Strategy according to Percy Barnevik, Chairman of ABB is 10 per cent vision and 90 per cent execution. Yet standard textbooks of strategic management are decidedly light in terms of their treatment of the organisational issues which frequently derail change initiatives. This text on the implementation of strategy redresses the balance.
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"As managers have increasingly come to recognize, implementation is the key to superior business performance. Yet, most books on strategy continue to focus on the 'what to', while glossing over the 'how to'. This book admirably fills the gap. Both managers and management academics will find Managing Strategic Implementation very useful in thinking about the processes and tasks of translating strategy into effective organizational action." Sumantra Ghoshal, London Business School.
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Strategy according to Percy Barnevik, Chairman of ABB, is 10 per cent vision and 90 per cent execution. Yet standard textbooks of strategic management are decidedly light in terms of their treatment of the organizational issues which frequently derail change initiatives.
Managing Strategy Implementation collects the insights of leading practitioners and academics experienced in executive education in a volume that explicitly examines the organizational issues. The book is divided into four sections, dealing respectively with new models of the process of strategy implementation, key roles in the strategic change process, and success factors in strategy implementation.
Topics include the narrative of strategic change, management of uncertainty, the role and utlity of consultants as well as emotional intelligence, the leadership of learning, the role of teams in implementation and the public sector context.
A detailed treatment of the emotional world of implementation is given which includes consideration of the stress issues involved, plus a detailed treatment of the middle manager as both architect and potential saboteur of change. The final section focuses on practice and the enablers of successful strategy implementation.
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Excellent book about strategy,
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If you want to take Strategy Planning seriously, this is an usefull book. The theory of strategy is the 'easy part'; this book explains good practices of strategy.
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The nature of our thinking about strategic management changed throughout the 1990s, drawing attention to a number of psychological issues associated with the pursuit of effective strategy (Sparrow, 1994). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
strategy implementation situations, middle management resistance, level public organizations, convergent knowledge, intelligent unconscious, employee involvement initiatives, dealership managers, strategic narrative, polarity management, strategic change initiatives, effective strategy implementation, strategy implementation process, successful strategy implementation, viewing strategy, interactive narrative, unionized environments, strategic activity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Administrative Science Quarterly, New Venture Gear, San Francisco, Free Press, Englewood Cliffs, Harvard Business School Press, Human Relations, Jack Welch, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Management Studies, Academy of Management Review, General Electric, Oxford University Press, Smurfit Print, British Journal of Management, Waterford Crystal, Harvard University Press, Irish Management Institute, Kinsley Lord, United Kingdom, Business Week, Local Government Management Board, London Business School, Organizational Dynamics New!
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The nature of our thinking about strategic management changed throughout the 1990s, drawing attention to a number of psychological issues associated with the pursuit of effective strategy (Sparrow, 1994). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
strategy implementation situations, middle management resistance, level public organizations, convergent knowledge, intelligent unconscious, employee involvement initiatives, dealership managers, strategic narrative, polarity management, strategic change initiatives, effective strategy implementation, strategy implementation process, successful strategy implementation, viewing strategy, interactive narrative, unionized environments, strategic activity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Administrative Science Quarterly, New Venture Gear, San Francisco, Free Press, Englewood Cliffs, Harvard Business School Press, Human Relations, Jack Welch, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Management Studies, Academy of Management Review, General Electric, Oxford University Press, Smurfit Print, British Journal of Management, Waterford Crystal, Harvard University Press, Irish Management Institute, Kinsley Lord, United Kingdom, Business Week, Local Government Management Board, London Business School, Organizational Dynamics New!
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- Strategic Management: Analysis and Action by Kenneth J. Hatten in Front Matter, page 68, and Back Matter
- Strategic Management by DAVID in Front Matter, page 68, and Back Matter
- Human Resource Management Made Simple, Third Edition by Alfred York on page 42, and page 93
- Managing Core Public Services by David McKevitt on page 107, and Back Matter
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- Managers Learning in Action by David Coghlan in Front Matter, page 134, and page 157
- The Competent Organization: A Psychological Analysis of the Strategic Management Process (Managing Work and Organizations) by Gerard P. Hodgkinson in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Competent Organization: A Psychological Analysis of the Strategic Management Process (Managing Work and Organizations) by Hodgkinson in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- International Management: Cross-Cultural Dimensions by Richard Mead in Back Matter
- Organizational Change: Interlevel Dynamics and Strategy by David Coghlan in Back Matter
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