Description
Book SynopsisOwn the Future of Your Industry with a Transformational Strategy Designed for Today's Business World
Leaders today are inundated with strategic opportunities, besieged by business disruptions, andpressured to innovate--to do things better, faster, or differently. The CEO of a Fortune 500 firm explains it best: "I am looking at 23 different strategic initiatives. Trying to develop and implement so many strategies is like trying to change the driver, tires, the oil, and the bumpers; paint the body; and tune the engine. And doing all of this on a car that's running at full speed."
The answer used to be found in strategy. But in thepast decade, the commonly deployed large-scale strategic exercises were largely discredited. They were slow and elaborate and did not deliver the expected returns, let alone help make sense of a glut of initiatives or cope with an increasingly unpredictable future.
The Future of Strategy brings strategy back fromthose big top-down p
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
Chapter 1: Drawing Inspiration from the Future 17
Chapter 2: Organizational Inclusiveness 37
Chapter 3: Managing the Competitive Portfolio 69
Chapter 4: How the Principles Work Together 95
Chapter 5: Transformational Strategy 129
Chapter 6: Dealing with Disruption and Competitive Threats 145
Chapter 7: Getting Started 155
Appendix: The History of Strategy 167
Notes 185
Index 189
