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25 Need-To-Know Strategy Tools
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25 Need-To-Know Strategy Tools

by Vaughan Evans
November 2014
Beginner
224 pages
4h 14m
English
FT Publishing International
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Optimising the corporate portfolio

These tools will help you:

  • Optimise your portfolio of businesses from a helicopter perspective
  • Decide which businesses you should invest in, which you should hang on to and monitor, which you should enter and which you should exit
  • Gain a strategic framework for your allocation of corporate resources

About these tools

In the early 1980s, the new CEO of General Electric, Jack Welch, asked management guru Peter Drucker for advice. The latter responded with two questions that arguably changed the course of Welch’s tenure: ‘If you weren’t already in a business, would you enter it today? And if the answer is no, what are you going to do about it?’

This led directly to a corporate strategy whereby every ...

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