Creating A Competitive Advantage Through Strategic Thinking

  • Dennis Mark Laxton Academic, Management College of Southern Africa.

Abstract

“Strategic conversation will be the No.1 management tool in the new century. Marketers who understand the value of relationships and the power of strategic conversation will do best at capturing and keeping the customers of tomorrow. They will own the future.”  Tony Manning: Chairman of the Institute of Directors of Southern Africa, Independent Management Consultant in Competitive Strategy & Change Management since 1987 and Author of best-selling novel “Making sense of strategy”.

This article describes various new theories, which have come about in the last decade (1996-2001) that can be adapted to your business changing and improving the way you think, perform and ultimately reap the benefits.

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Author Biography

Dennis Mark Laxton, Academic, Management College of Southern Africa.

                

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Published
2017-06-30
How to Cite
Mark Laxton, D. (2017). Creating A Competitive Advantage Through Strategic Thinking. Journal of Research in Business, Economics and Management, 8(6), 1596-1604. Retrieved from http://scitecresearch.com/journals/index.php/jrbem/article/view/1132
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