Business Strategy Essentials You Always Wanted To Know (Second Edition)
Regular price $30.99Business Strategy Essentials You Always Wanted To Know (Second Edition): A Beginner’s Guide to Strategic Management, Porter’s Five Forces, Industry Life Cycles & Execution
- Business Strategy concepts explained in a simplified way
- Fundamentals and important strategies included
- Practical approach for application by business & working professionals
Business Strategy Essentials You Always Wanted To Know prepares new managers and leaders with building blocks of strategy. You will learn how to define strategy and how strategy differs at different levels of an organization. Identifying your company’s current strategy and then being able to execute possible appropriate strategies is a key thing you will learn reading this book. You are given tools to assist you with some of the more challenging aspects of strategy such as environmental scanning, SWOT analysis, and strategy analysis. After you have learned how to execute some of these strategies, you will learn what organization structures fit best with specific strategies. These timeless elements of strategy will provide you the fundamentals with a 21st century point of view.
Business Strategy Essentials You Always Wanted To Know gives you a look into the world of strategic management and some of its key elements. When you have completed reading this book you should be able to:
- Define strategic statements in an organization,understand its functions and elements
- Understand industry life cycles and industry structures
- Understand Porter’s Five Forces and its effect on strategic analysis and development
- Understand strategy formulation and strategy levels
- Understand strategy execution do’s and don’ts
- Read case studies and identify salient points
About the Series
The Self-Learning Management series is designed to help students, new managers, career switchers and entrepreneurs learn essential management lessons. This series is designed to address every aspect of business from HR to Finance to Marketing to Operations, be it any industry.
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This book off ers a holistic approach to strategy by covering the strategic process, business structure and change, all the while keeping the industrial aspect in mind. The Business Strategy steps are detailed andtake into account the business, technological, political and economic changes through the centuries. All in all, a must read for those who want to build their business strategies as per the changing times.
-Dr. Nilsa Fleury, Consultant & Professor
Business Strategy Essentials You Always Wanted to Know from Vibrant Publishers, provides a good overview of the subject matter and is extremely relevant for undergraduate business students, managers, and entrepreneurs. It covers everything, right from the application of Porter's Five Forces useful for the entry-level manager to mergers and acquisitions generally decided in the boardroom.
The relevant strategies are summarized in a simple and accessible way and can be used by a novice and a CEO alike. This book reviews key elements of strategies aligned with the vision and mission of companies and provides a quick hands-on resource on how to address the rising challenges in the real world.
-Dr. Arkadiusz Mironko, Assistant Professor, Indiana University East
Business Strategy Essentials book, is a good, thought provoking read. The layout of the book is concise, the tables, charts, case studies improves the overall readability. Beneficial for those seeking to develop their entrepreneurial cognition and for those with higher level business education, are intrapreneurs in industry and seeking entrepreneurship in a strategic way.
-Terila N Jhonson, Business and Leadership Professor & Founder of PennyWise, LLC
I quickly glanced through Business Strategy Essentials You Always Wanted To Know and the concepts are easy to read and follow.
-Lydia R. Knopf, Leadership & Strategy Coach
The Business Strategy Essentials book by Vibrant Publishers is excellent! It is comprehensive and makes for a good read, the highlight being the Walmart case study. Looking forward to another self learning book on Strategy Execution.
-Dr. Jagdish N. Sheth, Goizueta Business School at Emory University
"In your self-learning series, I am using Business Strategy and Financial Management as supplemental textbooks next semester."
-Jared Reynolds, Associate Dean, Kelley College of Business
About the Author
Vibrant Publishers is focused on presenting the best texts for learning about technology and business as well as books for test preparation. Categories include programming, operating systems and other texts focused on IT. In addition, a series of books helps professionals in their own disciplines learn the business skills needed in their professional growth.
Vibrant Publishers has a standardized test preparation series covering the GMAT, GRE and SAT, providing ample study and practice material in a simple and well organized format, helping students get closer to their dream universities.