STRATEGY
Competitive strategy, organizational design, and the operational decisions that determine whether businesses win or lose.
Strategy is not a plan — it is a set of integrated choices about where to compete and how to win. This subcategory examines the strategic decisions that separate durable businesses from fragile ones: how companies define their competitive position, structure their organizations, and make operational trade-offs under uncertainty. Coverage draws on real cases, first principles, and the frameworks that actually hold up under pressure.
Subcategory Articles
Business strategy: the Value Stick
The best companies do not win by beating competitors on price. They win by stretching a single measure — the gap between what customers will pay and what suppliers will accept — wider than anyone else can.
Key Takeaways
- Strategy is not about beating rivals on price — it is about creating more total value than they do, measured as the gap between customer willingness to pay and supplier willingness to sell.
- The Value Stick gives you four levers: raise willingness to pay, hold the right price, cut cost without cutting value, and lower the willingness to sell of employees and suppliers.
- Create value before you capture it. Companies that expand the total pie reliably capture the largest slice over time; those that fight over a fixed pie stall.
Business strategy vs market research
They are constantly confused, and confusing them is expensive. Market research reduces your uncertainty about the world; business strategy c...
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30 Essays That Shaped Tech, Business and Economics
The primary sources behind modern platform strategy, engineering culture, and macroeconomic debate — what each one argued, and why it became...
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Navigating the Future of Digital Transformation
How quantum computing, blockchain, and AI ethics are reshaping the economic foundation of the modern enterprise.
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