Lead with Vision
Manage the Strategic Challenge
Published on 25. September 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-86152-097-5 (ISBN)
Description
Introducing the fundamental theory and practice of strategic management, strategic decision making, and strategic change, this text focuses on the essential decisions that companies must take when creating and implementing strategy in practice.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index, glossary
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-86152-097-5 (9781861520975)
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Content
1.Introducing Strategy & Strategic Management: objectives, introduction, challenges, definitions, levels of strategy, examples, the business environment, the competitive environment, managing change and the environment, summary chart, points for reflection, strategic summary. 2. The Concept of Strategic Management: objectives, concept of strategic management, strategic success, a view of strategy, points for reflection, strategic summary. 3.Strategic Success: objectives, strategic success, monitoring and evaluating performance, competitive success, business failure, points for reflection, strategic summary. 4.Strategy Creation: objectives, strategy creation, strategic alternatives, strategy evaluation, strategy formulation, structures and policies, points for reflection, strategic summary. 5.Visionary Leadership: objectives, visionary leadership, strategic leadership, visionary leadership and strategy creation, points for reflection, strategic summary. 6.Planning Strategies: objectives, planning strategies, planning systems, two realities of planning, points for reflection, strategic summary. 7.Adaptive Strategic Change: objectives, adaptive strategic change: strategic management in a dynamic environment, incremental and adaptive change, empowerment, the learning organization, business process re-engineering, review of strategy creation, points for reflection, strategic summary. 8.Power, Politics and Culture: objectives, power politics and culture, culture, power politics and strategy, strategy creation, conclusion, points for reflection, strategic summary. 9.Strategy Implementation and Strategic Control: objectives, strategy implementation and strategic control, structural alternatives, styles of corporate management, the role and contribution of corporate headquarters, organizations in the late 1990s, points for reflection, strategic summary. 10.Strategic Success: objectives, strategic success and change, strategic challenges, strategic change, discontinuous change and strategic regeneration, points for reflection, strategic summary.