Viguerie / Smit / Baghai The Granularity of Growth

How to Identify the Sources of Growth and Drive Enduring Company Performance
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-28834-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, E-Book

While growth is a top priority for companies of all sizes, it can be extremely difficult to create and maintain--especially in today's competitive business environment. The Granularity of Growth will put you in a better position to succeed as it reveals why growth is so important, what enables certain companies to grow so spectacularly, and how to ensure that growth comes from multiple sources as you take both a broad and a granular view of your markets.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Viguerie, Patrick

Smit, Sven

Baghai, Mehrdad

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Special Thanks.
Acknowledgements.
Preface.
Introduction: Grow Or Go.
Part I. Your Growth Ambition.
1. A Granular World.
2. Understanding Your Company's Performance.
3. Firing On Multiple Cylinders.
4. A Granular Company.
Part II. Your Growth Direction.
5. Firing On Momentum.
6. Firing On M&A.
7. Firing On Share Gain.
8. Mapping Your Growth Direction.
9. To Move Or Not To Move?
Part III. Your Growth Architecture.
10. The Architecture Of Growth.
11. Looking In The Mirror.
12. A Blueprint For Granularity.
13. Building Scale Platforms.
14. Cluster-Based Growth.
Conclusion. Choosing To Lead Growth.
Appendix 1. Growth And Value.
Appendix 2. Two Ways To Grow, Two Ways To Go.
Bibliography.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Patrick Viguerie is a Director at McKinsey & Company andleads the firm's strategy practice in the Americas. His workfocuses on helping companiesdevelop and implement strategies forrenewal and growth. Viguerie has served companies in a wide rangeof industries and has published a number of articles on corporatestrategy issues. He holds a BA from Dartmouth College and an MBAfrom Harvard Business School.
Sven Smit is a Director at McKinsey&Company, coleadingMcKinsey&Company's strategy practice's initiatives on growth.He has served companies in a range of industries includingtelecommunications, high-tech, and media and has published a numberof articles on growth. Smit holds a degree in mechanicalengineering from Delft University of Technology and an MBA fromINSEAD.
Mehrdad Baghai is Managing Director of Alchemy Growth Partners,a boutique advisory and venture firm in Sydney. He is coauthor ofthe international bestseller The Alchemy of Growth and haspublished a number of articles on growth. He was the coleader ofthe global growth practice at McKinsey&Company in the late1990s. Baghai received a BSE from Princeton University, an MPP fromthe Kennedy School of Government, and a JD from Harvard LawSchool.