Competitive Strategy and Organizational Design: Learn to Master Internal and External Strategic Management Challenges

How to excel in Competitive Strategy and Organizational Design
Acquire knowledge & tools to master internal & external strategic management challenges
This book is intended for people interested in engaging in theories and concepts of strategy and organization and applying these to practice. Employed professionals and management students will benefit from deepening and refreshing their existing knowledge. Readers with non-business backgrounds will gain valuable additional business insights complementing their existing knowledge.
Readers will understand and analyze:
- Behavior of organizations in situations in which strategic decisions are interdependent
- Strategies to build up and maintain a customer base
- Internal workings of an organization as well as its interaction with the outside world, i.e. partners and competitors
- The design of an effective organization that can compete, grow and adjust flexibly to different environments
Readers will develop their skills in Organizational Design, Strategic Management, Game Theory and Strategic Thinking.

PART I: COMPETITIVE STRATEGY: THE FUNDAMENTALS
In the first part, you will learn how businesses and organizations behave in situations in which strategic decisions are interdependent, i.e. where actions affect competitors' profits and vice versa. Using the basic tools of game theory, you will analyze how businesses choose strategies to attain competitive advantage.

PART II: COMPETITIVE STRATEGY: ADVANCED
In the second part, you will learn how companies can build up and maintain their customer base by increasing switching costs and facilitating strategic customer lock-ins. You will find out how firms can increase their profits by pursuing suitable price discrimination and product differentiation strategies. You will look at examples of what is acceptable behavior under the premises of EU competition and US antitrust policies and discover exciting ways of how companies can increase their returns by strategically making use of network effects and economies of size. You will further intensify your newly acquired knowledge about network effects and discuss strategies that are explicitly tailored to network markets. You will analyze the workings of mergers and acquisitions and, moreover, support you in considering alternative strategies that can help companies grow organically.

PART III: ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN
The final part covers the internal workings of an organization and its interactions with the outside world. Where the first two parts mainly covered the way firms interact with the outside world, in particular competitors and stakeholders, the third part looks at the way a firm’s organization should be designed to compete effectively.

About The Author
Jens Devillй is an author, investor, and project professional with a passion for management and personal development. He studied multilingual communication at HUB College in Brussels and has a master degree in the management sciences with a focus on Open Innovation.
Currently he is active for a major European retailer as Resource Manager in an IT and project environment. He uses his knowledge of methodologies like PRINCE2, MsP, MoP, MoR, ITIL, Six Sigma to support many different project portfolios and programs.
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