Год выпуска: 2004 Автор: Chris Zook Издательство: Harvard Business School Press Страниц: 240 ISBN: 978-1-57851-951-4, 1-57851-951-9
Описание
All companies must grow to survive-but only one in five growth strategies succeeds. In Profit from the Core , strategy expert Chris Zook revealed how to grow profitably by focusing on and achieving full potential in the core business. But what happens when your core business provides insufficient new growth, or even hits the wall? In Beyond the Core , Zook outlines an expansion strategy based on putting together combinations of adjacency moves into areas away from, but related to, the core business, such as new product lines or new channels of distribution. These sequences of moves carry less risk than diversification, yet they can create enormous competitive advantage, because they stem directly from what the company already knows and does best. Based on extensive research on the growth patterns of thousands of companies worldwide, including CEO interviews with twenty-five top performers in adjacency growth, Beyond the Core (1) identifies the...
