Strategy Moves: 14 Complete Attack and Defence Strategies for Competitive Advantage - Hardcover

Vasconcellos E Sa, Jorge A. De

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9780273701675: Strategy Moves: 14 Complete Attack and Defence Strategies for Competitive Advantage

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ISBN 10: 0273701673 ISBN 13: 9780273701675

Publisher: Ft Pr, 2005

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This book will become the bible of a bible for the field of business strategy for many years to come.An invaluable playbook of strategic moves for managers, marketers and entrepreneurs, covering all 14 known attacking and defending strategies, and backed up by over three hundred international examples.

Backed up by copious examples from industry: more than 300 examples in the text, and a unique chapter case study on how Japanese auto firms conquered the US market using a combination of various moves covered in the book.
Almost twenty years after the appearance of Al Ries's groundbreaking Marketing Warfare, the time is right to bring the practitioners up to date with the thinking and show them how to use it.
A Complete manual. The book is built around the 14 strategic moves. It shows you what move to use, how to use it, and when. Like a book of chess moves for business.
Positioning and Marketing Warfare are two of the most successful books ever published in marketing/business strategy, and Strategy Plays clearly falls in that space.
Will prominently feature endorsements from Kotler and from Ries.

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From the Back Cover:

"This book will be a winner as Vasconcellos offers the most comprehensive treatment and assessment of attack and defense business strategies. It is guaranteed to stimulate your strategic and tactical imagination."

Philip Kotler

"This book is great. There's no better analogy for marketing than warfare...a superb job in outlining the many strategic choices involved in fighting an effective marketing war."

Al Ries (author of Positioning and Marketing Warfare)

In business as in war, you can be small but win. You can be large and lose. Nothing is written except the rules of success and failure.

Following these rules is the key to many a victory. Knowing how to interpret the business landscape and move strategically. Whether to attack or defend. When to enter the field and when to withdraw. How to isolate, outflank or encircle your opponents. Explaining these rules and how to use them is the purpose of one book, Strategy Moves.

Strategy Moves equips you with the complete set of strategic options at you disposal. Fourteen essential moves; eight defense and six attack, to help you start beating your opponents and making real progress towards victory in the market. From successful defense at the battle of Rorke�s Drift to the successful Japanese assault on global car markets, the lessons of conflict and competition are drawn together to help you to pick the right strategic battles, make the right strategic moves and coordinate them decisively in the market.

With Strategy Moves, you will never be short of a winning business strategy.

About the Author:

Jorge Vasconcellos e S� has a masters degree from Claremont Graduate School where he studied with Peter F. Drucker and a PhD from Columbia University, in New York.

He is presently a tenured Professor with the Jean Monnet Chair, the highest European academic award. He has written around 40 academic articles and is the successful author of 13 books. He was eight times the front cover of various European business magazines.

He has worked or still works as a private consultant, non executive director and teacher in executive programmes, for multinational companies such as Shell, Unisys, IBM, Pricewaterhouse, KPMG, Glaxo, B.P., Metro, Scottish and Newcastle, Sara Lee, etc. He has thaught at Universities such as Oxford, London Business School, IESE, Glasgow Business School and Essec.

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