Shaping Business Strategy 2: Assess industry and competitive forces

Help the management team assess the impact of industry and competitive changes on the organization

On-the-Job

Join an industry association and subscribe to industry publications. Analyze recent mergers and other strategic alliances in your industry Benchmark other companies in your industry. Identify the top 5-10 competitors and analyze their strengths and weaknesses

Education and Training

• Time Based Competition (Harvard Business School Video Series, 617-496-5900, $975)
• Strategic Management of Technology (MIT, 781-239-111, 1 day, $1250)
• Competitive Advantage Through Product Development, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain Strategy (Stanford University, 650-723-3341, 2 weeks)
• Global Strategies for Organizational Competitiveness (University of California, 619-534-6330)
• Creating Successful Alliances and Partnerships (University of Virginia, 804-924-3000, 1 week, $5600)
• Executive Program in Corporate Strategy (University of Chicago, 312-464-8732, 1 week, $3850)
• UCLA (310-825-2001)
     ---Gaining the E-Business Advantage: Competitive Strategies for the Digital Economy, 1 week, $4350
     ---Advanced Executive Program: Competing in a Global Environment, 2 weeks
• Competing Strategically in a Global Economy: A Survival Issue (University of Southern California, 213-740-8990, 3 days, $1295)
• Crreating Successful Alliances (University of Virginia, 804-924-3000, 1 week, $5600)
• The Wharton School (215-898-6993)
     ---Winning in the Next Millennium: Strategies for Driving Change, 3 days, $3750
     ---Strategic Thinking and Management for Competitive Advantage, 5 days, $5950
     ---Achieving Competitive Advantage, Video, $495
• Competing in the Information Age (INSEAD, 33-1-6074-5513, 1 week, FF 34.000)
• Conference Board (212-339-0345)
     ---Business and Financial Outlook Conference, 1 day, $650
     ---Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce, 2 days, $1050
• American Management Association (518-891-1500/800-262-9699)
     ---Competitive Analysis: Managing Business Intelligence to Outperform the Competition, 3 days, $1595
     ---Competitive Strategy: How to Develop Winning Marketing Plans and Breakthrough Strategies, 3 days, $1595
     ---How to Analyze the Competition, Self-Study, $117

Reading

• Strategic Alliances: Gaining a Competitive Advantage (The Conference Board, Report No. R-1168, 1996, 212-339-0345)
• Strategies for Maximum Global Competitiveness (The Conference Board, Report #R-1137, 1995, 212-339-0345)
• Competing in the Digital Age: How the Internet Will Transform Global Business (Economist Intelligence Unit/Booz Allen Hamilton, Report #N-439, 1999, 212-554-0600)
• Are You Ready to Compete? (Harvard Business Review Reprint Series #49523, 617-496-1449)
• Classics in Competitive Strategy (Harvard Business Review Reprint Series #49537, 617-496-1449)
• Global Issues in Competitive Strategy (Harvard Business Review Reprint Series #49538, 617-496-1449)
• Time Based Competition (Harvard Business Review Reprint Series #49534, 617-496-1449)
• Strategic Alliances (Harvard Business Review Reprint Series #49530, 617-496-1449)
• Achieving Competitive Advantage, and Achieving Competitive Advantage: Managing for Organizational Effectiveness (Wharton School, 215-898-1776, 2 Videos, $495 each)
• Chip Bell and Oren Harari, Beep Beep: Competing in the Age of the Road Runner (Warner Books, 1999)
• Adam M. Brandenburger and Barry J. Nilebuff, Co-opetition (Currency/Doubleday, 1996)
• Shona L. Brown and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, Competing on the Edge (Harvard Business School Press, 1998)
• Frances Cairncross, The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution Will Change Our Lives (Harvard Business School Press, 1997)
• Peter Cohan, Net Profit: How to Invest and Compete in the Real World of Internet Business (Jossey-Bass, 1999)
• George S. Day and David J. Reibstein, Wharton on Dynamic Competitive Strategy (Wiley Trade Publishing, 1997)
• Philip Evans and Thomas Wurstler, Blown to Bits: How the New Economics of Information Transforms Strategy (Harvard Business School Press, 2000)
• Bill Gates, Business @ the Speed of Thought (Warner Books, 1999)
• James Hangstefer, Creating and Sustaining Company Growth (Burton-Merrill Press, 1997)
• Jeremy Hope and Tony Hope, Competing in the Third Wave: The Ten Key Management Issues of the Information Age (Harvard Business School Press, 1997)
• F. Michael Hruby, Technoloeverage: Using the Power of Technology to Outperform the Competition (AMACOM, 1999)
• Harry K. Jackson, Jr. and Normand L. Frigon, Achieving the Competitive Edge: A Practical Guide to World Class Competition (John Wiley & Sons, 1998)
• Rama D. Jager and Rafael Ortiz, In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations with the Visionaries of the Digital World (McGraw-Hill, 1997)
• T. Jelassi, Competing through Information Technology (Insead Books: E-mail footnote@insead.fr)
• Johny K. Johanson, Relentless: The Japanese Way of Marketing (HarperBusiness, 1997)
• Larry Kahaner, Competitive Intelligence (Simon & Schuster, 1996)
• Jean Lipman-Blumen, The Connective Edge: Leading in an Independent World (Jossey-Bass, 1996)
• Arun Maira and Peter Scott-Morgan, The Accelerating Organization: Embracing the Human Face of Change (McGraw-Hill, 1997)
• Cynthia A. Montgomery and Michael E. Porter editors), Strategy: Seeking and Securing Competitive Advantage (Harvard Business School Press, 1991)
• James F. Moore, The Death of Competition (HarperBusiness, 1996)
• Michael Porter, On Competition (A collection of Harvard Business Review articles) (Harvard Business School, 1998)
• Michael Porter, Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors (Free Press, 1984)
• Michael Porter, Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance (Free Press, 1985)
• Michael Porter, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (Free Press, 1986)
• Gunter Rommel , et al., Simplicity Wins: How Germany's Mid-Sized Industrial Companies Succeed (Harvard Business School Press, 1995)
• David Siegel, Futurize Your Enterprise: Business Strategy in the Age of the E-Customer (John Wiley & Sons, 2000)
• Adrian J. Slywotsky, Value Migration (Harvard Business School Press, 1996)
• George Stalk, Jr. and Thomas M. Hout, Competing Against Time: How Time-Based Competition Is Shaping Global Markets (Macmillan, 1990)
• Michael L. Tushman and Charles A. O'Reilly, Winning through Innovation: A Practical Guide to Leading Organizational Change and Renewal (Harvard Business School Press, 1996)
• Kirk W.M. Tyson, Competition in the 21st Century (St. Lucie Press, 1996)
• Gregory H. Watson, Strategic Benchmarking (John Wiley, 1993)
• Peter Weill and Marianne Broadbent, Leveraging the New Infrastructure: How Market Leaders Capitalize on Information Technology (Harvard Business School Press, 1998)