%0 Book %1 ZookAllen:2001 %A Zook, Chris %A Allen, James %B Profit from the Core: Growth Strategy in an Era of Turbulence %C Boston %D 2001 %I Harvard Business School Press %K competency competitive-advantage growth planning %P xiv, 186 %T Profit from the core: Growth strategy in an era of turbulence %X Profit from the Core argues that a timeless strategic principle--building market power in a well-defined core business--remains the key source of competitive advantage and the most viable platform for successful expansion. Based on a ten-year study of 2,000 companies conducted by Bain & Company, the book identifies three factors that differentiate growth strategies that succeed from those that fail: 1) reaching full potential in the core business; 2) expanding into businesses adjacent to that core; and 3) preemptively redefining the core business in times of market turbulence. Explaining how leaders can adapt their strategies in response to a rapidly changing business environment, the book concludes with guidelines for becoming sustained value creators--companies capable of successfully refining and redefining their core businesses over the long haul.

@book{ZookAllen:2001, abstract = {Profit from the Core argues that a timeless strategic principle--building market power in a well-defined core business--remains the key source of competitive advantage and the most viable platform for successful expansion. Based on a ten-year study of 2,000 companies conducted by Bain \& Company, the book identifies three factors that differentiate growth strategies that succeed from those that fail: 1) reaching full potential in the core business; 2) expanding into businesses adjacent to that core; and 3) preemptively redefining the core business in times of market turbulence. Explaining how leaders can adapt their strategies in response to a rapidly changing business environment, the book concludes with guidelines for becoming sustained value creators--companies capable of successfully refining and redefining their core businesses over the long haul.}, added-at = {2010-03-02T17:25:53.000+0100}, address = {Boston}, author = {Zook, Chris and Allen, James}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/279aeb12a26feda682b57d1a65ad7bd12/jrennstich}, booktitle = {Profit from the Core: Growth Strategy in an Era of Turbulence}, date-modified = {2010-02-28 21:03:37 -0500}, interhash = {ca54dd37c6bb644e6c18ee387ee7ce4b}, intrahash = {79aeb12a26feda682b57d1a65ad7bd12}, keywords = {competency competitive-advantage growth planning}, pages = {xiv, 186}, publisher = {Harvard Business School Press}, timestamp = {2010-03-07T08:31:14.000+0100}, title = {Profit from the core: Growth strategy in an era of turbulence}, year = 2001 }