Business Strategy Essentials You Always Wanted To Know (Second Edition)

<h4><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A Beginner's Guide to Strategic Management Porter's Five Forces Industry Life Cycles & Execution. A guide to identifying a company's current strategy and executing new transformative strategies that will boost the overall business.</strong></h4><p></p><ul><li><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Business Strategy concepts explained in a simplified way</strong></li><li><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Fundamentals and important strategies included</strong></li><li><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Practical approach for application by businesses & working professionals</strong></li></ul><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Business Strategy Essentials You Always Wanted To Know</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> prepares new managers and leaders with the building blocks of strategy. You will learn how to identify your company's current strategy and how strategy differs at different levels of an organization. You are given tools to assist you with some of the more challenging aspects of strategy such as</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> environmental scanning SWOT analysis </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>and</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> strategy analysis. </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>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 business strategy will provide you the fundamentals with a 21st-century point of view.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Business Strategy Essentials You Always Wanted To Know </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>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:</span></p><ul><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Define strategic statements in an organization understand its functions and elements</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Understand industry life cycles and industry structures</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Understand Porter's Five Forces and its effect on strategic analysis and development</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Understand strategy formulation and strategy levels</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Understand strategy execution do's and don'ts</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Read case studies and identify salient points</span></li></ul><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>About the Series</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Self-Learning Management series is designed to help students new managers career switchers and entrepreneurs learn essential management lessons. This series has management books finance and accounting books and strategy and marketing books designed to address every aspect of business from HR t