Creating Valuable Business Strategies

ISBN-13: 9780750685481 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 238 str.

Shiv Mathur; Alfred Kenyon

Opis

Creating Valuable Business Strategies will change existing mindsets about strategy. Here is an answer for the strategist who asks, 'What should I do differently next Monday morning?'

The object of strategy is to create financial value and the offering-centred approach of Creating Valuable Business Strategies provides a novel and pragmatic framework for setting strategic direction: choosing which markets to contest and how.

This book:
???Identifies the individual offering as the fundamental unit of strategy: for that is unit of customer choice. And it is in the choices of customers that a business??'s financial success is rooted.
???Provides an innovative and comprehensive approach to profitable business strategy: designing each offering and also the collection as a whole.
???Explains that strategy is a task for all businesses with offerings, even the smallest, not just for giants.

The book first sets the scene and makes the case that each value-adding offering needs a competitive strategy: it must have a winning competitive position and use one or more winning resources. It provides the reader with a rich classification of how an offering can be competitively positioned vis-??-vis rival offerings and customers. Winning resources and why offerings need them is discussed next. Corporate strategy, i.e. the managing of the company??'s whole collection of offerings is then examined. This is followed by a discussion of the implications for organizing and structuring for an offering-centred approach to strategy. Finally all the aspects of this new framework that may meet with resistance areexplored.

Creating Valuable Business Strategies is essential reading for anyone who is involved in designing tomorrow's offerings: from the backroom specialist to the CEO. It has a clear logical presentation, accessible to students and practitioners alike, with a focus on practical implementation.

This book challenges how strategy is taught and practised.

* Rejuvenate your business strategy by becoming customer-facing from the ground-up rather than inwardly operational
* A radical yet wholly pragmatic approach that places the individual business offering firmly at the heart of successful strategic planning
* Tackles the potential difficulties of complex multi-unit companies and methods to overcome them

Recenzje

"Very much a common sense, practical approach to implementing strategy."
David Butler, Kent Business School, University of Kent

"I found it so interesting I could have happily read more."
Dorothy Courtis, freelance business author and editor

"A new and interesting take on an old topic, but one which may well be exactly what managers and organizations need."
Professor Ian Favell, consultant for CMI, CIPD and author

Spis treści

Setting the scene: The need to design future offerings; The purpose of a business is to build value; The basics of designing a winning offering. How to design a winning competitive position: Why and how to differentiate; Differentiating in the support and merchandise dimensions; Differentiation creates private markets; Markets with dominant players. No success without winning resources: A winning offering needs to exploit a winning resource with the four cornerstones; Winning resources: pitfalls; Getting it together: the scissors process. Corporate strategy: managing the collection of offerings: Corporate strategy: its nature and aim; Success in diversification: relatedness; Success in diversification: the filters and the better-off test. Organizing and structuring for offering-centred strategies: Offerings need sponsors; Delivering value through corporate strategy. Final reflections: Stumbling-blocks and entrenched attitudes.

O autorze

Authored by Mathur, Shiv; Kenyon, Alfred