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Embracing Complexity
Strategic Perspectives for an Age of Turbulence
AvCliff Bowman,Peter M. Allenm. fl.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2015
504 kr
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The book describes what it means to say the world is complex and explores what that means for managers, policy makers and individuals.The first part of the book is about the theory and ideas of complexity. This is explained in a way that is thorough but not mathematical. It compares differing approaches, and also provides a historical perspective, showing how such thinking has been around since the beginning of civilisation. It emphasises the difference between a complexity worldview and the dominant mechanical worldview that underpins much of current management practice. It defines the complexity worldview as recognising the world is interconnected, shaped by history and the particularities of context. The comparison of the differing approaches to modelling complexity is unique in its depth and accessibility. The second part of the book uses this lens of complexity to explore issues in the fields of management, strategy, economics, and international development. It also explores how to facilitate others to recognise the implications of adopting a complex rather than a mechanical worldview and suggests methods of research to explore systemic, path-dependent emergent aspects of situations. The authors of this book span both science and management, academia and practice, thus the explanations of science are authoritative and yet the examples of changing how you live and work in the world are real and accessible. The aim of the book is to bring alive what complexity is all about and to illustrate the importance of loosening the grip of a modernist worldview with its hope for prediction, certainty and control.
Embracing Complexity
Strategic Perspectives for an Age of Turbulence
AvJean G. Boulton,Peter M. Allenm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
2 544 kr
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The book describes what it means to say the world is complex and explores what that means for managers, policy makers and individuals.The first part of the book is about the theory and ideas of complexity. This is explained in a way that is thorough but not mathematical. It compares differing approaches, and also provides a historical perspective, showing how such thinking has been around since the beginning of civilisation. It emphasises the difference between a complexity worldview and the dominant mechanical worldview that underpins much of current management practice. It defines the complexity worldview as recognising the world is interconnected, shaped by history and the particularities of context. The comparison of the differing approaches to modelling complexity is unique in its depth and accessibility. The second part of the book uses this lens of complexity to explore issues in the fields of management, strategy, economics, and international development. It also explores how to facilitate others to recognise the implications of adopting a complex rather than a mechanical worldview and suggests methods of research to explore systemic, path-dependent emergent aspects of situations. The authors of this book span both science and management, academia and practice, thus the explanations of science are authoritative and yet the examples of changing how you live and work in the world are real and accessible. The aim of the book is to bring alive what complexity is all about and to illustrate the importance of loosening the grip of a modernist worldview with its hope for prediction, certainty and control.
Embracing Complexity
Strategic Perspectives for an Age of Turbulence
AvJean G. Boulton,Peter M. Allenm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
693 kr
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The book describes what it means to say the world is complex and explores what that means for managers, policy makers and individuals.The first part of the book is about the theory and ideas of complexity. This is explained in a way that is thorough but not mathematical. It compares differing approaches, and also provides a historical perspective, showing how such thinking has been around since the beginning of civilisation. It emphasises the difference between a complexity worldview and the dominant mechanical worldview that underpins much of current management practice. It defines the complexity worldview as recognising the world is interconnected, shaped by history and the particularities of context. The comparison of the differing approaches to modelling complexity is unique in its depth and accessibility. The second part of the book uses this lens of complexity to explore issues in the fields of management, strategy, economics, and international development. It also explores how to facilitate others to recognise the implications of adopting a complex rather than a mechanical worldview and suggests methods of research to explore systemic, path-dependent emergent aspects of situations. The authors of this book span both science and management, academia and practice, thus the explanations of science are authoritative and yet the examples of changing how you live and work in the world are real and accessible. The aim of the book is to bring alive what complexity is all about and to illustrate the importance of loosening the grip of a modernist worldview with its hope for prediction, certainty and control.
Strategic Management
AvCliff Bowman,David C. Asch
Häftad, Engelska, 1987
1 082 kr
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This major text for undergraduate and MBA courses in Corporate Strategy and Business Policy brings a new sophisticated strategic framework to the material it covers. It incorporates a critical review of recent techniques of external and internal appraisal, strategic option generation and of selection and evaluation as well as covering a wide range of current issues.
Managing Strategy
AvDavid C. Asch,Cliff Bowman
Häftad, Engelska, 1995
208 kr
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This text by Cliff Bowman and David Asch is designed for courses in strategic management, business strategy and business policy. It will be particularly suitable for MBAs, post experience students and undergraduates taking a one semester course. It will also appeal to practising managers in a wide range of organisations who are interested in developing a sound understanding of strategic issues. The book avoids an overly theoretical approach, concentrating instead on new ideas concerning the content and process of strategy and blending this with empirical findings in the area. The result is a book which focuses on implementing strategy, taking a more action oriented approach. Case study material arising from many years of teaching in leading management schools world-wide has also been included to make this an ideal text for a variety of courses.
Designing World Class Corporate Strategies
AvKeith Ward,Andrew Kakabadsem. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
852 kr
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Designing World Class Corporate Strategies considers the key role of corporate centres within very large, primarily multi-business organisations. At present, these corporate centres are under attack as not creating and value and merely adding cost to their groups.The authors have developed a corporate configurations model which demonstrates four ways in which corporate centres can add significant value. However this requires the centre to act in specific ways depending on the external environment in which the group is operating.Designing World Class Corporate Strategies is highly readable, with a large number of illustrative examples included in the text. Academic references and theoretical underpinnings are placed in the final chapter of the book, so that the book is focused on the professional market for strategy and creating value.
Designing World Class Corporate Strategies
AvCliff Bowman,Andrew Kakabadsem. fl.
E-bok
Engelska, 2005
1 002 kr
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Designing World Class Corporate Strategies considers the key role of corporate centres within very large, primarily multi-business organisations. At present, these corporate centres are under attack as not creating and value and merely adding cost to their groups.The authors have developed a corporate configurations model which demonstrates four ways in which corporate centres can add significant value. However this requires the centre to act in specific ways depending on the external environment in which the group is operating.Designing World Class Corporate Strategies is highly readable, with a large number of illustrative examples included in the text. Academic references and theoretical underpinnings are placed in the final chapter of the book, so that the book is focused on the professional market for strategy and creating value.
Designing World Class Corporate Strategies
AvCliff Bowman,Andrew Kakabadsem. fl.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2005
1 002 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Designing World Class Corporate Strategies considers the key role of corporate centres within very large, primarily multi-business organisations. At present, these corporate centres are under attack as not creating and value and merely adding cost to their groups.The authors have developed a corporate configurations model which demonstrates four ways in which corporate centres can add significant value. However this requires the centre to act in specific ways depending on the external environment in which the group is operating.Designing World Class Corporate Strategies is highly readable, with a large number of illustrative examples included in the text. Academic references and theoretical underpinnings are placed in the final chapter of the book, so that the book is focused on the professional market for strategy and creating value.
Designing World Class Corporate Strategies
AvKeith Ward,Andrew Kakabadsem. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
2 513 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Designing World Class Corporate Strategies considers the key role of corporate centres within very large, primarily multi-business organisations. At present, these corporate centres are under attack as not creating and value and merely adding cost to their groups.The authors have developed a corporate configurations model which demonstrates four ways in which corporate centres can add significant value. However this requires the centre to act in specific ways depending on the external environment in which the group is operating.Designing World Class Corporate Strategies is highly readable, with a large number of illustrative examples included in the text. Academic references and theoretical underpinnings are placed in the final chapter of the book, so that the book is focused on the professional market for strategy and creating value.
What's Your Competitive Advantage?
7 strategies to discover your next source of value
AvCliff Bowman,Paul Raspin
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
199 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
This business book is great for leaders, middle managers and entrepreneurs interested in the following categories;
STRATEGY LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT ENTREPRENEURSHIP
“What’s Your Competitive Advantage” offers a way to work with the realities of a complex world and the changing needs of your business.

We live in a complex world, no-one can predict the future and we can’t anticipate the ultimate impact of any actions we take. These realities make the task of successfully leading a business incredibly challenging. What’s Your Competitive Advantage? offers a way to work with the realities of a complex world and the changing needs of your business.

Choose from the seven value plays to set the broad direction the firm should head in, and gain your competitive advantage. Each play has an associated set of capabilities which deliver customer value efficiently:

SPECIALIZATION - choose to focus on a single product or product group and compete through superior product performance.

ADAPTIVE - increase the system’s ability to respond to changing circumstances, particularly to

changing customer needs.

LOW COST - Deliver equivalent product quality compared to competitors but with a continual and

relentless focus on cost reduction

INNOVATION - Competing through product innovations.

EXCELLENCE - Continuous incremental improvement of product or service quality

NO-FRILLS - Serve price sensitive customers with a stripped down alternative product or service.

TARGETING - Focus on a specific market segment and serve the needs of these customers more effectively than less targeted rivals.

Built on insights from research into economics, strategy, organization theory and complexity science, you’ll discover a practical approach to creating value for your business in turbulent times, with advice on how to enable these plays with the structures, systems and culture of your business.

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Strategic Management
AvCliff Bowman,David C. Asch
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 1987
1 166 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
This major text for undergraduate and MBA courses in Corporate Strategy and Business Policy brings a new sophisticated strategic framework to the material it covers. It incorporates a critical review of recent techniques of external and internal appraisal, strategic option generation and of selection and evaluation as well as covering a wide range of current issues.
Managing Strategy
AvDavid C. Asch,Cliff Bowman
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 1995
218 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
This text by Cliff Bowman and David Asch is designed for courses in strategic management, business strategy and business policy. It will be particularly suitable for MBAs, post experience students and undergraduates taking a one semester course. It will also appeal to practising managers in a wide range of organisations who are interested in developing a sound understanding of strategic issues. The book avoids an overly theoretical approach, concentrating instead on new ideas concerning the content and process of strategy and blending this with empirical findings in the area. The result is a book which focuses on implementing strategy, taking a more action oriented approach. Case study material arising from many years of teaching in leading management schools world-wide has also been included to make this an ideal text for a variety of courses.
How Firms Really Work
A Social Sciences Perspective
AvCliff Bowman
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
978 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
To perform effectively in any leadership position in a firm you need to first understand how firms actually work. This book, built on three decades of thinking, researching, and engaging with practitioners, sets out an integrated social science perspective that takes as its starting point that all firms are complex open systems. How Firms Really Work explores a wide range of topics related to The firm’s value system, transformation risk and the role of knowhow in the value creation process The firm’s lifecycle including co-evolution of firms and markets Managing hybrid configurations The impact of technology on value creation and value captureWith its extensive use of figures and case examples to illustrate its points, this book offers a comprehensive yet broad perspective on the reality of modern firms. Scholars, researchers, and students will find the bringing together of previously unconnected bodies of knowledge into a coherent account of the birth and development of a firm to be very insightful, while professionals armed with the book’s perspectives will be able to assume leadership positions with more confidence.
How Firms Really Work
A Social Sciences Perspective
AvCliff Bowman
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2026
846 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
To perform effectively in any leadership position in a firm you need to first understand how firms actually work. This book, built on three decades of thinking, researching, and engaging with practitioners, sets out an integrated social science perspective that takes as its starting point that all firms are complex open systems. How Firms Really Work explores a wide range of topics related to The firm's value system, transformation risk and the role of knowhow in the value creation process The firm's lifecycle including co-evolution of firms and markets Managing hybrid configurations The impact of technology on value creation and value capture With its extensive use of figures and case examples to illustrate its points, this book offers a comprehensive yet broad perspective on the reality of modern firms. Scholars, researchers, and students will find the bringing together of previously unconnected bodies of knowledge into a coherent account of the birth and development of a firm to be very insightful, while professionals armed with the book's perspectives will be able to assume leadership positions with more confidence.
How Firms Really Work
A Social Sciences Perspective
AvCliff Bowman
E-bok
Engelska, 2026
846 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
To perform effectively in any leadership position in a firm you need to first understand how firms actually work. This book, built on three decades of thinking, researching, and engaging with practitioners, sets out an integrated social science perspective that takes as its starting point that all firms are complex open systems. How Firms Really Work explores a wide range of topics related to The firm's value system, transformation risk and the role of knowhow in the value creation process The firm's lifecycle including co-evolution of firms and markets Managing hybrid configurations The impact of technology on value creation and value capture With its extensive use of figures and case examples to illustrate its points, this book offers a comprehensive yet broad perspective on the reality of modern firms. Scholars, researchers, and students will find the bringing together of previously unconnected bodies of knowledge into a coherent account of the birth and development of a firm to be very insightful, while professionals armed with the book's perspectives will be able to assume leadership positions with more confidence.

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Cliff Bowman – författare

Embracing Complexity

Embracing Complexity

Embracing Complexity

Strategic Management

Managing Strategy

Designing World Class Corporate Strategies

Designing World Class Corporate Strategies

Designing World Class Corporate Strategies

Designing World Class Corporate Strategies

What's Your Competitive Advantage?

Strategic Management

Managing Strategy

How Firms Really Work

How Firms Really Work

How Firms Really Work

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