
Creating Competitive Advantage
How to be Strategically Ahead in Changing Markets
Kevin Uphill(Author)
Kogan Page Ltd (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 3. February 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
248 pages
978-0-7494-7439-3 (ISBN)
Description
The economic environment is global, highly sophisticated and in continuous fast flux. The challenge for business leaders, executives and strategists is to read and respond agilely to trends and underlying movements to stay ahead of dynamic market flow and change. Creating Competitive Advantage sets out a compelling case for the business benefits of better market anticipation, and provides tools and approaches to develop a forward-looking strategy that will deliver these. Through theory, case studies and practical insights, the book demonstrates how better analysis of market trends and scanning of the environment combined with business model change and confident leadership can gain and maintain competitive advantage.
With the right approach, game-changing strategy can be highly accessible for all business strategists and owners, rather than as today, the almost exclusive reserve of a few brave and instinctive entrepreneurs. With tools, assessments and models to get more value out of the business data you already have and take your strategy to the next level through analytically-supported intuition, Creating Competitive Advantage gives business leaders and strategists the toolkit to move from a responsive mindset to a leading one.
Online supporting resources for this book include downloadable figures and tables from the book.
With the right approach, game-changing strategy can be highly accessible for all business strategists and owners, rather than as today, the almost exclusive reserve of a few brave and instinctive entrepreneurs. With tools, assessments and models to get more value out of the business data you already have and take your strategy to the next level through analytically-supported intuition, Creating Competitive Advantage gives business leaders and strategists the toolkit to move from a responsive mindset to a leading one.
Online supporting resources for this book include downloadable figures and tables from the book.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
395 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7494-7439-3 (9780749474393)
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Person
Kevin Uphill has enjoyed a long and successful career as an entrepreneur, strategist and mergers and acquisitions advisor. He is founder and Chairman of Avondale Group (www.avondale.co.uk), a leading International Mergers & Acquisitions boutique founded in 1991. In addition to its commercial business sales services, the practice has a growing strategy and mentoring division. Kevin is a respected speaker and thought leader on business strategy and journeys, mergers and acquisitions. He is the author of How to Buy and Sell a business for Wealth (Falconbury, 2001) and of 'Navigating The Rivers of Cash' (Falconbury, 2015).
Content
Chapter - 1: Creating Competitive Advantage
Chapter - 2: Being Ahead
Chapter - 3: Leadership Not Management
Chapter - 4: The Line of Probability
Chapter - 5: Trends, Systems and Big Data
Chapter - 6: Strategic Planning and Scenarios
Chapter - 7: Elementary Decisions
Chapter - 8: Changing the Game
Chapter - 9: Adaptive Organisations
Chapter - 10: Business By Design
Chapter - 11: Decisive Action
Chapter - 12: The Advantage Sum
Chapter - 2: Being Ahead
Chapter - 3: Leadership Not Management
Chapter - 4: The Line of Probability
Chapter - 5: Trends, Systems and Big Data
Chapter - 6: Strategic Planning and Scenarios
Chapter - 7: Elementary Decisions
Chapter - 8: Changing the Game
Chapter - 9: Adaptive Organisations
Chapter - 10: Business By Design
Chapter - 11: Decisive Action
Chapter - 12: The Advantage Sum