Future Proofing: Strategy 03.10

ISBN-13: 9781841123271 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 170 str.

David Birchall; George Tovstiga

Opis

Fast track route to understanding and managing the future.
Covers all the key aspects of future proofing, from identifying alternative scenarios and tracking technology change to developing a blueprint for action and communicating it within the organization
Examples and lessons from benchmark businesses, including ABB, Shell and Anglo American, and ideas from the smartest thinkers including Gary Hamel, Peter Senge and Chris Argyris
Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide
ExpressExec is a unique business resource of one hundred books. These books present the best current thinking and span the entire range of contemporary business practice. Each book gives you the key concepts behind the subject and the techniques to implement the ideas effectively, together with lessons from benchmark companies and ideas from the world's smartest thinkers.
ExpressExec is organised into ten core subject areas making it easy to find the information you need:
01 Innovation
02 Enterprise
03 Strategy
04 Marketing
05 Finance
06 Operations and Technology
07 Organizations
08 Leading
09 People
10 Life and Work
ExpressExec is a perfect learning solution for people who need to master the latest business thinking and practice quickly.

Spis treści

Introduction to Express Exec

Introduction to Future Proofing

An Introduction to The Concepts

The Evolution of Future Proofing

The E–Dimension: Future Proofing

The Global Dimension

The State of the Art

In Practice: How Companies Tackle Planning

Key Concepts and Thinkers

Resources

Making It Work

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Acknowledgements

Index

O autorze

PROFESSOR DAVID BIRCHALL is the Director of the Centre for Business in the Digital Economy at Henley Management College in the UK. His research and consulting interests are in strategic responses to the digital economy.

DR GEORGE TOVSTIGA leads the Leadership and People Management consulting practice within ABB′s Process and Business Consulting in Switzerland. He is a member of Associate Faculty at Henley and Visiting Professor of Management at the International Graduate School of Management of the Technical University of St. Petersburg.

Blurb

ExpressExec is a unique business resource of one hundred books. These books present the best current thinking and span the entire range of contemporary business practice. Each book gives you the key concepts behind the subject and the techniques to implement the ideas effectively, together with lessons from benchmark companies and ideas from the world′s smartest thinkers.

ExpressExec is organised into ten core subject areas making it easy to find the information you need:

01 Innovation
02 Enterprise
03 Strategy
04 Marketing
05 Finance
06 Operations and Technology
07 Organizations
08 Leading
09 People
10 Life and Work

ExpressExec is a perfect learning solution for people who need to master the latest business thinking and practice quickly.