Learning and Transferring Critical Skills | p. 255 |
Creating a Learning Organization | p. 256 |
The Boundaryless Organization | p. 257 |
Knowledge Management | p. 258 |
Evaluating Strategy Options at the Corporate Level | p. 259 |
Index | p. 263 |
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