Product Description: Conventional wisdom tells us to try harder, be more innovative, take more risks - and almost every company tries. Only a tiny percentage of management teams settle for sticking to their core businesses and declining gracefully as their business matures...read more

Corporate Strategy outlines the fundamentals and foundations of implementing corporate and divisional strategy in today's vertical, Internet-speed business world. Real-world examples and case studies show strategy in action, and help managers and executives build the skill sets needed to set goals and objectives, tackle strategic issues, and increase shareholder value when making decisions about corporate goals. Containing both the structure and feel of a high-level executive seminar, this hands-on book guides readers through the many steps and levels of setting the best course for any corporation or organization.

Product Description: This is the second edition of a collection of readings on synergy. Fully updated with readings, an introduction, and editorial comment throughout, the book assembles the writings of the management thinkers on corporate strategy, including Ansoff, Moss Kanter and Porter...read more

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

Offers advice on the management of a conglomerate corporation and discusses the development of a plan for diversification