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Strategy : A View from the Top (an Executive Perspective)

by: De Kluyver, Cornelis A; Pearce, John A.

Strategy : A View from the Top (an Executive Perspective)

by: De Kluyver, Cornelis A; Pearce, John A.

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9780131861367
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0131861360
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2009
Publisher: Pearson College Div
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Summary

For use as an overview text in graduate programs, executive MBA and corporate executive programs. A short, up-to-date, practitioner oriented guide to strategy formulation, this text is designed for practicing executives who are getting ready to assume broader responsibilities and for MBA and EMBA students who aspire to top management responsibilities.

Preface

What Is Strategy?

(14)

Strategy Defined

(9)

Strategic Thinking Continues to Evolve

(2)

Strategy versus Tactics

(1)

Strategy Forces Trade-offs

(1)

Strategy Should Focus on Value Creation

(2)

Strategy Is About Creating Options

(1)

Is All Strategy Planned?

(1)

Multiple Levels of Strategy

(1)

The Role of Stakeholders

(1)

Vision and Mission

(1)

Strategic Intent and Stretch

(1)

Strategy and the Non-Profit Sector

(1)

The Strategy Formulation Process

(2)

Steps

(2)

Strategy and Planning

(1)

Evaluating Strategic Options

(3)

Criteria

(1)

Shareholder Value

(2)

Strategy and Performance

(14)

Implementation as Strategic Alignment

(1)

Strategy and Performance: A Conceptual Framework

(6)

Strategy, Purpose, and Leadership

(1)

Strategy and Organizational Change

(4)

Creating a Performance- and Strategy-focused Organization

(3)

The Balanced Scorecard

(2)

Performance and Control

(1)

Managing Expectations

(1)

The Role of the Board

(4)

Governance Reforms

(1)

Strategy and Oversight---What the Board Needs to Know

(2)

Analyzing the External Strategic Environment

(14)

Globalization

(5)

Understanding Globalization

(1)

Regionalism---A Stepping Stone on the Path Toward a Global Economy?

(1)

Emerging Powerhouses: India and China

(1)

Frictions and Countereffects to Globalization

(1)

Measuring Globalization

(2)

Globalization: Strategic Implications

Demographic Change

(2)

Demographic Changes: Strategic Implications

(1)

Technology and the New Knowledge Economy

(1)

The New Economy: Strategic Implications

(1)

Risk and Uncertainty

(6)

Scenario Analysis

(1)

The Concept of a Change Arena

(2)

Uncertainty: Implications for Strategy

(2)

Analyzing an Industry

(13)

What Is an Industry?

(3)

Definition

(1)

Industry Structure and Porter's Five Forces Model

(2)

Industry Evolution

(5)

Four Trajectories of Change

(1)

Industry Structure, Concentration, and Product Differentiation

(1)

Product Life Cycle Analysis

(2)

New Patterns

(1)

Methods for Analyzing an Industry

(2)

Segmentation

(1)

Competitor Analysis

(2)

Strategic Groups

(1)

Analyzing Product/Market Scope

(3)

Market Analysis

(1)

Growth Vector Analysis

(1)

Gap Analysis

(1)

Profit Pool Analysis

(2)

Analyzing an Organization's Strategic Resource Base

(15)

Strategic Resources

(9)

Physical Assets

(1)

Analyzing a Company's Financial Resource Base

(4)

Human Capital: A Company's Most Valuable Strategic Resource

(1)

Organizational Strategic Resources

(1)

The Importance of Brands

(1)

Core Competencies

(1)

Internal Change Forces and the Capacity for Change

(2)

Internal Change Forces

(1)

The Company Life Cycle

(1)

McKinsey's 7-S Model

(1)

Stakeholder and SWOT Analysis

(1)

Stakeholder Analysis

(4)

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats

(3)

Formulating Business Unit Strategy

(17)

Foundations

(3)

Strategic Logic at the Business Unit Level

(1)

How Much Does Industry Matter?

(1)

Relative Position

(1)

The Importance of Market Share

(1)

The PIMS Project

(1)

Formulating a Competitive Strategy

(4)

Key Challenges

(1)

What Is Competitive Advantage?

(2)

Value Chain Analysis

(2)

Porter's Generic Business Unit Strategies

(4)

Differentiation or Low-Cost?

(1)

Requirements for Success

(1)

Risks

(1)

A Success Story: Dell Computer

(1)

Critique of Porter's Generic Strategies

(1)

Value Disciplines

(3)

Product Leadership

(1)

Operational Excellence

(1)

Customer Intimacy

(2)

Designing a Profitable Business Model

(3)

Business Unit Strategy: Contexts and Special Dimensions

(16)

Emerging, Growth, Mature and Declining Industries

(5)

Strategy in Emerging or Embryonic Industries

(1)

Strategy in an Industry's Growth Stage

(1)

Strategy in Mature and Declining Industries

(1)

Industry Evolution and Functional Priorities

(3)

Fragmented, Deregulating and Hypercompetitive Industries

(4)

Strategy in Fragmented Industries

(1)

Strategy in a Deregulating Environment

(1)

Strategy in Hypercompetitive Industries

(2)

Business Unit Strategy: Special Dimensions

(7)

Speed

(1)

Pressures to Speed

(1)

Requirements of Speed

(1)

Methods to Speed

(1)

Creating Value Through Innovation

100

(4)

Global Strategy Formulation

104

(17)

Global Industries

104

(5)

Porter's National Diamond

105

(2)

Industry Globalization Drivers

107

(2)

Global Strategy Formulation

109

(5)

Global Strategy Dimensions

110

(4)

Non-market Dimension

114

(1)

Entry Strategies

114

(4)

How Wal-Mart Went Global

115

(3)

Global Strategy and Risk

118

(3)

Types of Risk

119

(2)

Corporate Strategy: Shaping the Portfolio

121

(18)

The Economics of Scale and Scope

121

(2)

Economics of Scale

122

(1)

Economics of Scope

122

(1)

What Is ``Core''?

123

(1)

Growth Strategies

124

(10)

Concentrated Growth Strategies

125

(1)

Vertical and Horizontal Integration

125

(1)

Diversification Strategies

126

(3)

Mergers and Acquisitions

129

(1)

Cooperative Strategies

130

(2)

The Allianced Enterprise

132

(2)

Growth and Strategic Risk

134

(3)

Disinvestments: Sell-offs, Spin-offs, and Liquidations

137

(2)

Pitfalls

137

(2)

Corporate Strategy: Managing the Portfolio

139

(16)

Managing a Portfolio of Businesses

139

(7)

Early Perspectives: Management as ``Structure Follows Strategy''

139

(1)

The BCG Approach to Portfolio Management

140

(2)

General Electric Business Screen

142

(1)

Life Cycle Matrix

142

(1)

Limitations of Portfolio Analysis Techniques

142

(1)

The Value-Based Approach to Portfolio Management

143

(3)

The Resource-Based Approach to Portfolio Management

146

(1)

The Role of the Corporate Office

146

(1)

Corporate Strategic Planning

147

(3)

Limitations of Strategic Planning

149

(1)

Horizontal Strategies for Managing a Portfolio

150

(3)

Resource Sharing

150

(1)

Learning and Transferring Critical Skills

150

(1)

Creating a Learning Organization

151

(1)

The Boundaryless Organization

151

(1)

Knowledge Management

152

(1)

Evaluating Strategy Options at the Corporate Level

153

(1)

Techniques

153

(2)

Index

155

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