Strategy Discovery

Personal, useful, actionable, and grounded in research, this book will shift your thinking from 'strategy development' to 'strategy discovery' to enable you to deal with today's business challenges, engage your staff, and boost your business performance.

Personal, useful, actionable and grounded in research, this book will shift your thinking from "strategy development" to "strategy discovery" to enable you to deal with today's business challenges, engage your staff and boost your business performance.

Management teams and boards are facing disruption on all sides, from morphing customer preferences to the COVID pandemic to climate change. At the same time they are floundering in strategy confusion with too many concepts and not enough clarity. In this book, strategy expert and regular Harvard Business Review author Graham Kenny releases managers and directors from their strategy haze. His simple and effective framework allows managers to navigate the current maze of ideas and approaches and maximize their competitive advantage. Kenny's readable style is equally effective: each chapter begins with an engaging story, then builds on this with cases, client examples, sidebars and more, ending with a series of action points to provide a pathway to success.

CEOs, senior-level and middle managers across all functions and sectors, including private, public and not-for-profit organizations, who discuss and set strategy for their organization or business unit will appreciate the articulated framework, illustrative anecdotes and positive encouragement this book offers.

Autorentext

Graham Kenny is an internationally recognized expert in strategy and performance measurement. He writes regularly for the Harvard Business Review, has written more than 70 articles for international academic journals and has authored five books. He is passionate about helping boards, executives and managers lead successful organizations in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. He has been a professor of management in universities in the US and Canada.

Inhalt

1 Strategic Factors: Discover the Ingredients of Success; 2 Stakeholders: Unearth Latent Dependencies; 3 Business Models: Reveal Hidden Business Design; 4 Objectives: Expose Stakeholders in Objectives; 5 Competitive Advantage: Divulge Strategy's Dirty Secret; 6 Stakeholder Perspective: Admit Stakeholders Know Strategies; 7 Implementation: Disclose Implementation's Components; 8 Strategy Pitfalls: Unveil Strategy's Inner Logic; 9 Strategy Hacks: Effective Tools for Defining Strategy; 10 Strategy's Code: Put the Pieces Together