Creating Value (Paperback, 2 ed)

The framework in a nutshell - Purpose, scope and basics; Fundamentals: the framework and its main building blocks - Objectives: what is business strategy for?; Competitive and corporate strategy: why centred on offerings?; Understanding competitive positioning and strategy - Differentiation creates private not public markets; Differentiation and its dimensions: classification of competitive strategies; Competitive positioning: differentiation and price; Competitive positioning in imperfect markets with dominant sellers; Competitive strategies for profit - Competitive strategy: what makes it profitable?; Competitive strategy: dynamics of positioning; Resources and business strategy - The theory of winning resources; Winning resources for the manager; The 'scissors' process for choosing a winning competitive strategy; Corporate strategy for clusters of offerings - Corporate strategy's task is to build financial value; False and valid tests of corporate strategy; The corporate raider or catalyst; Valuable clusters of offerings: relatedness; How do managers develop successful corporate strategies?; Other implications of the framework - Where in the world to sell and operate; Operating and organizational implications of this framework; Endpiece: business strategy for a new century; Glossary; References; Index.