Strategy, Innovation, and Change

Produktbeschreibung

Any organization must ask three interrelated questions in order to develop its strategy: where are we, where do we want to be, and how will we get there? While the questions do not change over time, the realities and environments that companies face do. Given today's realities, how should companies answer these questions? In this book, leading business school academics use their academic, yet managerially-relevant, research to explore these questions. They divide the book into three sections - Understand Your Situation, Develop Your Options, and Lead the Change - and take the reader through some of the latest thinking that helps answer these questions. All authors have extensive international experience of working with senior managers and are well known academic researchers in their field. They present their ideas in a straightforward, lively, and purposeful way. Their goal is to inform, challenge, and provide practical advice and tools. The book serves as a guide to a range of contemporary business challenges, such as managing uncertainty, creating new markets through innovation, energizing people, leading clever people in organizations with limited hierarchy, and introducing radical change. The central focus is on the core concerns and responsibilities of senior management - strategy and leadership. Clear, crisp, and to the point, this book provides an invaluable and coherent summary of some of the best current business school thinking on contemporary challenges facing organizations. It will be an ideal guide for both MBAs and practicing managers. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Robert Galavan, Costas Markides, and John Murray: Introduction
Understand Your Situation
2: Dermot McAleese and Gerard O'Brien: The Economics of Global Competition: Implications for Business
3: Cliff Bowman and Richard Schoenberg: From Customer Understanding to Strategy Innovation: Practical Tools to Establish Competitive Positioning
4: Rita McGrath: And the Winner Takes It All? Necessary Condidtions and Entry Strategies in Winner-Take-All Markets
5: William Lawler: Understanding the Financial Footprint of Strategy
6: Dave Ulrich: HR Dreams: Where Human Resource Management is Headed to Deliver Value
7: John Murray: Services, Counsel, and Values: Managing Strategically in the Public Sector
Develop Your Options
8: Se n Mehan and Willem Smit: The Rising Cost of Offering Valueless Propositions in a Connected World
9: Kasra Ferdows: Managing Evolving Global Production Networks
10: Don Sull: From Lines to Loops: An Iterative Approach to Strategy 

Leseprobe

04
: John Bessant: Opening up Strategic Space through Discontinuous Innovation
12: Costas Markides: How to Create the Industries of the 21st Century
Lead The Change
13: Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones: Leading in the Knowledge Economy
14: Robert Galavan and John Cullen: The Leader's Prison
15: Lynda Gratton: Nurturing Innovation Hot Spots
16: Nada Kakabadse, Andrew Kakabadse, and Linda Lee-Davies: The Contrasting Faces of the Chairman of the Board
17: Kathleen Riordan and Andrew McLoughlin: The Leader Negotiator
18: Jay Conger: Gaining Strategic Advantage Through Talent Management