1. Competitive Advantage
1.1. Competitive Advantage: Superior performance relative to other competitors in the same industry or the industry average.
1.2. Competitive Disadvantage
1.3. Sustainable Competitive Advantage
1.4. Competitive Parity
2. Value Creation
2.1. Value Creation: occurs because companies with a good strategy are able to provide products or services to consumers at a price point that they can afford while keeping their costs in check, thus making a profit at the same time.
3. AFI Framework
3.1. Strategic Management
3.1.1. Analysis
3.1.1.1. Strategic Leadership and the Strategy Process
3.1.1.2. External Analysis
3.1.1.3. Internal Analysis
3.1.1.4. Competitive Advantage, Firm Performance and Business Models
3.1.2. Formulation
3.1.2.1. Business Strategy
3.1.2.2. Corporate Strategy
3.1.2.3. Global Strategy
3.1.3. Implementation
3.1.3.1. Organizational Design
3.1.3.2. Corporate Governance and Business Ethics
3.2. AFI Strategy Framework: A model that links three interdependent strategic management tasks--analyze, formulate, and implement--that together, help managers plan and implement a strategy that can improve performance and result in competitive advantage.
3.3. Strategic Leaders
3.3.1. Art & Science of Success and Failure
3.3.2. Competition is Everywhere
3.3.3. Stakeholder Strategy Approach
4. Stakeholders
4.1. Internal Stakeholders
4.1.1. Employees
4.1.2. Stockholders
4.1.3. Board Members
4.2. Benefits
4.3. External Stakeholders
4.3.1. Customers
4.3.2. Suppliers
4.3.3. Alliance Partners
4.3.4. Creditors
4.3.5. Unions
4.3.6. Communitites
4.3.7. Governments
4.3.8. Media
4.4. Contributions
4.5. Stakeholder Strategy
4.6. Stakeholders: organizations, groups, and individuals that can affect or be affected by a firm's actions.
4.7. Stakeholder Impact Analysis
4.7.1. Attributes
4.7.1.1. Power
4.7.1.2. Legitimacy
4.7.1.3. Urgency
4.7.2. Identify Stakeholers
4.7.3. Identify Stakeholders' Interest
4.7.4. Identify Opportunities and Threats
4.7.5. Identify Social Responsibilities
4.7.5.1. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
4.7.5.1.1. Economic
4.7.5.1.2. Legal
4.7.5.1.3. Ethical
4.7.5.1.4. Philanthropic
4.7.6. Address Stakeholder Concerns