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Summary: Written with a healthy criticisim of different approaches
Review: I used this book during my MBA in City University Business School, London and found it extremely helpful. It covers most of ground and guides the reader through different approaches showing them their pros and cons. It takes the magic out of many complicated concepts and make them accessiable. In some few parts it lacks detail but if taken as an introductry book to business strategy, it serves that purpose well. As a strategy consultant, I always keep it on my self with my favorite "The Mind Of The Strategist".
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Summary: Fair and enough to tempt me =)
Review: I was fortunated enough to attend Prof. Grant's lectures--this great book doesn't do his justice.Porter's Industry Analysis shadowed many acadamics; but with ample case studies, Prof. Grant's book provides arable spaces for readers to explore. If you are bored by the colossal fame of Porter (which he truly deserves it), this book can offer u an equally compatible panorama to investigate.
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Summary: A look at corporate strategy in a dynamic world
Review: The zany Professor Grant waxes rhapsodic about Economic Value Added, Eisner, CT Scanners, and the like. A true mad genius, Rob is a wise and profound strategist in looking at today's companies' strategies in all their dynamism.
Strategy cannot be implemented in a vacuum. Continual reevaluation and analysis of Resources and Capabilities lays at the crux of sound corporate success.
I studied under Grant for the past two years at Georgetown's Graduate School of Business. He was a master at getting students to really look at the events leading up to and beyond a company's strategic plan. Read and enjoy! Phil Cefaratti
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Summary: Informative guide to organisational strategic alignment
Review: This book is a core reading in a UK distance-learning MBA programme to which I am enlisted. The author successfully covers the main areas of current strategic thinking in a style that is easy-to-understand and jargon free. I'm glad that the author pays particular attention to organisational resourced-based capabilities and their alignment to key success factors as an enabler for successful implementation (strategic implementation being the main area where many organisations fail).
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Summary: Review from UC, Riverside, BSAD184 student
Review: This book was used as our main textbook for Business 184 class taught by Dr. P.Skilton. As an actual user of this book, I believe that the details this book provided are unique in the way that they offer good understanding on what business strategy is about. The book answers the ultimate question, "What is strategy?" by distinguishing strategy from plans and tactics. Additionally, it provides insights to different types of strategies, advantages/disadvantages of each, and actual cases of usage. However, this is not to say that the book is without shortcomings, it creates some confusion in a few tables (and I still believe it's in Ch.2...for those of you doing projects for Dr.Skilton's class, watch out cuz that's one thing he is gonna ask you to do for SURE!). Yet, I believe the real merit in this book could only be discovered through reading the book. >_<
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Summary: aircraft carrier
Review: Utility and limitation of aircraft carrier in peace and war.
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Summary: Great business dictionary
Review: Well to be honest I always had a hard time getting through the piles of books during business school. But this "brick" opened my eyes and I actually ended up reading it out of pure pleasure. If you are remotely interested in business you should get this. It sums up many of the conclusions made by the great economists. Get one - and save yourself the cost of 10 others.
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