Dr. Wood was a cofounder of Axiom Consulting LLC in 2002 after contributing over thirty years of executive leadership experience from a number of companies including Savin Business Machines, and IBM. He has most recently founded the Wood Research Institute to explore issues related to how to sustain business success, diversity, managing and negotiating in multicultural environments, expatriate problems/issues, business ethics, and corporate social responsibility. His focus is on developing busi

In my recent book "Building Businesses That Last - In The Value Zone" I introduced a research study involving 73,821 publicly owned businesses to determine how many of those businesses were able to sustain revenue and profit growth for periods of at least 25 years. In this study only 38 companies that consistently sustained revenue and profit growth for 25 years and longer (During the period beginning 1981 thru 2005). While reading this book readers learned how each of these 38 companies was able to use the Value Zone, a business model that is comprised of eight core principles, to guide them in developing best practices strategic initiatives to achieve sustained performance. My new book, "Business VIAGRA - Building Sustained Performance In The Value Zone" shows how businesses can leverage the Value Zone and SWOT Analysis Business Models to develop best practices strategic initiatives and integrate them into the eight core principles of the Value Zone. This process is called Business VIAGRA. To achieve sustained high performance for your enterprise that produces consistent revenue growth and profitability requires regular doses of Business VIAGRA. VIAGRA is an acronym that means: Vitality, Intelligence, Actionable Strategies, Reaction to Change, Growth in Business, and Accountability. Using the Value Zone business model and the SWOT Analysis business model you can develop in an organized way strategic initiatives that are sustainable and relevant to your business and markets.

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As established markets become less profitable, companies increasingly need to find ways to create and capture new markets. Despite much investment and commitment, most firms struggle to do this. What, exactly, is getting in their way? World-renowned professors W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne, the authors of the best-selling book Blue Ocean Strategy have spent over a decade exploring that question. They have seen that the trouble lies in managers' mental models--ingrained assumptions and theories about the way the world works. Though these models may work perfectly well in mature markets, they undermine executives' attempts to discover uncontested new spaces with ample potential (blue oceans) and keep companies firmly anchored in existing spaces where competition is bloody (red oceans). In this bound version of their bestselling Harvard Business Review classic article, they describe how to break free of these red ocean traps. To do that, managers need to: (1) Focus on attracting new customers, not pleasing current customers; (2) Worry less about segmentation and more about what different segments have in common; (3) Understand that market creation is not synonymous with either technological innovation or creative destruction; and (3) Stop focusing on premium versus low-cost strategies. The Harvard Business Review Classics series offers you the opportunity to make seminal Harvard Business Review articles a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world--and will have a direct impact on you today and for years to come.

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