Michael E. Porter is de leidende autoriteit op het gebied van concurrentiestrategie en de toepassing van concurrentieprincipes op maatschappelijke problemen zoals de gezondheidszorg en het milieu. Algemeen erkend als de "vader van de strategie", wordt hij beschouwd als de meest invloedrijke denker ter wereld op het gebied van management en concurrentievermogen. Zijn werk duikt in het begrijpen en verbeteren van het concurrentielandschap voor naties, staten en regio's. Hij richtte een instituut op dat zich toelegt op het bevorderen van zijn baanbrekende onderzoek.
This collection of Harvard Business Review articles provides managers with the best thinking available on how to make critical, long-term decisions that determine business success. It draws from three decades of thinking and examines the competitive forces in industries and the ways firms can create and sustain competitive advantage.
This book compiles five years of valuable management insights, offering practical guidance for leaders and aspiring managers. It distills essential lessons and strategies that can enhance decision-making and team dynamics, making it a comprehensive resource for anyone looking to improve their management skills. The focus is on real-world applications, ensuring that readers can effectively implement these insights in their professional lives.
"Our political system has become big business--and business is booming--yet solutions to big problems seem impossible. Behold, the political-industrial complex. Rampant lobbying and gerrymandering. Election spending rising exponentially with each cycle. The Democratic and Republican parties competing furiously against each other for advantage, while together--as a duopoly--having a lock on the entire industry. And yet, who is this system for? Citizens, of course. Tragically, as the political system has transformed into an industry, it has also become totally dysfunctional, incapable of delivering solutions to America's key economic and social challenges. Would-be reformers debate endlessly about various ways to "fix the system," such as term limits or revised campaign finance laws, but few of these have been seriously proposed, let alone implemented. In The Politics Industry, leading political innovation activist Katherine Gehl and world-renowned business strategist Michael Porter take a radically different approach. They ingeniously apply the tools of business analysis--and Porter's distinctive Five Forces framework--to show how the political system functions just as every other competitive industry does. Even more importantly, they argue that the political system can be changed, just as industries can be changed, by adopting a new and different strategy, a clear set of choices of things to do--and not do--in four key areas: the election process, the legislative "machinery," the role of money, and the opening up of competition. The authors focus only on those solutions that are powerful and capable of having a significant impact, as well as achievable within a short period. The Politics Industry is an original and completely nonpartisan guide that will open any thinking citizen's eyes to the real dynamics and profound challenges of the American political system and provide powerful and practicable solutions for reshaping the system for the benefit of all"-- Provided by publisher
The Competitive Advantage of Nations is one of the most influential business and management books of all time. Michael Porter's research identified the fundamental determinants of national competitive advantage in an industry and how they work together to give international advantage. The findings are rich in implications for firms and governments and set the agenda for discussions of global competition. The book was an extraordinary achievement and had a profound effect upon management, policy-makers and academics worldwide. The core ideas of the book remain very relevant today and this new edition includes the original text in full with a new introduction by the author, which reviews the key themes and issues of the book in the light of subsequent developments. This book represents one of the very few must buys in business and management.
For the past fifteen years, Michael Porter's work has defined our fundamental understanding of competition and competitive strategy. Presented here for the first time as a collective whole are a dozen articles -- two entirely new pieces together with ten of Porter's articles from the Harvard Business Review, as well as an introduction from Porter, his first statement on how the parts of his work fit together.To read through this collection is to experience Porter at work: we see firsthand as his important theories take shape, deepen, and evolve over time. Porter addresses the important issues of competition, from company strategy to the relationship between competition and environmental regulation to the counterintuitive role of geography in the global economy.At once eloquent and convincing, these essays help us to examine and understand the essence of competition. "On Competition offers the intellectual foundations for company and country strategies for the years ahead.
An analysis of why some nations succeed and some fail in international competition. In Porter's view, a set of forces is at work which may include government policy, management practice, and macroeconomic conditions, but these do not wholly account for the international preeminence of a firm
Nurturing the Hidden Sources of Growth in the Developing World
The focus of this book is how developing nations can learn to compete successfully in the global economy by applying the principles of competitive analysis. Seven key patterns of underperformance are identified and principles and practices are offered for overcoming them.
It has long been argued that women, especially black women, have been relegated to a second-class status in American society, and despite modern advances remain subject to a debilitating discrimination in many areas of life. This book presents a fresh perspective on the many facets of sexism experienced by African American women, addressing such issues as wage disparity, spousal abuse, and the rising rate of AIDS among black women. It also examines the roots of sexism among African American males, including the effect of gangster rap music on perceptions of black women, and offers strategies for change.
The essential complement to the pathbreaking book Competitive Strategy, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Advantage explores the underpinnings of competitive advantage in the individual firm. Competitive Advantage introduces a whole new way of understanding what a firm does. Porter's groundbreaking concept of the value chain disaggregates a company into "activities," or the discrete functions or processes that represent the elemental building blocks of competitive advantage. Now an essential part of international business thinking, Competitive Advantage takes strategy from broad vision to an internally consistent configuration of activities. Its powerful framework provides the tools to understand the drivers of cost and a company's relative cost position. Porter's value chain enables managers to isolate the underlying sources of buyer value that will command a premium price, and the reasons why one product or service substitutes for another. He shows how competitive advantage lies not only in activities themselves but in the way activities relate to each other, to supplier activities, and to customer activities. Competitive Advantage also provides for the first time the tools to strategically segment an industry and rigorously assess the competitive logic of diversification. That the phrases "competitive advantage" and "sustainable competitive advantage" have become commonplace is testimony to the power of Porter's ideas. Competitive Advantage has guided countless companies, business school students, and scholars in understanding the roots of competition. Porter's work captures the extraordinary complexity of competition in a way that makes strategy both concrete and actionable.
Now nearing its sixtieth printing in English and translated into nineteen languages, Michael E. Porter's work has transformed business strategy globally. Porter's analysis of industries simplifies the complexity of competition into five underlying forces. He introduces three generic strategies—lowest cost, differentiation, and focus—that structure strategic positioning. By defining competitive advantage in terms of relative cost and prices, he links it directly to profitability and offers a new perspective on profit creation and division. Over the past two decades, Porter's framework for predicting competitor behavior has changed how companies view their rivals, leading to the emergence of competitor assessment as a new discipline. More than a million managers, analysts, consultants, students, and scholars worldwide have embraced Porter's ideas to assess industries, understand competitors, and determine competitive positions. The concepts presented address the fundamentals of competition, independent of specific competitive methods. This work has filled a significant gap in management thinking, providing a solid foundation for future studies. By offering a structured approach to achieving superior profitability, Porter's insights deliver a sophisticated view of competition that remains unmatched in the last twenty-five years.
