COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE: CREATING AND SUSTAINING SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE Michael Porter Contents Introduction Chapter 1: Competitive Strategy: The Core Concepts 3 The Structural Analysis of Industries 4 Industry Structure and Buyer Needs 6 Generic Competitive Strategies 7 Cost Leadership 8 Differentiation 9 Focus 9 Stuck In The Middle 10 Sustainability 12 RISKS OF COST LEADERSHIP 12 RISKS 12 OF DIFFERENTIATION 12 RISKS 12 OF 12 FOCUS 12 Generic Strategies and Industry
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Creating and Managing Effective Teams Bill Parker Axia College Organizational Business/MGT245 Tiffany Stamper August 12‚ 2007 Creating and Managing Effective Teams Creating and managing effective teams in today’s work environment is much different than it was just a short time ago. With each generation of American workers come new ideas‚ rules‚ and methodologies that must be considered when developing an effective team. Some of the newer ideas may have been foreign to managers even ten years
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Effectiveness of Innovation Leadership ----Based on the Failure of Com Dev International Ltd In the first essay‚ I analyzed the leadership of Roger‚ the leader of Suzhou Com Dev International Ltd (hereinafter referred to as Suzhou Company). In this essay‚ I will discuss the problem and solutions to Roger’s problematic leadership based on ecology of innovation‚ initiating and consideration structure‚ and transformational leadership In order to create ecologies of innovation‚ we should know
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Foundations of Leading Innovation Tina Johns Capella University Introduction The paper analyzes two leadership practices in their support of innovation in organizations‚ examines the discovery skills for their promotion of innovation in organizations and reviews the writer’s own strengths and weaknesses with discovery skills and how they affect their ability in an organization. Leadership is an important and essential component for an organizations innovation. In order to have the organization
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A Framework for Managing the Innovation Process 1 Niek D du Preez1 ‚ Louis Louw2 Stellenbosch University‚ Department of Industrial Engineering‚ South Africa 2 Indutech (Pty) Ltd‚ Brandwacht Office Park‚ South Africa innovative and free thinking. Yet even Edison realised that a lot of perspiration is required in balance with the inspiration. Any innovation management framework should thus include a good combination of structure and flexibility in order to successfully deploy all the elements
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the Second RUFORUM Biennial Meeting‚ 13-17 September 2010‚ Entebbe‚ Uganda CAPACITY FOR SUSTAINING AGRICULTURAL INNOVATION PLATFORMS IN RWANDA: A CASE STUDY OF RESEARCH INTO USE PROJECT Leonidas Dusengemungu (Makerere University‚ Agriculture extension/Education M.Sc. Tel. +250788617194‚ e mail:leonidassusenge@yahoo.com) SUMMARY The research was conducted in Rwanda with four agricultural Innovation Platforms (IPs). These IPs focus on cassava‚ round potato‚ maize production and farmers’ associations
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Creating and Managing Effective Teams Managing a team of people can be tricky‚ but it can be even harder when those people come from different areas in the workplace. Not knowing a fellow team member can put a strain on the ability to work together‚ but with the proper training‚ and management skills‚ any team can accomplish the goals set for them. For this exercise I was asked to select a team of people to search for innovative ideas that would put the automaker on the leading edge . I selected
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Griffin - Management‚ 8th Edition Chapter 13 - Managing Organizational Change and Innovation 1. The Nature of Organization Change – any substantive modification to some part of the organization a. Forces of Change i. External Forces - derive form the organization’s general and task environments ii. Internal Forces – a variety of forces inside the organization may cause change as well b. Planned Versus Reactive Change i. Planned change – change that is designed and implemented in an
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innovative ideas become successful products. True False Question 2 of 40 1.0 Points Flexible manufacturing technologies have increased the importance of production economies of scale. True False Question 3 of 40 1.0 Points Innovation and new technology have caused the product life cycle to become longer as better quality products are being produced. True False Question 4 of 40 1.0 Points The rate of economic growth can be accounted for entirely by growth in labor
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competitors‚ or can only be replicated with great difficulty which are the basis of sustainable competitive advantage. Distintive capabilities can be of many kinds‚ intellectual property rights‚ exclusive licenses‚ statutory monopolies‚ strong brands‚ leadership‚ tacit knowledge and skills‚ teamwork‚ organizational culture‚ business processes and partnerships. An
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