Product Description

For many companies, large and small, the question of formulating a competitive strategy is no longer one of choice. Their markets team with domestic and foreign competitors, their product and service life cycles are being dramatically compressed, and their customers' demands and expectations are escalating to new levels. Relying on intuition and seat-of-the-pants planning is the business equivalent of flying blind. A thoughtful, well-planned strategy is now a prerequisite to success. But what makes up an effective strategy? This collection of Harvard Business Review article offers insight and practical advice from the leaders in the field: Michael Porter, Kenichi Ohmae, Steven Wheelwright, Gary Hamel, and C. K. Prahalad, among others. They show how advantage can and should be extracted from many sources, from marketing and joint ventures to financial analysis. They demonstrate conclusively that strategic planning can be lean, efficient, and productive rather than bureaucratic, sluggish, and sterile. Strategic Choices provides managers with the best thinking available on how to make the critical decisions that determine business success.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #844668 in Books
• Published on: 1991
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 350 pages

Book Info
Explores current concepts of strategic analysis and strategy formulation. Also offers basic strategic options and linkages between competitive and functional strategy. DLC: Strategic planning.

Customer Reviews

Competition
This book is still very applicable in our new economy in disecting competition considering it was written in 1991. The fundementals of this book make it a must read in analyzing one of the "Five Forces".