Beyond Succession Planning
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James and Lori Spina illustrate how a strategic system aligns workplace transitions with the organizational vision, mission, and top level strategies to meet the needs of all stakeholders. Providing a road map for how to carry this out, they propose a cutting edge leadership style to complement this strategic approach
Employability and Industrial Mutations
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Industrial, economic and organizational mutations are creating a transformation in employment, skills and work. Developing the employability of the workforce is one response to these challenges. However, the link between mutations and employability is not obvious: it must be constructed and implemented in order to ensure that employees are able to reach satisfying professional situations. Employability and Industrial Mutations presents a definition of employability and the associated challenges for public authorities, organizations and employees: managing unemployment, successful change and employee empowerment. It then examines several worker profiles to better understand what "being employable" means. It goes on to analyze several examples of management systems for employability at different stages of an individual's career, and finally explores the issue of developing or maintaining employability in real-life situations and contexts. This book brings together researchers and practitioners from a range of different fields in order to shed light on the complex relationship between mutations and employability
Innovative Strategic Planning and International Collaboration for the Mitigation of Global Crises
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This book is for professionals and academic researchers findings in the field of international strategic management to improve their understanding of the innovative, strategic planning at different levels of the multidisciplinary context of globalization, internationalization, education, tourism, aviation, digitalization, regional economics and statistics, management and marketing, religion, public policy and society
Management and visualisation : seeing beyond the strategic
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As organisations of all sizes become increasingly digitalised a core management challenge remains unresolved. The ability to successfully and sustainably connect the stated vision of an organisation with its strategic plans and, in turn, with the reported reality of day-to-day operations is largely an elusive ambition despite the many stated advantages provided by contemporary technologies. In this book, the case is made for visual management as a method of communications, planning, learning, and reporting that connects the organisation in a single, meaningful and seamless way. Throughout this book, visual management is theorised around the position that all forms of management documentation are an artefact of human construction, and of the organisation itself, that reflect learned patterns of activity. The book places visual management as a more intuitive and seamless method of coordinating, learning and communicating across an organisation than more traditional formats of presenting management documents. Consciously assembling the artefacts of an organisation in order to manage it introduces a layer of criticality that encourages reflection and consistency that is often absent from current management practice. The benefits that a visual approach brings to organisational management is an increasing necessity as machine learning, robotics and process automation removes traditional roles from organizations and necessitates new views on how individuals now fit into a data-informed business.
Pursuing Impact
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This work is a practical guide to strategic planning for nonprofits: what it is, why you should be doing it, and how to get it done
Real Time Strategy
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Combining classical scenario thinking (the gentle art of perception) with the analytical power of big data and artificial intelligence, Real Time Strategypresents the decision making of the future which enables decision makers to develop dynamic strategies, monitor their validity, and react faster
Strategic Corporate Communication in the Digital Age
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Strategic Corporate Communication in the Digital Ageexplores how contemporary communication approaches are crossing boundaries as innovative media formats and digital transformations offer new challenges and opportunities to academia and practitioners
Strategic Decision Making for Successful Planning
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The book bridges philosophy and theory and puts together a practical integration of all the tools necessary to get results from your investment of time, energy, and money. What is unique about this book is while it's based on a strong academic foundation, it does not get bogged down in the human-planning or psychological process of solving problems. It doesn't provide "pie-in-the-sky" creative solutions or a five-year process for solving problems and planning for the future. Numerous techniques and tools are included to make the book the right balance between practical and academic. The book also includes an extensive case study to illustrate points made in the text
The Strategic Planning and Deployment Excellence System (SPADES)
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The Strategic Planning and Deployment Excellence System (SPADES) provides a path to long-term success in the environment of rapidly changing technology and business systems. It combines the best of Hoshin Kanri, Quality Function Deployment (QFD), and other proven management and leadership tools and techniques. This book presents a set of tools and techniques for developing and deploying a long-term plan for achieving sustained success. These concepts ensure graphically tracing the strategic planning process from the foundation of organizational principles to the enterprise vision and to the organization's long-term goals. The Scientific Method is the foundation upon which the tools and techniques of SPADES are applied. The Scientific Method begins with an observation of a phenomenon which leads to development of a hypothesis to explain the phenomenon. The hypothesis is then tested and, based on the analysis of the results, the hypothesis is accepted or adjusted as necessary. The testing may then be repeated to verify conclusions. The Deming-Shewhart Cycle of plan-do-check-act (PDCA) is the application of the Scientific Method for control and continual improvement of processes and products. SPADES is the integrated evolution of the PDCA Cycle and QFD to answer the challenges of how to stay competitive, year after year, in a dynamic environment of rapidly changing customer requirements and technology
Strategic Responses for a Sustainable Future
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Strategic Responses for a Sustainable Future considers how modern organizations can respond to and deal with increasingly uncertain environmental conditions with the aim of creating effective solutions that can sustain business growth and performance.
Strategizing
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trategy is an essential part of business, but strategizing often gets ignored or left behind. In this exciting new work, Eric J. Bolland introduces strategizing as a key component of strategy development and execution, showing strategizing as a way to aid organizations with their futures.
The Thinking Strategist
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The Thinking Strategist is your guide to accomplishing organizational goals, exceeding objectives, and securing the support of senior management and other key stakeholders. This much-needed new edition furthers the author's commitment to motivate and inspire confidence in individuals from traditionally excluded groups who work in deadline- and budget-driven roles in companies with highly competitive organizational cultures. Amongst the updates is a new chapter dedicated to the role that diversity, equity and inclusion plays in the strategic management process, especially during a period when DEI efforts are both valued and under attack. Ideal for business students and aspiring managers who seek to distinguish themselves as people who make success happen, The Thinking Strategist shows you how to develop the skills, confidence, business judgment, and resilience you need not only to be successful but to be a driver of decision making and problem solving. To be an expert - a thinking strategist.
Toward a more strategic view of strategic planning research
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This book summarizes the current state of research on strategic planning and offers an agenda for future research. The book edition comes with a new introduction that argues that strategising by public, non-profit and business organisations should be a major focus of research. Strategising is what links aspirations, capabilities, and implementation. Strategic planning should be viewed as one approach, but not the only approach, to strategising. A focus on strategising prompts researchers to consider issues of vertical and horizontal alignment of purpose, including across sectors; competence and scalability; co-production; decision-making and change management; and trust, transparency, authenticity and accountability. Additionally, the role of various strategising techniques and information technology should be analysed further. Beyond the book's introductory overview of the field, chapters focus on the following topics: 1) planning styles, 2) collaboration, strategic plans, and government performance, 3) impacts of context and political responsibilities on government strategic planning efforts, 4) impacts of strategic planning in municipal governments, 5) impacts of austerity on strategic planning and government performance.
Transforming project management : an essential paradigm for turning your strategic planning into action
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Turn your strategic-planning dreams into business reality with these project management and leadership best practices Executing on strategic planning is one of the biggest challenges leaders today. For example, Harvard Business Review reports that IT project failure costs businesses $3 trillion dollars annually. Stop Strategic Planning into the Abyss provides business leaders the key to addressing this issue head on. Stop Strategic Planning into the Abyss takes you beyond envisioning a great strategy and into the realm of implementing it-with skill, care, and expertise. Strategy-execution guru Duane Petersen reveals his unique and proven approach for tying strategic planning directly to project management. He explains how to break down a strategic plan into key objectives and project portfolios to make sense of all the project "parts," then successfully lead the execution of the plan. You'll learn how to evaluate where you are versus where you want to be, develop plans to move your vision forward, translate strategic plans into action plans with tangible efforts, budgets, and schedules, and guide and inspire the individuals and teams tasked with implementing their plans