Strategic Management Dynamics

Author : Kim Warren
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Business planning
ISBN : 1505809053

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Strategy Dynamics Essentials by Kim Warren Pdf

In this book Kim provides the reader with a reliable method to develop "joined up" strategies and plans for common business situations - a powerful addition to current tools and frameworks. The initial focus is on the core "strategic architecture" of the business, which explains how performance arises from its system of real elements (customers, staff, products, capacity, cash). Later chapters extend the method to deal with the quality and development of customers and other resources, competition, policy decisions, intangible factors and organizational capabilities. The strategy dynamics method deploys the rigorous, scientific method of system dynamics - essentially the application of engineering control theory principles to social systems. The method leads to the creation of working, quantified models of any enterprise, or any part thereof, of any scale, in any sector-or of any issue that such an enterprise may face. Kim uses clear, every-day language, and develops examples demonstrating how to create working, quantified models we need to develop and manage strategy. The book is supported by the Sysdea strategy planning software. Many of Kim's example models are available online for the reader to explore. Sysdea - www.sysdea.com. This version of the book is printed in greyscale. A version with the interior charts etc in color is also available search on - ISBN-13: 978-1512107753 .

Author : Ralph D. Stacey
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0273708112

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Strategic Management and Organisational Dynamics by Ralph D. Stacey Pdf

This textbook challenges the view that organizations succeed when they operate in states of stability, harmony and consensus. The author argues that an understanding of organizational dynamics leads to a greater insight into strategic management.

Author : Kim Warren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Strategic planning
ISBN : OCLC:1285851625

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Strategic Management Dynamics by Kim Warren Pdf

Author : Kim Warren
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0471899496

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Competitive Strategy Dynamics by Kim Warren Pdf

This book offers a practical, fact-based approach to explain how enterprises deliver performance over time. Rigorous methods explain how to quantify the growth, decline and interdependence within the organisation's resources and capabilities as well as the continuous interactions with competitors and other external factors. These methods create clear and practical pictures of the strategic architecture driving earnings and other performance outcomes, not just for commercial firms, but for non-profit cases too. Management is then well-equipped to answer three crucial questions in their strategy development : why has the business performed as it has to date? where is performance headed in the future if we carry on as now? and how can we alter this future for the better? The book provides the basis for an entire course on the time-based perspective on competitive strategy, connecting strongly to established static frameworks. Alternatively it offers a vital missing component for existing courses in strategy and general management, as well as a key reference text for professionals in corporate development, consulting and business analysis.

Author : John D. W. Morecroft
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118994818

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Strategic Modelling and Business Dynamics by John D. W. Morecroft Pdf

Insightful modelling of dynamic systems for better business strategy The business environment is constantly changing and organisations need the ability to rehearse alternative futures. By mimicking the interlocking operations of firms and industries, modelling serves as a ‘dry run’ for testing ideas, anticipating consequences, avoiding strategic pitfalls and improving future performance. Strategic Modelling and Business Dynamics is an essential guide to credible models; helping you to understand modelling as a creative process for distilling and communicating those factors that drive business success and sustainability. Written by an internationally regarded authority, the book covers all stages of model building, from conceptual to analytical. The book demonstrates a range of in-depth practical examples that vividly illustrate important or puzzling dynamics in firm operations, strategy, public policy, and everyday life. This updated new edition also offers a rich Learners' website with models, articles and videos, as well as a separate Instructors' website resource, with lecture slides and other course materials (see Related Websites/Extra section below). Together the book and websites deliver a powerful package of blended learning materials that: Introduce the system dynamics approach of modelling strategic problems in business and society Include industry examples and public sector applications with interactive simulators and contemporary visual modelling software Provide the latest state-of-the-art thinking, concepts and techniques for systems modelling The comprehensive Learners' website features models, microworlds, journal articles and videos. Easy-to-use simulators enable readers to experience dynamic complexity in business and society. Like would-be CEOs, readers can re-design operations and then re-simulate in the quest for well-coordinated strategy and better performance. The simulators include a baffling hotel shower, a start-up low-cost airline, an international radio broadcaster, a diversifying tyre maker, commercial fisheries and the global oil industry. "Much more than an introduction, John Morecroft’s Strategic Modelling and Business Dynamics uses interactive ‘mini-simulators and microworlds’ to create an engaging and effective learning environment in which readers, whatever their background, can develop their intuition about complex dynamic systems." John Sterman, Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management "Illustrated by examples from everyday life, business and policy, John Morecroft expertly demonstrates how systems thinking aided by system dynamics can improve our understanding of the world around us." Stewart Robinson, Associate Dean Research, President of the Operational Research Society, Professor of Management Science, School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University

Author : Thomas H. Davenport,Marius Leibold,Sven C. Voelpel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783895786037

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Strategic Management in the Innovation Economy by Thomas H. Davenport,Marius Leibold,Sven C. Voelpel Pdf

Innovative ruptures of traditional boundaries in value chains are requiring companies to rethink how they go to market, what they need to own, what they need to retain and innovate as core competencies, and how they innovatively deal with suppliers and customers. The key message of the book is that the new knowledge-networked innovation economy requires a totally different strategic management mindset, approach and toolbox, and its major value-added is a new strategic management approach and toolbox for the innovation economy - a poised strategy approach. Designed for both managers and advanced business students, the book provides a unique combination of new management theory, selected managerial articles by prominent scholars such as Clayton Christensen, Henry Chesbrough, Sumantra Ghoshal, Quinn Mills, and Peter Senge, and a wide array of real-world case examples including GE, Shell, IBM, HP, BRL Hardy, P&G, Southwest Airlines and McGraw-Hill, within the dynamics of industries such as airlines, energy, telecommunications, wine & beverages, and computing. The authors illustrate powerful new strategic innovation concepts and tools, such as poised strategy for managing multiple business models, poised strategy scorecards (moving beyond the well-known balanced scorecard), the wheel of business model reinvention, and organizational rejuvenation methods. The book includes the concepts of: Poised Strategic Management, Organizational Rejuvenation, Business Models as Platform for Strategy, Poised Scorecards, Identifying Sources of Innovation in Business Ecosystems.

Author : T. K. Das
Publisher : IAP
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781617357565

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Management Dynamics in Strategic Alliances by T. K. Das Pdf

Management Dynamics in Strategic Alliances is a volume in the book series Research in Strategic Alliances that will focus on providing a robust and comprehensive forum for new scholarship in the field of strategic alliances. In particular, the books in the series will cover new views of interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks and models, significant practical problems of alliance organization and management, and emerging areas of inquiry. The series will also include comprehensive empirical studies of selected segments of business, economic, industrial, government, and non-profit activities with wide prevalence of strategic alliances. Through the ongoing release of focused topical titles, this book series will seek to disseminate theoretical insights and practical management information that will enable interested professionals to gain a rigorous and comprehensive understanding of the field of strategic alliances. Management Dynamics in Strategic Alliances contains contributions by leading scholars in the field of strategic alliance research. The 12 chapters in this volume cover a number of significant topics relating to the management of strategic alliances. The chapters discuss both the broader issues, such as governance structure choice, dynamics of alliance conditions, co-evolutionary dynamics, learning dynamics, and the management of internal tensions, and the more focused problems of controls in interfirm settings, dilemmas of cooperation, value creation in alliance portfolios, and alliance management experiences in the construction and automobile industries. The chapters include empirical as well as conceptual treatments of the selected topics, and collectively present a wide-ranging review of the management dynamics in strategic alliances.

Author : Kim Warren
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780470060674

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Strategic Management Dynamics by Kim Warren Pdf

Kim Warren presents a complete framework in the field of Strategic Management. The book combines theory with clearly illustrated examples to examine the concept of financial performance and the tools that can be used to improve it.

Author : Rita Gunther McGrath
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781422191415

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The End of Competitive Advantage by Rita Gunther McGrath Pdf

Are you at risk of being trapped in an uncompetitive business? Chances are the strategies that worked well for you even a few years ago no longer deliver the results you need. Dramatic changes in business have unearthed a major gap between traditional approaches to strategy and the way the real world works now. In short, strategy is stuck. Most leaders are using frameworks that were designed for a different era of business and based on a single dominant idea—that the purpose of strategy is to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. Once the premise on which all strategies were built, this idea is increasingly irrelevant. Now, Columbia Business School professor and globally recognized strategy expert Rita Gunther McGrath argues that it’s time to go beyond the very concept of sustainable competitive advantage. Instead, organizations need to forge a new path to winning: capturing opportunities fast, exploiting them decisively, and moving on even before they are exhausted. She shows how to do this with a new set of practices based on the notion of transient competitive advantage. This book serves as a new playbook for strategy, one based on updated assumptions about how the world works, and shows how some of the world’s most successful companies use this method to compete and win today. Filled with compelling examples from “growth outlier” firms such as Fujifilm, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Infosys, Yahoo! Japan, and Atmos Energy, The End of Competitive Advantage is your guide to renewed success and profitable growth in an economy increasingly defined by transient advantage.

Author : Constance E. Helfat,Sydney Finkelstein,Will Mitchell,Margaret Peteraf,Harbir Singh,David Teece,Sidney G. Winter
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781405182065

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Dynamic Capabilities by Constance E. Helfat,Sydney Finkelstein,Will Mitchell,Margaret Peteraf,Harbir Singh,David Teece,Sidney G. Winter Pdf

Creating, adapting to, and exploiting change is inherently entrepreneurial. To survive and prosper under conditions of change, firms must develop the “dynamic capabilities” to create, extend, and modify the ways in which they operate. The capacity of an organization to create, extend, or modify its resource base is vital. Since the concept of dynamic capabilities was first introduced, much research has elaborated the initial idea. This important book by Constance Helfat and her team of leading scholars provides a timely focus on in-depth examples of corporate dynamic capabilities. Examining these in the different contexts of alliances, acquisitions, and management, the book gives students and researchers a succinct, up-to-date definition of dynamic capabilities and the strategic management theories around them.

Author : Duncan Andrew Robertson,Adrián A. Caldart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Business planning
ISBN : 1383036837

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The Dynamics of Strategy by Duncan Andrew Robertson,Adrián A. Caldart Pdf

As the life span of business models has shrunk, firms have had to review their strategic intent, develop strategic initiatives in fast and imaginative ways, and engage in major reorganizations to deal with this. This title helps make sense of the changing business environment and requisite processes of strategizing and organizing.

Author : Eric J. Bolland
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781787142251

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Comprehensive Strategic Management by Eric J. Bolland Pdf

This breakthrough book provides students and managers alike with an understanding of the concepts and tools of strategy.

Author : Curtis M. Grimm,Hun Lee,Ken G. Smith,Ken G Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780195161441

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Strategy As Action by Curtis M. Grimm,Hun Lee,Ken G. Smith,Ken G Smith Pdf

Strategy as Action presents an action plan for how firms can build, improve, and defend their competitive advantage at every stage of their life cycle. For start-up firms entering a market, it provides a model for exploiting competitive uncertainty and blind spots; for growth firms who have established some market advantages, it provides an action plan for exploiting relative resources; for mature firms, it explains how to exploit market position; finally, for firms that have no decisive resource advantage, it provides an action plan based on firm co-operative reactions.

Author : David J. Teece
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199545124

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Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management by David J. Teece Pdf

How do firms grow? How do firms compete? An influential answer to these fundamental questions of business strategy lies in the concept of dynamic capabilities. David Teece provides a clear statement of his ideas, and a framework for managers wishing to assess their organization's strategy.

Author : Martha A. Gephart,Victoria J. Marsick
Publisher : Springer
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783662486429

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Strategic Organizational Learning by Martha A. Gephart,Victoria J. Marsick Pdf

This book discusses the successes and challenges of leveraging organizational learning in effective strategy development and execution. The authors introduce a framework that helps organizations develop core capabilities to enable them to shift direction rapidly and proactively shape future environments. They also offer a wide selection of cases to illustrate this framework. While some cases highlight fundamental strategic change over time, others are snapshots of mechanisms gradually put in place to jointly optimize learning and performance. There is no one best or right way to leverage strategic organizational learning; different practices may lead to the same outcome and similar practices may lead to different outcomes. The system dynamics underlying such learning — not the simple adoption of one or other practice — are key to success in institutionalizing a performance-based learning approach.