<p>This work discusses developments in the area of strategic management, such as employee empowerment, team and process organization, delayering and flattening organizational structure, and unhealthy corporate cultures. There are explanations of how and why a company's strategy can be partly planned and partly reactive, and the concept of a strategy-making pyramid is introduced. Topics covered include: roles of core competencies and organization capabilities in creating customer value; value-chain analysis; overall low-cost leadership; focused low-cost leadership; broad differentiation; focused differentiation; and being the best-cost producer.</p>

Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases

Business & Money

Arthur A. Thompson

A. J. Strickland

Management & Leadership

Business Publications

This book discusses the structure of the strategic process and examines and explains how to assess the position and assets of a company and that of its competitors. The book then considers how to analyze the strategic resources of a company with respect to several aspects of its structure, such as its marketing, its people and its finance. It then considers the questions that need to be asked when developing a corporate strategy and the best methods for managing any changes that may be required.

Strategic Management: Concepts & Cases

Arthur A. Thompson, Jr.

Richard D.Irwin

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