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书名:Trout on Strategy—Capturing Mindshare, Conquering Markets
作者:Jack Trout
出版:MCGRAW-HILL
出版时间:2004
目录:
Preface
Chapter 1 - Strategy Is All About Survival
Chapter 2 - Strategy Is All about Perceptions
Chapter 3 - Strategy Is All about Being Different
Chapter 4 - Strategy Is All about Competition
Chapter 5 - Strategy Is All about Specialization
Chapter 6 - Strategy Is All about Simplicity
Chapter 7 - Strategy Is All about Leadership
Chapter 8 - Strategy Is All about Reality
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推荐理由:英文原版,大师之作(杰克·特劳特是定位之父,被摩根士丹利推崇为高于迈克尔·波特的战略家),篇幅不长。
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Preface
It’s been a long journey.
Starting at General Electric and winding through hundreds of companies in the United
States and all over the globe, I’ve had the rare opportunity to understand what makes up
success or failure in business.
These observations have been carefully catalogued and presented in 10 books and
endless lectures to thousands of business people in every corner of the world.
What I’ve learned over and over again is that success isn’t about having the right people,
the right attitude, the right tools, the right role models, or the right organization. They all
help, but they don’t put you over the top.
It’s all about having the right strategy.
That’s because strategy sets the competitive direction, strategy dictates product planning,
strategy tells you how to communicate internally and externally, strategy tells you on what
to focus.
That’s why it is so important to understand what strategy is all about. The better you
understand strategy, the better you’ll be able to select the right strategy for success. And,
conversely, the better you’ll be able to avoid the big trouble it’s easy to encounter in our
era of killer competition.
There has been no shortage of advice on this subject. In the past 30 years there have
been 21,955 books written about strategic planning and marketing. One author will talk
about sustainable competitive advantage. Another will announce that this idea is on its
way out. One author talks about the importance of case studies. Another says that case
studies shouldn’t decide your strategy. And of course there is no end to jargon, such as
dynamic advantage, conjoint analysis, competitive dynamics, coevolution, and my
favorite, sustainable competitive dis advan tage. All of this generates nothing but
confusion.
But what makes things far worse is the fact that there are those who would say that
strategy is one thing and marketing is another. But the truth is that they must be combined
if you are to be successful. Marketing is what drives a business. And a great business
strategy without proper marketing will often fail in a highly competitive world. To better
understand this, consider the following example:
A small software company has come up with a better way to conduct project management.
It uses a different methodology that deals with the uncertainties that surround most
projects. One could say this company has a competitive advantage strategy with a
superior product. All management has to do is hand the product to the marketing
department staff and instruct them to tell the world about this wonderful software and why
it is better. This approach would fail.
The problem is that this company has two very large, established competitors, as well as
a number of smaller ones. They will quickly attack this smaller company and attempt to
exclude it from the game. Their strategy will be to make their customers nervous about
turning their project management over to an unknown. To get into the game, this
company must come up with a marketing program that positions its new software as “The
next gen eration of project management software.” Everything the company does must
drive this idea into the minds of its customers. It is establishing this “next generation”
perception that will be the key to its success or failure. This will offset the natural concerns
of dealing with an unknown. At the same time, no one wants to buy what is perceived to
be an obsolete product.
As you can see by this example, the next-generation marketing of this improved software
exploited a basic positioning principle that states that it is better to be first than to be
better. The marketing is driving the business strategy. Thus my definition of strategy:
What makes you unique and what is the best way to put that difference into the minds of
your customers and prospects.
In this example, the new form of software that dealt with uncertainties was unique. The
next-generation concept was the best way into the minds in the marketplace.
While I have written endlessly about success and failure, I’ve never focused on what the
essence of good strategy is all about. So I went back and extracted from my many books
the key guidelines to doing the right thing. Unlike my usual fare, there are a few examples
but no detailed case histories in these extracts. There are mostly the important principles
to follow.
It’s a short course on what I’ve learned about strategy in my long journey through the
business world.
Jack Trout
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