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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828868103321

Autore

Gilad Benjamin

Titolo

Early warning : using competitive intelligence to anticipate market shifts, control risk, and create powerful strategies / / Ben Gilad

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : AMACOM, c2004

ISBN

0-8144-2744-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Disciplina

658.15/5

Soggetti

Risk management

Risk

Strategic planning

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Surprise; Chapter 2 What Do You Know About Strategic Risks; Chapter 3 The Internal Dynamics of Early Warning Failures; Chapter 4 The Analytical the Tactical the Couch Potato and the Blind; Chapter 5 Step 1 Identifying Risk  and Opportunities; Chapter 6 Step 1 Continued War Gaming; Chapter 7 Step 2 Intelligence Monitoring; Chapter 8 Step 3 Management Action; Chapter 9 Case Studies of CEW in Action; Chapter 10 If You Start from Scratch . . .; Epilogue

Sommario/riassunto

Surprise is rarely a good thing in business. Unexpected developments range in their effects from inconvenient to disastrous. To avoid being blindsided, companies must develop a Competitive Early Warning system, or CEW, which combines strategic planning, competitive intelligence, and management action. Such systems let organizations manage risk more effectively and prevent ""industry dissonance"" -- when market realities outpace corporate strategies.  Early Warning reveals how to:* Change strategy to meet new realities* Learn from the mistakes of others via the book's eye-opening stories