Describes future‐mapping, an innovative process for creative strategic thinking and decision making. The idea consists of imagining already living in an ideal, successful future, describing it in detail as if it were real, and then “remembering”, step‐by‐step, how it was arrived at....

Nuolatinis neįgaliųjų skaičiaus didėjimas, darbingo amžiaus žmonių skaičiaus mažėjimas bei vis didėjanti darbo jėgos emigracija skatina atkreipti didesnį dėmesį į Neįgalumo ir darbingumo nustatymo tarnybos prie Socialinės apsaugos ir darbo ministerijos (toliau – NDNT)...

Magistro baigiamojo darbo tikslas - parengti pasiūlymus ir projektinius sprendimus Balbieriškio Mykolo Jeronimo Krupavičiaus žemės ūkio mokyklos strategijai. Darbą sudaro trys pagrindinės dalys: teorinė, analitinė ir projektinė. Pirma darbo dalis skirta užsienio ir Lietuvos autorių...

Purpose How to build and enhance the strategic learning capability (SLC) of an organization becomes crucial to both research and practice. This study was designed with the purpose to conceptualize SLC by translating and interpreting the related literature to develop empirical dimensions that...

Spun off from Racal Radio Group in 1985, Vodafone Group has transformed itself in the last six years from a virtually unknown small UK‐based company into the world’s largest wireless and mobile‐phone operator. With 93 million subscribers in 29 countries, it ranks among the top ten global...

The manager who moves from manufacturing to services or the professor who wishes to research and teach service operations must recognise the key differences for developing an appropriate operations management strategy in a service business. For this process to be successful, the operations...

Describes the experience of 40 strategy workshops conducted with the top teams of a variety of businesses. While the aim of the workshops was to produce high levels of commitment to good quality strategies, in a number of cases the outcomes were disappointing; little strategic change took place....

Co‐operation between two or more firms joined in an alliance is becoming increasingly important in competitive international business. It is a means to an end whereby firms gain from each other′s respective qualities and attributes in aiming towards business success. The degree of commitment...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test the proposition that business strategy affects leadership functions, skills, traits, and styles, and to assess the implications of these effects for the practice of both leadership and strategic planning. Design/methodology/approach – This is an...

Purpose – Within the strategy as practice field several studies have recently paid attention to organizational arenas like meetings, workshops and away‐days. There has, however, been a tendency to focus on what happens “inside” separated organizational arenas. The aim of the paper is to...