Strategic Management


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Strategic Management delivers an insightful and concise introduction to strategic management concepts utilizing a strong mix of real-world contemporary examples. Written in a conversational style, this product sparks ideas, fuels creative thinking and discussion, while engaging students with the concepts they are studying.




Strategic Management, Binder Ready Version


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Designed for the Strategic Management course, Strategic Management: Concepts and Tools for Creating Real World Strategy, Binder Ready Version by Jeff Dyer, Paul Godfrey, Robert Jensen, and David Bryce will make your life easier. This text delivers an insightful and concise introduction to the concepts of strategy with a strong mix of professional applications drawing on the authors’ personal experiences. Acting as consultants for your classroom, the authors developed this product in a manner that helps to spark ideas, fuel creative thinking and discussion, and introduce innovative learning technologies that aids students.




Effective Strategic Management: From Analysis to Implementation (Second Edition)


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Effective Strategic Management: From Analysis to Implementation gives readers a firm foundation in the theories and concepts of strategic management, along with multiple analysis matrices. The book is organized into two main sections dealing with strategic analysis and strategic formulation and includes an introduction to Ansoffian Strategy and the OSPP computer model. Specific topics include internal and external environment analysis; functional, business-level, and corporate strategies; the BCG Growth Share Matrix, the GE/McKinsey Matrix, the QSPM and Grand Strategies Matrices; and organizational culture, change management, and leadership. The text concludes with case studies, giving readers the opportunity to see how target theories and concepts are applied in the real world. Students learn how to write and analyze case studies, conduct internal and external analysis, formulation, implementation, and evaluation and control. Each chapter includes questions that can be used for in-class discussion or writing assignments. Chapter summaries reinforce important ideas and aid retention. The book also includes all strategic analysis tools, with clear, concise explanations of their use and applicability. Effective Strategic Management can be used in undergraduate and graduate level strategic management capstone courses, and classes on leadership and organizational studies.







Managing and Using Information Systems


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Managing & Using Information Systems: A Strategic Approach provides a solid knowledgebase of basic concepts to help readers become informed, competent participants in Information Systems (IS) decisions. Written for MBA students and general business managers alike, the text explains the fundamental principles and practices required to use and manage information, and illustrates how information systems can create, or obstruct, opportunities within various organizations. This revised and updated seventh edition discusses the business and design processes relevant to IS, and presents a basic framework to connect business strategy, IS strategy, and organizational strategy. Readers are guided through each essential aspect of information Systems, including information architecture and infrastructure, IT security, the business of Information Technology, IS sourcing, project management, business analytics, and relevant IS governance and ethical issues. Detailed chapters contain mini cases, full-length case studies, discussion topics, review questions, supplemental reading links, and a set of managerial concerns related to the topic.




Economics of Strategy


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This text is an unbound, three hole punched version. Access to WileyPLUS sold separately. Economics of Strategy, Binder Ready Version focuses on the key economic concepts students must master in order to develop a sound business strategy. Ideal for undergraduate managerial economics and business strategy courses, Economics of Strategy offers a careful yet accessible translation of advanced economic concepts to practical problems facing business managers. Armed with general principles, today's students--tomorrows future managers--will be prepared to adjust their firms business strategies to the demands of the ever-changing environment.




Strategic Networks


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This book explores the creation of 'learning networks' and shedslight on how they function:- real versus virtual forms ofinteraction, collaboration versus competition in the learningprocess, and joint value creation versus individual valueappropriation in networks. Written by international experts in the field of globalstrategy. Contributions have been selected for their insights andinterdependence between organizational learning and networks. Looks at topics such as real versus virtual forms ofinteraction, collaboration versus competition in the learningprocess, and joint value creation versus individual valueappropriation in networks.




Strategic Management in Action


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For undergraduate and graduate courses in Strategic Management. Current theories and practice in an interesting, engaging, and easy-to-read format. Strategic Management in Action presents current strategic management theories and practice in an engaging and easy-to-read format. Coulter effectively blends theory with plenty of opportunity to practice throughout the text, providing students with the ideologies, ethical dilemmas, and unique strategies of today's real managers and organizations in action. The sixth edition continues to present current strategic management theories and practices in an interesting, engaging, and easy-to-read format. There is also a new emphasis on color and photos, making this edition a more visually engaging text for students.




Smarter Execution


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Two strategic initiatives out of three fail. They are actually a huge challenge for more-of-the-same, better-and-better, companies. Indeed, their cross-organization scope violates all principles of silo efficiency. Strategic initiatives are precisely not more of the same. Smarter Execution identifies seven key steps that managers need to get to grips with if they are to reap the full benefits of their strategic initiatives: Focus first - less is more Pick the best possible team - don't compromise Set the course - learn to navigate to a destination that is not yet fully defined Set up to wi.




Essentials of Strategic Management


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ESSENTIALS OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, Third Edition, is a brief version of the authors' market-leading text STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH, helping students identify and focus on core concepts in the field in a more succinct, streamlined format. Based on real-world practices and current thinking, the text's presentation of strategic management features an increased emphasis on the business model concept as a way of framing the issues of competitive advantage. Cutting-edge research, new strategic management theory, and a hands-on approach allow students to explore major topics in management, including corporate performance, governance, strategic leadership, technology, and business ethics. Its high-quality case program examines small, medium, and large companies--both domestic and international--so that students gain practice putting chapter concepts into action.