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The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
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There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness. Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different. Operational effectiveness is about things that you really shouldn't have to make choices on; it's about what's good for everybody and about what every business should be doing.
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The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.
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The firm achieving focus may also potentially earn above-average returns for its industry. Its focus means that the firm either has a low cost position with its strategic target, high differentiation, or both.
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If people in the organization don't understand how a company is supposed to be different, how it creates value compared to its rivals, then how can they possibly make all of the myriad choices they have to make? Every salesman has to know the strategy — otherwise, he won't know who to call on. Every engineer has to understand it, or she won't know what to build.
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The essence of formulating strategy is relating a company to its environment.
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Early entry is appropriate when the following general circumstances hold:
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The success of a strategy depends on doing many things well – not just a few – and integrating among them.
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Quasi-integration is to use debt or equity investments and other means to create alliances between vertically related firms without full ownership.
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Low cost relative to competitors becomes the theme running through the entire strategy, though quality, service and other areas cannot be ignored.
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Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs.
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The essential complement to the path-breaking book Competitive Strategy, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Advantage explores the underpinnings of competitive advantage in the individual firm. Competitive Advantage introduces a whole new way of understanding what a firm does. Porter's groundbreaking concept of the value chain disaggregates a company into activities, or the discrete functions or processes that represent the elemental building blocks of competitive advantage.
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Businesses must reconnect company success with social progress. Shared value is not social responsibility, philanthropy, or even sustainability, but a new way to achieve economic success. It is not on the margin of what companies do but at the center. We believe that it can give rise to the next major transformation of business thinking.
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The grandfather of concepts for predicting the probable course of industry evolution is the familiar product life cycle.
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Efforts to preserve all industries will lower the national standard of living.
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Born:
May 23, 1947
(age 77)
Bio:
Michael Eugene Porter is an American academic known for his theories on economics, business strategy, and social causes.
Known for:
On competition (1998)
The competitive advantage of nations (1990)
Redefining health care (2006)
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