Management and Michael Porter: a postmodern reading by: Toby Harfield It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. Hitchhikers’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams Introduction This article is located within a postmodern sensibility of exploration and play (Bauman 1992; Rorty 1989). I do not attempt to deconstruct (Linstead 1995; Cooper 1989; Derrida 1978)‚ but merely to explore the possiblilty of a radical new reading of Michael E Porter. Is Porter postmodern
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About The Author Michael E. Porter is the C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He has received the Wells Prize in Economics‚ the Adam Smith Award‚ three McKinsey Awards and numerous other honours. Introduction This is an interesting book on Business strategies and a must read for everyone who is or aspires to hold a role of decision making in any business. The book centres around the strategies that a company should implement while struggling
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Michael E. Porter’s five forces framework is used to evaluate the competitiveness‚ and hence the attractiveness and profitability of different markets and market segments. It is important for business managers to realize that a 5 forces analysis should be conducted at the level of strategic business units (SBUs)‚ and not at the level of the whole organization. Many larger companies have several SBUs conducting business in different markets that serve many different customer segments. Likewise
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Bachelor thesis 10 credits Autumn semester 2005 E-Commerce Strategy - Being Physical or Virtual? Author: Hans Olsberg Robert Perrakoski Supervisor: Reiner Beck (Assistant Professor) ii Acknowledgements This study is the result of our bachelor thesis within business administration at Stockholm University. It has been a very interesting field of study and we think that we have found a somewhat interesting and unique approach within e-commerce. We want to give our thanks to our fellow
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Introduction The Internet is very useful for communication and finding information out and in terms of business – it’s tremendous. Internet has transformed the way in we are doing the business today dramatically. The boom in computer‚ telecommunications‚ information‚ transportation‚ and other technologies has created exciting new ways to learn about and track customers‚ and to create products and services tailored to individual customer needs. Currently‚ I am working as a Client Manager for
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Michael Porter’s Generic Strategies According to Porter‚ strategies allow organizations to gain competitive advantage from three different bases: cost leadership‚ differentiation and focus. Porter calls these bases as generic strategies. Cost leadership emphasizes producing standardized products at a very low per unit cost for consumers who are price sensitive. Differentiation is a strategy aimed at producing products and services considered unique industry wide and directed at customers who are
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Porter’s Five Forces model is a powerful management tool for analysing the current industry profitability and attractiveness by using the outside-in perspective. Within the last decades‚ the model has attracted some criticism because of the developing Internet economy. Due to an increasing significance of Digitalization‚ Globalization and Deregulation‚ the industry structure of the ‘Old Economy’ changed fundamentally. The ‘New Economy’ is not comparable with the ‘Old Economy’‚ which is the basis of the
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Introduction to Internet and E-business Electronic business (e-business) is a general concept covering any form of a business transaction or information exchange executed using information and communication technologies (Whiteley‚ 2000). E-business may take place between firms (B2B)‚ between firms and their customers (B2C)‚ or between firms and the government (B2G). Task 1 – The Scope of E-Business a. Differentiate between business to consumer (b2c) and business to business (b2b) transactions
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Introduction Michael Stevens is a relatively new investor struggling to maintain profits in an uncertain economy. Recent conflicts and conflicting reports have left the Canadian Market muddled and somewhat divided. Michael capitalized on recent volatility in the market and has gained some unrealized profits. He sees a bullish economy returning in the near future but would like to ensure that his profits are maintained even through minor volatility for the next six months. He plans to do this through
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According to Michael Porter‚ management must select a competitive strategy that will give it a distinct advantage by capitalizing on the strengths of the organization and the industry it is in. He has argued that a firm’s strengths ultimately falls into either cost advantage or differentiation‚ which applied either broadly or narrowly results in three generic strategies: cost leadership‚ differentiation‚ and focus. They are called generic strategies because they are not firm or industry dependent
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