From knowledge to intelligence

creating competitive advantage in the next economy

In the New Economy, intelligence will be essential for firms to gain competitive advantage?not just information or knowledge. Competitive intelligence, or the strategic gathering of knowledge about competitors, climate, trends, new products, has a long and successful history of generating competitive advantage. In this ...

Dictionary of strategy

strategic management A-Z

The Dictionary of Strategy: Strategic Management A-Z is a lively, contemporary sourcebook that will help illuminate major debates, issues, and scholarship in strategic management. The dictionary is a teaching tool that introduces the reader to the major terms in the field, giving them a general ...

Bare essentials

the ALDI way to retail success

A former company executive explains the guiding philosophies of the global retail giant ALDI, whose 50-year history and successful spinoff Trader Joe's has made it a corporate leader on the scale of Wal-Mart and General Electric. Simplicity, not discount, is discussed as the answer ...

Managing cultural differences

global leadership strategies for the 21st Century

The structure and content of the book remains the same, with thorough updating of the plentiful region and country descriptions, demographic data, graphs and maps. This book differs from textbooks on International Management because it zeroes in on culture as the crucial dimension and educates ...

The behavioral foundations of strategic management

This book argues persuasively that a behavioral perspective offers the best foundation for strategic management scholarship. This book presents a focused approach to strategic management theory. Outlines the basics of a behavioral approach to strategic management. Examines assumptions of rationality and equilibrium and the problems ...

The strategy reader

The second edition of this successful Strategy Reader retains many of the classic readings from the previous edition, such as those by Porter, Mintzberg, Grant, Hamel and Prahalad, while adding more recent top-quality articles by prominent international scholars such as Shapiro, Teece, Hitt and Miller ...

Restructuring strategy

new networks and industry challenges

New industries are emerging; others are disrupted; old barriers are crumbling, while new ones are rising. This book seeks to better understand the challenges facing industries, networks, businesses and management during periods of industry structuring and restructuring. Comprising a series of contributions from experts in ...

Comporamientos estratégicos

una forma de entender la estrategia basada en el autorreconocimiento organizacional para superar los límites y coevolucionar

Este libro plantea una nueva forma de entender la estrategia desde los comportamientos organizacionales. Los lectores podrán encontrar en esta obra un planteamiento innovador en los principios de la estrategia, con una guía para su implantación. La aplicación práctica de los principios organizacionales planteados en ...

Rating management's effectiveness

with case studies in telecommunications

This book explains why and how management's effectiveness makes the difference between success and failure, in any organization. Based on extensive research in the US, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Switzerland, the author outlines how to be effective, what happens in cases of ineffectiveness ...

Managing a crisis

a practical guide

This new practical guide explains what makes a crisis and who are the key players. It shows the importance of prior preparation and testing so that the company fully understands the crisis management environment and the importance of communications. Also included are checklists that should ...

Managing (e)business transformation

a global perspective

how a business can be transformed into an internetworked enterprise where IT infrastructures are used to link customers, suppliers, partners and employees to create superior economic value. The book is written based on the premise that integrating internet technologies throughout the value chain is crucial ...

Developing strategies for international business

the WRAP Process

Reliance on opportunism is a high-risk strategy in global business, yet many companies operate this way, often acting on limited amounts of information. Equally, many other companies implement strategies based on models formulated in the teaching rooms of business schools or the back recesses of ...

Law Firm mergers

taking a strategic approach

This book provides the reader with an explanation of the market forces driving increased competition in the legal profession that has raised the overall interest in mergers and often precipitated law firm mergers. At the same time caution is given against merger being seen as ...

Building great customer experiences

This is an updated edition of the bestselling book by Colin Shaw and John Ivens about building and delivering great customer experiences. Many companies neglect the customer experience. The authors show that physical execution and emotional impact of customer experiences may ultimately determine customer satisfaction ...

Strategic market management

Completely revised and updated,David Aaker's authoritative book approaches strategy development from an external perspetive driven by a structured analysis of customers,competitors,market trends,and the broader environment.It shows how to build on strategic analysis to create business strategies that will be ...

Crafting and executing strategy

the quest for competitive advantage

Thompson, Strickland and Gambles¿, Crafting and Executing Strategy, 14e presents the most recent research in strategy in a way that students can understand and apply to business cases and problems. Known for its cases and teaching notes, Crafting and Executing Strategy includes a case line-up ...

Local players in global games

the strategic constitution of a multinational corporation

What happens when previously autonomous firms from different countries, each with their own identities, routines, and capabilities, come together inside a single multinational corporation? Can a cooperative strategy be established that advances the development of the multinational as a whole, or do mutual misunderstandings and ...

Mastering the merger

four critical decisions that make or break the deal

Today's corporate deal makers face a conundrum: Though 70% of major acquisitions fail, it's nearly impossible to build a world-class company without doing deals. In Mastering the Merger, David Harding and Sam Rovit argue that a laserlike focus on just four key imperatives--before ...

Dirección estratégica de la empresa

fundamentos y puesta en práctica

Esta obra no es una más de Dirección estratégica,sino que nace fruto de una gran experiencia académica del autor Esteban Fernández,catedrático de la Universidad de Oviedo y una de las más prestigiosas figuras en estas temáticas.No se ha pretendido,en absoluto,que ...

Scenarios

the art of strategic conversation

Scenario planning enables managers to face up to this uncertainty by evolving from the idea of finding the #best strategy# to one of mobilising the #best strategizing process#. In this long-awaited new edition of his bestselling classic, Kees van der Heijden shows you how to ...