Strategic Discovery

Strategic Discovery
Author: Howard Thomas
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 359
Release: 1998-02-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0471976326

Published in association with the Strategic Management Society, The Wiley Strategic Management Series aims to illustrate the best in global strategic management for academics, business practitioners and consultants. This book expands the understanding of strategic opportunities presented by the far reaching developments unfolding in the rapidly changing world economy, and in particular how they are impacting the North and South American continents. This wide-ranging collection of papers comprises a rich body of research and experience, spanning academics, business executives and consultants. Key emphasis is placed on competition and core competence, joint ventures and strategic alliances, and corporate performance. Writings included in this volume were selected as being representative of some of the most significant issues currently facing business strategists.

Strategy Discovery

Strategy Discovery
Author: Graham Kenny
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2023-09-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000956377

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.

Strategic Decision Making

Strategic Decision Making
Author: Simon Haslam
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2018-01-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0749472618

Making strategic decisions is a fundamental skill for leaders and managers. However, in a business environment that is in a constant state of change, making strategic decisions has never been more difficult. Strategic Decision Making addresses this challenge by providing a framework that can be used to make sound decisions in an uncertain world. Structured around the core concepts of framing, experimenting and scaling, this book will ensure that efforts are focused where the need is greatest, that interventions are tested, evaluated and revised if necessary and that successful initiatives are effectively rolled out across the business. Packed with real world examples and backed up by academic research, Strategic Decision Making will allow today's leaders and the leaders of tomorrow to make successful and defensible business choices. It shows how to: avoid decision-making bias, overcome organizational inertia, manage the difficulties of rigid organizational structures and avoid being side tracked by outdated or irrelevant experience. Essential reading for business practitioners and management students alike, this comprehensive guide provides a robust approach to achieving strategic success.

The funding of science and discovery centres

The funding of science and discovery centres
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Science and Technology Committee
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2007-10-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780215036629

Examines the role and effectiveness of science centres, how science centres are co-ordinated and organised, and how they are funded. This report also welcomes the offer by the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills to take responsibility for science centres.

Discovery-driven Growth

Discovery-driven Growth
Author: Rita Gunther McGrath
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1591396859

Based on extensive research and the authors' combined thirty years of experience, Discovery-Driven Growth provides a breakthrough system for managing strategic growth. You will learn how to identify and prioritize your company's full portfolio of opportunities - from new product lines to entirely new businesses. The authors then show how to best execute specific initiatives, test major project assumptions, and develop a culture that values disciplined experimentation and learning over meeting mindless and unrealistic goals. Tools for dealing with each challenge are backed by examples from companies, from small firms to global giants, that have successfully put these methods into practice.

Diagnostics for Strategic Decision-Making

Diagnostics for Strategic Decision-Making
Author: Joyce A. Thompsen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2016-10-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1315474484

This book helps readers develop a comprehensive understanding of diagnostics for strategic decision-making, with a focus on a method called rapid due diligence. This method presents a compelling solution to the need for effective diagnostics, drawing on academic rigor, critical thinking, systems dynamics, and advanced practicum to enable sound strategic decision-making. Guiding the reader through the six stages of the process from discovery, through analysis, synthesis, and interpretation, Thompsen engages all typical postgraduate disciplines in producing insights for practical application. Drawing on similarities with applied social science research, the rapid due diligence method is supported with scores of techniques, tools, instructions, guidelines, practical advice, and examples. Detailed cases and abbreviated examples of a variety of real strategic situations are provided from organizations operating in North America, Europe, Asia, India, and Australia. Ideal for graduate students, organizational leaders, and decision makers, this book is designed to invite deeper understanding and practical application of a strategic diagnostic process that discovers insights for achieving positive results.

Knowledge Discovery And Data Design Innovation - Proceedings Of The International Conference On Knowledge Management (Ickm 2017)

Knowledge Discovery And Data Design Innovation - Proceedings Of The International Conference On Knowledge Management (Ickm 2017)
Author: Daniel Alemneh
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2017-10-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9813234490

To navigate the complex ecosystem of societal challenges, the International Conference on Knowledge Management Conference (ICKM 2017) focused on big data and data analytics as part of the relationship to the wider concept of knowledge management processes and practices.This book includes top papers presenting the major, and diverse, topics discussed at the conference. The papers covered various aspects of big data ranging from enhancing access to the big data to facilitating its wide applications in healthcare, social media, library and information centers, governments, and corporations.

Teaching and Learning Strategies for Sustainable Development

Teaching and Learning Strategies for Sustainable Development
Author: Enakshi Sengupta
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2020-05-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1789736390

This timely book explores the sustainable development goals, how well universities have been able to integrate them into their curriculum, and how universities can institutionalize the goals and sustainable development into their strategic plans and institutional culture

Advances in Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery

Advances in Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery
Author: Hongying Meng
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 1925
Release: 2021-06-26
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030706656

This book consists of papers on the recent progresses in the state of the art in natural computation, fuzzy systems and knowledge discovery. The book is useful for researchers, including professors, graduate students, as well as R & D staff in the industry, with a general interest in natural computation, fuzzy systems and knowledge discovery. The work printed in this book was presented at the 2020 16th International Conference on Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (ICNC-FSKD 2020), held in Xi'an, China, from 19 to 21 December 2020. All papers were rigorously peer-reviewed by experts in the areas.