Strategy Pure & Simple II: How Winning Companies Dominate Their Competitors
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (592 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0070531331 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 269 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-11 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Drawing on his 20 years of pioneering research and work with some 400 top companies, Robert offers today's executives guidance in strategy formulation, implementation, and deployment. Filled with examples drawn from the experiences of today's commercial leaders and interviews with CEOs of companies in a variety of industries, this updated edition of a revolutionary and inspiring best seller offers a sure-fire process of strategic thinking that's been tested and refined in the "war rooms" of America's most successful corporations.
Don't "play the game" the way your competitors do. In this updated edition of the best-seller, Strategy Pure & Simple II: How Winning Companies Dominate Their Competitors, noted consultant Michel Robert shows you how to use strategic thinking, today's most important management tool, to put your company on a growth-oriented path to the future. Find out how to: overcome the key obstacles to strategic thinking; craft a future profile for your organization; articulate a meaningful business concept; utilize strategic leverage; make competition practically irrelevant; benefit from product innovation and market fragmentation; avoid mistakes when making alliances and acquisitons Filled with fascinating case studies that reveal the wisdom of Robert's theories, this bold and inspiring guide will help you to outthink, outsmart, and outpace your competitors. . Instead formulate and deploy a distinctive strategy that changes the rules to your favor. Fro
His clients include such major companies as Caterpillar, 3M, and GATX. Michel Robert is founder and president of Decision Processes International, Inc., a consulting firm headquartered in Westport, Connecticut which has 60 partners in 15 countries. A noted lecturer and the author of six books including Product Innovation and Strategy Pure & Simple: How Winning Companies Outpace their Competi
Gets the job done Amazon Customer I first read "Strategy Pure & Simple (I)" back in the early '90s, just before embarking on my first strategic planning job. Since then, I have managed strategic planning and implementation processes at a total of six different operational subsidiaries of two very large financial services groups.As a financial controller and later a CFO, I have read a great many other books and articles about strategy and planning. Most of those were actually quite interesting, but when it came down to . Adam Lefton said Mike Robert, King of Strategic Thinking, does it again!. When it comes to understanding and explaining why some companies develop and launch new products better than their competitors, Mike Robert truely has no equal. In preparing to help overhaul the strategic planning process at a major publishing firm, we read countless books on strategic planning before choosing Mike's "Strategy, Pure and Simple" as our guide. We couldn't have made a better choice. Mike's tell-it-like-it-is style and clearly defined process served as a guide through nume. Highly Recommended! Michael Robert presents a well-organized plan to enable you to produce a distinctive strategy. He emphasizes the need for strategic thinking, which sets out a vision of where your company is going. Use this as your basis for making the appropriate choices and plans. Clarify what your company is, and is not, to avoid becoming scattered and overextended. Robert uses the metaphor of playing a game as his framework. Every CEO must carefully choose what game to play, and how to craft a stra