Systems & Planning

With Competing for the Future, managers have seen how they can reshape their industries. Hamel and Prahalad offers a masterful blueprint for what your company must be doing today if it is to occupy the competitive high ground of tomorrow. By showing that the key to future industry leadership is to d... More

Powerful new forces are reshaping the business world and the role of the manager in making effective strategic choices is increasingly demanding. This book shows today's manager how to create and sustain a dynamic, profitable business with techniques to support effective decisions. It evaluates the ... More

A current, well-written strategic management textbook with the most up-to-date compilation of cases available. It offers a popular practitioner-oriented perspective, focuses on skill-building in all major areas of strategy formation, implementation, and evaluation, and weaves three very contemporar... More

Competency models have proven to be one of the most cost-effective and quickest ways to put ideas into practice. This book presents a brief but comprehensive overview of competency-based programs and how they can be used to improve the performance of any size organization. Chapters: Building the Fou... More

This book offers a comprehensive and balanced presentation of strategic management and organizational behavior concepts. It is all about bringing together the micro skills of people management with the macro skills of running a business. The unique but interdependent specialties of the three co-aut... More

This substantially revised edition deals with such important topics as globalisation and workforce diversity, worklife balance, behavioral decision making, team-effectiveness model, and ethics in negotiation. The book is meant to be an alternative to the more exhaustive texts on OB, but provides al... More

This book, structured around the strategic management process model, focuses on conceptual understanding of process and articulation of strategies. Uptodate and well researched, it includes many case studies, numerous exhibits and boxed highlights and review questions.Paperback,New Book... More

To get any new business idea off the ground you must have a plan--and if you need to raise funds to finance the business or get the approval of senior management, it must be a convincing plan. This guide covers every aspect of preparing a business plan including how to analyze the market, how to mod... More

We know the value of planning - in theory. But either we fail to spend the time required to go through the thinking process properly and produce a half-baked plan or we fail to use the plan effectively. Norton Paley’s new book will help you change all this. Contents: The Strategic Business Plan - ... More

About this book:Appropriate for courses in Organization Development, this new edition explores the improvement of organizations through planned, Systematic, long-range efforts focused on the organization's culture and its human and social processes.Contents:1. An Introduction to Organization Develop... More

Wharton on Dynamic Competitive Strategy is an excellently crafted tour de force which integrates many diverse frameworks and principles for understanding dynamic competitive strategy formation. It is exceptionally readable, providing a rich array of key ideas beautifully augmented by examples which ... More

The purpose of this book is to summarize and integrate the latest research in strategic management of related disciplines in a way that is accessible to students and practitioners and in a way that facilitates its application. Designated Harvard cases are recommended with this book.... More