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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy for Healthcare: (featuring articles by Michael E. Porter and Thomas
Is your healthcare organization spending too much time on strategy—with too little to show for it? If you read (or listen to) nothing else on strategy, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones for healthcare professionals to help you catalyze your organization's strategy development and execution. This collection of articles includes 'What Is Strategy?' by Michael E. Porter; 'The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy,' by Michael E. Porter; 'Health Care Needs Real Competition,' by Leemore S. Dafny and Thomas H. Lee; 'Building Your Company's Vision,' by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras; 'Reinventing Your Business Model,' by Mark W. Johnson, Clayton M. Christensen, and Henning Kagermann; 'Will Disruptive Innovations Cure Health Care?' by Clayton M. Christensen, Richard Bohmer, and John Kenagy; 'Blue Ocean Strategy,' by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne; 'Rediscovering Market Segmentation,' by Daniel Yankelovich and David Meer; 'The Office of Strategy Management,' by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton; and 'The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care,' by Michael E. Porter and Thomas H. Lee.
Harvard Business Review, James C. Collins, Michael E. Porter, Renée Mauborgne, W. Chan Kim (Author), Linda Jones, Tim Fannon (Narrator)
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Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance
The essential complement to the pathbreaking Competitive Strategy, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Advantage explores the underpinnings of competitive advantage in the individual firm. Competitive Advantage introduces a whole new way of understanding what a firm does. Porter's groundbreaking concept of the value chain disaggregates a company into activities, or the discrete functions or processes that represent the elemental building blocks of competitive advantage. Now an essential part of international business thinking, Competitive Advantage takes strategy from broad vision to an internally consistent configuration of activities. Its powerful framework provides the tools to understand the drivers of cost and a company's relative cost position. Porter's value chain enables managers to isolate the underlying sources of buyer value that will command a premium price and the reasons why one product or service substitutes for another. He shows how competitive advantage lies not only in activities themselves, but in the way activities relate to each other, to supplier activities, and to customer activities. Competitive Advantage also provides for the first time the tools to strategically segment an industry and rigorously assess the competitive logic of diversification. That the phrases competitive advantage and sustainable competitive advantage have become commonplace is testimony to the power of Porter's ideas. Competitive Advantage has guided countless companies, business school students, and scholars in understanding the roots of competition. Porter's work captures the extraordinary complexity of competition in a way that makes strategy both concrete and actionable. Competitive Advantage is expertly narrated by Scott R. Pollak. Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. ©1985 Michael E. Porter (P)2019 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC.
Michael E. Porter (Author), Scott R. Pollak (Narrator)
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Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors
Now nearing its 60th printing in English and translated into 19 languages, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Strategy has transformed the theory, practice, and teaching of business strategy throughout the world. Electrifying in its simplicity - like all great breakthroughs - Porter’s analysis of industries captures the complexity of industry competition in five underlying forces. Porter introduces one of the most powerful competitive tools yet developed: his three generic strategies - lowest cost, differentiation, and focus - which bring structure to the task of strategic positioning. He reveals how competitive advantage can be defined in terms of relative cost and relative prices, thus linking it directly to profitability and presents a whole new perspective on how profit is created and divided. In the almost two decades since publication, Porter's framework for predicting competitor behavior has transformed the way in which companies look at their rivals and has given rise to the new discipline of competitor assessment. More than a million managers in both large and small companies, investment analysts, consultants, students, and scholars throughout the world have internalized Porter's ideas and applied them to assess industries, understand competitors, and choose competitive positions. The ideas in the audiobook address the underlying fundamentals of competition in a way that is independent of the specifics of the ways companies go about competing. Competitive Strategy has filled a void in management thinking. It provides an enduring foundation and grounding point on which all subsequent work can be built. By bringing a disciplined structure to the question of how firms achieve superior profitability, Porter’s rich frameworks and deep insights comprise a sophisticated view of competition unsurpassed in the last quarter-century. Competitive Strategy is skillfully narrated by Scott R. Pollak. Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. ©2008 Free Press (P)
Michael E. Porter (Author), Scott R. Pollak (Narrator)
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy (including featured article 'What Is Strategy?' by Michael E. Porter
Is your company spending too much time on strategy development-with too little to show for it? If you read (or listen to) nothing else on strategy, listen to these ten articles (featuring 'What Is Strategy?' by Michael E. Porter). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you catalyze your organization's strategy development and execution. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy will inspire you to: distinguish your company from rivals; clarify what your company will and won't do; craft a vision for an uncertain future; create blue oceans of uncontested market space; use the Balanced Scorecard to measure your strategy; capture your strategy in a memorable phrase; make priorities explicit; allocate resources early; and clarify decision rights for faster decision making. This collection of bestselling articles includes: featured article 'What Is Strategy?' by Michael E. Porter, 'The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy,' 'Building Your Company's Vision,' 'Reinventing Your Business Model,' 'Blue Ocean Strategy,' 'The Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution,' 'Using the Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management System,' 'Transforming Corner-Office Strategy into Frontline Action,' 'Turning Great Strategy into Great Performance,' and 'Who Has the D? How Clear Decision Roles Enhance Organizational Performance.'
Harvard Business Review, Michael E. Porter, Renée Mauborgne, W. Chan Kim (Author), Paul Mclain (Narrator)
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HBR's 10 Must Reads: The Essentials
An introduction to the most enduring ideas on management from Harvard Business Review Change is the one constant in business, and we must adapt or face obsolescence. Yet certain challenges never go away. These are the ten seminal articles by management's most influential experts, on topics of perennial concern to ambitious managers and leaders hungry for inspiration-and ready to run with big ideas to accelerate their own and their companies' success. Includes articles by: Michael Porter on creating competitive advantage and distinguishing your company from rivals; John Kotter on leading change through eight critical stages; Daniel Goleman on using emotional intelligence to maximize performance; Peter Drucker on managing your career by evaluating your own strengths and weaknesses; Clay Christensen on orchestrating innovation within established organizations; Tom Davenport on using analytics to determine how to keep your customers loyal; Robert Kaplan and David Norton on measuring your company's strategy with the Balanced Scorecard; Rosabeth Moss Kanter on avoiding common mistakes when pushing innovation forward; Ted Levitt on understanding who your customers are and what they really want; and C. K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel on identifying the unique, integrated systems that support your strategy.
Clayton M. Christensen, Daniel Goleman, Harvard Business Review, Michael E. Porter, Peter F. Drucker (Author), Brad Sanders, Susan Larkin (Narrator)
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The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy
Most people believe that our political system is a public institution with high-minded principles and impartial rules derived from the Constitution. In reality, it has become a private industry dominated by a textbook duopoly-the Democrats and the Republicans-and plagued and perverted by unhealthy competition between the players. Tragically, it has therefore become incapable of delivering solutions to America's key economic and social challenges. In fact, there's virtually no connection between our political leaders solving problems and getting reelected. In The Politics Industry, Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter take a radical new approach. They ingeniously apply the tools of business analysis-and Porter's distinctive Five Forces framework-to show how the political system functions just as every other competitive industry does, and how the duopoly has led to the devastating outcomes we see today. Using this competition lens, Gehl and Porter identify the most powerful lever for change-a strategy comprised of a clear set of choices in two key areas: how our elections work and how we make our laws. Their bracing assessment and practical recommendations cut through the endless debate about various proposed fixes, such as term limits and campaign finance reform. The result: true political innovation.
Katherine M. Gehl, Michael E. Porter (Author), Stephen R. Thorne (Narrator)
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on AI, Analytics, and the New Machine Age
Machine learning and data analytics are powering a wave of groundbreaking technologies. Is your company ready? We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you understand how these technologies work together, how to adopt them, and why your strategy can't ignore them. In this book you'll learn how: data science, driven by artificial intelligence and machine learning, is yielding unprecedented business insights; blockchain has the potential to restructure the economy; drones and driverless vehicles are becoming essential tools; 3-D printing is making new business models possible; augmented reality is transforming retail and manufacturing; smart speakers are redefining the rules of marketing; and humans and machines are working together to reach new levels of productivity.
H. James Wilson, Harvard Business Review, Michael E. Porter, Paul Daugherty, Paul R. Daugherty, Thomas H Davenport, Thomas H. Davenport (Author), Shawn Compton, Teri Schnaubelt (Narrator)
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