How do firms compete? How do firms earn above normal returns? What's needed to sustain superior performance long term? An increasingly powerful answer to these fundamental questions of business strategy lies in the concept of dynamic capabilities. These are the skills, processes, routines, organizational structures, and disciplines that enable firms to build, employ, and orchestrate intangible…
Business model innovation is the key to unlocking transformational growth?but few executives know how to apply it to their businesses. In Seizing the White Space, Mark Johnson gives them the playbook. Leaving the rhetoric to others, Johnson lays out an eminently practical framework that identifies the four fundamental building blocks that make business models work. In a series of in-depth ca…
Innovation means so many things: new-product development, new brands, new ad campaigns, new web sites, new production processes, new designs, new strategies, new solutions to persistent problems, and a great deal more. Truth is, you need to innovate to succeed in your working life. The creative, forward-thinking people are the ones who make their mark and get ahead. It’s often risky to try n…
Table Of Contents : Part 1. Foundation of Management Chapter 1. Managing Chapter 2. The External Environment and Organizational Culture Chapter 3. Managerial Decision Making Part 2. Planning: Delivering Strategic Value Chapter 4. Planning and Strategic Management Chapter 5. Ethics and Corporate Responsibility Chapter 6. International Management Chapter 7. Entrepreneurship Part 3…