Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage

Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage

Author: Manikant Singh

Publisher: Global India Publications

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 9788190721158

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Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage provides the most accurate, relevant, and complete presentation of strategic management today.This book is thoroughly updated to include cutting edge research and trends that are shaping business strategy.The editor guides students through the strategic management process using a unique model that blends the classic industrial organisational model with the resource-based view of the firm to explain how firms use the strategic management process to build a sustained competitive advantage.The text includes current and relevant examples to provide context for key concepts, outstanding figures and models to illustrate key points, and other section contains engaging and exemplary cases that cover a broad range of critical issues confronting managers today.


Core Competency-based Strategy

Core Competency-based Strategy

Author: Andrew Campbell

Publisher: Cengage Learning

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13:

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Core Competency-Based Strategy gives an up-to-the-minute picture of what industry experts have said on the subject and how it relates to business practice. It will provide an accessible and broad-based introduction to core competence to newcomers with no previous knowledge of the subject. The reader consists of thirteen full-length articles by international experts in their fields, each one supported by an explanatory introduction.


Strategic Management and Core Competencies

Strategic Management and Core Competencies

Author: Anders Drejer

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 2002-06-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781567205084

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Managers and management scholars alike need operational models and concepts for dealing with core competencies within strategic management. This book provides tools for the practitioner as well as fundamental theoretical concepts to enable scholars to further build upon Drejer's work. His main argument is that understanding core competencies is key to explaining why some firms enjoy a competitive advantage over others. Drejer proposes models and means with which managers can proactively identify, design, and develop their firm's core competencies in strategic alignment. More than merely a how-to book, this work places an equal emphasis on the concepts behind competence-based strategy. The author offers the reader multiple perspectives on the background of competence-based strategy, the relationship between strategic management and the development of core competencies, and the application of competence-based strategy to praxis. He provides the tools necessary to identify, analyze, and develop the competencies of a firm, and in so doing performs a valuable service for practitioners and researchers.


From Knowledge Management To Strategic Competence: Assessing Technological, Market And Organisational Innovation (Third Edition)

From Knowledge Management To Strategic Competence: Assessing Technological, Market And Organisational Innovation (Third Edition)

Author: Joe Tidd

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company

Published: 2012-04-30

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 1783263660

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There continues to be much interest in the business and academic communities in the concept of strategic competencies or core capabilities, in other words, how organisations define and differentiate themselves. More recently, this field has fragmented into a number of related disciplines with subtle differences in focus:Knowledge management — how organisations identify, share and exploit their internal competencies, in particular the knowledge of individuals.Organisational learning — the relationship between individual and organisational knowledge and how organisations ‘unlearn’ past competencies and acquire new competencies.Strategic management — how competencies can be assessed, and how these contribute to performance.Innovation management — how such competencies are translated into new processes, products and services.This book aims to integrate strategic and knowledge management approaches to capability building with the development of competencies by bringing together the latest research and practices from international experts in the field. This third edition has been fully updated with five new chapters./a


Strategic Management in the Innovation Economy

Strategic Management in the Innovation Economy

Author: Thomas H. Davenport

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2007-06-27

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 3895786039

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Innovative ruptures of traditional boundaries in value chains are requiring companies to rethink how they go to market, what they need to own, what they need to retain and innovate as core competencies, and how they innovatively deal with suppliers and customers. The key message of the book is that the new knowledge-networked innovation economy requires a totally different strategic management mindset, approach and toolbox, and its major value-added is a new strategic management approach and toolbox for the innovation economy - a poised strategy approach. Designed for both managers and advanced business students, the book provides a unique combination of new management theory, selected managerial articles by prominent scholars such as Clayton Christensen, Henry Chesbrough, Sumantra Ghoshal, Quinn Mills, and Peter Senge, and a wide array of real-world case examples including GE, Shell, IBM, HP, BRL Hardy, P&G, Southwest Airlines and McGraw-Hill, within the dynamics of industries such as airlines, energy, telecommunications, wine & beverages, and computing. The authors illustrate powerful new strategic innovation concepts and tools, such as poised strategy for managing multiple business models, poised strategy scorecards (moving beyond the well-known balanced scorecard), the wheel of business model reinvention, and organizational rejuvenation methods. The book includes the concepts of: Poised Strategic Management, Organizational Rejuvenation, Business Models as Platform for Strategy, Poised Scorecards, Identifying Sources of Innovation in Business Ecosystems.


Playing to Win

Playing to Win

Author: Alan G. Lafley

Publisher: Harvard Business Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 142218739X

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Explains how companies must pinpoint business strategies to a few critically important choices, identifying common blunders while outlining simple exercises and questions that can guide day-to-day and long-term decisions.


From Knowledge Management to Strategic Competence

From Knowledge Management to Strategic Competence

Author: Joseph Tidd

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9781860941887

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The business and academic communities pay much interest to the concept of knowledge management and strategic competencies or core capabilities; that is, how organizations define and differentiate themselves. This text attempts to establish the links between strategic competencies, knowledge management, organizational learning and innovation management - specifically, how an organization identifies, assesses and exploits its competencies, and translates these into new processes, products and services.


Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management

Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management

Author: David J. Teece

Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 019954512X

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How do firms grow? How do firms compete? An influential answer to these fundamental questions of business strategy lies in the concept of dynamic capabilities. David Teece provides a clear statement of his ideas, and a framework for managers wishing to assess their organization's strategy.


Strategic Risk Mangement

Strategic Risk Mangement

Author: Mark Frigo

Publisher: Wiley

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9781118021996

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Executive-level guidance for best practices on risk assessment and enterprise risk management Strategic Risk Management is an easy-to-use source of information and tools for directors and executives. Presenting a series of articles, short narratives, tools and diagnostics, this timely book offers quick readings that begin with the definition of strategic risk management and then progress through the various frameworks and tools and diagnostics. Chapters can be read individually on a stand-alone basis Explains how to link risk management with strategy development, performance measurement systems and balanced scorecards Describes how to conduct a strategic risk assessment Providing current leading practices in this field, Strategic Risk Management expertly guides executives in assessing and managing risk on an enterprise level.