Developing an understanding of the theory of innovation

Monday, November 21, 2005

The tools of Analysis

The innovators collection have reference notes to Michael Porter's Five Force Analysis.
A quick google search provides plenty of hits on Michael Porter.

I choose the wikipedia entry as a start as it provides a nice profile of his work.
Wikipedia is also good as it provides plenty of links (if it has been written and edited well) to other useful wiki-links and also to other websites.

A more refined search for his Harvard Business Review paper "How competitive forces shape strategy" finds plenty of sites. If that doesn't provide enough information to understand the concept searching for "Five Forces Analysis" finds more sites with distilled summaries of the work.

I recommend starting with the wikipedia entry on Five Forces Analysis

Using Google to search is the first step, you should go and check some of the websites which had a good pagerank (at least 2 or 3 deep sometimes) and see how the keywords fit within the site. All of the main keyword search "Michael Porter", "How competitive forces shape strategy" and "Five Forces Analysis" were referenced from business consultant websites to marketing websites to university lecture notes. This gives a good feel for how important the work is.

I have a couple of industries which I would like to perform innovation analysis on, however I am open to suggestions.

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