Corporations operate under the terms of a largely unwritten, constantly changing social charter--a dictum as forceful as their written legal charter. Wilson explores the rules that are beginning to govern corporate performance, rules that arise from society's ever changing values and expectations. Provoking these changes are four formative forces: the power shift from the public to private sector; globalization; economic restructuring; and, the transforming technologies of the computer and communications revolution. The rules emerging from them will dictate higher standards and changed...
Corporations operate under the terms of a largely unwritten, constantly changing social charter--a dictum as forceful as their written legal charte...
Strategy--and the planning that created it--has too often failed to deliver its promised results. The reasons for this failure are many and varied, but include an over-reliance on the next big thing in strategic methodology, a failure to recognize and deal with the total change that strategy requires in an organization, and an inability to deal with uncertainty. Wilson argues that strategy is a subtle and demanding art, far more than it is a science or a methodology.
To succeed in dealing with complex, interacting forces inside and outside the organization, strategy must:
Deal with...
Strategy--and the planning that created it--has too often failed to deliver its promised results. The reasons for this failure are many and varied,...
