... response. Stephen Denning can be contacted at: steve@stevedenning.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 competitive strategy competitive response Disruption theory disruptive innovation innovator’s dilemma Fixed Graphic In 1997, Clayton Christensen published his...

... Publishing Limited 2015 Competitive strategy Risk management Business model innovation Business model risk Customer needs Talent risk management Fixed graphic “We expect that in an increasingly volatile business environment, more and more industries will achieve significant...

... in their entrepreneurial phase. The network’s structure looks roughly like a constantly evolving solar system, with a guiding mechanism at its center, strategic initiatives as planets and sub-initiatives as moons or satellites. © Authors 2014 Competitive strategy Dual operating system Change agents Change...

... Denning can be contacted at: steve@stevedenning.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Competitive strategy Access economy Collaborative commons Disintermediation Self-policing community Sharing platforms In almost every market, business is being re-invented for the digital...

... at: brian.leavy@dcu.ie © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Competitive strategy Change leadership Dual operating system Innovation organization Strategy acceleration network Transient advantage Strategy: Virtually all strategy frameworks and tools in use today are based...

... Publishing Limited 2014 Social media Competitive strategy Social network design Social network platforms Social network value models Over more than a decade, social networking has been one of the highest profile areas of the Internet. Online sites for matching up parties in a wide...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Strategy development Transient advantage economy Business model innovation Resource allocation Competition Business disengagement Growth gap Innovation Organizational innovation Competitive strategy Almost a decade ago, in their landmark book...

... thinking Creative differentiation strategy SWOT analysis Business‐model canvas Competitive strategy Corporate strategy Business‐model innovation has become the “buzzphrase du jour.” But what does it mean and how is it different from strategy development? For a single‐business firm...

...Michael E. Raynor Purpose The standard explanation of Southwest's success is that it applied a low‐cost competitive strategy. This paper aims to address this issue. Design/methodology/approach The paper argues that Southwest was actually employing a disruptive strategy. Financial...

... Competitive strategy This approach to M&A is illustrated by a case study of the Berkshire Hathaway led acquisition of MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company (“MidAmerican”) in 1999. Few would likely consider a utility acquisition an example of strategic differentiation, so this deal presents a good test...

... with this approach is that it can sometimes be impossible to tell an incremental idea from a game‐changing idea in its early stages. Innovations with the power to disrupt typically have roots in existing products or services, so why pull them apart? Competitive strategy Innovation Successfully...

... games Role play Competitive strategy Leadership development In today's brutal markets, competition often quickly counters the best laid strategies, reducing or canceling the competitive advantage they were designed to produce. So what is a leader seeking superior returns, or even just survival...

...@gmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Competitive advantage Competitive strategy Brands Consumer behaviour Perception Product positioning A manufacturing executive presenting an analysis of his unit to colleagues at an in‐house seminar recently reported that a major...

... core market has been a costly and brutally competitive approach. Richard D'Aveni can be contacted at: Richard.daveni@dartmouth.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Service industries Value analysis Product differentiation Innovation Competitive strategy In our...

... Group Publishing Limited 2009 Recession Corporate strategy Innovation Competitive advantage Competitive strategy Faced with the worst economic climate since the 1930s, many companies reacted as bears do to winter – by hibernating. They shrank production capacity, downsized their labor...

.... And they are innovating new centers of executive influence and new governance structures that support multiple independent centers of activity, while still leveraging global scale. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Competitive strategy Globalization Emerging markets Learning organizations shared...

... Group Publishing Limited 2008 Market models Customer satisfaction Competitive strategy Team working Leadership Decision making Some of the world's most admired and successful business leaders believe that corporate culture, if correctly aligned with the external environment...

... of the co‐creation model can lead directly to “new engagement experiences of value to the customer.” John Sterling can be contacted at: jsterling@SmaockSterling.com © Company 2008 Non‐profit organizations Competitive strategy Theatre TimeLine Theatre was founded in April 1997...

... if they continued to adjust and augment a single value chain. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Competitive strategy Market segmentation Imagine taking a week's vacation in a tiny rural village, with only one store to supply your needs – from food and drink to clothes, hardware...

.... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Newspapers Competitive strategy Competitive advantage Innovation Disruptive competition is battering the newspaper industry. For instance, classified advertising was once an extraordinarily profitable, nearly exclusive, franchise...