Total Global Strategy: Managing for Worldwide Competitive Advantage

How can managers cope with the forces of globalization? Which companies need a global strategy? What is a successful global strategy? How can business organizations implement worldwide initiatives? These are some of the most challenging questions facing multinational companies today. Executives need to recognize that the traditional multinational approach--in which country subsidiaries design, produce, and market products tailored to local needs--is being made obsolete by falling trade barriers, costly and quickly changing technology, and the growing similarity of international customer needs. Companies now need a total global strategy that combines a successful core strategy in the home market with effective international adaptation and global integration. George Yip's Total Global Strategy is the definitive work on how companies can manage for worldwide competitive advantage. This work is based on a five-year research program in which Dr. Yip interviewed over fifty senior executives

This book argues that most multinational companies lack an adequate global strategy. The material provides a systematic framework for evaluating which elements of strategy to globalize and by how much, and a practical guide on how to implement a globalization strategy in order to achieve a successful, total global strategy.