Business Strategy Essentials You Always Wanted To Know (Second Edition): A Beginner’s Guide to Strategic Management, Porter’s Five Forces, Industry Life Cycles & Execution

Business Strategy concepts explained in a simplified wayFundamentals and important strategies includedPractical approach for application by business & working professionals Business Strategy Essentials You Always Wanted To Know prepares new managers and leaders with building blocks of strategy. You will learn how to define strategy and how strategy differs at different levels of an organization. Identifying your company’s current strategy and then being able to execute possible appropriate strategies is a key thing you will learn reading this book. You are given tools to assist you with some of the more challenging aspects of strategy such as environmental scanning, SWOT analysis, and strategy analysis. After you have learned how to execute some of these strategies, you will learn what organization structures fit best with specific strategies. These timeless elements of strategy will provide you the fundamentals with a 21st century point of view. Business Strategy Essentials You Always Wanted To Know gives you a look into the world of strategic management and some of its key elements. When you have completed reading this book you should be able to: Define strategic statements in an organization,understand its functions and elementsUnderstand industry life cycles and industry structuresUnderstand Porter’s Five Forces and its effect on strategic analysis and developmentUnderstand strategy formulation and strategy levelsUnderstand strategy execution do’s and don’tsRead case studies and identify salient points About the Series The Self-Learning Management series is designed to help students, new managers, career switchers and entrepreneurs learn essential management lessons. This series is designed to address every aspect of business from HR to Finance to Marketing to Operations, be it any industry. Read more