Corporate Strategy (Remastered) I

A dynamic, fresh approach to the practice of strategy that provides insight into ways to adapt to disruptive forces of digital, social, societal and environmental change while also seeking to invent new opportunity in new industries and markets altogether.

Informationen zum Autor Paul Hunter (DBA) is Founder and CEO of the Strategic Management Institute and past partner at PwC. He works on a global stage consulting and teaching. He is also the author of The Seven Inconvenient Truths of Business Strategy (2014) and a chapter contributor in Corporate Universities: Drivers of the Learning Organization (Rademakers, 2014). Klappentext Since 2000, more than half of the Fortune 500 companies have either gone bankrupt, been acquired, or are experiencing stagnation or decline as a result of extreme digital and social disruption. In recognition of this dilemma, Corporate Strategy (Remastered) was developed and designed to assist even the most experienced strategy practitioner tackle disruption and all aspects of change head on. This is the first book in the series; it provides a prescriptive solution to the way all approaches to strategy should be practiced. It embodies a context we refer to as Third Wave Strategy and its construct, a fully integrated Strategic Management Framework. The second volume is a fieldbook; it describes the methods and means to ensure successful implementation.An illustration of Third Wave Strategy in practice is reflected in a description of strategy deployed by the highly successful Amazon corporation. Many of the components of strategy that are included in the framework will already be familiar to the reader, while others are very new. Each of the individual components discussed are supported by examples drawn from real-life case studies. The overall value of the book is its representation of a fresh, holistic, dynamic and systemic approach to strategy in a format that, frankly, hasn't existed before.In this book, readers are also introduced to many of the soft/human elements of strategy - the primary components that make it work. Examples of topics addressed include open strategy; communities of strategy practice; reframing; sponsive strategic thinking; systemic, cognitive strategy practice; organisational learning; and strategic business intelligence. Zusammenfassung A dynamic, fresh approach to the practice of strategy that provides insight into ways to adapt to disruptive forces of digital, social, societal and environmental change while also seeking to invent new opportunity in new industries and markets altogether. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Corporate Strategy (Remastered) Concept of Corporate Strategy (Remastered) How to use this book Ansoff's Corporate Planning legacy 1 Concept of Corporate Strategy (Remastered) Introduction: evolution of Third Wave Strategy Where to strategy and strategy practice? Corporate Strategy (Remastered) in practice: the emergence of Third Wave Strategy Dimensions of Third Wave Strategy: bringing strategy back from the brink Third Wave Strategy as practice: things that Third Wave Strategy practitioners do Third Wave Strategy in a nutshell Summing up 2 Articulating Long Term Strategy Introduction: contextualising the evolution of Long Term Strategy practice Corporate Strategy (Remastered) in practice: Long Term, Third Wave Strategy and the Strategic Architecture Organisational Purpose, Mission, Vision: the foundation of Long Term Strategy Strategic environment for Long Term, Third Wave Strategy: influence of external and internal forces Outside In, external influences Inside Out, internal influences Operation and management of a Strategic Architecture The Strategic Architecture as a tool of Deliberate Disruption 3 Reinventing Strategic Planning Introduction: the notion of Strategy Evaluation Corporate Strategy (Remastered) in practice: Strategy Evaluation within the context of Third Wave Strategy Program of Strategy Evaluation: Strategy Evaluation, Shaping...

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Paul Hunter (DBA) is Founder and CEO of the Strategic Management Institute and past partner at PwC. He works on a global stage consulting and teaching. He is also the author of The Seven Inconvenient Truths of Business Strategy (2014) and a chapter contributor in Corporate Universities: Drivers of the Learning Organization (Rademakers, 2014).

Klappentext

Since 2000, more than half of the Fortune 500 companies have either gone bankrupt, been acquired, or are experiencing stagnation or decline as a result of extreme digital and social disruption. In recognition of this dilemma, Corporate Strategy (Remastered) was developed and designed to assist even the most experienced strategy practitioner tackle disruption and all aspects of change head on. This is the first book in the series; it provides a prescriptive solution to the way all approaches to strategy should be practiced. It embodies a context we refer to as Third Wave Strategy and its construct, a fully integrated Strategic Management Framework. The second volume is a fieldbook; it describes the methods and means to ensure successful implementation. An illustration of Third Wave Strategy in practice is reflected in a description of strategy deployed by the highly successful Amazon corporation. Many of the components of strategy that are included in the framework will already be familiar to the reader, while others are very new. Each of the individual components discussed are supported by examples drawn from real-life case studies. The overall value of the book is its representation of a fresh, holistic, dynamic and systemic approach to strategy in a format that, frankly, hasn't existed before. In this book, readers are also introduced to many of the soft/human elements of strategy - the primary components that make it work. Examples of topics addressed include open strategy; communities of strategy practice; reframing; sponsive strategic thinking; systemic, cognitive strategy practice; organisational learning; and strategic business intelligence.

Inhalt

Introduction

Corporate Strategy (Remastered)

Concept of Corporate Strategy (Remastered)

How to use this book

Ansoff's Corporate Planning legacy

1 Concept of Corporate Strategy (Remastered)

Introduction: evolution of Third Wave Strategy

Where to strategy and strategy practice?

Corporate Strategy (Remastered) in practice: the emergence of Third Wave Strategy

Dimensions of Third Wave Strategy: bringing strategy back from the brink

Third Wave Strategy as practice: things that Third Wave Strategy practitioners do

Third Wave Strategy in a nutshell

Summing up

2 Articulating Long Term Strategy

Introduction: contextualising the evolution of Long Term Strategy practice

Corporate Strategy (Remastered) in practice: Long Term, Third Wave Strategy and the Strategic Architecture

Organisational Purpose, Mission, Vision: the foundation of Long Term Strategy

Strategic environment for Long Term, Third Wave Strategy: influence of external and internal forces

Outside In, external influences

Inside Out, internal influences

Operation and management of a Strategic Architecture

The Strategic Architecture as a tool of Deliberate Disruption

3 Reinventing Strategic Planning

Introduction: the notion of Strategy Evaluation

Corporate Strategy (Remastered) in practice: Strategy Evaluation within the context of Third Wave Strategy

Program of Strategy Evaluation: Strategy Evaluation, Shaping and Reviewing

Preparing a Strategy Narrative

Establishing a Strategy Blueprint

Assessing the human element of Strategy Evaluation

Organisational learning and Third Wave Strategy

4 Implementing Third Wave Strategy

Introduction: the challenge of implementing Short Term Strategy

Corporate Strategy (Remastered) in practice: content and context of Strategy Implementation activities

A Program of Continual Strategy Renewal: the enabler of long term transformational change in the …