Lars de Bruin, Author at B2U - Business-to-you.com

Value Disciplines: Customer Intimacy, Product Leadership and Operational Excellence

October 23, 2018January 10, 2024 Lars de Bruin 0 Comments Customer Intimacy, Discipline of Market Leaders, Operating Model, Operational Excellence, Porter's Generic Strategies, Product Leadership, Treacy and Wiersema, Value Disciplines, Value Proposition

In their book ‘The Discipline of Market Leaders‘ M. Treacy and F. Wiersema argue that no company can succeed today

Game Theory

An Introduction To Game Theory: The Basics And Key Concepts

August 14, 2018January 10, 2024 Lars de Bruin 0 Comments Actions, Complete Information, Equilibrium, Game Theory, Games, Imperfect Information, Incomplete Information, Nash Equilibrium, Payoffs, Perfect Information, Players, Rationality, Sequential, Simultaneous, Strategy

Game Theory is the analysis (or science) of rational behavior in interactive decision-making. It is therefore distinguished from individual decision-making

Industry Analysis

Porter’s Diamond Model: Why Some Nations Are Competitive And Others Are Not

June 18, 2018January 9, 2024 Lars de Bruin 4 Comments Comparative Advantage, Competition, Competitive Advantage, Competitiveness, Demand Conditions, Diamond Model, Factor Conditions, Firm Strategy Structure and Rivalry, Industry Analysis, Location Advantage, Porter, Related and Supporting Industries

Michael Porter’s Diamond Model (also known as the Theory of National Competitive Advantage of Industries) is a diamond-shaped framework that

Industry Analysis

Value Net Model: Coopetition instead of Competition

March 30, 2018January 10, 2024 Lars de Bruin 0 Comments Brandenburger, Co-opetition, Competition, Competitors, Complementors, Coopetition, Customers, Game Theory, Industry Analysis, Nalebuff, PARTS, Porter, Porter's Five Forces, Strategic Alliance, Strategy, Suppliers, Value Net

In their book ‘Co-Opetition: A Revolution Mindset that Combines Competition and Cooperation‘, Adam M. Brandenburger and Barry J. Nalebuff discuss

Strategic Planning

Value Chain Analysis: An Internal Assessment of Competitive Advantage

March 15, 2018January 9, 2024 Lars de Bruin 4 Comments Competitive Advantage, Firm Infrastructure, Human Resource Management, Inbound Logistics, Internal Factors, Linkages, Marketing, Operations, Outbound Logistics, Porter, Procurement, Sales, Service, Strategy, Technology Development, Value Chain, Value Chain Analysis

A company is in essence a collection of activities that are performed to design, produce, market, deliver and support its

Strategic Management Top Rated

BCG Matrix: Portfolio Analysis in Corporate Strategy

November 30, 2017January 9, 2024 Lars de Bruin 10 Comments BCG Matrix, Cash Cows, Corporate Strategy, Dogs, Market Growth Rate, Portfolio, Portfolio Analysis, Question Marks, Relative Market Share, Stars, Strategic Management, Strategy

BCG Matrix (also known as the Boston Consulting Group analysis, the Growth-Share matrix, the Boston Box or Product Portfolio matrix)

Marketing

Marketing Funnel: Visualizing the Customer Journey

August 31, 2017February 9, 2020 Lars de Bruin 2 Comments Advocacy, AIDA Model, Awareness, Consideration, Consumer Behavior, CRM, Customer Journey, Customer Relationship Management, Decision, Evaluation, Interest, Loyalty, Marketing, Marketing Funnel, Purchase, Purchase Funnel, Repeat, Sales, Sales Funnel

Marketing funnel, sales funnel, purchase funnel, AIDA model or customer journey. What these conceptual models all have in common is

Cross Cultural Management

Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions

June 17, 2017January 10, 2024 Lars de Bruin 11 Comments Collectivism, Cross Cultural Management, Culture, Femininity, Hofstede, Individualism, Indulgence, Masculinity, Power Distance, Time Orientation, Uncertainty Avoidance

Cultures around the world are getting more and more interconnected and the business world is becoming increasingly global. For managers

Business Frameworks Strategy Frameworks Management Frameworks

Strategic Planning

Top 5 Business Frameworks according to Strategy Consultants

May 24, 2017October 23, 2018 Lars de Bruin 0 Comments Ansoff, Ansoff Matrix, BCG Matrix, Hambrick and Fredrickson, Porter, Porter's Five Forces, Strategy Diamond, Treacy and Wiersema, Value Disciplines

Business Frameworks are useful tools that help you analyze business issues and structure your thinking. Strategy consultants and business analysts often

SWOT Bringing Internal and External Factors together

Strategic Planning

SWOT Analysis: Bringing Internal and External Factors Together

April 14, 2017October 24, 2020 Lars de Bruin 5 Comments Ansoff Matrix, External Factors, Internal Factors, Opportunities, PESTEL, Porter's Five Forces, Strengths, SWOT, SWOT Analysis, Threats, TOWS, Value Chain Analysis, VRIO Framework, Weaknesses

SWOT Analysis (also known as SWOT Matrix) is a business framework that helps assessing a wide variety of factors that