Failsafe strategies : profit and grow from risks that others avoid / Sayan Chatterjee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chatterjee, Sayan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Risk management.

Strategic planning.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Wharton School, [2005]

Summary:

In this relentlessly practical book, Dr. Chatterjee shows how to identify high-risk, high-return opportunities, and then systematically mitigate those risks up front, as one designs an initiative.

Contents:

Introduction

sect. 1. Designing strategies for avoiding risk. How to see gold where others see risk: identify more choices to get the gold

Three steps to design a low-risk strategy

Identifying multiple capability configurations

Designing strategies with low capability risks

Lowering capability risks with visible and invisible outputs

Organizations that can benefit from the outcome-to-objectives framework

sect. 2. The risks in growth and diversification strategy. When and how to use differentiation entry strategy

When and how to use a low-price entry strategy

Strategies to shape markets: products, process, and platform

Develop multiple migration paths

Appendix: Enron's incremental descent into bankruptcy: a strategic and organizational guide.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0131011111

OCLC:

56642773