Managing from Clarity: Identifying, Aligning and Leveraging Strategic Resources - Hardcover

Ritchie-Dunham, James L.; Rabbino, Hal T.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471497312 ISBN 13: 9780471497318

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2001

Synopsis

'Most organizations can't execute strategy. Complexity is their enemy. Managing from Clarity provides a roadmap for introducing systems thinking to your organization. Read it; it's a snapshot of how strategy will be managed in the 21st Century.'
David P. Norton, President, Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, co-author of the best-selling The Balanced Scorecard and The Strategy-Focused Organization
'If you're not a systems thinker, you're not a good business leader. A few born leaders do it through intuition. For all the rest, there's Managing from Clarity. The book will spell out for you how to build your strategic agenda and how to align your leadership team around it.'
Francis Gouillart, CEO, Emergence Consulting, co-author of the best-selling Transforming the Organization
'this book [turns] the art of system dynamics interventions into science for the first time. For those of us who live the successes and the frustrations of organizations every day, this is a gift.'
Jorge Rufat-Latre, Director, Strategos
'a powerful set of ideas and frameworks for anyone with strategic responsibility.'
Kim Warren, Teaching Fellow, Strategic & International Management, London Business School, author of Competitive Strategy Dynamics
'Finally, someone has harnessed the power of System Dynamics and crafted it into a useful tool for strategy development and strategic management . . . [this book] demonstrates the potential insight that can come from systems thinking and its power to align an organization around a single view of the business model and strategic direction.'
Michael J. Puleo, Director, Deloitte Consulting
'combine[s] the conceptual insights from the academic literature with the savvy of consultants to provide a sound approach to managing any organization.'
James S. Dyer, The Fondren Centennial Chair in Business, University of Texas at Austin
'an intelligent and vivid introduction to an extremely powerful set of concepts and tools for strategy development.'
Andreas Koch, Principal, L.E.K. Consulting

About this title

About the Author

JAMES L. RITCHIE-DUNHAM is President of Strategic Clarity, where he has worked with many Global Fortune 1000 companies. In addition to the teaching positions held at the University of Texas at Austin and the ITAM in Mexico City, he is an active member of the Society of Organizational Learning, INFORMS, and the System Dynamics Society. He is currently studying for a doctorate in Decision Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, and has an MIM from Thunderbird, an MBA from ESADE, and a BSc in Petroleum Engineering. He regularly publishes articles in various practitioner and academic journals.

HAL T. RABBINO is a vice president at the consulting firm Strategic Clarity. A management consultant for over ten years, he has helped organizations' leaders from five continents manage from clarity. Hal has presented his work at leading practitioner and academic conferences and published in the System Dynamics Review . Hal has a MIM from from Thunderbird (AGSIM), an MBA from ESADE in Barcelona, and a BA from Tufts.

From the Back Cover

From the Backcover:

'Most organizations can't execute strategy. Complexity is their enemy. Managing from Clarity provides a roadmap for introducing systems thinking to your organization. Read it; it's a snapshot of how strategy will be managed in the 21st Century.'
David P. Norton, President, Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, co-author of the best-selling The Balanced Scorecard and The Strategy-Focused Organization

'If you're not a systems thinker, you're not a good business leader. A few born leaders do it through intuition. For all the rest, there's Managing from Clarity. The book will spell out for you how to build your strategic agenda and how to align your leadership team around it.'
Francis Gouillart, CEO, Emergence Consulting, co-author of the best-selling Transforming the Organization

'this book [turns] the art of system dynamics interventions into science for the first time. For those of us who live the successes and the frustrations of organizations every day, this is a gift.'
Jorge Rufat-Latre, Director, Strategos

'a powerful set of ideas and frameworks for anyone with strategic responsibility.'
Kim Warren, Teaching Fellow, Strategic & International Management, London Business School, author of Competitive Strategy Dynamics

'Finally, someone has harnessed the power of System Dynamics and crafted it into a useful tool for strategy development and strategic management . . . [this book] demonstrates the potential insight that can come from systems thinking and its power to align an organization around a single view of the business model and strategic direction.'
Michael J. Puleo, Director, Deloitte Consulting

'combine[s] the conceptual insights from the academic literature with the savvy of consultants to provide a sound approach to managing any organization.'
James S. Dyer, The Fondren Centennial Chair in Business, University of Texas at Austin

'an intelligent and vivid introduction to an extremely powerful set of concepts and tools for strategy development.'
Andreas Koch, Principal, L.E.K. Consulting

From the Inside Flap

In searching for the organizational 'magic' that makes some businesses thrive and other fail, management gurus, academic seers and business leaders strive to articulate a single reason for success. Managers are then faced with analyzing numerous findings and trying to integrate the best elements from each view that makes sense to them.

Managing from Clarity integrates the different views into one, streamlined structure which includes organizational as well as operational dynamics and moves it into the realm of strategic management. A host of tools and processes are presented, which offer leaders the means to make informed and deeply thought decisions on how best to balance multiple strategic issues. This books shows managers how to: Describe an individual's mental map of the world as a basis for decision-making

* Clearly articulate and map key relationships across the entire organization

* Describe the basis for developing a common, systemic platform for communication of strategic issues.

* Provide a rigorous and straightforward method for testing strategic hypotheses.

* Identify the essential strategic resources within a firm

and so harness the enormous potential for performance improvement that comes from integrating and aligning the mental methods of the individuals of the firm around the global goals of the organization.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471497312
• ISBN 13: 9780471497318
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 275