Perspectives on strategy : from the Boston Consulting Group /
edited by Carl W. Stern and George Stalk, Jr.
- xv, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes index.
Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Strategic and Natural Competition -- The Experience Curve Reviewed: History -- The Experience Curve Reviewed: Why Does It Work? -- The Experience Curve Reviewed: Price Stability -- The Pricing Paradox -- The Market-Share Paradox -- More Debt or None? -- The Rule of Three and Four -- The Product Portfolio -- The Real Objectives -- Life Cycle of the Industry Leader -- The Evils of Average Costing -- Specialization or the Full Product Line -- Stalemate: The Problem -- Strategy in the 1980s -- Revolution on the Factory Floor -- Time - The Next Source of Competitive Advantage -- Competing on Capabilities: The New Rules of Corporate Strategy -- Reengineering Bumps into Strategy -- Strategy and the New Economics of Information -- Segmentation and Strategy -- Strategic Sectors -- Specialization -- Specialization: Cost Reduction or Price Realization -- Segment-of-One Marketing -- Discovering Your Customer -- The New Vertical Integration -- Total Brand Management -- From the Insight Out -- Capitalizing on Anomalies -- Breaking Compromises -- The Time Paradigm -- Make Decisions Like a Fighter Pilot -- Time and Quality -- A New Product Every Week? Lessons from Magazine Publishing -- Rules of Response -- Time-Based Results -- Profit Center Ethics -- The Story of Joe (A Fable) -- Controlling for Growth in a Multidivision Business -- Making Performance Measurements Perform -- Economic Value Added -- Cash Traps -- The Star of the Portfolio -- Anatomy of the Cash Cow -- The Corporate Portfolio -- Renaissance of the Portfolio -- Premium Conglomerates -- Profit Centers and Decentralized Management -- Unleash Intuition -- Network Organizations -- The Myth of the Horizontal Organization -- The Activist Center -- Organizing the Global Company -- Why Change Is So Difficult -- Leadership -- How to Recognize the Need for Change -- Sustained Success -- Strategy and Learning -- Let Middle Managers Manage -- Jazz vs. Symphony -- Business Thinking -- Brinkmanship in Business -- Business Chess -- What Is "Japanese" About the Kaisha? -- Probing -- Creative Analysis -- The Seduction of Reductionist Thinking -- Failure to Compete -- To Create an Energy Shortage -- Inflation and Investment Return -- Conflicting Tax Objectives -- Dumping -- Adversaries or Partners? -- The Promise of Disease Management -- Index.