Strategic Decisions
The 30 Most Useful Models

For anyone faced with the challenge of making strategic decisions, this book will show readers how to choose the strategic models best suited to their needs.

Marcel Planellas (Author), Anna Muni (Author)

9781108731959, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 September 2019

202 pages, 126 b/w illus.
21.6 x 13.8 x 1.4 cm, 0.27 kg

'Busy managers struggle to access the most important ideas they need when they face important choices. In Strategic Decisions, Planellas and Muni accurately and succinctly summarize thirty of the most widely used strategic models, including Porter's Five Forces, Maubourne and Kim's Blue Ocean Strategy, and Chesbrough's Open Innovation. For each model, they demonstrate the content, context, and application, using clear and eye-catching graphics. This is an invaluable reference for all MBA students, and a crucial guide for business managers as they confront strategic decisions.' Henry Chesbrough, University of California, Berkeley

In Strategic Decisions, Planellas and Muni provide an invaluable tool for anyone facing the challenge of taking strategic decisions. Using their 'circle of strategic decisions' framework, they guide readers smoothly through the decision-making process. Following this, they present thirty of the most widely used strategic models, including Porter's Five Forces, Ansoff's Matrix, Blue Ocean Strategy, Open Innovation, and the 8-Step Change Model. For each model, they demonstrate the content, context, and application, using clear and eye-catching graphics. This is a must-have book for all M.B.A. students and business managers.

Part I. The Circle of Strategic Decisions: 1. Three stages, three questions
2. Strategic analysis
3. Strategic decisions
4. Strategy implementation
5. How to make strategic decisions
Part II. The 30 Most Useful Models: 6. Abell's three dimensions
7. Yin-yang vision
8. Golden circle model
9. PESTEL analysis
10. Scenario analysis
11. SWOT analysis
12. Porter's five forces
13. Cultural web
14. Resource-based view
15. Generic strategies
16. Ansoff's matrix
17. Uppsala model
18. Taxonomy of strategic alliances
19. BCG portfolio matrix
20. McKinsey portfolio
21. Blue ocean strategy
22. Competing for the future
23. Business model canvas
24. Disruptive innovation
25. Open innovation
26. Diffusion of innovations model
27. Phases of growth
28. Value chain
29. 7-S model
30. Balanced scorecard
31. 8-step change model
32. Transient advantages
33. Deliberate and emergent strategies
34. Learning in a double loop
35. Black swan theory
Epilogue
Notes
References to the graphics
Acknowledgments
About the authors.

Subject Areas: Business strategy [KJC], Business & management [KJ]