[PDF] Strategic Alignment eBook

Author : Jonathan Trevor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,69 MB
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 147295940X

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Shortlisted for the 2020 Business Book Awards Why do some businesses thrive, while many more struggle and fail? A key reason – and the focus of this book – is strategic alignment. This is the careful arrangement of the various elements of an enterprise – from its business strategy to its organisation – to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. The best-aligned enterprises are the best performing. Most executives recognise that their enterprises should be managed in this aligned way, but lack a robust system of thought to allow them to execute strategic alignment effectively and realise its full benefits. There are thousands of organisations globally that are operating below their potential simply because they are not aligned. This book aims to change that. In Align, Jonathan Trevor provides a blueprint for how strategic alignment can be effectively developed, implemented and sustained. Drawing upon active research at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School (with contributions from the joint works of Dr Jonathan Trevor and Dr Barry Varcoe), Jonathan also provides practical case studies and evidence-based insights – culminating in a thoughtful and compelling message to help leaders everywhere to improve their alignment and enterprise performance.

Author : Chris Crosby
Publisher : Business Expert Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,6 MB
Release : 2016-12-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1631576615

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Business results, major change, project initiatives can be achieved more easily than imagined. Strategic Organizational Alignment shows you how and points out the reasons why most excuses businesses make for inadequate implementations are wrong. Through stories, illustrations, and step-by-step guides, Crosby shows you a simple, profound, and repeatable way to ensure your business aligns its employees and has a clear path to success. This book will help you to learn how to focus your workplace on the dynamics critical to achieving greater productivity.

Author : Shimizu, Tamio
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 29,84 MB
Release : 2005-12-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 1591409780

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"This book deals with strategic organizational decision-making providing techniques for improving the intelligence of actions by organizational decision-makers"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Norman Chorn
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 19,64 MB
Release : 2020-05-10
Category :
ISBN : 9780648817505

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The Future Builders explores the ways that leaders make sense of this complex and uncertain environment - and then purposefully develop their strategy, their organisations and themselves to thrive in these challenging conditions.The research and thinking for The Future Builders has taken place over some ten years of consulting, teaching and running a business. Some of the concepts and ideas may seem counter-intuitive, but most are supported by the best thinking from the fields of strategy, economics and behavioural sciences.

Author : Etido Oliver Akpan
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 25,11 MB
Release : 2007-07
Category : Business planning
ISBN : 1602472467

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In Strategic Alignment: The Business Imperative for Leading Organizations, Dr. Akpan paints a clear case for making the necessary investments in IT. Whether we lead business units or technology units, we must invest our time, resources and energy into enabling teams to succeed through proper alignment.

Author : Jerry N. Luftman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 30,44 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0195090160

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Synthesizes a body of research and theories relating to the way firms can undergo transformation in order to remain competitive in a changing business environment. This book includes the coordination and alignment of a firm's business strategy.

Author : Dave MacLeod
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 18,62 MB
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1119764459

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Find out what your customers and employees are really thinking with this indispensable resource Scaling Conversations: How Leaders Access the Full Potential of People delivers invaluable strategies for how leaders can make their communications more inclusive and access the voices of those employees who rarely feel empowered to speak up. As constituent numbers scale, leaders have traditionally struggled to make communications a conversation with the entire organization, settling instead for small focus groups, talking at people in town halls, and delivering surveys after the fact. The result is exclusive, narrow decision-making that disengages and under-utilizes talent and human capital. And now, as the remote environment grows, the challenge and imperative for engaging conversations on a wider scale is even greater. Scaling Conversations provides the solution. Having led a remote team for over a decade and having worked with thousands of leaders across North America, Dave MacLeod teaches you how to: Scale your business by listening to the voices that really matter Access and maximize the human capital in your organization Make decisions that create unity and move the group forward Decrease employee turnover caused by poor communication Within these pages, you'll learn how to better facilitate conversations with a wider and more representative array of clients and employees, and not just the loudest ones in the town hall meeting or Slack channel. Perfect for any leader who's responsible for understanding what employees are really feeling and thinking, Scaling Conversations also belongs on the bookshelves of anyone who wants to learn how to discover what the “silent majority,” who are often drowned out by the loudest people in the room, actually believes.

Author : Ingrid Guerra-Lopez
Publisher : Association for Talent Development
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 24,78 MB
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 156286582X

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As an L&D professional, you know not to take a client request at face value. But can you steer misguided initiatives in the right direction, arriving at a solution that works for your customers and your company? Partner for Performance is the key to aligning your learning and development role with your organization's greatest needs. Performance improvement specialists Ingrid Guerra-López and Karen Hicks offer a framework for fast-tracking your growth as an ally to managers and a consultant to business leaders. Their structured, yet versatile method is a fit for any organization, and you can use it throughout the learning-solution process. Form lasting partnerships with stakeholders. Generate, share, and use performance data that support decision making and action. And help your organization avoid failed training initiatives that waste effort, time, and money, while brewing employee disengagement. Change the L&D status quo and build credibility for your department --Partner for Performance will show you how.

Author : Frances Fortuin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 21,25 MB
Release : 2023-08-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 908686628X

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"This book addresses the crucial question for innovative prospector companies of how to bridge the gap between exploration and exploitation. Whereas exploration deals with the search for new ideas and opportunities, exploitation is about incrementally moving the performance bar a little bit higher. Finding the right balance between exploration and exploitation is essential for the long term survival in today’s highly dynamic business environments. In a cross-industry study of ten large, multinational prospector companies, which are world leaders in their respective industries, it was discovered that the 'industry clockspeed', the length between the subsequent product generations, plays an essential role in bridging this gap. The product generation life cycle (PGLC) typically ranged from just several months in short life cycle industries (SLCIs), such as electronics and the mobile phone industry, to (more than) 10 years in long life cycle industries (LLCIs), such as aerospace and pharmaceutics. Our data indicate that companies operating in SLCIs face major problems in maintaining the long term knowledge base of their firms, whereas companies in LLCIs tend to have problems in aligning their innovation strategy to the short term business needs. To investigate the dynamics of strategic alignment, in one of the LLCI companies, a multinational supplier of industrial components, a six-year longitudinal study was conducted. Here our data indicate that finding a funding structure that effectively balances exploration and exploitation, combined with regular structured feedback between the exploration and exploitation function is needed to maintain long term strategic alignment. CTOs and innovation managers can use this book by first establishing the industry clockspeed(s) in their respective industries or product range(s) and then benchmark their innovation processes to those of the first class (SLCI or LLCI) prospector companies included in this book."

Author : Alexander Korolev
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 18,86 MB
Release : 2022-06-02
Category :
ISBN : 9789463725248

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Post-Cold War China-Russia strategic cooperation has displayed significant development and become an increasingly important factor in contemporary international politics. However, there has been no theory-grounded framework and corresponding measurements that would allow an accurate and systematic assessment of the level of China-Russia alignment and its progress over time. How closely aligned are China and Russia? How to define and measure strategic alignments between states? This book bridges area studies and International Relations literature to develop a set of objective criteria to measure and explain the development of strategic alignment in post-Cold War China-Russia relations. It establishes that on a range of criteria, China-Russia alignment is moving towards a full-fledged alliance. It is solid and comprehensive and continues to show a consistent incremental upward trend. There are strong structural incentives for furthering the China-Russia alignment, and there is little that might hinder the effective functioning of a China-Russia alliance. The alignment framework developed in the book can be applied to other cases of interstate strategic cooperation to facilitate comparisons between different strategic alignments.