Strategy, Innovation, and Change
Strategy, Innovation, and Change

Author: Robert Galavan

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2008-05-15

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 0191553689

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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.

Emerging Economies and Challenges to Sustainability
Emerging Economies and Challenges to Sustainability

Author: Arve Hansen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-10-10

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1317752538

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The rise of emerging economies represents a challenge to traditional global power balances and raises the question of how we can combine sustainability with continued economic growth. Understanding this global shift and its impact on the environment is the paramount contemporary challenge for development-oriented researchers and policy makers alike. This book breaks new ground by combining scholarship on the role of emerging economies with research on sustainable development. The book investigates how the development strategies of emerging economies challenge traditional development theory and sustainability discourses. With regional introductions and original case studies from South Asia, East Asia, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, it discusses how to conceptualise sustainable development in the global race for economic prosperity. What characterises the development strategies of emerging economies, and what challenges are these posing for global sustainable development? How can emerging economies shed light on the global challenges, dilemmas and paradoxes of the relationship between socio-economic improvements and environmental degradation? This book will be a valuable resource for researchers and postgraduates in development studies, geography, economics and environmental studies.

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.

The Realities of Student Life Navigating Challenges and Embracing Growth
The Realities of Student Life Navigating Challenges and Embracing Growth

Author: Yuvraj Singh

Publisher: Pencil

Published: 2023-08-22

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9356679797

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"Thriving Through Student Life: Navigating Challenges and Embracing Growth" is an insightful and comprehensive guide that empowers students to navigate the complexities of higher education with confidence, resilience, and a sense of purpose. From the transition from high school to college to the realities of student life, this book offers practical strategies, valuable insights, and inspiring anecdotes to help students thrive academically, emotionally, socially, and professionally. Drawing from personal experiences, research, and interviews with students, the book addresses a wide range of topics relevant to student life. It explores the academic pressures students face, providing effective study techniques, time management skills, and tips for seeking academic support.

The Challenge Is Yours
The Challenge Is Yours

Author: Deshna Safford

Publisher:

Published: 2010-05

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9781452015255

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The Challenge is YOURS will discuss the importance of being respectful, not just to family, but to everyone. You may never know who you will need advice from and that person or persons you were disrespectful towards may be the person or persons to come to your rescue when no one else will. The Challenge is YOURS talks about always forgiving those who have brought harm to you because the real revenge is already set in place for them. Your job is to forgive them, let it go and keep on reaching for your goals. In The Challenge is YOURS, I will inform you of thirty helpful strategies on envisioning your goals, staying focused, and preventing complacency once those goals have been achieved. The strategies that will be discussed in The Challenge is YOURS are still being exercised today in my everyday life. Hopefully, these strategies will be as helpful for you, as they are for me.

Reaching Students
Reaching Students

Author: Nancy Kober

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780309300438

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"Reaching Students presents the best thinking to date on teaching and learning undergraduate science and engineering. Focusing on the disciplines of astronomy, biology, chemistry, engineering, geosciences, and physics, this book is an introduction to strategies to try in your classroom or institution. Concrete examples and case studies illustrate how experienced instructors and leaders have applied evidence-based approaches to address student needs, encouraged the use of effective techniques within a department or an institution, and addressed the challenges that arose along the way."--Provided by publisher.

Strategy to Reality
Strategy to Reality

Author: Whynde Kuehn

Publisher: Morgan James Publishing

Published: 2022-07-05

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1631958453

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Strategy to Reality brings together a vast number of perspectives and experiences, offering business leaders the straight talk necessary to clarify, simplify, and humanize business architecture with Whynde Kuehn’s practical and actionable approach. Whynde Kuehn’s vision can be summed up in one word: big. She loves climbing mountains—physical and metaphorical—and her most successful summit can be found in Business Architecture, an aspect of business development that she has pioneered, explored, and mastered. She is a passionate guide for business architecture leaders and practitioners around the world who are motivated to achieve goals, implement effective strategies, and provide measurable results. Her approach can be implemented by organizations of any size: from an NGO, government organization, or Fortune 500 company, to a non-profit or startup. Within Strategy to Reality, Whynde Kuehn offers a well-informed, holistic view that can transform and reshape the world. She arms Business Architecture Practitioners and Strategy Execution Leaders with the in-house training and tools they need to close the gap between strategy and successful execution. Whynde believes that every organization needs to build their own capacity for continuous change, and it is her goal that they reach their goals, while gaining the “vision” they need to see the clearest course of action and to weave it all together. It is Whynde Kuehn’s goal to help the leaders of today and tomorrow build better organizations and unlock new ways of executing strategies, increasing collaboration, and creating value, growth, and profits. Those who seek to be a catalyst for change in their company, who relentlessly seek ways to do things better, and who always ask, “Why?” and “What if?” will find the strategies they need to enact that change in Strategy to Reality.