The Strategy Pathfinder

Author : Duncan Angwin,Stephen Cummings
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119311898

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The Strategy Pathfinder by Duncan Angwin,Stephen Cummings Pdf

Real-world strategic management practice in an interactive micro-case format The Strategy Pathfinder presents an innovative, dynamic guide to strategic thinking and practice. Using real-world case examples from companies like Apple, the BBC, Hyundai, LEGO, McDonalds, Nike and SpaceX to illustrate critical concepts, this book enables readers to actively participate in real-world strategy dilemmas and create their own solutions. Strategy Pathfinder’s ‘live’ micro-cases provoke discussion about business models, value creation, new ventures and more, while its complimentary instructional content introduces you to the best ‘classic’ and new tools of strategic management. Rather than passively reproducing past and current ideas, Strategy Pathfinder encourages strategic thinkers to learn by doing. The book is designed to help the reader to develop a clear understanding of key concepts while shifting your thought processes towards real strategic action and innovation by enabling you to: Use strategy theories and frameworks to engage in analytical and creative discussions about key strategic issues facing real companies today Form strategic views for yourself, and test them against the views of others Effectively make and communicate recommendations based on solid strategic analysis that stand up to scrutiny from multiple stakeholders Become an active producer of new strategic ideas rather than a passive receiver of past wisdom This third edition has been updated with new chapters and cases to reflect the latest, cutting-edge issues in strategic thinking and practice. And the updated companion website offers students, instructors and managers more resources to facilitate understanding, interaction and innovation. As an active learning experience, The Strategy Pathfinder 3rd Edition engages the reader in the work of strategy practitioners. By arming you with the empirical research you need, and the best strategic management theories and frameworks to better analyse situations you're likely to encounter or already facing in your career, The Strategy Pathfinder teaches you how to improve your strategic thinking and practice, and develop your own strategic pathways for the future.

Author : Duncan Angwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Strategic planning
ISBN : OCLC:1245817975

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The Strategy Pathfinder by Duncan Angwin Pdf

Author : Duncan Angwin,Stephen Cummings,Chris Smith
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0470689463

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The Strategy Pathfinder by Duncan Angwin,Stephen Cummings,Chris Smith Pdf

This new edition of the popular The Strategy Pathfinder updates the micro-cases of real-life problems faced by companies and executives. These micro-cases help readers to engage with the kinds of situations they will encounter in their working lives while provoking discussions about key theoretical themes. Original presentation and design makes this an essential companion for both the business-school classroom and the executive briefcase. The Strategy Pathfinder brings experienced and potential executives alike an instant guide to the concepts and techniques they need to know. An innovative introduction to strategy. Makes readers active “producers” of strategy, rather than passive recipients of received wisdom. Presents essential pathways through the strategy jungle. Each case provokes discussion about a key theoretical theme. Encourages readers to form a view themselves, and then test it against the views of others, before offering recommendations about how best to proceed. Cases are drawn from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania. Supported by online lecturer supplements.

Author : Duncan Angwin,Stephen Cummings
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119311843

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The Strategy Pathfinder by Duncan Angwin,Stephen Cummings Pdf

Real-world strategic management practice in an interactive micro-case format The Strategy Pathfinder presents an innovative, dynamic guide to strategic thinking and practice. Using real-world case examples from companies like Apple, the BBC, Hyundai, LEGO, McDonalds, Nike and SpaceX to illustrate critical concepts, this book enables readers to actively participate in real-world strategy dilemmas and create their own solutions. Strategy Pathfinder’s ‘live’ micro-cases provoke discussion about business models, value creation, new ventures and more, while its complimentary instructional content introduces you to the best ‘classic’ and new tools of strategic management. Rather than passively reproducing past and current ideas, Strategy Pathfinder encourages strategic thinkers to learn by doing. The book is designed to help the reader to develop a clear understanding of key concepts while shifting your thought processes towards real strategic action and innovation by enabling you to: Use strategy theories and frameworks to engage in analytical and creative discussions about key strategic issues facing real companies today Form strategic views for yourself, and test them against the views of others Effectively make and communicate recommendations based on solid strategic analysis that stand up to scrutiny from multiple stakeholders Become an active producer of new strategic ideas rather than a passive receiver of past wisdom This third edition has been updated with new chapters and cases to reflect the latest, cutting-edge issues in strategic thinking and practice. And the updated companion website offers students, instructors and managers more resources to facilitate understanding, interaction and innovation. As an active learning experience, The Strategy Pathfinder 3rd Edition engages the reader in the work of strategy practitioners. By arming you with the empirical research you need, and the best strategic management theories and frameworks to better analyse situations you're likely to encounter or already facing in your career, The Strategy Pathfinder teaches you how to improve your strategic thinking and practice, and develop your own strategic pathways for the future.

Author : Duncan Angwin/stephen Cummings/chris Smith
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8126515880

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Business Strategy Pathfinder: Core Concepts and Micro-cases by Duncan Angwin/stephen Cummings/chris Smith Pdf

The Strategy Pathfinder is built around micro-cases of real-life problems faced by companies and executives. These micro-cases help readers to engage with the kinds of situations they will encounter in their working lives while provoking discussions about key theoretical themes. Original presentation and design makes this an essential companion for both the business-school classroom and the executive briefcase. The book also brings experienced and potential executives alike an instant guide to the concepts and techniques they need to know.· The Strategy Pathfinder User s Guide· Strategic Pathways· The Strategy Paths Combined· Macro-Shocks· Movers & Shakers· Industry Terrain· The Big Picture· Perfect Positioning· Living Strategy· Corporate Character· Crossing Borders· Guiding Change· Sustain Ability· Maverick Strategies

Author : Max Mckeown
Publisher : Pearson UK
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780273757115

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The Strategy Book ePub eBook by Max Mckeown Pdf

Thinking strategically is what separates managers and leaders. Learn the fundamentals about how to create winning strategy and lead your team to deliver it. From understanding what strategy can do for you, through to creating a strategy and engaging others with strategy, this book offers practical guidance and expert tips. It is peppered with punchy, memorable examples from real leaders winning (and losing) with real world strategies. It can be read as a whole or you can dip into the easy-to-read, bite-size sections as and when you need to deal with a particular issue. The structure has been specially designed to make sections quick and easy to use – you’ll find yourself referring back to them again and again.

Author : David W. Stewart,Michael M. Saren
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119961765

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The Marketing Pathfinder by David W. Stewart,Michael M. Saren Pdf

Dozens of lively international case studies that help readers put core marketing principles in a real-world context From market research to positioning and brand management to customer relations, marketing is the engine that drives innovation and growth in the modern business organization. This latest addition to the acclaimed Pathfinder series, like its popular predecessor, The Strategy Pathfinder, features a unique blend of core concepts and brief, international case studies. A refreshing contrast to traditional marketing texts and references, which tend to be prescriptive and directive, The Marketing Pathfinder offers professionals and marketing students alike an effective way to contextualize the marketing decisions they'll make in the real world of business. Not another one-size-fits-all marketing toolkit, The Marketing Pathfinder functions as a dynamic, interactive resource Each chapter presents a set of core concepts, frameworks, and tools, followed by five or more short, lively international case studies illustrating how the concepts and tools can be applied in the real world The case studies are specifically designed to encourage readers to pursue additional independent research and to encourage them to articulate and defend their decisions Throughout, the emphasis is on the reader as a marketing professional in the thick of it and responsible for the decisions they make

Author : Steve Rabin
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780429621956

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Game AI Pro 360: Guide to Tactics and Strategy by Steve Rabin Pdf

Steve Rabin’s Game AI Pro 360: Guide to Tactics and Strategy gathers all the cutting-edge information from his previous three Game AI Pro volumes into a convenient single source anthology that covers game AI strategy and tactics. This volume is complete with articles by leading game AI programmers that focus largely on combat decisions made in a wide variety of genres such as RTS, RPG, MOBA, strategy and tower defense games. Key Features Provides real-life case studies of game AI in published commercial games Material by top developers and researchers in Game AI Downloadable demos and/or source code available online

Author : David Stewart,Michael M. Saren
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1118758684

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The Marketing Pathfinder by David Stewart,Michael M. Saren Pdf

The latest in the Pathfinder series, The Marketing Pathfinder, like its predecessor The Strategy Pathfinder with its unique combination of key concepts and micro-cases, is a refreshing contrast to traditional marketing textbooks, which are prescriptive and directive. Instead this book offers students and executives an effective way of contextualizing the marketing decisions they will make in the business world.

Author : J. -C. Spender
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191510090

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Business Strategy by J. -C. Spender Pdf

What is strategy? For many it is the application of a theory, model or framework. In this book Spender develops a different creative approach. Emphasizing that firms face uncertainties and unknowns (knowledge gaps) he argues that the core of strategic thinking and processes rests on the organization's leaders developing newly imagined solutions to the opportunities that these uncertainties open up. Drawing on a wide range of ideas from strategy, economics, entrepreneurship and philosophy he stresses the importance of judgment in strategy, and argues that a key element of the entrepreneur and executive's task is to engage chosen uncertainties, develop a language to express and explain the firm's particular business model for dealing with these, and thus create innovation and value. At the same time he shows how the language the strategist creates to do this gives the firm identity and purpose, and communicates this to its members, stakeholders, and customers. In an accessible and engaging style Spender introduces these ideas, and reviews the strategy tools currently available from consultants and academics. Throughout he stresses the uncertainties or knowledge absences that pervade business and make effective strategizing both necessary and valuable. He outlines a structured practice that managers and consultants might chose to follow, not a theory. With appendices on casework, teaching strategy, current strategy texts, and further reading this book makes an important contribution to our understanding of the field and practice of strategy, opening up new approaches for managers, consultants, strategy teachers and students.

Author : Wolfgang Baur,John Compton
Publisher : Paizo Pub Llc
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Games
ISBN : 1601256264

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Pathfinder Rpg Strategy Guide by Wolfgang Baur,John Compton Pdf

Unlock the secrets of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game! Learn to improve your play and master the game with the Pathfinder RPG: Strategy Guide! This user-friendly, step-by-step, illustrated strategy guide offers invaluable advice on how to create a character - from the formation of a concept to selecting the best options to breath life into them. This comprehensive guide also includes rules for advancing your character from humble beginnings to the heights of power.

Author : Chris Bilton,Stephen Cummings
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781405180191

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Creative Strategy by Chris Bilton,Stephen Cummings Pdf

People tend to think of creativity and strategy as opposites. This book argues that they are far more similar than we might expect. More than this, actively aligning creative and strategic thinking in any enterprise can enable more effective innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership and organizing for the future. By considering strategy as a creative process (and vice versa), the authors define ‘creative strategy’ as a mindset which switches between opposing processes and characteristics, and which drives every aspect of the business. The authors draw experiences and cases from across this false divide – from the music industry, sports, fashion, Shakespearean theatre companies, creative and media organizations and dance, as well as what we might regard as more mundane providers of mainstream products and services – to uncover the creative connections behind successful strategy. “Creative Strategy is a talisman for those looking to take a new path” Matt Hardisty, Strategy Director, Mother Advertising “It has been said that business is a hybrid of dancing and calculation – the former incorporating the creative within a firm, the latter the strategic. Bilton and Cummings show how these apparently contradictory processes can be integrated. Their insights about how firms can ‘create to strategize’ and ‘strategize to create’ are informative for managers and management scholars alike.” Jay Barney, Professor and Chase Chair of Strategic Management, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University “In today’s world, new thinking – creativity – is required to tackle long-standing problems or address new opportunities. The trouble is few organizations understand how to foster and apply creativity, at least in any consistent manner. This book provides new insights into just how that can be done. It moves creativity from being just the occasional, and fortuitous, flash of inspiration, to being an embedded feature of the way the organization is run.” Sir George Cox, Author of the Cox Review of Creativity in Business for HM Govt., Past Chair of the Design Council

Author : Ikujiro Nonaka,Zhichang Zhu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107001848

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Pragmatic Strategy by Ikujiro Nonaka,Zhichang Zhu Pdf

Presents a unique pragmatic framework for shaping and solving strategic problems in a practical, creative and ethical manner.

Author : Stephen Cummings,Duncan Angwin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118707166

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Strategy Builder by Stephen Cummings,Duncan Angwin Pdf

A visual and interactive guide to building and communicating strategies that actually work YOUR STRATEGY HAS SEVEN SECONDS TO CAPTIVATE ITS AUDIENCE... So how are you going to present it? A big wordy document? A lengthy address? Slides full of bullet points? The best way to engage and involve people is through pictures. Strategy Builder shows you how to creatively combine the best strategy frameworks to orient and animate strategy discussion and development in your team. This visual, interactive guide, with illustrations by Visory, uses real world examples and practical tips to help you: Discover the five key foundations that every strategy should be built upon Draw compelling and unique pictures that capture your organization’s distinct strategies Develop your skills as a leader of strategy discussions Understand how to use interactive drawing to engage others and achieve ‘buy in’ Additional online resources available including Strategy Drawing Templates, plus Builder Slides and case studies materials for instructors. Locate the 'Companion Website' link towards the bottom of this page to access these materials. Test your strategic vision or develop a new strategic plan based on the best elements of key strategic frameworks by trying the FREE interactive Strategy Builder app, developed in association with StrategyBlocks, at www.strategicplan.com Praise for Strategy Builder: Cummings & Angwin are pioneers in introducing novel approaches in teaching and applying the principles of strategy --Robert M. Grant, Bocconi University, author of Contemporary Strategy Analysis In a complex, fast changing world, where we are bombarded by words, numbers and reports, the visual-first approach to strategy provided by Strategy Builder is immensely helpful for inspiring and communicating a clearer vision of how to move forward. -- Rachna Bhasin, VP Strategy, SiriusXM At last someone has grasped this idea and come up with a way to help us demonstrate strategic plans and ambitions in a creative new way. --Vikki Heywood CBE, Chair of The Royal Society for the Arts This wonderful book is the first to solve a near-universal problem: communicating strategic ideas is just as hard and just as important as coming up with them in the first place, and both are visual activities. The question is not “Do you understand?” but “Do you see?” --William Duggan, Professor, Columbia University, author Strategic Intuition This book shows how to draw an organization's strategy so you see what's been considered, what's not been considered, and how things are related,. Strategy building is presented as a fun and involving learning process.The approach is revolutionary in that it enables not only the development but also the easy sharing of strategic understanding. --Roger L.M. Dunbar, Emeritus Professor, Stern School of Business, New York University What a great idea! They layout is also really thoughtful; it makes you immediately want to get out a pencil and start doodling. --Adam Martin, Customer Solutions Director, The Brakes Group As a time pressed executive it was a delight to find a book that I can dip into to find the best strategic frameworks - those that have proved the test of time and academic scrutiny as being truly useful in the workplace. Even better for an inveterate scribbler: endorsement that a picture and ‘permission to play’ with ideas visually really does say a thousand words and more! --Sarah Mitson, Global Business Director, TNSGlobal This is an invaluable resource for any executive wanting to improve engagement in strategy development and c

Author : Giovanni B. Dagnino,Maria Cristina Cinici
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135071820

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Research Methods for Strategic Management by Giovanni B. Dagnino,Maria Cristina Cinici Pdf

The field of strategic management has developed significantly since its birth from "business policy" and "business planning" in the 1960s. Pioneering studies were essentially normative, prescriptive, and often based on in-depth case studies. The evolution of strategic management into a respected field of academic study resulted from the adoption of research methods previously employed in economics. Today, research in strategic management is likely to employ a mixture of methods borrowed from related and unrelated disciplines, such as politcal sciences, psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral economics, which can be confusing to researchers new to the field. This book provides the reader with a broad introduction to the array of qualitative and quantitative research methods required to investigate strategic management. Throughout the book, strong emphasis is placed on practical applications that transcend the mere analysis of the theoretical roots of single research methods. The underlying result is a book that encourages and aids readers to "learn by doing" – in applying the implications of each chapter to their own research. This text is vital reading for postgraduate students and researchers focused on business strategy.