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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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