Competitive Strategy
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Developing Strategy
Competitive Cognition
The importance of properly identifying the strategies, and anticipating the actions, of rivals.
Disruption
Foundations for Growth: How to Identify and Build Disruptive New Businesses
To maintain growth, a company must launch disruptive new businesses when its core units are strong.
Marketing Strategy
Pricing as a Strategic Capability
If pricing isn’t a strategic capability — a contributor to a company’s ability to implement its strategy — it’s probably a strategic liability.
Organizational Structure
The Nonmarket Strategy System
For managers, the challenge of understanding nonmarket forces — government, interest groups, activists, and the public — is frequently more difficult than understanding the market environment. The author develops a strategy system of principles, frameworks, and action plans to deal with the issues, in-stitutions, interests, and information that characterize the nonmarket environment. He uses the concept of a rent chain, analogous to the value chain, to show how com-panies can participate in policy-setting processes and generate leverage to their own benefit.