Recenze Strategy

'Contents§§Preface 19§§Strategic Solutions for REvolutions 19§§The New Challenges 19§§The Right Knowledge 21§§The Right Strategy for the Great Transformation21 23§§The Revolution in the Great Transformation21 24§§Innovative, Intelligent and Right Solutions 25§§Strategy: Navigating Effectively Through the Complexity of the Great Transformation21 26§§Key Propositions 28§§A Word On the Terms Used 30§§Part I: Strategy for the Great Transformation21§§1.What Strategy Looks Like When the Future is Unknown 37§§2.The Great Transformation21 41§§The Old World Ends as a New World Is Born 43§§Megachange in Megasystems 44§§The Current Crisis as the New World's Birth Pangs 45§§It Takes More than Economics to Understand the Global Economic Crisis 46§§Anglo-Saxon Corporate Governance-A Machine of Destruction 47§§Complexity and Management Crisis: The Absence of Neuronal Systems 50§§Third Act of the Crisis: Deflation 51§§The New Way of Functioning: Mastering Complexity 53§§3.When You Do Not Know What You Need to Know: The Minefield of Strategic Errors 55§§Strategic Delusion by Operational Data 55§§Operational and Strategic Management 60§§Strategic Thinking Traps 66§§Part II: Strategy as Master Control in the Wholistic Management Systems§§1.Making Companies Function Well 77§§Enhancing Management Impact Through Management Support Systems 77§§Right and Good Management-Universally Valid 78§§Management, Financial Markets, and Alpinism 81§§A Practical Hint for Readers in the Know 82§§What are Master Controls? 83§§The Basic Management Model and Its Basic Concepts 84§§Management of Institutions: The General Management Model 85§§Management of People: The Standard Model of Effectiveness, or 'Management Wheel' 88§§The Integrated Management System-IMS 89§§Integrated Strategy as a Top Cross-Divisional Function 92§§2.Providing Direction Through§Corporate Policy and Business Mission 95§§The Right Purpose 95§§The Right Mission 100§§The Right Performance 106§§Part III: Mastering Complexity Through Reliable Navigation in Any Circumstance§§1.Revolutionizing Strategic Navigation 113§§The Malik-Gälweiler Navigation System 114§§The Right Strategy for a Future Unknown 117§§Putting an End to Arbitrariness in Strategy Design 117§§Looking Further Into the Future-Without Forecasts 119§§Time Constants and System Dead Time 119§§Limitations of the Market Economy:§Why Economists Do Not See Far Enough 120§§What Must Be Monitored: Variables for Control and Orientation 121§§Reliable Function With Cybernetic Control Systems 122§§2.Reliable Control Through Cybernetic Navigation 124§§First System Level: Liquidity 124§§Second System Level: Profit 129§§Third System Level: Current Profit Potential (CPP) 131§§Fourth System Level: Future Profit Potentials (FPPs) 136§§3.Setting the Right Strategy, Irrespective of Economic Climate: The Strategy Map 143§§The Solution-Invariant Customer Problem 147§§Solution Technologies 154§§Socioeconomic Trends 157§§Market Position 159§§Investments and Cost Reduction Potentials 166§§Research and Development Objectives 168§§Finance and Balance Sheet Variables 170§§Part IV: Following the Change: Success Factors for Your Current Business§§1.No More Blind Flying: PIMS-The High Art of Strategy Development 175§§Strategic Leadership 176§§The PIMS Revolution 178§§Strategy at the Strategic Business Unit Level 179§§Discovery of the 'Laws of the Market Place' 179§§A Brilliant Research Idea: Profits Are Driven by Structure, not the Industry 181§§New Benchmarking Based on the Biological Pattern 182§§The PIMS Database Suites 183§§Universally Valid Factors Determine Seventy-five Percent of Profits 185§§Answering Key Questions of Strategy 187§§Eight Key Factors for Success 188§§2.Strategic Core Knowledge: A Cornucopia of Insights 189§§Market Position 189§§Stability of Results Over Time 190§§A Seeming Anomaly Tr schovat popis