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Content: Book | Source: Financial Times | Subject: Strategy

Disparaged in the developed world, emerging-market conglomerates are here to stay, provided they adapt to their ever-changing environment. If they do adapt, what role are they likely to play?

Content: Article | Authors: Chipper Boulas, Ian Buchanan, Jorge H. Forteza, Lando Zappei, Zafer Achi | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: International, Strategy

The world’s most famous business-school professor is fed up with CEOs who claim that the world changes too fast for their companies to have a long-term strategy. If you want to make a difference as a leader, you’ve got to make time for strategy.

Content: Article | Author: Keith H. Hammonds | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Strategy

Content: Book | Authors: Liam Fahey, Robert M. Randall | Subjects: MBA Related, Strategy

What is the aim or purpose of strategy? To improve our ability to shape and adapt to unfolding circumstances, so that we (as individuals or as groups or as a culture or as a nation-state) can survive on our own terms.

Content: Quotation | Source: Patterns of Conflict | Subject: Strategy

This unique Website, hosted by Kettle Creek Corporation, offers articles and presentations on the theories of Colonel John R. Boyd, a USAF strategist. Boyd wrote extensively on the ideas of agility and time-based competition. The former refers to the ability “to generate ambiguity, isolation, and panic in the opposing side.” Boyd advocated combining agility with time-based competition, “to operate in rapid decision cycle time,” in … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: Kettle Creek Corporation | Subject: Strategy

Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Strategy

Content: Book | Author: Perry J. Ludy | Subjects: Management, Strategy

An excellent site offering tutorials and opinion from both professionals and professors.

Content: Online Resource | Author: Dan Lazar | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Strategy

This page in support of the book by the same name (by Mark McNeilly) is geared toward those involved in business strategy, competitive analysis, and market research. It offers a summary of the six principles espoused in the book, a self-analysis quiz, examples of strategy in the news, and resources in several areas.

Content: Online Resource | Author: Mark McNeilly | Subjects: Competitive Intelligence, Strategy

This interesting article (written before the dot.com shakeout) shows some interesting fallacies of thought but also makes some interesting and useful observations and analyses. Discusses three types of coprorations: Godzillas, Titans and Bystanders. Lists the following as features critical to Godzilla companies: Clarity of Focus; The Primacy of the Customer; Zero-Based Organization; Location Irrelevance; Value Chain Shortcuts; Pointcast vs. Broadcast; The CEO as … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Kenichi Ohmae | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Strategy, Trends / Analysis

Maximizing Alliances is based on the book Alliance Competence by Robert Spekman of The Darden School at the University of Virginia. He believes that it takes a certain competence to be successful in alliances. He describes what alliances are, why they form, why they are important, characteristics of alliances, and more.

Editor’s Note: the original site, nMinds, is no longer alive but you can watch … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Author: Robert Spekman | Source: nMinds | Subjects: Business Development, Strategy

Who should companies put in charge of their e-business operations? The answer, according to this special report by the EIU ebusiness forum, depends on where e-business sits in the corporate structure. Diplomacy is key if the company is attempting to integrate e-business into all operations; autocracy is feasible if the organisation has created a separate unit for e-business. Whatever the powers of the position, however, … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Don Durfee | Source: The Economist | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Strategy

How do you set long-term strategy in an economy that moves at the speed of the Net? Is there a difference between a “business strategy” and an “Internet strategy”? And who makes strategy these days? John D. Noble, vice president of corporate Internet strategy at Putnam Investments, is wrestling with those and other questions.

Content: Article | Author: Amy Wilson Sheldon | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Strategy

Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Competition, Success / Failure

Content: Book | Authors: Frederik D. Wiersema, Michael Treacy | Subject: Strategy

Content: Book | Author: Adrian J. Slywotzky | Subject: Strategy

Total system leadership, according to business strategy consultant James F. Moore, has replaced mere product superiority and even complete industry dominance as today’s corporate brass ring. In The Death of Competition: Leadership & Strategy In the Age of Business Ecosystems, he uses “biological ecology” as a metaphor for the new type of cooperative/competitive relationships that he believes lead to that brass ring — while guiding … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: James F. Moore | Subjects: Leadership, Strategy

In the latest entry in their series on the Balanced Scorecard (BSC), Kaplan and Norton describe in detail how private- and public-sector organizations have used the BSC to translate strategy into operational terms and align the organization with it. This is much more than a performance-measurement tool – the authors show how the BSC is an essential communications tool.

Content: Book | Authors: David P. Norton, Robert S. Kaplan | Subject: Strategy

Content: Book | Author: Stanley M. Davis | Subjects: Management, Strategy