High performance companies [[electronic resource] ] : successful strategies from the world's top achievers / / Nitin Pangarkar

• Autore: Pangarkar Nitin
• Pubblicazione: Singapore, : Jossey-Bass, a Wiley imprint, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (210 p.)
• Disciplina: 650.1; 658.4012
• Soggetto topico: Strategic planning; Industrial management
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: High Performance Companies: Successful Strategies from the World's Top Achievers; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1: My Motivations; Introduction and Positioning; Seven Concerns Raised by the Content and Approach of Other Books; A Book on Strategic Principles: The Idea; Approach of the Book; Organization of the Book; The Final Word; 2: Discover Diamonds among Coals; Resources, Firm Strategy, and Performance; Acquisitions Fitting the ""Discover-Diamonds-among-Coals"" Adage; Mittal Steel: Discovering Diamonds among Coals-Consistently!; Building a Global Empire through Acquisitions ; The Recipe for Success How Mittal Polishes Raw Diamonds; The Final Word; 3: Build Durable Assets; Durable Assets and Performance; Tiger Balm: Durable Assets Withstand Twenty Years of Neglect; Pawning the Family Heirloom; Restoring the Tiger Balm's Roar through Investments in Durable Assets; The Recipe for Success; The Tiger Balm Case and Its Implications for a Strategy Based on Durable Assets; The Final Word; 4: Focus on Small Wins; Big Hits, Big Flops, and Their Performance Implications; Small Wins: An Alternative Route to Superior Performance?; YKK's Small Wins Lead to Market Dominance ; The Lincoln Electric Company's Small-Wins-Based Strategy Illinois Tool Works: Scoring Big with Numerous Small Wins; The Four Cornerstones of ITW's Strategy; The Final Word; 5: Integrate to Innovate; The Importance of Innovation; Innovation Strategies; Innovation through Integration; SAS Institute: The Consummate ""Integrator""; Fanuc: Industry Dominance through Integration and Innovation; Integration of External Knowledge at Fanuc; Internal Integration at Fanuc; The Final Word; 6: Advance (Strategically and Competitively) During a Crisis; Crises as Common Events; Top Managers and Crises ; The Tylenol Crisis and Johnson & Johnson Toyota Fumbles; Singapore Airlines (SIA): Proactive Management of Crises; SIA's Response to the East Asian Economic Crisis; The SQ 006 Crash in Taiwan and SIA's Response; The Final Word; 7: Beware of the Incremental (Strategic Change)!; Importance of Strategic Change and Its Performance Implications; Mixed Performance Outcomes of Strategic Changes at Starbucks and McDonald's; Strategic Changes and Their Performance Implications at Tupperware; Tupperware's Social Impact and Performance; The Beginnings; The Growth Years; Innovative Business Model ; Strategic Changes Putting the Strategic Changes and Their Performance Impacts in Perspective; The Final Word; 8: Strategic Principles in a Nutshell; Strategic Principles and Their Relevance; Simple yet Powerful; Applicability Beyond Large Companies; Applicability Across Geographies; Some Common Themes (and Factors) Across the Examples; CEOs and Top Managers Set the Correct Example; A Clearly Conceived Strategy That Often Defies Conventional Wisdom; Long View; Managing Risks; Careful Attention to Execution or Implementation Issues and Management of People Resources; In Conclusion; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The easy-to-adopt strategies that make companies from Coca-Cola to Starbucks perennial over-performers and that you can use, too High Performance Companies complements the frameworks for strategy making detailed in many existing books, proposing a number of rules of thumb (or principles) that companies can consider when making their day-to-day decisions which, in turn, will determine their actual strategies. These principles traverse a wide range of scenarios, such as strategic changes implemented by companies, resource allocation decisions-especially towards building durable a
• Titolo autorizzato: High performance companies
• ISBN: 0-470-83013-1; 1-119-19928-X; 1-280-76740-5; 9786613678171; 0-470-83012-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910139585703321
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