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This book is not a quick read. However, the book is quiet thought provoking. While this book is not for everyone, I did enjoy the book.
A collection of Michael Porter's articles from over the years. It had a surprisingly large focus on potential benefits to society through private sector competition which was very engaging for me. Through his use of examples he is able to demonstrate effectively what he terms positive sum competition for both the private sector and non-profits. He also lays out guidelines for what he believes the role of government in business should be, as facilitators and regulators instead of attempting to dr...
Great book on strategy and competition. Competition is a great thing. It pushes everyone else to upgrade and innovate and companies should welcome it. In the competitive landscape, firms should discover the processes that can help define a real strategy, which is very different from benchmarking, as well as being much more difficult to emulate. Michael Porter has been around a long time and his work on strategy and clusters are classic, and yet still highly relevant.
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I think i have half read this book. It means that i can say i have open the book and read some part of it. But if it said that i know some the point Porter try to say, I can say yes. But there are a lot more for me to say that i got all the points Porter wanna say.Bila Gidden pernah mengemukakan istilah stucturationist maka pendekatan Porter dalam menentukan competitiveness itu berdasarkan struktur pasar, bukan berdasarkan pendekatan lain yang menekankan pada unit (agen atau dalam studi manajeme...
Strategy strategy strategy! Got strategy? Since i started reading this book i began using the word "strategy" every day in all kinds of conversations. Porter really got to me.The way he talks about strategy is somehow different from the other authors i've read. With this book i can feel the need for strategy, the risks are real. You either set a viable strategy and claw your way to differentiation or you die a slow death of price wars and endless efficiency optimizations that are matched by comp...
If you can't obtain an MBA from Harvard Business School (HBS) due to cost, time or ability, then the next best thing might be to invest in the published works of HBS leaders. Michael Porter is one HBS author frequently quoted in other business books. On Competition Updated and Expanded Edition captures the essence of his decades of research and thinking on the topic.Each chapter represents an individual publication dating back to 1985. I have to admit that I had doubts that decades-old informati...
One of my favorite thinkers and business writers.
Read this for an "Accounting for Management" class at my university. This book, and the class in general, added some much-appreciated perspective to my business education, especially as an Accounting major.
Great book on the bottom-up building of competitiveness for countries and regions. Very significant not just to governments but to every party involved in the supply chain.The books is only worth 5 stars with the harvard case studies tough...
I may regard him as the most important book-writer in management-field. His name is easily found in many books. And this book itself offers a good approach to perceive what competition is, though (as it happened to every books) many are still criticizing him.But still, this writing has a very big influence in shaping my perspective on business competition.
For the past two decades, Michael Porter's work has towered over the field of competitive strategy. On Competition, Updated and Expanded Edition brings together more than a dozen of Porter's landmark articles from the Harvard Business Review. Five are new to this edition, including the 2008 update to his classic "The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy," as well as new work on health care, philanthropy, corporate social responsibility, and CEO leadership.This collection captures Porter's...
boring read.
A lot of this book makes sense just logical and practicalHowever unless you are deeply involved in the process of developing a key competitive advantage from analysing your own industry and there by trying to figure out the main factors of production And then trying to build a culture for innovation you need to READ this book Read it cover to cover There is so much information and knowledge and experience and related case studies of the largest corporations that every page has some sort of take
Well, it is hard to get through the pages filled with smart ideas but it is definitely worth applying some efforts. After reading only 1/3 of the book I already have all ideas about competition structured in my head.
Did you expect Porter to rest on his laurels? The Harvard Business guru updated his work for today's economic climate and changing marketplace.
The excellent book is full of dense idea. I've read his earlier book on Strategy, but this book is as equally educational. My biggest takeaway was his take on national competitions. Many concepts get thrown around by news and economists, from the exchange rate, interest rates, government deficit, cheap labor supply, etc. He dismisses those macroeconomic effects. Instead, he focuses on productivity and the supplier side in microeconomics. Industry cluster that happens not always at the national l...
While still in his twenties as a Harvard graduate student in the 1970s, Porter discovered (as opposed to constructed) many of the fundamental strategic drivers of successful organizations including generic strategy, the taxonomy of growth, stability and retrenchment strategies, and much more which finally made planning into true strategic planning. This book is a summary of his work since.
Замечательный труд! Немного устарел сейчас, но как база, он бесценен.
