MBA-EWM-410 Real Time Strategy
9 ECTS credits
Real-time strategy : improvising team-based planning for a fast-changing world
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
In today's highly dynamic and unpredictable global economy, traditional strategic planning - characterized by a centralized, plan-and-control management approach - has lost its edge. Managers must respond more quickly than ever to dynamic conditions and utilize the full potential of all people in an organization. Strategic planning is too slow and inflexible to enable managers to respond to rapid change and too hierarchical to bring a wider range of employees into the decision-making process. Real-Time Strategy provides a compelling new alternative to strategic planning for the '9Os and beyond - strategic improvising. This innovative concept puts strategic responsibility and strategic tools in the hands of small, self-directed teams that move together in a common strategic direction. Strategic improvising is faster and less risky and provides a more flexible response in an uncertain environment while empowering individuals throughout the organization. Written by three leading authorities on strategic management, whose consulting experiences with major corporations are included as case studies, Real-Time Strategy demonstrates how the team-based approach builds a greater sense of accountability throughout the organization; promotes creativity by allowing individuals to build on each others' ideas; keeps team members open to the flow of crucial real-time information; fosters effective lateral communication throughout the organization; and facilitates the rapid shifting of roles to meet changing strategic objectives. Real-Time Strategy specifies the tools that help an organization develop a team-based strategic capability. The authors have site-tested these tools in over 50 businesses. They show how to incorporate new, real-time information technologies into a company's strategic thinking and outline the steps managers must take to make the necessary move from strategic planning to strategic improvising.
ISBN:
9780471585640
Subtitle:
Improvising Team-Based Planning for a Fast- Changing World
Author:
Perry, Lee Tom
Author:
Smallwood, W.
Author:
Scott, Randall G.
Publisher:
John Wiley & Sons
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Management
Subject:
Decision Making & Problem Solving
Subject:
Management - Teams
Subject:
Teams in the workplace
Subject:
Strategic planning
Edition Description:
Wiley
Series:
The Portable MBA series
Series Volume:
#4
Publication Date:
March 1993
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
250
Dimensions:
10.25x7.38x1.00 in. 1.54 lbs.