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Synopsis
Making Strategy presents an approach to strategy making designed to assist most organizations develop strategy appropriate to their size, purpose, and resources. It provides a much needed guide to the strategy-making process for management teachers and consultants: by elaborating the key concepts and theories of strategic management; by illustrating through case vignettes the issues inherent in the process of strategy making; and by providing extensive and detailed practical guidelines on the methods, techniques, and tools employed in the case vignettes. These three aims are reflected in the three-part structure of the book. All three parts are closely cross-referenced and integrated throughout in a way that allows the reader to dip into any part of the book and be drawn into the fuller aspects of the processes discussed. The integrated whole forms a cycle or ôjourneyö of strategy making, which is introduced in Part I. The reader is not expected to take away from the book a recipe for working, but a better understanding of strategy as predominantly process-oriented. Key themes are the crucial significance of political feasibility; the role of participation; emphasis on stakeholder management; thinking about alternative futures within the overall process of strategy making; and using computer support for strategy making, organizational learning, and strategy delivery. Making Strategy will be invaluable to practitioners, scholars, and students in management science, systems management, public sector/nonprofit management, and operations management.
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About the Author
Fran Ackermann is Professor and Head of Department of Management Science at Strathclyde Business School, and an adjunct Professor at Curtin Graduate School of Business. She has written widely, publishing 4 books, over 20 book chapters and 150+ articles (ranging from strategy, stakeholder management, competency mapping to problem structuring, disruption and delay and risk management). She has been an adjunct professor at University of Georgia, Grenoble Business School and Bordeaux Business School. She is a member of the British Academy of Management, the Operational Research Society and is active at the Academy of Management (having served on one of the divisional executive committees). She is currently on the British Academy of Management Council. Fran has also been an ESRC Post-doctoral Fellowship Assessor and a Commonwealth Grant Advisor.
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