Strategic Management

This book offers an alternative to the traditional approach by focusing on building the change capacity of the entire organization in anticipation of the onslaught of change.

This book outlines and illustrates strategies that you must employ to protect your intellectual property. There are legal means available to you, and this book defines these means and explains them in plain language.

This book is a primer on corporate governance for executives. It is designed to guide you to become an effective participant by discussing corporate governance from both a macro- and micro-perspective.

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 defines social networking and social capital and helps you understand the relationship between them. Learn how to leverage the logic and structure of social networks through extensive discussions of current successful models in action and enhance your strategies and competitive advantage.

This book is your guide to knowledge management for the future leaders of your organization. In other words, it ensures that they will know what you know and be able to apply your experiences to similar encounters in their time.

This book describes companies that conduct international business at or near the founding of the firm. Despite the limited resources that usually characterize new businesses, these “Born Global” firms achieve substantial international sales from an early stage in their development.

Sustainable (and green) business seems to have become mainstream practically overnight. This growth in interest in sustainable business practices stems from changing societal expectations and a growing awareness that sustainability creates a win-win situation for the business and humanity alike.

Updated, this new edition draws on two trillion-dollar examples – one being the present credit crunch – to highlight the gaping hole in the way industry and commerce are being taught how to make their decisions.

Mergers and acquisitions can be tumultuous for executives. Target companies can expect to lose close to 40 percent of their top management team within two years after acquisition.

Strategy is about creating a plan to differentiate your business from the competition and to gain a competitive advantage. This book is about the fundamentals of strategic planning for the small business owner and his or her leadership team.

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To fill this critical gap, this book adopts a fresh approach identifying reasons for bad management which are backed up by case studies from real life business situations.

In this book we show how seemingly ideal boards, those with “best practice” size, composition, and structure, can still fail to provide good governance simply because they fall victim to problems inherent in all groups.

 Written for executives and graduate students the text offers practical techniques for simplifying and improving business processes that are immediately actionable.

Growth and competitive advantage are about effective positioning. Building effective positioning is challenging today for firms facing new and stronger competition, volatile and uncertain markets, and shifting customer desires and demands.

Positive management (PM) motivates employees, increases productivity, and accomplishes important organizational goals by creating positive and upbeat relationships with employees.

As business leaders look to the future, especially in troubling economic times, many are considering how to remain competitive in an era of scant resources. For most, it seems likely that capital projects will be scarce and the idea of growing the workforce will be a distance dream.

This book will touch on topics like environmental scanning, trend tracking, issues lifecycles, stakeholder identification and prioritization, stakeholder engagement, stakeholder networks, social capital, resource access, supply chain CSR, enterprise risk management, and CSR/sustainability performance assessment.

This book provides general managers and students of general management with a broad overview of the theories, concepts, tools, and principles of general management, leadership, governance, strategy, and execution.

This book outlines the needed evolution in leadership attitudes and behaviors in the key operational areas such as new product development, sales, operations, customer service, human resources, finance, and information technology.

The globalization of the competitive landscape has forced companies to fundamentally rethink their strategies. Whereas once only a few industries such as oil could be labeled truly global, today many—from pharmaceuticals to aircraft to computers—have become global in scale and scope.,/p>

This workbook is designed for CEOs, Executives and Senior Managers who have been assigned to a new position with sufficient authority, if not a mandate, to enact change in the organization.

Change has become something of a buzzword for high-performance firms. “Change,” however, can be difficult and hazardous. Executives may initiate change by acquiring new businesses, divesting under-performing units, and downsizing.

This book explains the strategy and tactics for successful, growth oriented, and self-funding operations in post-secondary educational institutions.

Between downsizing, outsourcing, retrenchment, and stagnant or declining real wages workers in the United States face a discouraging workplace environment. For senior executives, the last ten years, has on average, provided great wealth, but an uncertain and high pressure environment.