Entrepreneur Initiative Series: Competitive Analysis - Why Bother and Where to Begin
Friday, November 4, 2005
12 Noon - 2 p.m. -- Atwater Kent Room 233 (Media Room)
No area of business management has received as much attention, had more books written about it or has been the subject of as many courses, seminars, books and workshops as Competitive Analysis. There are many good reasons for this recognition.
This interactive workshop will:
- Explore the basic principles of competitive analysis
- Present and explain some basic tools and frameworks that you can start to use immediately
- Suggest some creative non-business uses of these tools such as choosing a career, buying a car or house, and choosing your next vacation.
We will explain and demonstrate the use of some of the following management tools:
- Industry forces at work
- Business system design
- S curves
- Era Analysis
- Strategic Degrees of Freedom
- Value added chains
- End means chain
- Why Not Framework
- Business Game Board
This workshop includes both hands-on practical exercises as well as a basket of valuable "take home" material.
About the speaker
Henry Strage is a former Senior Director of McKinsey & Company, currently a business consultant, and ever a leader in social causes. He has directed major studies for global enterprises in the pharmaceutical, engineering, energy, chemical, financial, high technology and electronics industries. His professional career is a wide range of international and national activities. He was a Professor of Strategic Studies at a European Business School and has taught and lectured at several other leading Business schools in Europe and the United States as well as in Israel, Russia and Slovak Republic. He currently serves on the Dean's Advisory Board to two major US Universities.
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