... Strategic planning Operations management Visual management Visual communication Ideal strategic changes presuppose a dynamic process with a clear vision and well-defined aims and targets (Kotter, 1995). Strategic changes in an organization will face challenges not only related to the changes...

... and adaptive in their decision making and have relatively high levels of accumulated experience. This general review improves the comprehension of a complex concept currently under debate in the field of strategic planning. It explains the areas of the firm implicated in the achievement of adaptive...

... performance. Organizations Strategic planning Hazards Nuclear energy industry Organization reliability Organizational development High hazard industries Executive coaching Evan H. Offstein can be contacted at: eoffstein@frostburg.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013...

... Competitive strategy Strategic planning Capital China Most strategy studies have followed either a structuralist perspective (e.g. cultural, industry‐based, and/or institutional approaches), which conceptualizes strategy as an agentless action, or conceptualize strategy as purely rational (e.g...

... for each point, but more are available): © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Change management Knowledge management Strategic planning One only needs to talk to a range of managers to discover that, in many organisations, strategic thinking and strategic planning are often...

... Higher education Strategic planning Market segmentation Romania Some authors note that in the past many institutions of higher education have taken a passive approach to student recruitment. This was not unusual since the demand for places at universities was greater than the universities...

... ; Post and Altman, 1994 ; Stead and Stead, 1994). © MCB UP Limited 1994 Agriculture Environment Organizational change Seikatsu Club Strategic planning Sustainable development On 25 February 1992, a short article appeared in the Winnipeg Free Pressdescribing a new...

... and large systems change. Encourages a dialogue over these issues in the literature. © MCB UP Limited 1992 South Africa Strategic planning Systems theory Organizational development Large Systems Change: Issues Related to the Strategy Joanne C. Preston Kennesaw State College, Marietta...

... product pricing strategy. Also discusses implications regarding the measurement of slack using financial variables. © MCB UP Limited 1992 Armaments industry Organizational structure Product development Strategic planning Organizational behaviour Organizational change Risk JOCM 5,3...

...Balaji S. Chakravarthy; Peter Lorange If strategic planning systems have failed it is because managers have failed to adapt them to the changed contexts of their businesses. Four distinct contexts are identified: Pioneer, Expand, Reorient, and Dominate. These labels are chosen to indicate...

... challenges, as well as links between strategic challenges facing firms and specific sets of staffing policies. © MCB UP Limited 1991 Employment Service industries Strategic planning USA Strategic Challenges and Service Sector Service Sector Response: An Response Industry-specific Approach...

.... It is concluded that if these seven factors are analysed by each organisation at the outset of negotiations to form an alliance, then the chances of a strategic alliance succeeding are improved. © MCB UP Limited 1991 Strategic planning Strategy Joint ventures Co‐operation JOCM 4,1 Analytical...

... hold the potential to serve as positive vehicles for strategic change if they are viewed as means to achieve longer term objectives. Strategic planning USA Information industry Surveys Joint ventures Joint Ventures as a Vehicle for Strategic Change: Opportunities and Pitfalls Judith...