Strategic Organizational Diagnosis and Design

Strategic Organizational Diagnosis and Design

Author: Richard M. Burton

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13: 1468400215

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A unique set of complementary hands-on tools for learning about and applying a deeper and practical theory for diagnosis and design. This edition has been significantly updated and rewritten to make it easier to read.


Good Strategy Bad Strategy

Good Strategy Bad Strategy

Author: Richard Rumelt

Publisher: Currency

Published: 2011-07-19

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0307886239

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Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world. Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to—and approach for—overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect. Yet, Rumelt shows that there has been a growing and unfortunate tendency to equate Mom-and-apple-pie values, fluffy packages of buzzwords, motivational slogans, and financial goals with “strategy.” In Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, he debunks these elements of “bad strategy” and awakens an understanding of the power of a “good strategy.” He introduces nine sources of power—ranging from using leverage to effectively focusing on growth—that are eye-opening yet pragmatic tools that can easily be put to work on Monday morning, and uses fascinating examples from business, nonprofit, and military affairs to bring its original and pragmatic ideas to life. The detailed examples range from Apple to General Motors, from the two Iraq wars to Afghanistan, from a small local market to Wal-Mart, from Nvidia to Silicon Graphics, from the Getty Trust to the Los Angeles Unified School District, from Cisco Systems to Paccar, and from Global Crossing to the 2007–08 financial crisis. Reflecting an astonishing grasp and integration of economics, finance, technology, history, and the brilliance and foibles of the human character, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy stems from Rumelt’s decades of digging beyond the superficial to address hard questions with honesty and integrity.


Strategic Management and Leadership for Systems Development in Virtual Spaces

Strategic Management and Leadership for Systems Development in Virtual Spaces

Author: Graham, Christian

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2016-01-07

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 1466696893

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Leadership and the traditional concept of what makes an effective leader is being challenged in the 21st century. Today, many teams are dispersed across time, geography, and cultures and coordinating those team using traditional concepts of leadership and management has been challenging. Strategic Management and Leadership for Systems Development in Virtual Spaces provides insights into the relationship between leadership and information systems development within online environments as well as strategies for effectively managing virtual teams. Focusing on opportunities as well as challenges associated with e-collaboration and managing remote workers, this peer-reviewed collection of research is designed for use by business professionals, scholars, and researchers in the fields of information science and technology, business and management, sociology, and computer science.


Organization Diagnosis, Design, and Transformation

Organization Diagnosis, Design, and Transformation

Author: John Latham

Publisher: Wiley

Published: 2009-03-10

Total Pages: 618

ISBN-13:

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* An easy-to-use manual that examines the Baldrige process of organizational assessment and diagnosis. * Gives a visual step-by-step understanding of the relationships within one of the most successful business models. * Updated and expanded to incorporate 2009 and 2010 Baldrige Criteria.


Performance Management Systems

Performance Management Systems

Author: Chiara Demartini

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-08-04

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 3642366848

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This book presents an analysis and a critical discussion on performance management systems. It seeks to advance the current state of knowledge in the subject by introducing a holistic performance management system - the loosely coupled performance management system. This new system presents a framework to leverage the systemic relationships among already established performance management mechanisms. The author contends that loosely coupled performance management systems fulfill two different objectives, namely - they assure control and foster innovation. Such a comprehensive approach to management control provides managers of economic organizations with an overarching architecture for the design, diagnosis and effective use of performance management systems.​


The Systems Thinking Approach to Strategic Planning and Management

The Systems Thinking Approach to Strategic Planning and Management

Author: Stephen Haines

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2000-06-13

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 1420025694

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Easy-to-follow and understand, The Systems Thinking Approach to Strategic Planning and Management presents the first practical application of "systems thinking", a concept first introduced by Peter Senge in the Fifth Discipline as a new, better and elegantly simple A-B-C approach to strategic management, planning, and change. It provides a unique S