Strategy and Performance: Competing through Competences

Publisher: Cambridge University Press | ISBN 10: 052175030X | 2002 | PDF | 192 pages | 1 MB



In a world where customers are fickle and markets change overnight, you need to be ready to move rapidly when opportunities or threats arise. This book helps you to understand your organization's potential, its capabilities and limitations, so when new challenges appear, you'll know how to manage your resources effectively to take advantage of them. It will show you how to build a more sustainable competitive advantage by revealing the techniques that underlie your firm's strategy, and explaining how to improve and manage these resources to reinforce your strengths and ameliorate your weaknesses.

download: Executive Strategy: Strategic Management and Information Technology

Publisher: Wiley

2001
ISBN 047138402X
PDF
544 pages
1.9 MB
 

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A modern theory of executive strategy for the information ageThe information revolution has radically transformed virtually every aspect of business today. Yet, no book has fully addressed its impact on strategic management-until now. In Executive Strategy: Strategic Management and Information Technology, Frederick Betz builds on his pioneering work concerning the management of technical innovation to explore the powerful relationship between traditional strategic management and today's computer and communications technologies.By adapting established strategy-related concepts and processes to the strategic management challenges faced by companies in the information age, this book offers readers the background they need to guide processes ranging from the creation of strategic business models and the development of comprehensive planning scenarios to the strategic management of business diversi?cation and the formulation of information strategy.Concepts are developed with a survey of the older business literature on strategy and the newer information strategy literature, and illustrated by a wealth of new technology and e-commerce-related case studies. From the Internet and e-commerce to the role of computer-aided tools such as inventory control and project management software, the world of information technology is ?lled with innovations that have crucial rami?cations for the strategic management of every business. This book equips present and future engineering and business professionals with the road map they need to help steer the modern organization skillfully through the twists and turns of this new and exciting business landscape.

 

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Hospitality Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases (Second Edition)

By Cathy A. Enz

* Publisher: Wiley

* Number Of Pages: 676
* Publication Date: 2009-04-06
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 047008359X
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780470083598

Useful and comprehensive executive-level coverage of strategic management




Hospitality Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases offers a complete, comprehensive, and managerially useful treatment of strategic management in the hospitality industry. This up-to-date resource provides the most relevant models, theories, and hospitality practices for those interested in managing effectively in today’s competitive international hospitality industry.

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Hospitality Strategic Management provides a realistic, balanced, and current view of the field by considering the practical aspects of the strategic manager’s role, including the acquisition, development, and management of internal resources (such as people, knowledge, financial capital, and physical assets) and relationships with external stakeholders (such as guests, suppliers, owners, franchisors, venture partners, and governmental agencies). Throughout the book, examples and best practices of leading hospitality organizations are used to illustrate ideas and concepts.

Hospitality Strategic Management:

* Integrates global strategic management theory throughout the text

* Addresses strategic thinking as an essential, creative aspect of the strategy process

* Covers aspects of starting a business, including what a business plan contains, franchising, and entrepreneurship within existing organizations

* Pulls the implementation process together with a careful treatment of organizational design and control

Reflecting the dynamic environment found in the real world, Hospitality Strategic Management explains principles and theories with extensive use of examples from various segments of the industry, including lodging, gaming, cruise lines, airlines, and food service.

Complete with free access to case examples online from the Center for Hospitality Research at Cornell University, Hospitality Strategic Management is an invaluable learning tool for industry executives and managers in executive-level training courses and for students.

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