This book is about the challenges that emerge for organizations from an ever faster changing world. While useful at their time, several management tools, including classic strategic planning processes, will no longer suffice to address these challenges in a timely and comprehensive fashion. While individual management tools are still valid to solve specific problems, they need to be employed based on a clear understanding of what the greater challenge is and how they need to be combined and prioritized with other approaches. In order to do so, companies can apply the clarity of thinking from the military with regard to which leadership level is responsible for what and how these levels need to interact in order to produce a single aligned response to an outside opportunity or threat. Finally, the tool of business wargaming, while known for some time, proves to be an ideal approach to quickly and effectively bring all leadership levels together, align them around a common objective and lay the groundwork for effective implementation of targeted responses that will keep the organization competitive and in the game for the long run. The book offers a comprehensive introduction to business wargaming, including a historical account, a classification of different types of games and a number of specific real-world examples. This book is targeted at practicing managers dealing with the aforementioned challenges, as well as for students of business and strategy at every level.

In this article, renowned management experts Gary Hamel and C. K. Prahalad introduce their approach to strategic planning in the face of tough competition. With advice on tailoring your company's strategy and developing the will to win within your firm, this article helps you define a long-term strategy for your organization that captures employees' imaginations and creates a clear path to success.

An exploration of corporate purpose - a company's expressed overriding reason for existing - and its effect upon strategy, executive leadership, employees, and ultimately, on competitive performance. It argues that the path to financial success lies in a customer-focused corporate purpose.

We can all become strategic leaders if we stay on the right path. Even a strong leader can flounder without an effective strategy, and the most powerful strategy can fail without the right leader. Only those who master and integrate both skills can effectively navigate the challenges that lay ahead for today's organizations. The authors offer a 6-point checklist for leading strategically that will help managers strengthen their capacity to develop strategy and to lead its execution.

Strategic Management by R. Maheshwari & Saurabh Agarwal is a publication of the SBPD Publishing House, Agra. Strategic management is concerned with the processes by which management plans and co-ordinates the use of business resources with the general objective of securing or maintaining competitive advantage. This book provides the student with a general insight into the historical development of management practices and international business policies. In particular, this book reviews the developments and literature on corporate strategy and critically reviews the possibilities and limitations of management action in highly contested international markets. This book targets to meet in full measure the requirements of students preparing for B.B.A., B.Com., M.Com., M.B.A. and other Professional Courses of various Indian Universities. What makes this book an ideal choice is that great care has been taken to illustrate each point with suitable examples. The basic motto of this book is to generate interest in the subject in the mind of the students and help them understand each and every concept. Salient features of this book are as follows - The motto of this book is to provide an easy and obvious understanding of the subject to the students. Every best effort has been made to include the questions asked in various examinations in different years. The subject matter of this book is prepared scientifically and analytically. The volume of the book and the size of different points have been kept keeping in view to meet out the need for examinations.

The Board Book provides clear guidance to those serving on a school Board or those interacting with a school Board. This book seeks to address key issues you may encounter with a view to creating more successful school Boards through their structure, their operations, and relationships, both with the Principal and the wider school community. This book provides salient information relating to the process of choosing and ongoing evaluation of its Board Members, whilst providing guidance to help define their role in school operations from strategic planning to fund-raising. It is divided into easy to use cross references sections that can either be referred to independently as the need arises or as a whole.

To stay competitive in today’s market, organizations need to adopt a culture of customer-centric practices that focus on outcomes rather than outputs. Companies that live and die by outputs often fall into the "build trap," cranking out features to meet their schedule rather than the customer’s needs. In this book, Melissa Perri explains how laying the foundation for great product management can help companies solve real customer problems while achieving business goals. By understanding how to communicate and collaborate within a company structure, you can create a product culture that benefits both the business and the customer. You’ll learn product management principles that can be applied to any organization, big or small. In five parts, this book explores: Why organizations ship features rather than cultivate the value those features represent How to set up a product organization that scales How product strategy connects a company’s vision and economic outcomes back to the product activities How to identify and pursue the right opportunities for producing value through an iterative product framework How to build a culture focused on successful outcomes over outputs