- SWOT Analysis: A framework for identifying and analyzing the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats related to business competition or project planning.
- Value Chain Analysis: A process where a firm identifies its primary and support activities that add value to its final product and then analyze these activities to reduce costs or increase differentiation.
- Porter’s Five Forces: A model that identifies and analyzes five competitive forces that shape every industry and helps determine an industry's weaknesses and strengths.
- BCG Portfolio Matrix: A framework created by Boston Consulting Group to evaluate the strategic position of a business brand portfolio and its potential.
- Core Competencies: Central abilities or advantages that a firm possesses, which gives it a competitive edge.
- Goal Matrix: A tool for setting objectives and tracking progress, often involving setting both short-term and long-term goals.
- Stakeholder Analysis: A process of systematically gathering and analyzing qualitative information to determine whose interests should be taken into account when developing and/or implementing a policy or program.
- Resource-Based View (RBV): A method of analyzing and identifying a firm's strategic resources and capabilities as a source of competitive advantage.
- Restructuring (Chapter 11): Involves the reorganization of a company's finances under the bankruptcy laws of the United States, which allows companies to restructure their debt.
- Christensen’s Dilemma: Also known as the Innovator’s Dilemma, it refers to a situation in which a company experiences failure because it has neglected emerging technologies or markets by focusing on established ones.
- Financial Ratios (limited): These are calculations used to measure a company's performance in various areas, like solvency, profitability, and liquidity, but only providing limited insight without broader context.
- Waterfall Charts: A type of data visualization that is used to show the cumulative effect of sequentially introduced positive or negative values.
- Competitive Advantage: The attributes that allow an organization to outperform its competitors.
- General Electric Business Screen: An extension of the BCG matrix, this multi-factor model is a more sophisticated way of evaluating a business portfolio.
- Environmental Scanning: The process of gathering, analyzing, and dispensing information for tactical or strategic purposes, assessing internal and external factors influencing an organization.
- Product Life Cycle: The cycle through which every product goes through from introduction to withdrawal or eventual demise.
- Global Competitive Diamond: A framework for understanding the competitive advantage of nations, based on four determinants: factor conditions, demand conditions, related and supporting industries, and firm strategy, structure, and rivalry.
- Globalization Drivers: Factors that influence companies to internationalize and engage in global business, including market, cost, government, and competitive drivers.
- Contemporary Control Measures: Modern methods and tools for controlling processes and outcomes within an organization, focusing on efficiency, effectiveness, and continuous improvement.
- PEST Analysis: A strategic business tool used to identify, analyze, organize, and monitor key external factors (Political, Economic, Social, and Technological) that can have an impact on an organization.
