LDRLB

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

The positioning school is most closely associated with its undisputed champion, Harvard professor Michael Porter. This school of strategy is promoted heavily by consultants and academics, who have been able to build lucrative careers creating literature on and promoting the practice of market analysis.

Positioning 68

Positioning Survey Strategy Porter 68

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

These two key functions — Marketing and Service — are regularly discussed as shaped by social era dynamics. While social media doesn't shift Porter's model , the social era surely does. Big had the dollars to buy the mass-market access to consumers back when mass media was the only way to reach an audience.

Porter 17

Porter Mass Marketing Supply Chain Retail 17

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 18, 2011

To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * I just finished a two-year project looking at Michael Porter’s [.].

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Porter Strategy Review Blog 75

Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Here they are: Daniel Pink – In 2015, London-based Thinkers 50 named him, alongside Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen, as one of the top 10 business thinkers in the world. Would you like to meet my team? Amy Cuddy – She is known around the world for her 2012 TED Talk, which is the second-most-viewed talk in TED’s history.

Porter 150

Porter Christensen Consultative Influence 150

Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

According the Harvard strategy expert, Michael Porter: "The essence of strategy is deciding what NOT to do.". If your organization doesn't discipline itself to do this - our free market - will. And, according to management guru Peter Drucker: “Half the leaders that I have met don’t need to learn what to do.

Porter 101

Porter Drucker Project Resources 101

LDRLB

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

The concept is simple, rather than define where in the market you want to be (Porter’s model), a corporation seeks a “Blue Ocean” or an uncontested market no one has pursued. There’s a lot out there written about strategy (we’re planning on upcoming series demystifying it).

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Blue Ocean Strategy Porter Fashion Objective 74

Mills Scofield

JUNE 3, 2014

The market has a way of taking care of that. Almost exactly two years ago, Michael Porter and Mark Kramer called for a new definition of capitalism — “ shared value ” — to unify this false choice. There are also some quiet, under the radar companies, like 6th generation family-held Menasha Corp.

Business Model 175

Business Model Venture Capitalist B2C Entrepreneur 175

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2020

Political innovation activists Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter outline reforms that could increase competition and accountability in American politics.

Politics 10

Politics Porter System Marketing 10

LDRLB

AUGUST 17, 2010

When reading Ruthless Focus , the parallels to two authors develop immediately: Collins and Porter. Likewise, the five strategies echo Porter’s competitive strategy model, where organizations select one of five market positions. The highlights of the book are the case studies.

Review 74

Review Books Collins Porter 74

LDRLB

MAY 4, 2012

The Strategy Book goes beyond simple planning models of picking a market position. The second half of the book offers a survey of strategy tools, starting with SWOT and including everything from Porter’s Five Forces to BCG’s growth share matrix.

Strategy 74

Strategy Books SWOT Porter 74

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

Well, if you're Michael Porter it isn't quite enough: I ran into him yesterday here at Davos and the first thing he said was something along the lines of, "You need more copies of HBR here." Kramer put it in their article , that "societal needs, not just economic needs, define markets.". Says Porter when Mahindra is done: "A.

Porter 15

Porter Licensing Article Finance 15

Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

President has thus far been at the helm during a Grand Supercycle market decline. The rampant speculation of the time spread beyond the financial class, such that porters and ladies' maids had enough money to buy their own carriages. EWI is the world's largest market forecasting firm. Prechter Jr.:

Banking 90

Banking eBook Porter Leadership 90

Joseph Lalonde

JULY 27, 2015

Admiral Porter – Try not to cause a total panic. He told Admiral Porter to let the nerds take over. Whether that’s market share, souls, or some other metric. There will be many times when you will lack any knowledge in an important subject matter. You may still be able to contribute. They had no clue how to fight.

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Cooper Leadership Porter Video 120

CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

It seems that they are adapting their work from Micheal Porters 5 forces. These are: Customer Segments – An organization serves one or several customer segments. Strategy : In this chapter they look at the business model environment: context, design drivers, and constraints.

Business Model 141

Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 8, 2011

Not just if we are a business owner, Brand, Marketing or Sales Manager, or someone else traditionally responsible for price, but for all of us as leaders, thinking about how people invest of themselves, their time, energy and more. I’m looking forward to reading it (my copy is on the way) and after I’ve read it I will share more.

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Price Porter Workshop Learning-by-Doing 185

Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

” (Sam Decker, Decker Marketing). ” (Gary Whitehair, High Performance Business). “Here’s what differentiates this book: it bridges concept and principles to execution.” “But the book doesn't stop there!

CTO 101

CTO Books Balanced Scorecard Norton 101

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

In most companies, marketers are in charge of assessing the competition. Because of this, close to 60 percent of all competitive intelligence professionals report to marketing. Yet the majority of marketers fail to use their competition analysts strategically, instead using them to gather more “recon” data.

Marketing 8

Marketing Competitive Intelligence Porter How To 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Daniel Korschun is an Associate Professor of Marketing at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business. Korschun’s academic research appears in the Journal of Marketing, MIT Sloan Management Review, Academy of Management Review, Journal of the Academy of… Read More Daniel Korschun: An interview by Bob Morris.

Review 70

Review Marketing Innovation Company 70

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

But as Michael Porter and I write in our recent Perspective article in The New England Journal of Medicine , “ Why Strategy Matters Now ,” providers are unlikely to succeed if they cannot focus on this goal. Engaging in improvement-focused – rather than marketing-focused – transparency is hard work.

Health Care 8

Health Care Marketing Strategy Porter 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Blame the market, other departments or poor IT-systems for the fact that you are not taking brave, independent action. He has shared the stage with prominent strategists like Michael Porter and reached out to 21,000+ leaders in 30+ countries. Take lots of time to promote yourself and actively campaign for a better job.

Strategy 58

Strategy Strategic Planning Porter Simon 58

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Michael Porter, the world's leading authority on competition and strategy, is sometimes the victim of his own success. My premise in writing Understanding Michael Porter was very simply that clear strategic thinking is essential for any manager in any setting, and Porter's work lays out the basic principles and frameworks you need to master.

Porter 15

Porter Strategy Competitive Advantage P&L 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I just finished a two-year project looking at Michael Porter's most important insights for managers. Understanding Porter's strategy fundamentals will help you to avoid them. Confusing marketing with strategy. But as important as it is to have insight into customers' needs, don't confuse marketing with strategy.

Strategy 15

Strategy Porter ROIC Competitive Advantage 15

First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 24, 2016

David Evans and Dick Schmalensee are among the early pioneers in the research of “multi-sided markets” and the economic principles that inform the unique design of business models, pricing and incentive structures, and product design for these platform-based businesses. David is an economist, business adviser, and entrepreneur.

Incentives 70

Incentives Business Model Entrepreneur Price 70

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's article in January's HBR tries to advance our world's shared values by arguing that doing right is the best long-term business strategy. But first, let's praise Porter and Kramer. Their article puts Porter's reputational weight behind an idea that in itself has, well, shared value.

Porter 15

Porter Morale Supply Chain Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

It was this received opinion Michael Porter was questioning when, in 1979, he mapped out four additional competitive forces in “ How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy.” In “ What Is Strategy ,” Porter argues against a bevy of alternate views, both old and then new, that were circulating in the intervening years.

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Blue Ocean Strategy Luehrman 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 19, 2011

He also serves as chair of the firm’s Knowledge and Marketing Advisory Council. He advises organizations on the topic of strategy, growth, and capability building, with a focus on the consumer product and retail sectors. Paul has coauthored a number [.].

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Retail Marketing Strategy Company 75

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

Michael Porter’s 1979 HBR article on the five forces that shape strategy offered companies a framework for thinking through those positions, and his 1996 article “What Is Strategy? ” In this case, though, Michael Porter and his peers are hardly defunct.

Strategy 11

Strategy Competitive Advantage Porter Automotive 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Packaged food companies like Kraft and Pepsi use their scale to penetrate markets quickly and efficiently. Consider Porter's value chain. If you frequent the HBR Blogs, you may have noticed that a couple of weeks ago I was fairly vocal about Nilofer Merchant 's dismissal of Porter's value chain.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Safe Harbor Efficiency 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

In every aspect of business, we are operating with mental models that have grown outdated or obsolete, from strategy to marketing to organization to leadership. In strategy, an entire generation grew up with Michael Porter’s five forces. The Porter model of strategy isn’t obsolete. Unlearning is not about forgetting.

Porter 8

Porter Competitive Advantage Senge Network Economy 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2015

The painful truth is: attention itself isn’t worth as much as today’s marketers, boardrooms, and beancounters think. Institutions and leaders, obedient students of modern marketing, obsessively ask, “How do we get people to be loyal to us?” And modern marketing makes zombies. It’s not.

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Marketing Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Michael Porter is credited with (or more often accused of) creating TPS in 1980 —positing that a firm should think about positioning itself in its industry in a way that enables it to achieve competitive advantage. Anyone taking the time to delve into the literature of strategy quickly realizes that there are two fiercely opposed camps.

RBV 8

RBV Resources Positioning Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

Twitter, for example, sells access to a range of real-time APIs to marketing platforms, but the price point often exceeds researchers’ budgets. Porter and Mark R. Further, the greater the awareness of your type of technology in the community, the larger the market is likely to actually be.

Porter 10

Porter Competitive Advantage Core Competence Crisis 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2015

Back in the early 1960s, the great Boston Consulting Group founder and strategy theorist Bruce Henderson asserted that there was only one way to successfully compete: gain a relative market share advantage over all competitors so as to have lower costs than all of them. But two-sided markets have actually been with us for centuries.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Porter Henderson Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

Amid the rubble of the dot-com bust in 2001, Michael Porter weighed in on the question of how to gauge which businesses “active on the internet,” as he put it, were real and which were destined to go the way of Pets.com when their venture funding dried up. It’s still worth a look now.

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Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

My current favorite example comes from Net-a-Porter reaching out to my wife. Simply calling this a clever promotion or thoughtful UX or engagement marketing misses the (touch)point. Of course, it’s part of Net-a-Porter’s larger UX but, in the moment, what’s perceived and experienced is a value-added touchpoint.

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Porter Definition Environment Course 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Michael Porter's trilogy of Competitive Strategy , Competitive Advantage , and The Competitive Advantage of Nations sits on every serious strategist's shelf. While it's next to impossible to innovate faster than the market, it is possible to innovate better that the market. For a retailer, it might be logistical acumen.

Company 15

Company Competitive Advantage Prahalad Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Michael Porter's trilogy of Competitive Strategy , Competitive Advantage , and The Competitive Advantage of Nations sits on every serious strategist's shelf. While it's next to impossible to innovate faster than the market, it is possible to innovate better that the market. For a retailer, it might be logistical acumen.

Company 15

Company Competitive Advantage Prahalad Hamel 15