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Studies have shown that coming up with strategies and executing them with success requires specific strategic competencies. It is no longer just about the big idea.Moving beyond a broad, fuzzy picture, however, requires strategic thinking and understanding the management matrix. This guidebook can help youidentify critical functions of strategy, such as the alignment of operations, the continual improvement and innovation of systems design, and the...
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Tourism, with its wide-ranging impact, needs to be managed effectively—but how? This book advocates taking a business approach to tourism that encourages greater collaboration between stakeholders in the practical assessment of tourism options. The approach places key business management functions and stakeholders at the forefront of tourism initiatives. The business management functions of planning, organising, leadership and control are the filters...
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Welcome to the world of strategic management! In this book, we embark on a journey to explore the dynamic and ever-evolving field of strategic management, where art and science converge to shape the destiny of organizations.Strategic management is the art of crafting and implementing well-considered plans and actions that enable an organization to achieve its long-term goals and objectives. It involves making critical decisions that determine the...
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Strategy essentially involves competing to be unique. It is the key to achieving goals through proper planning, resourcing, implementation and evaluation of various strategy management tactics. The strategy is essentially the choices an organization makes, that defines what markets to be served and how to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. The strategy involves taking basic directional decisions for organizational purposes and missions....
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"Brilliant Business: Strategic Management" is a book that provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the various strategies and best practices involved in managing a successful business. The book covers a wide range of topics, including analysing the business environment, defining business strategy, marketing and sales, financial management, and strategic leadership and management.
The book begins by discussing the importance of understanding...
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Everything You Need to Know About Managing Your Team. As a manager, you tend to walk a tightrope with executives on one side and employees on the other. But while managing personalities, team dynamics, and company culture aren't your only responsibilities, they are vital to the well-being of any company. To help you boost productivity and find the right management style for you, the staff of Entrepreneur helps you tap into the expertise of over 20...
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Everything You Need to Know About Managing Your Team
As a manager, you tend to walk a tightrope with executives on one side and employees on the other. But while managing personalities, team dynamics, and company culture aren't your only responsibilities, they are vital to the well-being of any company. To help you boost productivity and find the right management style for you, the staff of Entrepreneur helps you tap into the expertise of over twenty...
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How to make managing strategy easy and exciting. Learn to understand some of the more complex aspects of strategic management in a simpler context.
If you are interested in understanding strategic management in greater detail, but you are just not in the mood for those stale academic written, hard to understand, boring textbooks, then this book is just for you.
If you are simply looking for additional information and wish to supplement your existing...
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Thinking back to all the jobs you've had in your life, you've probably had your fair share of managers. Some of them were probably the typical managers from Hell. Hopefully there were a few good ones in there too.
What was the difference between the good managers and the um... not so good managers?
If you are ready to take your business to the next level and blow past the competition, effective management is the key to making that goal a reality....
11) Project-Led Strategic Management: Project Management Solutions to Develop and Implement Strategy
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Strategic management is very well documented in business books and in the literature, but that does not make the task any easier. Because formulating and implementing strategy is so taxing, and the environmental signals are so intangible, strategic planning is a responsibility that is easy to avoid. The solution proposed in this book is a project management framework to advance organizational strategy. In this book, you'll find not only a description...
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How do firms compete? How do firms earn above normal returns? What's needed to sustain superior performance long term? An increasingly powerful answer to these fundamental questions of business strategy lies in the concept of dynamic capabilities. These are the skills, processes, routines, organizational structures, and disciplines that enable firms to build, employ, and orchestrate intangible assets relevant to satisfying customer needs, and which...
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Leaders and managers face tremendous pressure to keep their organizations moving forward successfully. It can seem like an impossible task amid economic uncertainty and hyper-competition.
The roles of leader and manager tug us in opposite directions: managers seek stability and predictability, and leaders usually opt for turbulence and change. With so many companies asking their best employees to be both leaders and managers, its no wonder that so...
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Strategic Advertising Management provides the firm foundation you need to understand the effective strategic planning of advertising and other marketing communications. Renowned experts in the field, the authors draw on their extensive experience to present the essential principles of communication that demonstrate how advertising works.
Using real world examples and sixteen new case studies featuring a variety of international brands and companies...
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Part of a series to cover the range of business functions in a typical MBA course, Total Quality Management: Strategic Planning teaches how to integrate strategic quality and business planning to create one tactical process for your entire business. Developed by two leading quality control experts, this well-researched, step-by-step guide helps your company successfully transition from traditional management to total quality management. Arnold Weimerskirch...
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Strategy is paramount for successful modern healthcare data management.
The healthcare landscape continues to evolve in an effort to accommodate our ever-connected world. A digital healthcare system poses new challenges and exposes existing issues as professionals-like you-strive to solve concerns. This book recognizes the unique tasks of dedicated professionals, while attempting to decrease confusion on this key topic.
It's time to discuss why strategy...
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With demographic shifts and globalization transforming the nature of relationships, interactions, and decision making, excellence in diversity management is more important than ever. However, the field of diversity has no established standard for evaluating what constitutes best practices, nor has there been any agreement on what the most fundamental philosophies, principles, and concepts are-until now. In this pioneering book R. Roosevelt Thomas,...
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Subject: Strategic Business ManagementDegree: ACA (UK)Board: ICAEWLevel: AdvancedSyllabus year: 2024Examination preparation guideIn an ever-evolving business landscape, where strategic acumen and management prowess dictate the altitude of success, "ACA Strategic Business Management: ICAEW Advanced Level" emerges as a beacon for aspiring and seasoned professionals alike. This comprehensive guide is not merely a book; it's a roadmap to mastering the...
19) Human Resources Management Intelligence and Strategy Success: Strategic Human Resources Management
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This work, entitled 'HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT INTELLIGENCE AND STRATEGY SUCCESS' is research conducted on strategy planning and execution within the private and public sectors with Cameroon as a case study. The aim is to verify if the use of human resources intelligence in the process of strategic decision-making has any impact on the outcome of those strategic plans. The scope involved the private and public sectors as key stakeholders in a successful...
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The pace of change is increasing and shows no signs of slowing down. This section brings you the best thinking from forty years of the OD Practitioner journal on:- The different kinds of change and what's needed to achieve each one.- What you must do to see change initiatives through to completion.- The enablers that must be in place for change to succeed.- Examining change from the change recipient's point of view.- How to establish internal change...