Author: Adrian Slywotzky
Publisher: Business Plus
Keywords: profitability, art
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2003-09-01
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 0446692271
ISBN-13: 9780446692274

What do Barbie dolls, Nokia phones, and American Express credit cards have in common? They all represent a powerful business model called pyramid profit. How about Intel, Microsoft, and Stephen King? They all exploit another model called value chain position profit. THE ART OF PROFITABILITY reveals the invisible but important governing principles that can mean the difference between business failure and success. Writing with wit and provocative insight, bestselling author Adrian Slywotzy tells the story of eccentric strategy teacher David Zhao and his young student. Each of the book’s tw

Author: Adrian J. Slywotzky
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Keywords: ahead, competition, moves, several, migration, think, value
Number of Pages: 326
Published: 1995-11-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0875846327
ISBN-13: 9780875846323

This book identifies for the first time a dramatic shift in the business landscape in which new, aggressive companies have taken on the giants--not with new products or innovative technology, but with superior business designs.

Authors:Adrian J. Slywotzky, etc.,
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (Import)
Keywords: profit, forces, reshaping, business, strategic, amp, patterns, ways, anticipate
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1999-06-22
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0471979716
ISBN-13: 9780471979715

A companion volume to "The Profit Zone", this book aims to shows business people how to make sense of profit patterns that are changing the way companies do business and make money. It moves from looking at the changing complexity and pace of business in the modern age and how the rules have changed, to presenting a range of profit patterns.

Author: Adrian Slywotzky
Publisher: Capstone Publishing Ltd
Keywords: risk, biggest, growth, opportunity, threat, greatest, taking, shaping, upside
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-07-27
List price: $26.23
ISBN-10: 184112785X
ISBN-13: 9781841127859

Author: Adrian Slywotzky
Publisher: Warner Business Books
Keywords: profitability, art
Number of Pages: 206
Published: 2002-09
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0446531502
ISBN-13: 9780446531504

Presented in 23 compact lessons, "The Art of Profitability" features an ongoing tutorial between two fictitious individuals: the old and wise teacher, David Shao, the business master, and his pupil, Steve Gardner, a young and ambitious manager. Along the way, Zhao goes through a number of business models and pushes his student to examine how a variety of businesses go about making money. Through Zhao’s teachings, Steve begins to see how profits can be improved simply by taking a step back and gaining a new perspective.

Authors:Adrian J. Slywotzky, Karl Weber,
Publisher: Crown Business
Keywords: growth, breakthroughs, threats, turning, strategies, upside
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-05-15
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0307351017
ISBN-13: 9780307351012

Today, when your fortunes can literally change overnight, the new strategic imperative is making your moment of maximum risk your moment of maximum opportunity. In The Upside, Adrian Slywotzky provides bold and original ideas for growth breakthroughs as well as the practical tools to use Monday morning, such as•How to change the odds for your next major initiative and create potential industry breakthroughs, as Toyota did with its expanding universe of Prius vehicles. •Shape and exploit risk, don’t be shaped by it. Become a knowledge-intensive business and continuallyincrease the knowled

Authors:Adrian J. Slywotzky, David J. Morrison,
Publisher: Crown Business
Keywords: business, digital
Number of Pages: 326
Published: 2000-11-07
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0609607707
ISBN-13: 9780609607701

The biggest, most important issue in business today--becoming digital--touches not only traditional enterprises but the most avant-garde of Internet companies as well.Old-economy companies must take steps to avoid becoming victims of capitalism’s creative destruction, the unofficial system that flushes out the old to make way for the new. For dot-com companies the question is whether or not they are flash-in-the-pan businesses with no long-term prospects of profitability and customer loyalty.Most of the early efforts to answer the question "How digital is your business?" have been shroud