Designing World Class Corporate Strategies

Values Creating Roles for Corporate Centres

Keith Ward, Cliff Bowman, Andrew Kakabadse - Collection Management

299 pages, parution le 28/12/2004

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Résumé

Multi-business groups are under attack. In the major developed markets of the world, not only is the truly diversified conglomerate seen as a dinosaur from a bygone corporate era, but also the corporate centres of very many other large corporations are seen as an endangered species, facing ever increasing demands and challenges to justify their continued existence.

This book focuses on the key value-adding role of corporate centres within large, primarily multi-business organisations. At present these corporate centres are frequently accused of not creating any value and merely adding cost to their groups.

The four value-adding roles identified in this book have differing levels of sustainability and each can be more appropriate to specific types of external environment. However they all require significantly different types of leadership and other key skills at the corporate centre.

The book considers the challenges facing corporate centres in an integrated and multi-functional way and takes a holistic approach to the development of corporate strategies. Relevant information is included on leadership styles and cultural issues, control processes and performance measures.

Designing World Class Corporate Strategies:

sets out the development of a corporate configurations model
discusses four configurations in depth with a number of real company case studies.
considers issues involved in applying the model in practice, as well as providing more background to the academic theories underpinning the model

L'auteur - Keith Ward

Keith Ward , Visiting Professor of Financial Strategy, Cranfield School of Management

L'auteur - Cliff Bowman

Cliff Bowman , Lecturer, Cranfield School of Management, UK

L'auteur - Andrew Kakabadse

Andrew Kakabadse , Lecturer, Cranfield School of Management, UK

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Preface
A corporate configurations framework
- Value-adding corporate centers
- Leading, managing and sustaining
- A proactive approach to change
The individual configurations
- The controls configuration
- The scale configuration
- The scope configuration
- The creative configuration
Working with the model
- Changing configurations
- Leading from the centre
- Theorical underpinnings

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Elsevier
Auteur(s)	Keith Ward, Cliff Bowman, Andrew Kakabadse
Collection	Management
Parution	28/12/2004
Nb. de pages	299
Format	19 x 24,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	620g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780750663687
ISBN13	978-0-7506-6368-7