TY - BOOK AU - Stern,Carl W. AU - Stalk,George ED - Boston Consulting Group TI - Perspectives on strategy: from the Boston Consulting Group SN - 0471248339 AV - HD30.28. P373 1998 U1 - 658.4012 PY - 1998///] CY - New York PB - J. Wiley KW - Boston Consulting Group KW - Strategic planning KW - Competition N1 - 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 ER -