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    The Competitive Company
    The Competitive Company
    The Competitive Company
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    The Competitive Company

    By Anders Hemre

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    Today, competition seems to be everywhere. At the same time, successful companies need to find effective ways to both collaborate and compete. In fact, a competitive company most likely is also one that collaborates well and is able to form productive partnerships.
    The Competitive Company provides a review of those organizational capabilities that primarily contribute to a company’s competitive capacity and inspires organizations to think about their future, build business strength, craft a superior strategy and find new or better ways to compete.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGeoffrey B. Dahl & Associates Inc.
    Release dateAug 7, 2016
    ISBN9781988375076
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      Book preview

      The Competitive Company - Anders Hemre

      THE COMPETITIVE COMPANY — Second Edition

      By Anders Hemre

      E-book Published by Geoffrey B. Dahl & Associates Inc.

      INTRODUCTION

      This book – the last in a series of three about modern management – wants to inspire organizations to think about their future, build business strength, craft a superior strategy and find new or better ways to compete.

      List Of Content

      PREFACE

      THE CASE FOR COMPETITION

      A Brave New World

      Around the Globe

      Technology on Trial

      Product Pioneers

      Good Business Behavior

      Globalizing Innovation

      The Hunt for Talent

      Competition and Regulation

      Learning to Compete

      The Competitive Advantage

      THE ART OF STRATEGY

      Making Strategy

      When strategic thinking fails

      Managerial Algorithmics

      Working with Knowledge

      Evolving the Enterprise

      Getting Good Ideas

      Mastering Technology Markets

      Through the Business Binoculars

      Innovation and Strategic Uncertainty

      Tossing the Business Coin

      The Option of Failure

      ON THE CUTTING EDGE

      The Agile Business

      Top Quality

      Working Out at the Business Gym

      Simulating Innovation

      Game On: How Future Leaders Learn

      Big Data

      From Org Charts to Org Smarts

      Leaky Business

      Tacit Trauma

      Preserving Expertise

      COMPETITIVE POSITIONING

      Competitive Intelligence

      The CI Professional’s Dilemma

      Productive Partnerships

      Extending the Enterprise

      Doing the Due

      Competing with Culture

      Human Resources

      People and Profit

      Slacking Off

      OUTPERFORMING THE REST

      The Capability Challenge

      Building Business Strength

      The Competitive Company

      COPYRIGHT – ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      PREFACE

      Survival of the fittest has been a condition of all species since the dawn of time. Throughout its history, mankind has competed for territory, resources, power and wealth. Ideas and cultures have clashed. Trade wars have been fought. Fortunes have been made and lost.

      Today, competition seems to be everywhere. At the same time, successful companies need to find effective ways to both collaborate and compete. In fact, a competitive company most likely is also one that collaborates well and is able to form productive partnerships.

      I have previously written about creativity and competence. This book – the last in a series of three about modern management – wants to inspire organizations to think about their future, build business strength, craft a superior strategy and find new or better ways to compete.

      I found writing this book the most challenging of the three. It has certainly taken the longest to complete. But it has also been the most interesting as being competitive is such a desirable characteristic of businesses, yet so difficult to acquire. After all, what difference does it make to be creative and competent if a company is not competitive?

      The behavior of competitive markets has been studied extensively. Much has been published by researchers and business thinkers.

      This book identifies those internal capabilities that primarily contribute to a company’s competitive capacity. I have previously published some of the features in newsletters, blog posts and magazine articles.

      To be fair, I have relied on my own experience as well as on the work of others. I’m fortunate to have had the opportunity to listen live to inspiring thought leaders like Peter Senge, Tom Stewart, Tom Davenport, Henry Chesbrough, Benjamin Gilad and the late Peter Drucker.

      During my corporate and consulting careers numerous colleagues and clients have shared their knowledge with me. It has been invaluable.

      Even though the topic of competitiveness is a most serious one, I have again included a few of my raillery cartoons. I hope they add perspective and perhaps also cause a chuckle or two.

      Enjoy the book.

      Gothenburg in November 2015

      Anders Hemre

      THE CASE FOR COMPETITION

      I can’t play if I can’t compete

      Jack Nicklaus

      World Golf Hall of Fame 1974

      Only governments, monopolies and charities can operate in non-competitive environments.

      For almost everyone else there is competition.

      Start-up businesses compete for investors. Ongoing businesses compete for markets and customers. Companies compete to hire and retain the best employees. Departments compete for mandates and projects compete for resources.

      Most companies try to get ahead simply by offering superior value through products and services that are cheaper or better than those of their competitors. In reality, the business environment is a dynamic mix of strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats, insights and blind spots, trade-offs, short term considerations and strategic intent.

      Being competitive is thus a dynamic and complex characteristic of firms, industries, regions and nations. Globalization, industry and trade regulations, taxes and policies, economic

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