Michael Porter Knihy

Z předmluvy autora: Tato kniha, která představuje milník na intelektuální cestě, po níž kráčím většinu svého profesionálního života, vyvěrá z mých výzkumů a z mé výuky ekonomie průmyslových organizací a konkurenční strategie. Konkurenční strategie, oblast, která je v popředí zájmu řídících pracovníků, je mimořádně závislá na citlivém chápání odvětví národního hospodářství a konkurentů. Nicméně ve sféře strategie jen stěží najdeme analytickou techniku, která by nám umožnila toto chápání, a ty, jež existují, postrádají dosud potřebnou šíři a komplexnost. Naopak; jelikož ekonomové se dlouho zabývali studiem struktury odvětví, avšak většinou z pohledu veřejné politiky, ekonomický výzkum se nezaměřil na problémy řídících pracovníků v podnikání.

This collection of Harvard Business Review articles provides managers with the best thinking available on how to make critical, long-term decisions that determine business success. It draws from three decades of thinking and examines the competitive forces in industries and the ways firms can create and sustain competitive advantage.

This book compiles five years of valuable management insights, offering practical guidance for leaders and aspiring managers. It distills essential lessons and strategies that can enhance decision-making and team dynamics, making it a comprehensive resource for anyone looking to improve their management skills. The focus is on real-world applications, ensuring that readers can effectively implement these insights in their professional lives.

Our political system has become a thriving business, yet solutions to significant problems seem elusive. The political-industrial complex is characterized by rampant lobbying, gerrymandering, and skyrocketing election spending. The Democratic and Republican parties fiercely compete for power while maintaining a duopoly that dominates the industry. Unfortunately, this system, intended for citizens, has become dysfunctional and unable to address key economic and social challenges. Reformers often propose ideas like term limits or campaign finance reforms, but few are seriously advanced or enacted. In this work, political innovation activist Katherine Gehl and business strategist Michael Porter adopt a novel approach by applying business analysis tools, particularly Porter's Five Forces framework, to the political landscape. They argue that the political system can be transformed, akin to other industries, by implementing a new strategy focused on four critical areas: the election process, legislative mechanisms, the influence of money, and fostering competition. The authors emphasize practical solutions that can yield significant impact in a short timeframe. This nonpartisan guide aims to enlighten citizens about the dynamics and challenges of the American political system while offering actionable strategies for meaningful reform that benefits everyone.

The Competitive Advantage of Nations is one of the most influential business and management books of all time. Michael Porter's research identified the fundamental determinants of national competitive advantage in an industry and how they work together to give international advantage. The findings are rich in implications for firms and governments and set the agenda for discussions of global competition. The book was an extraordinary achievement and had a profound effect upon management, policy-makers and academics worldwide. The core ideas of the book remain very relevant today and this new edition includes the original text in full with a new introduction by the author, which reviews the key themes and issues of the book in the light of subsequent developments. This book represents one of the very few must buys in business and management.

For the past fifteen years, Michael Porter's work has defined our fundamental understanding of competition and competitive strategy. Presented here for the first time as a collective whole are a dozen articles -- two entirely new pieces together with ten of Porter's articles from the Harvard Business Review, as well as an introduction from Porter, his first statement on how the parts of his work fit together.To read through this collection is to experience Porter at work: we see firsthand as his important theories take shape, deepen, and evolve over time. Porter addresses the important issues of competition, from company strategy to the relationship between competition and environmental regulation to the counterintuitive role of geography in the global economy.At once eloquent and convincing, these essays help us to examine and understand the essence of competition. "On Competition offers the intellectual foundations for company and country strategies for the years ahead.

An analysis of why some nations succeed and some fail in international competition. In Porter's view, a set of forces is at work which may include government policy, management practice, and macroeconomic conditions, but these do not wholly account for the international preeminence of a firm

The focus of this book is how developing nations can learn to compete successfully in the global economy by applying the principles of competitive analysis. Seven key patterns of underperformance are identified and principles and practices are offered for overcoming them.

Introduces a tool that may be used to diagnose and enhance competitive advantage: the value chain. Value-chain analysis allows the manager to separate the underlying activities a firm performs in designing, producing, marketing, and distributing its product or service.