"Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as efficiently as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors. Corporate strategy, thus, implies an attempt to alter a company's strength relative to that of its competitors in the most efficient way."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
University of California, Los Angeles facultyMassachusetts Institute of Technology alumniBusiness theorists from Japan
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
p. 36
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kenichi_Ohmae
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Kenichi Ohmae
10 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Kenichi Ohmae →
Related Quotes
"In Japan, organizations and people in the organization are synonymous."
"Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction."
"Analysis is the critical starting point of strategic thinking. Faced with problems, trends, events, or situations tha…"
"In business as on the battlefield, the object of strategy is to bring about the conditions most favorable to one's ow…"
"The strategist's method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why? And to pu…"
"In strategic thinking, one first seeks a clear understanding of the particular character of each element of a situati…"
"In practice, the managerial decision to tackle organizational and systems changes is made even more difficult by the …"
"Top managers are always slow to point the finger of responsibility at headquarters or at themselves. When global faul…"
"It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building syste…"
"I think that by constantly questioning what goes on around them, writers end up with the gift of foresight."