Designing World Class Corporate Strategies

ISBN-13: 9780750663687 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 312 str.

Keith Ward; Cliff Bowman; Andrew Kakabadse

Opis

Considers the key role of corporate centres within very large, primarily multi-business organisations. This work presents a corporate configurations model which demonstrates four ways in which corporate centres can add significant value. It also tackles important issues incorporating theoretical and practical dimensions.

Spis treści

The Corporate Configurations Model; Create or Capture Value; The Role of the Centre, Developing the Rainbow diagram, Leadership Challenges of the Model. Developing the Model over Time: the Corporate Life Cycle: The Need for Reinvention, Congruent, Dysfunctional and Divergent Strategies, Voluntary versus Compulsory Initiatives. Applying the Model: Leadership Tensions and Conflicts, Governance Processes: Planning and Control Systems, Sustainability Issues. individual Configurations: Controls Configuration, Scale Configuration, Scope Configuration, Creative Configuration, Underpinning Frameworks to the Model.

O autorze

Keith Ward, Cliff Bowman, Andrew Kakabadse