Strategy, Innovation, and Change

Challenges for Management
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-923990-0
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 681 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Galavan, Robert

Murray, John

Markides, Costas

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien

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: Seán 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

- 11: 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

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Galavan PhD is Director of the Centre for Business, Management and Innovation Studies at the National University of Ireland in Maynooth. He is an accomplished executive education teacher, business consultant and an award winning researcher in the field of strategic leadership. He was previously head of Executive Education at the Irish Management Institute and Programme Director at the Trinity-IMI Graduate School of Management.

John Murray PhD is Professor of Business Studies at the School of Business, Trinity College Dublin. His research and publications have addressed the strategic challenges associated with organizational renewal and managing in the public sector. Currently his focus is on the dynamics of global business systems. He has served as faculty member with business schools in Europe, Asia and North America and as consultant to multinational companies.

Costas Markides PhD is Professor of Strategic and International Management and holds the Robert P. Bauman Chair of Strategic Leadership at the London Business School. He has published extensively in the worlds most prestigious journals. He has published several books and his most recent, Fast Second: How Smart Companies Bypass Radical Innovation to Enter and Dominate New Markets was short-listed for the F/T Goldman Sachs Management Book of the Year Award.