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Strategy, Complexity and Change Management
What is the one thing organisations, projects and teams can learn from F1 and motor racing?” Professor of Business Strategy Mark Jenkins provides an answer using The Performance Pyramid
The field of Corporate Finance has developed into a fairly complex one from its origins focussed on a company's business and financial needs (financing, risk management, capitalization and budgeting). Corporate Financial Strategy provides a critical introduction to the field and...
Dr Tazeeb Rajwani talks about his new book which takes a strategic management approach to a company's engagement with political, regulatory and social arenas and interests; and develops a conceptual framework and managerial process for designing and delivering successful nonmarket...
Professor Mark Jenkins on whether to innovate or imitate to build competitive advantage.
Richard Allen talks about his PhD research about organisational performance management in the 3rd sector and how performance is managed inside programmes which deliver services to beneficiaries. Richard highlights how focusing on desired outcomes and evidence of change can help...
Professor David Buchanan discusses the findings of an in-depth study of NHS middle managers. His study highlights the key role of middle managers in change and recommends how an enabling environment can be fostered.
Professor David Denyer outlines a rigorous partnership approach to research which successfully addresses important business issues.
David Denyer on research approaches with impact
Management Tip from Cranfield School of Management: Dr Tazeeb Rajwani focuses on 3 simple steps that need to be addressed when developing an organisation’s strategy.
Management Tip from Cranfield School of Management: Dr Tazeeb Rajwani gives 3 tips on whether to use or reject best practices when developing a new product or process.
Companies are continually urged to make the most of their uniqueness, but how do they go about that? Professor Cliff Bowman answers the question.
Open innovation and making the best use of internal and external resources is becoming an integral part of the future of strategic sourcing and doing business. What does open innovation consist of? How do you put this into practice? What...
Heather Stebbings is looking at how organisations can learn to flex and implement change on a continuous basis in order to optimise their ability to evolve and get ahead of the competition.
Maria De Villa is researching the structural changes organisations are forced to make, and their adaptive capabilities, when entering international markets in high uncertainty contexts.
Steve Macaulay talks to Mark Jenkins about his book Advanced Strategic Management
David Medcalf talks to Cliff Bowman about his book "Strategy in Practice"
In this debate we explore the relevance of social networking - Facebook, MySpace, etc. - to business. A lot of assumptions are routinely made about the benefits of social media; we call some of those into question. For instance, what...
Thomas Lawton looks at the fate of strategic planning following the recession.
Veronica Burke considers how setting goals in elite sports has important lessons for managers.
A Formula 1 race success prompts the insight that sometimes going off strategy is the right thing to do.
Dr Tazeeb Rajwani assess the economic and political risk implications of the unrest in Egypt (as at Feb 2011) for firms both in Egypt and globally.
