The author describes the technique of business models in strategy, presents an analytical technique of six different types of strategic modeling for both manufacturing and financial firms, and applies the technique to different kinds of cases. He addresses strategic sales, capital, resources, profit, and control, as well as the strategic business environment, the strategic financial market, strategic idealism and realism, and strategic methodology, using cases of Amazon, Barings Bank, Intel, Hyundai, global holding companies, the Great Depression, securitization, the international financial grid, and Xerox.

Frederick Betz received a PhD in physics from the University of California Berkeley and did a post-doc at the Space Sciences Laboratory, performing research on research administration. Subsequently he taught operations research and organization theory in the Business School at State University of New York at Buffalo. Then he was a program officer in the U.S. National Science Foundation, administering research programs. He was one of the founders of the International Society of Management of Technology. He recently was an adjunct professor in Portland State University, a visiting professor in Korea University and in SUNY Brookhaven Korea. His published books include: Cooperative Innovation (2017), Stability in International Finance (2016), Modelling Methodology for Sustainable Development (2015), Innovation and Global Competition (2014), Why Bank Panics Matter (2013), Societal Dynamics (2011), Managing Science (2010), and Managing Technological Innovation, 3rd ed. (2010).

CHAPTER 1. MODELING BUSINESS STRATEGY