Building Strategy and Performance through Time: The Critical Path

Building Strategy and Performance through Time: The Critical Path

Kim Warren

Print Price: 
$27.00
In Stock: 
May 18, 2009
Number of Pages: 
139
Print ISBN: 
978-1-60649-037-2
E-book ISBN: 
978-1-60649-038-9

This book uses a balanced blend of frameworks and illustrations to teach you how to tackle the challenge of driving performance into the future. Existing strategy tools are no longer enough as they do not explain how to deliver your strategy powerfully over a sustained period. This book shows you where the levers are that you control and how to choose what to do, when, and how much to achieve your specific goals.

The author weaves a logical process for the reader to follow, using situations to explain how an enterprise works and delivers performance. It shows you the levers that management controls and how to choose what to do, when, and how much to accomplish your goals. Examples prove that departmental decisions cannot be made in isolation but must take into account other choices being made elsewhere and at other times.

Key Features

  • The logical process is supported by examples to clearly explain the concepts of dynamic strategy.
  • Copious illustrations back up each part of the logic.
  • Shows how you must consider intradepartmental choices and decisions to create a dynamic strategy that takes everything into account.
  • Provides clear frameworks for understanding why business performance follows its current path, where it will go if the strategy remains unchanged, and how to design a robust strategy to transform this future.

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Kim Warren

Kim Warren

Kim Warren has been teaching Strategic Management in MBA and Executive programs at London Business School since 1990. There he has developed powerful frameworks for strategy analysis and strategic management that go beyond the simple, static tools that are more commonly used. Known as ‘Strategy Dynamics’, this method focuses on improvements to the time-path of business performance that is so crucial to the concerns of investors and other stakeholders. The method also provides a sound basis for strategy development in public-service and non-commercial organizations.