Beating the Commodity Trap


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In this book, Richard D'Aveni provides a radical new framework for fighting commoditization. Drawing on an in-depth study of more than 30 industries, he provides a tool for diagnosing your competitive position and shows you how to strengthen it.




Beating the Commodity Trap


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The Commodity Trap


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The Business of Mining


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Key Strategy Tools


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Key Strategy Tools empowers managers with 88 strategic tools to help build sustainable competitive advantage and ensure long-term success for your business. Within the structure of a straight forward strategy process, the Strategy Pyramid, the book gives you classic strategy models such as Porter's Five Forces or Kim and Mauborgnes Blue Ocean Strategy, as well as broader strategic techniques like rating your competitive position or making strategic investment decisions. This edition introduces you to recent leading strategic thinking such as Markidess Fast Second, McGraths Discovery-driven Growth, Blank and Riess Lean Start-ups and Martins Integrative Thinking. The book describes each tool succinctly and guides you on how and when to apply them and when to be wary.




Architecture 3.0


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This book provides a definitive guide for the future direction of the practice and profession of architecture. In five parts, Cliff Moser provides you with all the tools and know-how to implement changes that will serve you and your practice in the short, medium and long term. Written at a crucial time for the industry, this is essential reading for every architect.




Strategic Market Management


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How to Manage Market For Sustainable Profit and Growth This concise book is an attempt to answer this question by urging the business professionals to see and carry out the entire business from the perspective of customers. The book provides step by step directions to business professionals how to find out the unmet or under-met jobs of customers; how to choose the market of interest and specific groups of customers for doing business with; how to create and deliver winning customer value proposition for these customers through innovation and suitable business models; how to navigate the business through product development, branding, sales, and distribution, under different kinds of market complexities including commoditization and globalization of markets, and provide seamless experience to the customers.. The book ends with recommending ways to manage customer loyalty and profitability, and steering the firm to the path of sustained profitable growth.