Competitive Strategy - by Michael E Porter (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Michael E. Porter unravels the rules that govern competition and turns them into powerful analytical tools to help management interpret market signals, forecast the direction of industry development, and position any company to compete more successfully.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Now nearing its sixtieth printing in English and translated into nineteen languages, Michael E. Porter's <i>Competitive Strategy</i> has transformed the theory, practice, and teaching of business strategy throughout the world. <p/>Electrifying in its simplicity--like all great breakthroughs--Porter's analysis of industries captures the complexity of industry competition in five underlying forces. Porter introduces one of the most powerful competitive tools yet developed: his three generic strategies--lowest cost, differentiation, and focus--which bring structure to the task of strategic positioning. He shows how competitive advantage can be defined in terms of relative cost and relative prices, thus linking it directly to profitability, and presents a whole new perspective on how profit is created and divided. In the almost two decades since publication, Porter's framework for predicting competitor behavior has transformed the way in which companies look at their rivals and has given rise to the new discipline of competitor assessment. <p/> More than a million managers in both large and small companies, investment analysts, consultants, students, and scholars throughout the world have internalized Porter's ideas and applied them to assess industries, understand competitors, and choose competitive positions. The ideas in the book address the underlying fundamentals of competition in a way that is independent of the specifics of the ways companies go about competing. <p/> <i>Competitive Strategy</i> has filled a void in management thinking. It provides an enduring foundation and grounding point on which all subsequent work can be built. By bringing a disciplined structure to the question of how firms achieve superior profitability, Porter's rich frameworks and deep insights comprise a sophisticated view of competition unsurpassed in the last quarter-century.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Choice</i> Few books warrant the too-common publisher's blurb landmark. This one does. Highest recommendation.<br><br><i>Fortune</i> Three overarching game plans that work in one industry after another explain how thousands of real-world competitors come out on top.<br><br><i>Journal of Business Strategy</i> Any manager who studies and uses the materials in this book should be able to devise more successful strategies.<br><br><i>Strategic Management Journal</i> Represents a quantum leap...may well be one of the most important contributions to the discipline of strategic management.<br><br><i>The New York Times</i> American executives are grasping for a logic to global competition. Mr. Porter...has given them one.<br><br>Philip Kotler </i>S.C. Johnson & Son, Distinguished Professor of International Marketing, Northwestern University Porter's books on competitive strategy are the seminal works in the field.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Michael E. Porter, </b> one of the world's leading authorities on competitive strategy and international competitiveness, is the C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. In 1983, Professor Porter was appointed to President Reagan's Commission on Industrial Competitiveness, the initiative that triggered the competitiveness debate in America. He serves as an advisor to heads of state, governors, mayors, and CEOs throughout the world. The recipient of the Wells Prize in Economics, the Adam Smith Award, three McKinsey Awards, and honorary doctorates from the Stockholm School of Economics and six other universities, Porter is the author of fourteen books, among them <i>Competitive Strategy, The Competitive Advantage of Nations, </i> and <i>Cases in Competitive Strategy, </i> all published by The Free Press. He lives in Brookline, Massachuset
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