... fall many a young product or new enterprise. States there may be a compelling reason for pragmatists to purchase products. Sums up that the gap can be bridged by the setting up of a price and distribution channel — but that these must be set up right. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Competitive...

... not in products or services but in resources and intangible capabilities which produce them. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Competitive strategy Mergers and acquisitions Strategy ...

... business with little respite. Flags up that in any case the Internet has changed the competitive field — though the dot.com industry will see many failures — but inevitably there will be some winners. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Competitive strategy Growth Business strategy ...

...; and across time. Makes the point that not only small start‐up companies can dart into new market spaces — large companies can also create and re‐create markets. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Marketing concept Marketing environment Competitive strategy ...

... learning organizations to be successful, ethically. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Competitive strategy Globalization Corporate strategy ...

... models of competition. Competitive strategy Business development Corporate planning © MCB UP Limited 2000 ...

... bigger opponents by ‘having a go’. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Internet Competitive strategy Strategy ...

... and markets have already been taken. Concludes that resource strategy is not going to take people by storm as many firms are set on maintaining a balance between short‐term cost containment and long‐term investment in human capital. Business strategy Competitive strategy Cost control © MCB UP...

...T Kippenberger Suggests one general framework that centres on the choices that customers make between competing offerings as firms compete for customers, the options for competitive strategy concern the ways in which firms can make their offerings different in the eyes of customers. Uses Figures...

...T Kippenberger Alludes to the concept of the value chain — which was seen as a powerful tool enabling strategists to diagnose and enhance competitive strategy (first put forward in Porter's 1980 book ‘Competitive Strategy’). Describes the value system as having at least three additional value...

... accommodation at the standard of two‐star hotels for one‐star price! Catalogues that Formule 1 has now built over 300 hotels in Europe, Africa, Australia with Asia next for development — a success story for others to envy, copy, or ignore at their peril. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Growth Competitive...

... and general management is more than the stewardship of individual functions — core is strategy. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Competitive strategy Growth Strategic management ...