Demystifying Strategic Thinking

Author : Tony Grundy
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780749465698

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Demystifying Strategy by Tony Grundy Pdf

Demystifying Strategy provides you with not only the basic strategic tools and techniques but also a thorough understanding of the entire process of strategic thinking and management. Using tips, guidelines and exercises it helps you to assess your own strategic mind and covers key topics such as: the different perspectives on strategy, economic analysis, dynamic competitive positioning, designing and evaluating options, implementation, managing the strategy process and how to nurture your strategic mind. Aimed at executives, entrepreneurs and also students of management, it enables you to assess the teaching of strategy 'gurus', construct your own strategy audit and challenge thinking styles by assessing the cognitive processes involved in developing successful strategies.

Author : Tony Grundy
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780749469450

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Demystifying Strategic Thinking by Tony Grundy Pdf

Creating a successful strategy, and the process of strategic thinking, is key to the growth plans of all businesses. But how do business leaders engage with, define and manage this process? And what do today's most successful CEOs consider to be the key components of creating a successful strategy? Using unique and original interviews with 6 top business leaders, Tony Grundy examines the key components of successful strategizing, from analysis versus synthesis, competitive strategy, economic values, and overcoming strategic constraints. Using examples from the manufacturing, retailing, services and trading industries, the book provides a strategy system for every business leader, and helps managers to develop and implement a winning strategy for their organization.

Author : Crundy,Laura Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9812431039

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Be Your Own Strategy Consultant by Crundy,Laura Brown Pdf

Strategic Project Management is about managing business strategy in the most effective way so that it delivers organizational breakthroughs. This refreshing book sees the authors bring techniques from the world of business strategy and apply them to the traditional area of project management. The authors explain the process of managing complex projects by combining business analysis and project management techniques in order for an organization to implement their business strategy and get the results they desire. Grundy and Brown argue that detailed strategic thinking is best approached through strategic project management, not just through business strategy. They show how to accomplish the initial planning efficiently and how to implement the strategy effectively, making this an ideal book for middle and senior managers working on projects at the strategic level, and also students studying project management.

Author : David Lei,John W. Slocum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415538664

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Demystifying Your Business Strategy by David Lei,John W. Slocum Pdf

This book offers mangers a comprehensive overview of the drivers of evolutionary advantage and practical insights on how to spot the emerging "inflection points", helping them to develop and maintain a strategic competitive advantage.

Author : Bruce C. Greenwald,Judd Kahn
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781101218433

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Competition Demystified by Bruce C. Greenwald,Judd Kahn Pdf

Bruce Greenwald, one of the nation's leading business professors, presents a new and simplified approach to strategy that cuts through much of the fog that has surrounded the subject. Based on his hugely popular course at Columbia Business School, Greenwald and his coauthor, Judd Kahn, offer an easy-to-follow method for understanding the competitive structure of your industry and developing an appropriate strategy for your specific position. Over the last two decades, the conventional approach to strategy has become frustratingly complex. It's easy to get lost in a sophisticated model of your competitors, suppliers, buyers, substitutes, and other players, while losing sight of the big question: Are there barriers to entry that allow you to do things that other firms cannot?

Author : Cecilia Lynch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1943765030

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Strategic Focus by Cecilia Lynch Pdf

Too often leaders just don't know where to start planning for the future of their business; they usually start with the familiar: internally, operationally and incrementally focused. This is the wrong place to start. From two decades-plus of leading successful custom consulting engagements for corporations, entrepreneurial business and non-profits, Cecilia Lynch, principal of Focused Momentum(r) and author of Strategic Focus: The Art of Strategic Thinking is finally making it easy to lead strategy development with confidence. Strategic Focus is your first step in preparing your strategic thinking about the future with clarity. This new book demystifies how to think strategically about your business to enable you to craft a winning strategy with the outside-in approach. This book will guide you through a series of exercises that create a simple, straight-forward process to form the premise for the future success of your enterprise. You too can lead truly stimulating and important conversations that will result in a significant evolution and in marketplace momentum for your company. By the time you are done with Strategic Focus: The Art of Strategic Thinking, you will be well-equipped and confident to facilitate strategy in your own business, with your team and/or with your board members.

Author : Simon Wootton,Terry Horne
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0749432187

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Strategic Thinking by Simon Wootton,Terry Horne Pdf

A practical workbook and accompanying CD-ROM which take the user through logical stages in strategic thinking. The CD-ROM contains worked examples and blank templates.

Author : Ross Harrison
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781597978071

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Strategic Thinking in 3D by Ross Harrison Pdf

Effective strategic thinking requires a clear understanding of one's external environment. Each organization has a unique environment, but as Ross Harrison explains in Strategic Thinking in 3D, any environment-whether in the fields of national security, foreign policy, or business-has three dimensions: systems, opponents, and groups.

Author : Vaughan Evans
Publisher : Pearson UK
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781292016450

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25 Need-To-Know Strategy Tools by Vaughan Evans Pdf

Author : Stanley Charles Abraham
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781780525211

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Strategic Planning by Stanley Charles Abraham Pdf

This book is exceptional treatise on strategic planning for single-business companies that is at once academically rigorous and uncommonly practical.

Author : Irene M. Duhaime,Larry Stimpert,Julie Chesley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136663321

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Strategic Thinking by Irene M. Duhaime,Larry Stimpert,Julie Chesley Pdf

There are many strategy books available in the marketplace for today’s student or business professional; most of them view strategy from the 10,000 foot level, while Strategic Thinking looks at this important business topic through a different lens. Written from the perspective of a manager, this book builds on theories of managerial and organizational cognition that have had a powerful influence on many business fields over the last two decades. As other books on business policy and strategy cover a broad range of topics, models, frameworks, and theories, the unique feature of this book is that it covers all this, but also focuses on how managers of business firms understand their business environments, assess and marshal their firms’ resources, and strive for advantage in the competitive marketplace. It examines the economic, structural, and managerial explanations for firm performance. Offering professors and business people who are intrigued by the ideas introduced in Peter Senge’s books ways to apply those ideas and principles in the classroom and in the companies in which they work, the book puts managers front and center.

Author : Sebastian Raisch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783322818836

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Dynamic Strategic Analysis by Sebastian Raisch Pdf

While significant insights have been gained, the field of factors underlying firm success is still highly fragmented, often oversimplifies the interrelation between success factors, and remains inherently static in its approach. Sebastian Raisch establishes three models to address these limitations and validates them in a field study of global media enterprises.

Author : Julia Sloan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780750678797

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Learning to Think Strategically by Julia Sloan Pdf

Offers an, until now, unexamined accout of the inextricably-linked relationship between strategic thinking and learning.

Author : Tony Dr Grundy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351623810

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Dynamic Competitive Strategy by Tony Dr Grundy Pdf

Dynamic Competitive Strategy by best –selling author Dr Tony Grundy casts a radically new light on Competitive Strategy by showing you the dynamic dimension of existing strategy tools and new ones created to deal with rapid innovation and turbulent change. He shows us refreshing and challenging ways of developing strategy, including: Agile approaches to Strategy and Planning The art of the Cunning Plan –with 101 ways of being innovative The alien approach: how might an alien see your industry and business? A whole new set of dynamic strategy tools Scenario storytelling and the art of mental time travel How emotional value can leverage competitive advantag Dynamic stakeholder analysis and influencing He also includes case studies of Arsenal, Brexit, Dyson, Metrobank, Tesco, the infamous honey badger and others from everyday life. This book provides an overall theory and a wealth of practical guidance based on 30 years of Strategy Consulting and Management Research and Teaching that will transform your thinking about strategy. Tony truly "turns strategy upside down," as he does on the cover.

Author : Frederick Betz
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781785604669

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Strategic Thinking by Frederick Betz Pdf

The purpose of proper strategic thinking is to eliminate top-down only communication that leads to the wishful thinking way of organizational strategy. Strategic thinking is necessary at every level of an organization. This book uses actual histories of business successes and failures to illustrate theoretical concepts in strategic thinking.