Business & Management · Strategy
Five Forces Analysis
A topic within Strategy, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Business & Management.
Reading for Strategy
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Assumes you know the vocabulary.
- BookCompetitive StrategyMichael Porter, 1980
Industry structure — five forces — determines average profitability more than firm-level execution does.
- BookGood Strategy / Bad StrategyRichard Rumelt, 2011
Strategy is a diagnosis, a guiding policy and coherent action — not a list of goals with aspirational adjectives.