Business Strategy Essentials You Always Wanted To Know

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.

• Business Strategy concepts explained in a simplified way
• Fundamentals and important strategies included
• Practical approach for application by businesses & working professionals

Business Strategy Essentials You Always Wanted To Know 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 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 business 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 elements
• Understand industry life cycles and industry structures
• Understand Porter's Five Forces and its effect on strategic analysis and development
• Understand strategy formulation and strategy levels
• Understand strategy execution do's and don'ts
• Read 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 has management books, finance and accounting books, and strategy and marketing books designed to address every aspect of business from HR t