Showing posts with label Michael Porter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michael Porter. Show all posts

Monday, April 24, 2023

Today in Global Small Business: Success in This World Calls for a New Breed of Data

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

  • Success in this new world calls for a new breed of data-fuelled, human-led business, able to effortlessly reimagine growth, and endlessly re-engineer themselves to capitalize on it. We call these Future Ready [CPG] Businesses.
  • A note from Tom Peters on his retirement and his latest, but not last I suspect, book.
  • “Think higher, feel deeper.” Now that’s how you start a movement!  The gospel according to Gary Hamel.
  • Quote of the week: "In order to get to the next level of whatever you're doing, you must think and act in a wildly different way than you previously have been. You cannot get to the next phase of a project without a grander mind-set, more acceleration, and extra horsepower." – Grant Cardone, 
  • Be 2.0 – Jim Collins's Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0.
  • Why every organization needs an augmented reality strategy – Michael Porter and James Heppelmann

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Internationalizing in the High-Technology Market

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Recent research entitled, "Hybrid strategy works best when high-technology companies go global," by Professor of International Business Mika Gabrielsson from the University of Eastern Finland, Senior Researcher Tomi Seppälä from Aalto University, and Professor of Marketing Peter Gabrielsson from the University of Vaasa, debunks the theory that companies can successfully go international by adhering to a single competitive strategy.

Findings:
  • Study says hybrid strategy creates conditions for internationalizing companies to achieve best financial performance.
  • Study challenges theory that a company should try either differentiation or cost leadership when going international.
  • Conditions of the home markets of firms have received too little attention in globalization strategy work.
Sounds like Michael Porter, a Harvard Business School professor and consultant, is also being challenged on his theory that a company should adhere to a single competitive strategy, either differentiation or cost leadership, when going international.

Read more:  Hybrid Strategy Works Best When High-Tech Companies Go Global

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Where and How to Compete Globally

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An old research document (11 pages) by Michael Porter that is still relevant to our times. Porter is generally recognized as the father of the modern strategy field. He shares where and how to compete globally.

New Global Strategies for Competitive Advantage

Tip:
Alliances are a tempting solution to the dilemma of a firm seeking the home-base advantages of another nation without giving up its own.