Management Quote by Michael E. Porter Download Open image ““Managers must clearly distinguish operational effectiveness from strategy.”” — Michael E. Porter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Management Strategy
There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness. — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
“Programs in operational effectiveness produce reassuring progress, although superior profitability may remain elusive. Business publications and consultants flood the market with information about what… — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance. — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
“In many industries, however, what some call hypercompetition is a self-inflicted wound, not the inevitable outcome of a changing paradigm of competition. The root… — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
“The four building blocks that managers can use to improve strategy execution—decision rights, information, structure, and motivators—are inextricably linked.” — Gary L. Neilson Copy Share Image
“Most companies that win don't have a unique strategy; quite the opposite, they are doing what everyone else is doing but have figured out… — Robert G. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Operational effectiveness can be the single most important factor in the success, or indeed in the survival, of any business.” — Bruce C.N. Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Managers at lower levels lack the perspective and the confidence to maintain a strategy. There will be constant pressures to compromise, relax trade-offs, and… — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
“Strategy execution doesn’t go for perfect, it’s the core business capability needs to be sharpened for improving the business performance and maturity.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Every one strengthens one or more of the building blocks executives can use to improve their strategy-execution capability: clarifying decision rights, improving information, establishing… — Gary L. Neilson Copy Share Image
“The high performing organizational culture and business capability coherence are the decisive factors for the success of strategy execution.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“A great strategic approach isn’t just about goals; it’s about aligning resources, timing, and execution.” — Wayne Chirisa Copy Share Image
“Competition on dimensions other than price - on product features, support services, delivery time, or brand image, for instance - is less likely to… — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
“THE U.S. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM is on a dangerous path, with a toxic combination of high costs, uneven quality, frequent errors, and limited access… — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
“Programs in operational effectiveness produce reassuring progress, although superior profitability may remain elusive. Business publications and consultants flood the market with information about what… — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
“U.S. consumers report higher dissatisfaction with their health care system than do consumers in other developed nations.” — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
“MOST COMPANIES OWE THEIR INITIAL success to a unique strategic position involving clear trade-offs. Activities once were aligned with that position.” — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
“Many countries have state-dominated or state-run systems with little competition. Their historically lower costs and favorable mortality statistics have led some to advocate that… — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
“One of the essential tasks in industry analysis is to distinguish temporary or cyclical changes from structural changes. P.29” — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
“The strongest competitive force or forces determine the profitability of an industry and become the most important to strategy formulation. The most salient force,… — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
“Standardized process guidelines belie the complexity of individual patient circumstances, and freeze care delivery processes rather than foster innovation. What is needed is competition… — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
“Good quality is less costly because of more accurate diagnoses, fewer treatment errors, lower complication rates, faster recovery, less invasive treatment, and the minimization… — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
“General management is more than the stewardship of individual functions. Its core is strategy: defining and communicating the company’s unique position, making trade-offs, and… — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
“But history tells us that monopolies that are truly benevolent and effective are rare.” — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
“Only careful political manoeuvring will be able to manage the situation.” — Davan Yahya Khalil Copy Share Image
The Derby experience had not been good for me and the way it finished left a very bad taste in my mouth so I… — Nigel Pearson Copy Share Image
The only regret I have in my career, is my managers wanted a big payday, and I wanted four or five more fights before… — Gerry Cooney Copy Share Image
My non-career. My excuse for a career? Honestly, I never think about the word 'career.' I've had managers, the minute they say it to… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Without time management, you lose control of your life and do what other people tell you to do. You lose control and become a… — Thomas Miller Copy Share Image
There are things you can do in training like learn from the manager and talk with team-mates, but it's the game that tests you. — Oliver Burke Copy Share Image
Corporations invest in sophisticated CRM, or Customer Relationship Management, programs to effectively oversee their relationship with their customers at every point during the buying… — Marc Ostrofsky Copy Share Image
“I had come to Boyne City because I have always been drawn to nature's secrets more than to, say Hollywood's secrets or the secrets… — Langdon Cook Copy Share Image
I won't be managing the Mets. I am closing the door on managing the Mets and probably everybody else. — Joe Torre Copy Share Image
If you want to serve in a Trump administration, you're going to serve this country, not yourself. — Sean Spicer Copy Share Image
Football is a team sport. I'm proud of what I achieved in my career, but I also know that I wouldn't have achieved any… — Peter Schmeichel Copy Share Image