Strategy, Complexity and Change Management

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.

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.

David Medcalf talks to Cliff Bowman about his book "Strategy in Practice"

Steve Macaulay talks to Mark Jenkins about his book Advanced Strategic Management

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.

A Formula 1 race success prompts the insight that sometimes going off strategy is the right thing to do.

Veronica Burke considers how setting goals in elite sports has important lessons for managers.

Thomas Lawton looks at the fate of strategic planning following the recession.

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 are the consequences of expecting workforces to exploit their social networks for organisational benefit? Does social networking improve business performance?