Does your business, like many of today's leading companies, make these dangerous competitive mistakes?
Take actions as if competitors did not exist
* Collect extensive competitor data but fail to convert it into insights about competitors' current and potential actions
* Fail to project competitors' likely strategies and moves
* Ask the wrong questions about the strategies and actions of current and emerging competitors
* Conduct competitor analysis separately from strategic thinking
To prepare your business for market rivalry in the twenty-first century you need an approach to competitor analysis and intelligence that far surpasses the best practices in most organizations today. You need Competitors.
In Competitors, international strategy guru Liam Fahey provides a new integrated, comprehensive method for analyzing the competition. Called competitor learning, the method is the product of Fahey's 15 years of consulting, researching, and teaching competitor analysis in cutting-edge companies in the United States and Europe. It combines a system for identifying critical competitor data with a series of analytical frameworks to help you develop powerful strategic insights.
Competitors shows you how to:
* Determine exactly what you need to know about competitors
* Describe and analyze competitors' marketplace strategy, alliances and networks, assumptions, assets, capabilities, and culture
* Project competitors' likely strategic moves and outcomes
* Draw critical inferences from limited data about competitors' goals, mindsets, and behaviors
* Use competitor analysis to anticipate changes in customers, channels, suppliers, competitive dynamics, and emerging markets
* Gain valuable insights into how and why your organization might win or lose as it competes against current or potential rivals
* Avoid typical errors associated with traditional competitor analysis
Competitors is an indispensable learning tool for managers who want to get ahead of the competition-both today and for the future. It teaches managers how to know their competition as thoroughly as they know their own organization, and how to use that knowledge to outwit, outmaneuver, and outperform rivals.
Praise for Competitors
"The best hope for a company is to be the first to read this book before its competitors do." -Philip Kotler, Professor of International Marketing, J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University
"Liam Fahey has written the first richly textured, application-friendly and realistic book on what is often misnamed competitive intelligence . . . a masterful achievement by a power in competitive understanding." -Larry Prusak, Managing Principal, IBM Consulting Group and coauthor of Working Knowledge
"Fahey's Competitors is a lively, dynamic, major break from traditional 'static' strategic analyses. He provides a unique, pragmatic, entrepreneurial approach for seeing where competitors are going in the future-and how to preempt, reconceive or reshape the 'competitive domain' faster and better." -James Brian Quinn, author of Intelligent Enterprise and Innovation Explosion
"We have embraced Liam Fahey's competitor learning framework as the guiding methodology for understanding the current and emerging competition. Competitors is required reading for taking competitive analysis to the next level." -Benjamin R. Fisher, Jr., Director, Corporate Marketplace, PPG Industries, Inc.
"If I could have my way, this book would remain within the hands of a select few. . . armed with these tools, companies can be positioned to outwit, outmaneuver, and outperform their competitors." -Faye Brill, Director, Business Intelligence, Meritor Automotive, Inc. and former president, Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals
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坦白说,这本书的阅读体验是相当“反直觉”的。我原以为它会是一本充满硝烟味的战略指南,充斥着各种波特五力模型和蓝海理论的炫技,结果它完全颠覆了我的预期。作者似乎更关注“非理性”在市场中的作用。书中对几家科技巨头早期决策失误的剖析,展现了一种罕见的诚实——那些决定性的转折点,往往并非基于最优化的数学模型,而是源于创始人一时的情绪波动、某个不合时宜的傲慢,或是对外部环境的集体性误判。这种对“人祸”和“运气”的强调,让整个叙事变得立体而真实。我花了大量时间去消化其中关于“信息熵增与权力结构演变”的章节,作者的论证链条极其严密,但语言风格却异常的口语化和散文化,仿佛在深夜里与一位经验丰富的前辈对弈,他一步步引你进入迷宫,让你自己去感受路径的幽深。读完合上书页时,我有一种强烈的冲动,想重新审视我过去所有对“效率”和“理性选择”的崇拜。
评分如果说大多数商业书籍都是向外看,审视对手、审视市场,那么这本书更像是一次向内的深潜,审视“我”在竞争场域中的存在状态。它探讨了“被看见”与“不被看见”之间的权力关系。书中描绘的竞争,不是简单的零和博弈,而是一种关于“定义权”的争夺。谁能率先为一种新现象命名、谁能主导关于某种技术的叙事框架,谁就赢得了先机。作者的叙述充满了哲学思辨的色彩,尤其是在探讨身份认同如何影响商业决策时,我感到非常受启发。它没有提供任何可供复制的模板,更像是一副世界观的升级包,让你看待商业世界的视角变得更加多维和复杂。读完后,我不再将竞争视为一场单纯的战役,而更像是一场永无休止、充满变数的戏剧,而我们每个人都在其中扮演着无可替代的角色。
评分翻开这本书,我立刻被作者那种近乎偏执的细节描摹能力所震撼。它不是那种高屋建瓴的商业分析,更像是一场深入骨髓的田野调查。作者显然花费了大量心血去追踪那些被市场主流叙事所遗忘的微小个体和他们不为人知的挣扎。比如,书中用近乎诗意的笔触描绘了一家濒临倒闭的传统手工作坊,如何在新媒体浪潮下,通过极其精妙的“非对称信息应用”找到了新的生存缝隙。那种对技术迭代中人性复杂面的捕捉,让我这个长期浸淫于宏大叙事的人,突然间感到了脚踏实地的踏实。它没有提供任何标准答案式的成功秘籍,反而更像是一面棱镜,折射出商业竞争中那些微妙的、转瞬即逝的生态位。我尤其欣赏作者在处理“失败者叙事”时的克制与尊重,没有廉价的煽情,只有对现实困境最冷静而有力的呈现。读完后,我非但没有获得什么快速致富的灵感,反而对“竞争”这个词汇有了更为深沉的敬畏。
评分这本书在文笔上的老道和内敛,是当下很多畅销书中难得一见的。它没有使用任何耸人听闻的标题或夸张的辞藻来吸引眼球,所有的力量都凝聚在对细节的打磨和对逻辑的深化之中。我发现自己会不自觉地放慢阅读速度,细细品味那些对于“竞争壁垒”的重新定义。作者提出了一个非常锐利的观点:真正的壁垒并非技术专利,而是“组织记忆”和“文化惯性”的微妙结合。他通过解剖几家老牌制造企业的“僵化”过程,生动地展示了这种惯性如何从优势转化为致命的劣势。阅读过程中,我不断在脑海中对应现实中的案例,书中对“组织惰性”的描摹,其精确度令人心悸,仿佛作者曾在那些企业内部潜伏多年。这本书的价值不在于告诉你下一步该做什么,而在于让你理解为什么很多人或企业总是在原地踏步。
评分这是一部结构上相当具有实验性的作品。如果把它归类为商业管理类书籍,那可能有些许偏差。更准确地说,它像是一部由散文、访谈录和历史档案碎片拼接而成的“商业人类学考察报告”。书中最吸引我的是那些跨界的对比分析。作者将18世纪的羊毛贸易中的垄断行为,与当代数字平台的算法垄断进行了惊人的平行对照,核心观点在于:驱动竞争的底层人性逻辑从未改变,改变的只是外壳的材质。这种宏大的时空跨度,极大地拓宽了我对行业周期的认知。当然,对于习惯了线性叙事的读者来说,初读可能会感到有些许跳跃和不适,因为它要求读者不断地在不同时代、不同行业之间建立属于自己的连接点。我个人非常享受这种需要主动构建意义的过程,仿佛在参与一场智力上的探险,而不是被动地接收既定结论。
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