“The simultaneous pursuit of growth and profitability is one of the most exquisite–and difficult–leadership dilemmas. Bala Chakravarthy and Peter Lorange provide penetrating insights and persuasive real-life examples on how a company can address this dilemma through continuous renewal and internal entrepreneurship. Unusual for books on leadership, their discussion spans from theory through practical implementation.” –Nick Shreiber, Former President & CEO, Tetra Pak Group   “A continuous renewal of the firm’s businesses is essential for driving its profitable growth. This book gives credible insights and rich examples on how these renewal strategies can be shaped and executed successfully. I am recommending it to my key managers and business friends–essential reading!” –Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Chairman & CEO, Nestlé   Drawing on extensive research with world-class companies, this book introduces four proven strategies for continuous renewal. You’ll discover powerful ways to protect and extend your core businesses; capture new opportunities distant from them; and “bridge” these two strategies with two others to evolve towards profitable diversification.   Then, through real-world case studies from great companies around the world, you’ll learn how to execute on these strategies–achieving superior growth and profitability in any business environment.   •Craft a “shared strategic architecture” for growth and profitability Protect, extend, transform, build, and leverage   •Execute on your renewal strategies successfully Integrate your efforts, encourage entrepreneurship, and manage risks   •Wield the tools of implementation Utilize organic growth, acquisitions, and alliances more effectively   •Share one stage and one script Find the right roles for leaders, managers, and internal entrepreneurs   •Promote continuous renewal from the top Set vision, values, and culture...and manage the dilemmas of continuous renewal     Sustaining Growth and Profitability: World-Class Strategies, Proven Execution Techniques!   •Mastering the secret of growth and profitability: continuous renewal •Emerging best practices from today’s most successful companies, worldwide •Protecting, extending, leveraging, building, and transforming your core •Deploying organic growth, acquisitions, and alliances intelligently   Growth and profitability. You need both. This book shows how to get both. It combines a complete strategic framework with start-to-finish execution techniques–all based on advanced research reflecting the best practices of today’s most successful companies. Through detailed case studies, the authors show how to sustain growth and profitability by protecting and extending your current market position, evolving to adjacent areas, and entering entirely new markets. You’ll discover better ways to integrate organic growth, acquisitions and alliances; task managers at all levels in the organization appropriately; and manage the non-stop dilemmas and tradeoffs you’ll face along the way.

Product Description: For much of his business life, Peter Lorange has had three careers running in parallel as a business academic leading some of the world's most important business schools, as the head of a shipping company and as a board member for several multinational companies...read more

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Product Description: Reflects the state-of-the-art research in the alliance field. This work contains papers presented at a conference hosted by Professors Contractor and Lorange and held at Rutgers University, USA. It is intended for academics, policy makers, consultants and strategists involved in strategic alliances...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Many academic institutions, especially business schools, tend to be managed on an ad hoc basis. Why? Because the leadership may not be fully and formally equipped to lead, and difficult stakeholder-mix issues often limit its ability to govern proactively...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Written by leading experts from the US, Europe and Japan, this book represents the state-of-the-art thinking about strategy. Specially commissioned pieces from the world's leading commentators and researchers have been drawn together by the editors into a highly focused overview of the crucial role of strategic processes...read more

Product Description: Strategic alliances are becoming increasingly important as a long-term response to the move towards globalization of businesses, and to their need to learn and adapt quickly, gain access to new markets, and diffuse new technologies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Designed to replace the "Strategic Planning Systems" by Richard Vancil and Peter Lorange, this volume emphasizes management processes and the management of these processes. The text offers a framework for strategic planning, looking at multi-level strategic planning, corporate, divisional and functional, and providing 16 cases which describe the design and implementation of strategic planning processes...read more

Product Description: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible...read more