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In our
publications section we have compiled a variety of papers from the themanager.org-team and from our valued partners that
focus on growth. They cover topics like: ●
Growth strategies
● Phases and stages of growth
● Problems related to growth
● Management or growth
● Issues that arise from a particular size of an organization
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The
Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor
Christensen (The Innovator's Dilemma) analyzes the strategies that
allow corporations to successfully grow new businesses and outpace
the other players in the marketplace. The authors argue that
innovation can be a predictable process that delivers sustainable,
profitable growth. They identify the forces that cause managers to
make bad decisions as they package and shape new ideas—and offer
new frameworks to help managers create the right conditions, at the
right time, for a disruption to succeed.
Beyond
the Core: Expand Your Market Without Abandoning Your Roots
by Chris Zook
Beyond the Core, by Bain's Chris Zook, has been selected as one of
the five best business books of 2003 by The Economist
In Beyond the Core, Zook outlines an expansion strategy based on
putting together combinations of adjacency moves into areas away
from, but related to, the core business, such as new product lines
or new channels of distribution. These sequences of moves carry less
risk than diversification, yet they can create enormous competitive
advantage, because they stem directly from what the company already
knows and does best.
The
Alchemy of Growth: Practical Insights for Building the Enduring
Enterprise
by Merhdad Baghai, Stephen Coley, David White, Mehrdad
Baghai
Why do some companies come and go while others endure? According to
McKinsey & Company, Inc. consultants Mehrdad Baghai, Stephen
Coley, and David White, the secret to a lasting enterprise is
sustained growth. In The Alchemy of Growth, the authors offer a
practical guide for jumpstarting expansion and keeping it going.
"Growth is a noble pursuit. It creates new jobs for the
community and wealth for shareholders. It can turn ordinary
companies into stimulating environments where employees find a sense
of purpose in their work," they write. "Growth's
transformative power is akin to the alchemy of old."
Profit
From the Core : Growth Strategy in an Era of Turbulence
by Chris Zook, James Allen
Spawned by a 10-year study of 2,000 firms conducted at Bain &
Company, Profit from the Core is based on the fundamental but
oft-ignored maxim that prolonged corporate growth is most profitably
achieved by concentrating on a single core business. To help
companies identify this true essence, narrow their focus
accordingly, and move forward in a manner that builds upon existing
structure, Chris Zook and James Allen present "a set of
practical and proven principles, diagnostic tests, and questions for
management teams to use as tools for reexamining or revising their
strategies in search of the next wave of profitable growth." |
