 Shaping Business Strategy 4: Assess the current situation
Assess the current business, operations, organization, and
capabilities to determine capacity for change (internal strengths and weaknesses)
On-the-Job
Join a task force formed to address an issue that spans
several businesses or functional areas Participate in strategic planning process
Participate with line managers in a business analysis project Analyze results of company
attitude surveys and available internal organization studies Compare past and present
hiring patterns
Education and Training
- Changing to a Team-Based Organization (Cornell University,
607-255-8994, 3 days, $895)
- Organizational Management Program (Rutgers University,
908-932-5526, 5 days, $2600)
- Managing Technology and Strategic Innovation (Stanford
University, 650-723-3341, ext. 98, 1 week, $5500)
- UCLA (310-825-2001)
---Creativity and Innovation in the Organization,1 week, $4950
---Managing the Information Resource, 1 week, $4950
- University of Chicago (312-464-8732)
---Executive Program in Corporate Strategy, 1 week, $3850
---Strategic Marketing Management, 1 week, $3850
- Managing Critical Resources (University of Virginia,
804-924-3000, 2 weeks, $8200)
- Prospering in a Newly Deregulated Environment (The Wharton
School, 215-898-1776, 1 week, $4950)
- INSEAD (331-6074-5513)
---Managing Partnerships and Alliances, 1 week, FF 34.000
---Strategic Issues in Mergers and Acquisitions, 1 week, offered in
Fontainebleau and Singapore, FF 54.000
- The Strategic Management Conference (The Conference Board, 212-339-0345,
2 days, $1425)
- Tools and Techniques for Thinking and Managing Strategically
(American Management Association, 1-800-262-9699, 3 days, $1725)
Reading
- The Conference Board, 212-339-0345
---Strategic Alliances: Institutionalizing Partnering Capabilities,
Report No. 1191, 1997
---Understanding Productivity Growth: Entry, Survival, and the
Competitive Process, Report #1235, 1999
---Post-Merger Integration, Report No. 1257, 1999
- Harvard Business Review, 617-783-7500
---Are You Ready to Compete? Reprint Series #49523
---Managing for Profit and Growth, Reprint Series #49524
- William A. Band, Touchstones: Ten New Ideas Revolutionizing
Business (John Wiley, 1995)
- Andrew Black, Philip Wright and Jeb Bachman, In Search of
Shareholder Value: Managing the Drivers of Performance (Pitman Publishing, 1997)
- Peter Cohan, Net Profit: How to Invest and Compete in the Real
World of Internet Business (Jossey-Bass, 1999)
- Stanley M. Davis, Future Perfect (Addison-Wiley, 1987)
- Stan Davis and Christopher Meyer, Blur: The Speed of Change
in the Connected Economy (Addison-Wesley, 1998)
- Arie De Geus, The Living Company: Habits for Survival in a
Turbulent Business Environment (Harvard Business School Press, 1997)
- Thomas Doorley and John Donovan, Value-Creating Growth: How to Lift
Your Company to the Next Level of Performance (Jossey-Bass, 1999)
- Dietrich Dorner, The Logic of Failure (Metropolitan Books,
1996)
- Peter Drucker, Management Challenges for the 21st Century (HarperBusiness, 1999)
- Philip Evans and Thomas Wurster, Blown to Bits: How the New
Economics of Information Transforms Strategy (Harvard Business School Press, 1999)
- Harold Geneen, The Synergy Myth (St. Martin's Press, 1997)
- Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad, Competing for the Future
(Harvard Business School Press, 1994)
- Richard G. Hamermesh, Strategic Management (John Wiley &
Sons, 1983)
- James B. Hangstefer, Creating and Sustaining Company Growth
(Burton-Merrill Press, 1997)
- Robert Heller and Paul Spenley, Riding the Revolution: Competing with dot.coms
(HarperCollins, 2000)
- Nicholas Imparato and Oren Harari, Jumping the Curve:
Innovation and Strategic Choice in an Age of Transition (Jossey-Bass, 1994)
- Ronald Jonash and Tom Sommerlatte, The Innovation Premium:
Achieving Peak Peformance and Profitability (Perseus Books, 1999)
- John Kay, Why Firms Succeed (Oxford University Press, 1995)
- Kevin Kelly: New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World
(Penguin, 2000)
- William H. Kohlberg and Foster C. Smith, Rebuilding
America's Workforce : Business Strategies to Close the Competitive Gap (Business One
Irwin, 1992)
- John P. Kotter and James L. Heskett, Corporate Culture and
Performance (Free Press, 1992)
- Joan Klubnik and Marlene Roschelle, Battling the Barriers to
Success (Richard D. Irwin, 1996)
- Rick Levine et al, The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business
as Usual (Perseus Books, 2000)
- Bryan Lowes, Christopher L. Pass and Stuart M. Sanderson,
Understanding Companies and Markets: A Strategic Approach (Blackwell, 1994)
- Joan Magreta (ed.), Managing in the New Economy (Harvard Business Review Book, Reprint Series, 1999)
- Robert Monks and Nell Minow, Corporate Governance
(Blackwell, 1994)
- Cynthia A. Montgomery and Michael E. Porter, Strategy:
Seeking and Securing Competitive Advantage (Harvard Business School Press, 1991)
- Richard L. Nolan and David C. Croson, Creative Destruction:
A Six Stage Process for Transforming the Organization (Harvard Business School Press,
1995)
- Tom Peters, The Circle of Innovation: You Can't Shrink Your Way
to Success (Alfred A. Knopf, 1998)
- Daniel J. Power , et al., Strategic Management Skills
(Addison-Wesley, 1986)
- Frederick F. Reichheld, The Loyalty Effect: The Hidden Force
Behind Growth, Profits and Lasting Value (Harvard Business School Press, 1996)
- Moshe Rubinstein and Iris Firstenberg, The Minding Organization:
Bring the Future to the Present and Turn Creative Ideas into Business Solutions (Wiley, 1999)
- Richard P. Rumelt, Dan E. Schendel and David J. Teece
(eds.), Fundamental Issues in Strategy (Harvard Business School Press, 1996)
- Carl Shapiro and Hal Vaughn, Information Rules: A Strategic Guide
to the Network Economy (Harvard Business School Press, 1999)
- Howard H. Stevenson, Do Lunch or Be Lunch: The Power of
Predictability in Creating Your Future (Harvard Business School Press, 1997)
- Thomas A. Stewart, Intellectual Capital: The New Wealth of
Organizations (Doubleday, 1997)
- Dave Ulrich and Dale Lake, Organizational Capabilities (John
Wiley & Son, 1990)
- Kees van der Heijden, Scenarios: The Art of Strategic
Conversation (John Wiley & Sons, 1996)
- Gregory H. Watson, Strategic Benchmarking (John Wiley &
Sons, 1993)
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