This book takes a fresh and critical look at the leading sources of global risk - terrorism, disease, crime, poverty, environmental damage and others - and sets out a practical way to respond far better than we have to each risk area.Drawing from his state-of-the-art knowledge of global strategy...

This book presents a socio-technical view of strategic informationsystems issues such as enterprise systems implementation andmanagement, knowledge management, customer relationship management,and e-government initiatives. It contains eight case studiesdocumenting experiences of utilizing...

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This book reflects the challenges in utility industries and provides solutions from a managerial perspective. It features insights from managers, researchers, professionals in utility-related banking, consulting, and public and supranational organizations.

A revolution is taking place in the way companies organize and manage the 'front-end' of their organization, where it meets its customers. This book aims to provide insights into how this revolution is unfolding and to provide a framework for executives and management students to address the...

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? Given today's realities, how should companies answer these questions? In this book, leading business school academics use their...

This groundbreaking guide provides a deep understanding of how to achieve enterprise performance management objectives, backed up by first-hand accounts from Fortune 500 companies who are winning by building accountability, intelligence, and informed decision-making into their organizational...

Phil Jones' Communicating Strategy is designed to help you communicate your organization's strategy in a compelling and effective way, and dramatically improve implementation and the resulting outcomes.It provides a clear framework for building a communication plan as well as practical...

There is a great deal of practice, discussion, and writing about strategy, but little investigation of the processes by which strategies actually form in organizations. This book shares the results of Henry Mintzberg's investigation into this, conducted over several decades, using case studies...

Joseph L. Bower and Clark G. Gilbert have collected together some of the leading experts on strategy to examine how strategy is actually made by company managers across the several levels of an organization. Is strategy a coherent plan conceived at the top by a visionary leader, or is it formed...