Strategy, Innovation, and Change

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 as they face the challenges of the 21st century? In this book, leading business school educators 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 the 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.

ISBN 0199239908   Pages 336 ISBN13 9780199239900 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Oxford University Press   Weight (grammes) 686 Imprint Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Format Hardback   Height (mm) 240 Publication date 15 May 2008   Width (mm) 161 Library of Congress 2008000351   Spine width (mm) 25 DEWEY 658.4   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

		List of Figures
		List of Tables
		Introduction by Robert Galavan and Costas Markides and John Murray
Pt. I		Understand Your Situation
1		The Economics of Global Competition: Implications for Business by Dermot McAleese and Gerard O'Brien
2		From Customer Understanding to Strategy Innovation: Practical Tools to Establish Competitive Positioning by Cliff Bowman and Richard Schoenberg
3		And the Winner Takes It All? Necessary Condidtions and Entry Strategies in Winner-Take-All Markets by Rita McGrath
4		Understanding the Financial Footprint of Strategy by William Lawler
5		HR Dreams: Where Human Resource Management is Headed to Deliver Value by Dave Ulrich
6		Services, Counsel, and Values: Managing Strategically in the Public Sector by John Murray
Pt. II		Develop Your Options
7		The Rising Cost of Offering Valueless Propositions in a Connected World by Sean Mehan and Willem Smit
8		Managing Evolving Global Production Networks by Kasra Ferdows
9		From Lines to Loops: An Iterative Approach to Strategy by Don Sull
10		Opening up Strategic Space through Discontinuous Innovation by John Bessant
11		How to Create the Industries of the 21st Century by Costas Markides
Pt. III		Lead The Change
12		Leading in the Knowledge Economy by Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones
13		The Leader's Prison by Robert Galavan and John Cullen
14		Nurturing Innovation Hot Spots by Lynda Gratton
15		The Contrasting Faces of the Chairman of the Board by Nada Kakabadse and Andrew Kakabadse and Linda Lee-Davies
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