Certain enterprises are building their competitive strategies around data-driven insights that in turn generate impressive business results. This book puts forward an argument that the frontier for using data to make decisions has shifted. It uses analytics which is a sophisticated quantitative and statistical analysis and predictive modeling.
Aims to provide academics and students with a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the phenomenon of innovation. This book looks at the creation of innovations, provides an account of the systematic setting influencing innovation, and explores the diversity in the working of innovation over time and across different sectors of the economy.
Competition Policy in the European Union provides a comprehensive introduction to the European Union's policies on restrictive practices, mergers monopolies and state aid. The authors offer a wide ranging analysis of the evolution, operation and regulation of one of the EU's most important policies in a clear and accessible format.
Where economic activity will locate is one of the most important questions in economics. 'Global' competitiveness often depends on highly concentrated 'local' knowledge, capabilities and common tacit codes of behaviour which can be found in a geographical concentration (cluster) of firms.
Develops an integrated approach of competition policy analysis. Based on the assumption that the deterrence of anticompetitive behaviour is the fundamental aim of competition policy rules and their enforcement, this work identifies three pivotal levels of such an integrated approach: a fundamental level, a strategic level and an operational level.
Offers an approach to help executives in traditional companies with premium brands think through the options for responding to their low cost rivals and select the most appropriate strategy to win in their chosen markets. This book provides examples of how different companies in different industries have responded to low cost competitors.
This guide shows how companies living on the "fault line" of rapid, disruptive technological change can be managed successfully. It explores the changes in "management truths", explains why 20th-century business models must be replaced and suggests how old companies can compete with new.
Addresses the phenomenon of mergers that may result in non-coordinated effects in oligopolistic markets. This book examines the argument that the European Community Merger Regulation did not capture gap cases, and considers the extent to which the revised substantive test in Regulation 139/2004 deals with the problem of non-collusive oligopolies.
Introduces the concept of Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs), one of the most productive engines of innovation. Using examples, this book shows how to leverage COINs to develop successful products in R&D, grow better customer relationships, establish better project management, and build higher-performing teams.
One of the defining goals of modern-day business is the search for competitive advantage. Intended for managers and graduate students, this work discusses why and how to harness the power of organizational architecture to unleash the competitive strengths embedded in each organization.
Losing contracts at rebid can have a major impact on a business: the loss of turnover and profit, of customers, skills, people and potentially reduced morale and confidence. This book helps incumbent contractors increase their chances of retaining an existing contract.
Outlines a straightforward method any company can use to analyze and improve their business model - the most important determinant of success in hyper-competitive business environment. This book offers step-by-step guidance in establishing continuous business model innovation as a fundamental corporate process.
Aims to develop an integrated approach to this topic, enabling students to analyze, rather than simply describe the business environment. Coverage includes the context in which companies operate and interpret the business environment, and the different components of the business environment.
Develops a coherent model for how modern executives can identify and accomplish no less than heroic goals in tomorrow's marketplace. This blueprint addresses how executives can ease the tension between competing and clearing a path toward leadership in the future.
Combines practical guidance and theoretical background for analysts using empirical techniques in competition and antitrust investigations. This book shows how to integrate empirical methods, economic theory, and evidence about industry in order to provide high-quality, robust empirical work that is tailored to the nature and quality of data.
Entrepreneurship is often considered only in the context of venture creation, small business issues, and the profiles and personalities of individual entrepreneurs. This title explains what constitutes entrepreneurial behaviour, how it is facilitated by organizational culture and why entrepreneurial corporate culture is fundamental.