Winning Strategies for Business
- Rajat K Baisya - Professor and Head (Retd.), Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Winning Strategies for Business is a comprehensive strategic management resource that brings together all the business tools that managers need for surviving business challenges and succeeding in the dynamic economic environment of today.
The recent global economic crisis has alerted the business world to the need for maintaining a strategic edge through productivity enhancement, cost management, and product innovation. The book provides a holistic and contemporary lesson on strategic management by encompassing areas like strategy development, new economic policy, strategies for survival, competitive advantage, growth, mergers, globalization, innovation, and portfolio management.
The author also brings together numerous examples and case studies on companies like Infosys, Reliance, Biocon, and Amul to explain how organizations have faced and dealt with business and economic challenges.
In these times of tough competition, just being a good manager is not good enough. You have to be proficient in strategic management. The book comprehensively compiled all the business tools that managers need to survive challenges and succeed in an increasingly dynamic market. With chapters on strategy development, new economic policy, strategies for survival, competitive advantage, growth, managers, globalisation, innovation and portfolio management, this book also serves as a handy reference guide.
This book is highly recommended for all budding management professionals who aspire to become leaders and entrepreneurs in the long run since it explains all essential aspects of strategic management (supported with practical examples and case studies) that allows a manager to develop a winning plan for his / her company.
The book is full of examples from Indian as well as multinational corporations; this is the strength of the book. Discussions are well supported by data and illustrations. Reader of a good book feels live talk with the author and many times it happens while reading this book. It’s a live presentation of corporate histories and case studies...a useful documentation for management students, teachers and researchers. As it discusses live cases of success and failure of many organisations it can be a valuable asset in the study room of corporate managers who are responsible for leading their organisations for growth.