Controlling Strategy
Controlling Strategy

Author: Christopher S. Chapman

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2005-06-09

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9780191557835

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Ideas about the role of management accounting systems in a firm's strategy have changed in recent years, and this book explores the ways in which this has happened. Management control systems have frequently been seen as irrelevant to strategy, or even damaging. Controlling Strategy draws out the various ways in which management control systems can build and sustain valuable strategic roles. The book explores topics such as: *Strategic measurement; *Strategic data analysis; *The Balanced Scorecard; *Capital budgeting; *Strategy coordination; Written as an introduction to the strategic role of management control systems Controlling Strategy provides a synthesis of important work in the fields of strategy and management accounting. Academics and Advanced Students of Accounting, Strategy, or Management Studies will find the book an indispensable guide to this area.

Strategic Management Dynamics
Strategic Management Dynamics

Author: Kim Warren

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-01-22

Total Pages: 719

ISBN-13: 0470060670

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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.

Controlling for Competitiveness
Controlling for Competitiveness

Author: Fredrik Nilsson

Publisher: Copenhagen Business School Press DK

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9788763002424

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Organizational strategies are important in today's highly competitive environments. Businesses, as well as public sector organizations, need a unifying logic, which emerges out of dialogue among its members and also guides their actions. An organization's 'control system' has potential to become a key to this. Controlling for Competitiveness describes how management control is crucial in mobilizing, using, and communicating the knowledge and skills of managers and employees. Controllers should design situation-specific control systems, assuring that actions will be based on appropriate information and incentives. Enterprise systems facilitate coordination and information exchange, thus enabling the development of a consistent and congruent strategy throughout the organization. The involvement of all levels of management - as well as most employees - in this process creates motivation and commitment to the organization's strategy. It also prepares for executing strategy through a creative use of metrics, decision tools, and clarified responsibilities. The book underlines the need to understand management control as part of the organization's control mix (control package). It provides numerous examples of how systems and people interact in shaping a strategic focus in private as well as publicly-owned organizations. In addition to the authors' research experiences, the book is based on recent interviews with 16 leading complex organizations in the private and public sector.

Command and Control
Command and Control

Author: IFSTA.

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 2017-08-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780134874012

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By Robert Murgallis This book details the basic processes that apply to all incidents as well as some of the specific procedures necessary to make effective decisions at certain common occupancies. It covers incident scene decision-making in depth, presenting the two current and successful methodologies for making emergency decisions. The authors explain the basic ICS elements in an easy-to-understand method and introduce the concepts of Unified Command, Complex Command, Area Command, and Incident Management Teams. This text adds to information given in Command and Control as well as introducing new materials and new occupancy types.

Management Of Innovation Strategy In Japanese Companies
Management Of Innovation Strategy In Japanese Companies

Author: Kazuki Hamada

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2016-10-07

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 981310029X

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Traditionally, innovation has been considered difficult to manage, as it occurs through contingent discoveries and inventions. For effective innovation management, it is necessary to determine what provides new value to customers and achieve this new value efficiently, while solving the technical problems. This book explores how innovation management for industrial revitalization and activation are conducted in Japanese companies. 'Innovation' has diverse definitions, but the editors of this book have adopted the one proposed by J A Schumpeter. The features of innovation management in Japanese companies are considered systematically in the book. Positive analyses using questionnaires and innovation management strategy in individual industries and companies is also explored in detail.

Military Strategy
Military Strategy

Author: Joseph Wylie, Jr

Publisher: Naval Institute Press

Published: 2014-04-15

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13: 1612515150

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“No military service can long remain effective without searching self-criticism and continuous re-examination of its own ideas. Wylie, well known in the Navy, is a refreshingly and outspoken individual, thoroughly at home on the bridge of a ship, but equally at home in the semantics of dialectical discussion. He has produced a simple but relevant little work in an attempt to promote order in the discussion of strategy. . . . To the traditional theories of strategy-the maritime theory, the air theory, the continental theory-Wylie adds the ‘Mao theory’ of wars of national liberation. . . . [This book is] easier to read and understand and basically sounder than the great majority of the involved and tortuous rationalizations of the academic strategists.”- New York Times Book Review

Strategic Thinking, Planning, and Management Practice in the Arab World
Strategic Thinking, Planning, and Management Practice in the Arab World

Author: Albadri, Fayez

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2019-04-05

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 1522580492

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The Arab region has been and continues to be a focus of the world for its economic, political, and social importance. However, reality indicates that the performance of many Arab states in terms of education, literacy, health, employment, and welfare generally fall behind many countries of other regions. Strategic Thinking, Planning, and Management Practice in the Arab World is an essential reference source that investigates the status of current strategic practice in the Arab world as well as the need to promote awareness of effective development strategies. Featuring research on topics such as social justice, practical entrepreneurship, and crisis management, this book is ideally designed for high-caliber strategists, academic scholars, and postgraduate research students.

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

Author: MILIND T. PHADTARE

Publisher: PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.

Published: 2010-10-04

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 8120341805

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Primarily intended for the postgraduate students of commerce and management, this compact text covers all the topics prescribed in almost all universities and autonomous institutes in India. Each concept is explained with the help of many real-life examples from the Indian context. Considering the fact that the understanding of the concept of strategic intent is prerequisite to the understanding of strategic management, the chapter on strategic intent is included which brings out the differences between various elements of strategic intent. It also covers the current happenings in the businesses from the Indian context. Similarly, a topic on strategic choice has been discussed at length because of the fact that BCG growth-share matrix and GE nine-cell matrix are extremely useful in making a strategic decision in real life. Besides, the book contains ten case studies on various topics of strategic management such as environmental appraisal, critical success factors, SWOT analysis, strategic intent, strategic choice, business level strategy formulation and choice of growth strategy. All these cases are provided with authentic industry specific data. Firms are chosen from different businesses thereby giving business-specific flavour and a broad understanding of various business domains.

Strategy for Managing Complex Systems
Strategy for Managing Complex Systems

Author: Fredmund Malik

Publisher: Campus Verlag

Published: 2016-05-12

Total Pages: 565

ISBN-13: 3593505398

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"Malik demonstrates that management and management theory have strong foundations in systems science, and most specifically in a certain type of cybernetics of truly complex systems, of organismic, self-organizing, and evolving systems. This book provides the basics on how to create robust, functional, and sustainably viable systems. One of the reasons why it has become a classic on management cybernetics, now in its 11th edition, is that the strategies and heuristic principles of complexity management are still relevant - now more than ever."--Back cover.