Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't
by Jim Collins
Data-driven study identifying principles distinguishing great companies from merely good ones, introducing Level 5 leadership and flywheel concepts.
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PayPal co-founder's contrarian thinking on building monopolies, creating new markets, and avoiding competition through technological innovation.
strategyzer.com
Strategyzer provides tools and training for designing, testing, and scaling business models, featuring the Business Model Canvas and Value Proposition Canvas along with templates, case studies, and practical guides.
hbr.org
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Harvard Business Review - Strategy
Harvard Business Review's strategy topic hub, collecting articles by practitioners and academics on competitive strategy, positioning, corporate strategy and execution. Readers can follow current management thinking and case examples to sharpen how they frame and evaluate strategic choices.
Business Strategy
In this course you will learn how organizations create, capture, and maintain value. In doing so, you’ll develop an understanding of how and why this process is fundamental for sustainable competitive advantage. You will be able to better understand value creation, and capture and learn the tools to analyze both competition and cooperation from a variety of perspectives, including the industry-level (e.g., five forces analysis) and the firm-level (e.g., business models and strategic positioning). You will be able to: - Understand how managers coordinate different functional areas, resources, and systems inside a company and align them with the external environment to enhance overall performance - Recognize strategic management tools and frameworks and apply them to real business contexts - Process diverse business and industry information to diagnose strategic issues, evaluate strategic alternatives, and formulate a coherent and actionable strategic plan This course is part of Gies College of Business’ suite of online programs, including the iMBA and iMSM. Learn more about admission into these programs and explore how your Coursera work can be leveraged if accepted into a degree program at https://degrees.giesbusiness.illinois.edu/idegrees/.