Strategy Execution for Performance Excellence is a strategic book that is meant for two target groups. The first is for students studying management and business administration; both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, where it is meant to be used as a capstone course after the students have been exposed to the various functioning areas of management. The second is for readers and practitioners who seek essential knowledge on strategic management. The book can help to understand the right strategy execution and confront the indeed main challenges you face in implementing strategies. This book focuses on execution – the business and functional level strategies needed to make strategy work and achieve performance excellence. If you are striving you can use the great strategic message in this book to achieve excellent performance and shape your organization’s future. Covering eight chapters, the book covers topic such as an introduction to strategy execution, theory based understanding, performance excellence, competitive strategy, strategic flexibility, sourcing strategy, effective strategy execution model and winning business success formula. We are explaining winning business success formula for the managers that we believe they can apply in their companies that aims to achieve performance excellence and competitive advantage in the current hyper-competitive business environment. The book presents contents in an accessible style, accompanied by local and global examples and situations. Each chapter starts and ends with knowledge objective, strategic quotes, summary and some review questions.

What can the Match Your Strategies for Brilliant Performance book do for you? You can use the secrets in this book to become an effective strategic thinker, practitioner and scholar. The book can help you to understand the right strategic match and tackle the really important challenges you face in developing strategies and putting them into action. If you are ambitious, you can use the great strategic message in this book to achieve brilliant performance and shape your organization’s future. The book has its own strategic advantage. It is easy to read without dumbing down its strategic idea. It is simple to use but is still based on a core set of intelligent strategic foundations to deliver success in a competitive world. Spanning seven chapters, the book covers topics such as an introduction, theory, perspective and approach, organizational performance, competitive strategy, market orientation, excellent strategic match model and strategic message for decision-makers. The book presents contents in an accessible manner, accompanied by local and global examples and scenarios. Each chapter starts and ends with strategic quotes and summary. The book can help students who are studying strategy as part of a course or degree. It is also useful for practitioners and general readers who seek essential knowledge on strategic management.

Business management has entered the era of networking competition. This has moved the competition from a local to that of global business environments and from company against company to that of a supply chain against supply chain. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have become one of the main pre-requisites and a strong and integrated IT infrastructure for many companies enabling them to compete and to gain a competitive advantage in the local and global marketplace. ERP systems are considered as the backbone for e-business as well as for the whole supply chain, particularly for those companies that undertake online business transactions. Supply Chain Management Performance and ERP Implementation is unique in its breadth of coverage the impact of ERP systems functionality on Supply Chain Management (SCM) performance with respect to Top Management Support, Employee Involvement, and Cultural Fit. It is presented and explained in a clear, straightforward manner based on the empirical data through a research.

Nowadays, a considerable number of organizations are practicing green management from a global perspective. Many companies have now realized that there is a need to adapt to formal environmental practices and comply with international environmental standards due to growing global environmental concerns. This book organizes the concepts, processes, requirements and challenges related to quality management practices in a pragmatic approach to trigger the interests and readership of academicians and researchers. This study critically discusses quality management practices considering quality assurance, continuous process improvement, human resources management, benchmarking, management leadership, information and analysis and service design. If there is an increase in the global demand for sustainable products, then there could be a need for continuity in the capacity of the local and multinational companies to get certified. Therefore, this book considers quality management practices and ISO quality standards. This book reports the current trends of ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 adoption in the Malaysian food and beverage industry. Pushing Malaysia towards the adoption of advanced quality practices has called for the critical analysis of quality management practices in the industries from a perspective of sustainability. Sustainability practices in manufacturing industries will both prevent internal economic and environmental damages and boost the economy by attracting international companies seeking investment related to the three bottom-line sustainability. This book also highlights the link between quality management practices and sustainability. In furtherance, quality management practices as antecedents of excellence are discussed and how excellence models in the manufacturing industry are important. This book highlights models such as European Foundation Excellence Model (EFQM) (1991), the Model of Peters and Waterman (1982), the Japanese Deming Award Model (1951), the Model of Malcolm Baldrige (1987), Leadership Excellence of Kanji, China Performance Excellence Model, and Malaysian Total Performance Excellence Model. This is good news for the future of quality professions and their alignments. Therefore, this book tightens the gap between academics and practitioners by providing solid insights into the relevant subjects and hopefully contributing to the knowledge of organizational excellence and quality managers who are leading 21st-century organizations and require excellence models for sustainability.

This book intends to provide the readers with the fundamentals of business process change (BPC) and how BPC can be applied to the processes and culture that are inherent in the universities. The concepts and principles highlighted in the book will give further understanding on the organisational change area. The information shared in this book represents concepts, practised, issues and challenges in various changes projects. The book examines the connection of business process reengineering (BPR), Total Quality Management (TQM) and learning organisation (LO). The readers will be exposed to the BPC concepts, strategies and directions for implementation and successful monitoring in the university environment. The book provides the evidence-based practice implementation case studies case evidences on the recent successes in applying BPC in the universities. The book gives readers a comprehensive guideline for BPC using the WISER model. The book explains the BPC methodology with the five phases in detail. Interestingly, the book comes out with the evidence-based practice implementation case-evidenced BPC in the universities, the real life experiences as practical examples for illustrations. The readers could understand the WISER model, which can aid the strategic and project planning of the universities. The book provides the readers with tools and techniques, and the plan of actions that are utilised in the wake-up, identification, selection, execution and re-evaluation phases in the WISER model.

This collection offers a sample of contemporary works on tourism and its impact on the Malaysian environment, written by academics from a variety of perspectives. Given the growing body of literature on different aspects of the industry the coverage is by no means representative, let alone exhaustive, of the current discourse. Nonetheless the nineteen chapters cover a range of interests and concerns which have emerged as a consequence of spectacular growth in tourist arrival which currently places Malaysia as one of the most popular destinations in Asia. Recent forecast indicates that the growth trends will continue for at least another decade before the country as a destination approaches maturity. This volume would be a useful reference for students, academic and other researchers who are looking for detailed information to enable them to analyse the impacts and implications of tourism development on the host society.

This book investigates the critical success factors of knowledge sharing behaviour among Malaysian undergraduate students. Each university has their own method in delivering knowledge to their undergraduates, but occasionally they still have to meet the students’ requirement and these have not achieved. In this book, the question on what makes knowledge sharing behaviour successful among two Malaysian undergraduate communities in Manchester, United Kingdom and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia will be answered. This book is very applicable and reliable for those who are interested in knowledge sharing behaviour research area.