Many academic institutions, especially business schools, tend to be managed on an ad hoc basis. Why? Because the leadership may not be fully and formally equipped to lead, and difficult stakeholder-mix issues often limit its ability to govern proactively. This book is meant as a guide for making strategic management a more realistic option for such institutions. It explores the role of the President/CEO/Dean, and offers examples of effective strategic direction setting, including the use of modern technology. This volume features topics such as: a conceptual scheme for setting strategic direction in academic institutions, specifically business schools; a look at key barriers that block strategic change initiatives and how institutions can overcome them; a discussion of the roles of key leaders in the academic institution, including how these roles can be shaped for more effective implementation; a detailed description of management approaches that keep the strategic momentum for academic value creation and change; and an examination of the role of new technology and how this can strengthen the value creation in business schools.

New Vision for Management Education: Leadership Challenges (0)

Business & Money

Lorange, Peter

Peter Lorange

Peter Lorange, Lorange

Management & Leadership

Emerald Publishing

This book is about developing implementable strategies for shipping firms. It opens with an initial historical retrospective that highlights cases on A.P. Moller-Maersk and Leif Hoegh and Co. Here the reader is introduced to the global nature of competition in shipping, as well as the volatility of shipping markets. The book then turns to the question of how to play these markets. It looks at commodity based shipping company strategies for the bulk carrier, tanker container-ship and other segments. Here, the focus is on both going long-short, in-out, and maintaining a low cost base. Next is a discussion of operations versus asset play. The book analyzes Marsoft's forecasting methodology, with case studies on The Torvald Klaveness Group, Norden, Frontline and Teekay. The book then takes a close look at the challenge of driving one's strategy towards niches, i.e. on-commodity segments, with a spotlight on how to find a viable business opportunity and develop a defendable strength there. Examples come from I.M. Skaugen, Farstad Shipping, The Torvald Klaveness Group and Leif Hoegh and Co. Since overall corporate-wide portfolio strategies can be important in shipping, particularly if the various elements in the portfolio are relatively unrelated, the next part of the book turns to analytical approaches, citing several examples. Then follows a discussion of key organizational issues, particularly how to create and sustain more effective, predominantly network-based organizations. The penultimate subject is the important role the board of directors can play here. Finally, the role of family firms, and the future of shipping firms, is discussed, again with several rich examples.

Shipping Company Strategies: Global Management Under Turbulent Conditions

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

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Corporate Planning: An Executive Viewpoint

PRENTICE/HALL

Profit or Growth?: Why You Don't Have to Choose

“The simultaneous pursuit of growth and profitability is one of the most exquisite–and difficult–leadership dilemmas. Bala Chakravarthy and Peter Lorange provide penetrating insights and persuasive real-life examples on how a company can address this dilemma through continuous renewal and internal entrepreneurship. Unusual for books on leadership, their discussion spans from theory through practical implementation.” –Nick Shreiber, Former President &amp; CEO, Tetra Pak Group “A continuous renewal of the firm’s businesses is essential for driving its profitable growth. This book gives credible insights and rich examples on how these renewal strategies can be shaped and executed successfully. I am recommending it to my key managers and business friends–essential reading!” –Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Chairman &amp; CEO, Nestlé Drawing on extensive research with world-class companies, this book introduces four proven strategies for continuous renewal. You’ll discover powerful ways to protect and extend your core businesses; capture new opportunities distant from them; and “bridge” these two strategies with two others to evolve towards profitable diversification. Then, through real-world case studies from great companies around the world, you’ll learn how to execute on these strategies–achieving superior growth and profitability in any business environment. •Craft a “shared strategic architecture” for growth and profitability Protect, extend, transform, build, and leverage •Execute on your renewal strategies successfully Integrate your efforts, encourage entrepreneurship, and manage risks •Wield the tools of implementation Utilize organic growth, acquisitions, and alliances more effectively •Share one stage and one script Find the right roles for leaders, managers, and internal entrepreneurs •Promote continuous renewal from the top Set vision, values, and culture...and manage the dilemmas of continuous renewal Sustaining Growth and Profitability: World-Class Strategies, Proven Execution Techniques! •Mastering the secret of growth and profitability: continuous renewal •Emerging best practices from today’s most successful companies, worldwide •Protecting, extending, leveraging, building, and transforming your core •Deploying organic growth, acquisitions, and alliances intelligently Growth and profitability. You need both. This book shows how to get both. It combines a complete strategic framework with start-to-finish execution techniques–all based on advanced research reflecting the best practices of today’s most successful companies. Through detailed case studies, the authors show how to sustain growth and profitability by protecting and extending your current market position, evolving to adjacent areas, and entering entirely new markets. You’ll discover better ways to integrate organic growth, acquisitions and alliances; task managers at all levels in the organization appropriately; and manage the non-stop dilemmas and tradeoffs you’ll face along the way.

Chakravarthy, Bala

Pearson P T R

Designed to replace the "Strategic Planning Systems" by Richard Vancil and Peter Lorange, this volume emphasizes management processes and the management of these processes. The text offers a framework for strategic planning, looking at multi-level strategic planning, corporate, divisional and functional, and providing 16 cases which describe the design and implementation of strategic planning processes. This new edition features a broadened view of strategic processes including planning, control, incentives and human resource management, and aims to reflect the particular needs of various organizations. It emphasizes how to adapt to new opportunities through strategic planning, discusses the international dimension of strategic management and treats the role of the CEO more fully.

Managing the Strategy Process: A Framework for a Multibusiness Firm

Chakravarthy, Balaji S.

Ft Press

Strategic planning systems

Vancil, Richard F.

Despite the importance of achieving sustainable profitable growth, evidence reveals that very few companies actually manage to show either of these, let alone both.  In fact there is often tension between revenue growth and increased profitability, as well as between short term gains and sustainable long-term performance. Executives who can become skilled at balancing these conflicting goals will reap the rewards and this book shows you how to become one of them. Drawing on extensive research carried out with more than 5000 of the world's largest companies, including Nestle, Nokia and Shell, authors Chakravarthy and Lorange show you that to bring about genuinely sustainable profitable growth, business leaders must continually transform and renew their organisations.   The book explores the four strategies to use to achieve growth through renewal: protecting and extending your core business, exploring new opportunities and capabilities, building, and leveraging. The authors explain each strategy, and the behaviours and techniques needed to apply it, using examples from international firms like Ericsson, Wal-mart and Hewlett Packard.  Read this book, and you will find out that the role of executives at every level is essential in delivering the transformations required to produce profitable growth. You will then learn how to adapt your own behaviour in both strategic planning and in management to deliver sustainable profitable growth for your company.

Profit or Growth?: Why you don't have to choose

Pearson Education Canada

Strategic Control Systems (West Series in Strategic Management)

Ghoshal, Sumantra

Morton, Michael F. Scott

West Group

For leading corporations, talent is perhaps the only truly sustainable competitive advantage. In light of this, leading international corporations need to be staffed by the best possible executive talent from around the world. This talent revolution places a burden on business schools to offer highly focused learning, based on practical research. In addition, business schools face fierce competition in this sector, not least from the rapid growth in management education in India and South East Asia. Thought Leadership Meets Business offers significant insights into the factors that have led to the delivery of high-quality executive education at the top-ranking International Institute for Management Development (IMD). Drawing on the experience and wisdom gained by IMD President Peter Lorange over a distinguished career of more than twenty years, this book offers a powerful model for business school success.

Thought Leadership Meets Business: How business schools can become more successful

Cambridge University Press

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