Essential Challenges Of Strategic Management

Essential Challenges of Strategic Management

Praise for Essential Challenges of Strategic Management"Bill Rouse provides helpful insight to make any business, and inparticular any high- tech business, perform better."-Dennis A.Roberson, Senior Vice President & Chief Technology OfficerMotorola"A well-organized, easy-to-understand bible for all strategicmanagers and leaders."-Dr. Stanley G. Rosen, Director of StrategicPlanning Boeing Satellite Systems"A must-read for managers seeking clarity and focus as they leadorganizations through chaotic times."-William C. Kessler, VicePresident for Enterprise Productivity Lockheed Martin AeronauticsCompanyFrom TQM to business process reengineering to knowledge management,the last several decades have witnessed the rise and fall of many amanagement panacea. As a consequence, a general feeling is nowbrewing among disillusioned managers worldwide that perhaps thetime has come to abandon the impractical quest for anall-encompassing solution to management problems and get back tobasics. Essential Challenges of Strategic Management takes a majorstep towards realizing that goal.Drawing upon the experiences of literally thousands of executivesand senior managers working in all industry sectors, as well asgovernment and nonprofit organizations, this book zeros in on thefundamental challenges faced by every senior manager, regardless ofthe business he or she is in, and describes a range of approachesto those challenges developed by women and men working at many oftoday's leading organizations.Designed as a ready source of inspiration and ideas for busyexecutives and senior managers, Essential Challenges of StrategicManagement consists of concise, independent chapters, eachdedicated to a different strategic challenge. Throughout,celebrated entrepreneur, Fortune 500 consultant, author andeducator, William Rouse uses fascinating and instructive casestudies and vignettes to illustrate the best practices in strategicmanagement and vividly describes various approaches, tools, andtechniques. Additionally, he provides clear-cut guidelines forselecting and implementing the solutions most likely to succeed ina given situation.