What Is Strategy?
 | HBR OnPoint Enhanced EditionHarvard Business Review, 2000, Digital |
|---|
Today's dynamic markets and technologies have called into question the sustainability of competitive advantage. Under pressure to improve productivity, quality, and speed, managers have embraced tools such as TQM, benchmarking, and reengineering. Dramatic operational improvements have resulted, but rarely have these gains translated into sustainable profitability. And gradually, the tools have taken the place of strategy. As managers push to improve on all fronts, they move further away from viable competitive positions. Michael Porter argues that operational effectiveness, although necessary to superior performance, is not sufficient, because its techniques are easy to imitate. In contrast, the essence of strategy is choosing a unique and valuable position rooted in systems of activities that are much more difficult to match.
Title: What Is Strategy? (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Sales Rank: 161591 in Books
Author: Michael E. Porter
Publisher: Harvard Business Review, 2000-02-01, Digital, 21 pages
- Brilliant.
- Blueprint for how to out-perform competitors over time. A must-read. I have applied this thinking several times with rich results.… More reviews
- An Execellent Article on Strategy
- In "What is Strategy", Michael Porter produced an excellent article explaining what strategy is and what it is not. Anyone wishing to understand strategy cannot afford to miss reading this article.
Porter makes a clear distinction between operational effectiveness and strategic positioning. Operational effectiveness can be achieved by adopting industry best practices enabling a company to perform better than its competitors. Some… More reviews
- Don't buy from audible
- Don't buy the audio version from audible.com .
Their programming skills are terrible. I could not download some of the books I bought, could not burn into cd the ones I could download, and forget about making it work with an mp3 player, unless you're lucky.
I know about 5 people who bought stuff from there and only one had… More reviews
- Don't waste your money!!!
- I am very disappointed after paying $7.00 and getting a PowerPoint presentation on their thoughts! Where does it explain their reasoning and justification on each point? Don't waste your money. Shame on Amazon for not explaining the product thoroughly.… More reviews
- Definitions of Strategy
- This paper is one of the benchmarks in strategy and management thinking. Essential reading for managers at all levels.
It is, however, available on the internet in PDF format. Search Google. More reviews
