Strategic Logic lays the foundations for a clear understanding of corporate profitability and provides the reader with innovative insights on how to develop original yet realistic strategies. Working with real-life examples and based on rigorous theory, the author analyses key managerial decisions and shows how to ensure these enhance the company's long-term profitability. Mergers and acquisitions are great opportunities for strategic development, but they can also destroy value. The author indicates how to judge on what side a specific case will fall.
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"In the two decades since Michael Porter published Competitive Strategy, rigorous and disciplined analysis of fundamentals has taken a backseat in management books, amid the rise of slogans of revolution, creativity and breaking rules. Strategic Logic is a timely reminder that there are rules in business, and managers can benefit from understanding and exploiting those rules. Very well written and well illustrated, this is a must-read for all managers who wish to build profitable businesses on firm and logical foundations."--Sumantra Ghoshal, London Business School
"...has the potential to become a 'classic' for students and for managers."--Erich Hunziker, Member of the Executive Board and Group CFO, Hoffmann-La Roche
"...has the potential to become a 'classic' for students and for managers."--Erich Hunziker, Member of the Executive Board and Group CFO, Hoffmann-La Roche
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J. Carlos Jarillo is at HEC, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
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Excellent short book that helps one focus on what is important. You can only make something cheaper or better; a lesson for every industry. Super useful approach to business.
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Easy to understand the logic behind corporate strategy,
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I really appreciate this book in order that it gives concrete expression to "strategy" in terms of corporate activities instead of explaining long and old boring meanings of this buzzword. I hope that we can see its edition soon in Turkish.
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Crucial questions and the right answers,
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What I especially liked, was the easy way this book addresses key questions every organisation faces, and often choses the wrong answers to.
Often used buzzwords like "growth", "internationalisation" or "focusing on the core" are demystified and a sound logic behind such decisions is presented in a convincing way. Simple criteria help avoid decision-taking against the "strategic logic" and thus destroying value. The book also reveals the most common mistakes and illustrates them with up to date examples.
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To start our journey to discover the basic rules that make up strategic logic, we can start simply by looking at the very different levels of profitability that different businesses show over the years. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
personal computer sector, minimum efficient size, strategic logic, acceptable profitability, strategic reflection, entry barriers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Financial Times, Year Figure, General Motors, Leader Potential, Time Warner, Boston Consulting Group, British Airways, Exterior Exterior, Spanish Government, Steve Jobs, The Body Shop New!
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To start our journey to discover the basic rules that make up strategic logic, we can start simply by looking at the very different levels of profitability that different businesses show over the years. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
personal computer sector, minimum efficient size, strategic logic, acceptable profitability, strategic reflection, entry barriers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Financial Times, Year Figure, General Motors, Leader Potential, Time Warner, Boston Consulting Group, British Airways, Exterior Exterior, Spanish Government, Steve Jobs, The Body Shop New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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- Only the Paranoid Survive by Andrew S. Grove on page 124, and Back Matter
- How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker in Front Matter
- Strategy and the Business Landscape (2nd Edition) by Pankaj E Ghemawat on page 173
- The Synergy Trap by Mark L. Sirower in Back Matter
- Competing for the Future by Gary Hamel in Back Matter
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- Dynamic Strategic Analysis: Demystifying Simple Success Strategies by Sebastian Raisch in Back Matter
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