This book delivers professional-level information in the practical and accessible framework synonymous with the Key series. This book provides readers with the full gamut of tools and techniques needed to create their own strategic plan, breaking the subject down into over 88 accessible tools and models.

Key Strategy Tools will help cherry-pick the most useful approaches for business and create a robust strategy that withstands investor scrutiny and becomes the roadmap to success.

“This is a super useful toolkit for any strategist! Not onlydoes it explain each tool clearly and concisely but also gives guidance how andwhen to use them and what to be wary of. It will become an invaluable companion to any executive striving to develop a winning strategy for their organisation.”

Costas Markides, Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, London Business School

“I wish I had thought of the idea for this book. Or could havedone it so well! The selection of topics is excellent, the commentary astute, and the explanations simple and engaging. Perfect for reading on a plane or browsing at home.”

Richard Koch, entrepreneur, co-founder L.E.K. Consulting and author, The80/20 Principle

“This is the new edition I longed for – I find it immensely helpful as a resource to offer Executive Education students every bit as much as MBAs. A very practical and delightfully pithy approach to strategy making, it offers a fabulous compendium of the major strategy tools, woven into a no-nonsense, step-by-step strategy process. It provides elegantly succinct explanations with enormously broad coverage to give a real ‘map of the terrain'.”

Marcus Alexander, Adjunct Professorof Strategy and Entrepreneurship, London Business School

“A really practical guide to strategy development. All the relevant tools are explained in detail, but highlighting the essential ones is a master stroke that will save endless hours!”

Adrian Beecroft, Chairman, Dawn Capital and former Senior Managing Partner, Apax Partners

"A comprehensive inventory of the tools and analytical frameworks of strategy. The key value of this bookis the guidance it offers on how to apply these tools - and this is rooted in Vaughan Evans' deep experience of working with them."

Robert M.Grant, ENI Professor of Strategic Management, Bocconi University, Milan and author of the market leading strategy textbook for business school students, Contemporary Strategic Analysis, now in its 10th edition

“Everything you need from a toolkit, comprehensive, practical and high added value.”

Mike Garland, Chairman, C5 Holdings and former Partner and Head of Portfolio Group, Permira Advisers LLP

Key Strategy Tools empowers managers with 88 strategic tools to help build sustainable competitive advantage and ensure long-term success for your business.

Within the structure of a straight forward strategy process, the Strategy Pyramid, the book gives you classic strategy models such as Porter's Five Forces or Kim and Mauborgnes Blue Ocean Strategy, as well as broader strategic techniques like rating your competitive position or making strategic investment decisions.

This edition introduces you to recent leading strategic thinking such as Markidess Fast Second, McGraths Discovery-driven Growth, Blank and Riess Lean Start-ups and Martins Integrative Thinking.

The book describes each tool succinctly and guides you on how and when to apply them and when to be wary.