The Practice of Making Strategy takes the student through the process of making strategy with a management team. This is a highly practical book based on a wealth of organizational applications in large and small organizations, public and not-for-profit as well as commercial settings. It...

This paper reports on the use of a Qualitative Decision Support System used within the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK. The system has been used to enable the individual performance review (IPR) process to become more effective. One aim of IPR is to motivate managers. However, the vision...

Over the past two decades three problem structuring methods have become particularly well known: soft systems methodology (SSM), strategic choice (SC), and strategic options development and analysis (SODA) (Rosenhead and Mingers, 2001). Discussion of these methods often focuses upon the...