SKOLKOVO School of Management

Leinwand, Paul,

The essential advantage : how to win with a capabilities-driven strategy / Paul Leinwand, Cesare Mainardi. - xii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The essence of advantage -- The coherence premium -- The capabilities-driven strategy -- The way to play -- The capabilities system -- Product and service fit -- Unlocking growth -- Mergers and acquisitions -- Cut costs and grow stronger -- The essential advantage road map -- Organizing for coherence -- The capable leader.

"Conventional wisdom on strategy is no longer a reliable guide. In Essential Advantage, Booz & Company's Cesare Mainardi and Paul Leinwand maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with coherence: a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Achieving this clarity takes a sharpness of focus that only exceptional companies have mastered. This book helps you identify your firm's blend of strategic direction and distinctive capabilities that give it the "right to win" in its chosen markets. Based on extensive research and filled with company examples--including Amazon.com, Johnson & Johnson, Tata Sons, and Procter & Gamble--Essential Advantage helps you construct a coherent company in which the pieces reinforce each other instead of working at cross-purposes."--Publisher description.

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Strategic planning.
Management.
Organizational effectiveness.

HD30.28 / .L4493 2011

658.4/012