Download or read book China s Strategic Intentions and Goals written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Iran s strategic intentions and capabilities written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Iran s Strategic Intentions and Capabilities written by Patrick Clawson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Strategic Intent written by Gary Hamel and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2010-06-21 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this McKinsey Award-winning article, first published in May 1989, Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad explain that Western companies have wasted too much time and energy replicating the cost and quality advantages their global competitors already experience. Canon and other world-class competitors have taken a different approach to strategy: one of strategic intent. They begin with a goal that exceeds the company's present grasp and existing resources: "Beat Xerox"; "encircle Caterpillar." Then they rally the organization to close the gap by setting challenges that focus employees' efforts in the near to medium term: "Build a personal copier to sell for $1,000"; "cut product development time by 75%." Year after year, they emphasize competitive innovation—building a portfolio of competitive advantages; searching markets for "loose bricks" that rivals have left underdefended; changing the terms of competitive engagement to avoid playing by the leader's rules. The result is a global leadership position and an approach to competition that has reduced larger, stronger Western rivals to playing an endless game of catch-up.

Download or read book Reasons and Intentions written by Bruno Verbeek and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are a number of problems in philosophy that seem to share a similar possible solution: 'Why do promises and contracts bind?', 'Why ought citizens and judges obey the law?' and 'Can we realize the gains to be made from cooperation?'. All three problems (as well as some others) share a possible solution in the form of rational internal commitment. Reasons and Intentions is a 'state-of-the-art' overview of the relevant positions on the possibility of such commitment, including critical ones. The introduction provides a survey of the central problem of the volume, 'how the will can bind itself and still be instrumental in nature', and the various positions which are further examined in the contributions. Addressing the question of the relation between intentions and action, the considerations which make an intention rational and how this translates into our conception of (moral) agency, this book brings together specially commissioned essays by the leading scholars in the field.

Download or read book From Business Strategy to IT Action written by Robert J. Benson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-04-26 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Business Strategy to IT Action gives companies of all sizes the tools to effectively link IT to business strategy and produce effective, actionable strategies for bottom-line results. The authors present CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, and IT managers with a powerful and accessible resource packed with such useful material as: * The Strategy-to-Bottom-Line Value Chain, which integrates the management practices relating to planning, prioritization, alignment, and assessing a company's entire IT budget * Methods for using IT Impact Management to establish IT culture and performance models for the business/IT connection * The IT Improvement Zone, which quickly identifies where a company can focus its energies for maximum results * And much more

Download or read book Winning the Uncertainty Game written by Daniel F. Oriesek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the challenges that emerge for organizations from an ever faster changing world. While useful at their time, several management tools, including classic strategic planning processes, will no longer suffice to address these challenges in a timely and comprehensive fashion. While individual management tools are still valid to solve specific problems, they need to be employed based on a clear understanding of what the greater challenge is and how they need to be combined and prioritized with other approaches. In order to do so, companies can apply the clarity of thinking from the military with regard to which leadership level is responsible for what and how these levels need to interact in order to produce a single aligned response to an outside opportunity or threat. Finally, the tool of business wargaming, while known for some time, proves to be an ideal approach to quickly and effectively bring all leadership levels together, align them around a common objective and lay the groundwork for effective implementation of targeted responses that will keep the organization competitive and in the game for the long run. The book offers a comprehensive introduction to business wargaming, including a historical account, a classification of different types of games and a number of specific real-world examples. This book is targeted at practicing managers dealing with the aforementioned challenges, as well as for students of business and strategy at every level.

Download or read book Organization written by John Child and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1984 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook provides a clear and readable introduction to the subject. It deals with organizational design, its contribution to performance, and the problems and issues involved in organizational change. This text assumes little academic knowledge, and some familiarity with work in organizations. It is of real use to decision makers, and to those in management education, both teachers and students.

Download or read book North Korea s Strategic Intentions written by Andrew Scobell and published by Strategic Studies Institute U. S. Army War College. This book was released on 2005 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Andrew Scobell examines the topic of P°yæongyang's strategic intentions. He first identifies a broad spectrum of expert views and distills this wisdom into three "packages" of possible strategic intentions. He then sets out to test which package appears to reflect actual North Korean policy. While he opines that one is more likely than the others, he concludes that it is impossible to say with certainty which package most closely resembles reality, so that further probing of P°yæongyang's intentions is advisable.

Download or read book Legal system and practical reason written by Robert Alexy and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 1993 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aus dem Inhalt: > I. Plenarvotrage: R. Alexy: Eine diskurstheoretische Konzeption der praktischen Vernunft u O. Weinberger: Der Streit um die praktische Vernunft u II. Offentlicher Vortrag: M. Kriele: Zur Universalitat der Menschenrechte u III. Arbeitsgruppenreferate: J. M. Adeodato: Practical Regularities in Underdeveloped Countries u J. L. Bazan / R. Madrid: Racionalidad y Razonabilidad en el Derecho u V. Black: Putting Power in its Place u J. de Sousa e Brito: Praktische Vernunft und Utilitarismus u A. G. Conte: Deontisch vs. anankastisch u W. Eichhorn: Uber eine verfehlte und doch unverzichtbare Idee der praktischen Vernunft u U. Fazis: Theorie und Ideologie der Postmoderne u F. Galindo: La Teoriaa de los Sistemas Sociales como Teoriaa de la Practica Juriadica u G. den Hartogh: Authority and the Balance of Reasons u V. Held. Feminist Morality and the Role of Law u F. Jacobs: Das Paradigma der praktischen Unvernunft u H. Kaptein: The Morals of Post-Modern Human Rights u J. Llompart: Die praktische Vernunft praktisch betrachtet: die Argumentation mit der Menschenwurde u C. W. Maris: Horror Vacui and the Problems of Modern Legal Philsophy u R. Martin: On G. H. von Wright's Theory of Practical Inference u K. A. Papageorgiou: Kant, ein Rechtsmoralist? Ein Blick auf seine angewandte Ethik u u.a. (Franz Steiner 1993)

Download or read book Beyond the Self managing School written by Brian Caldwell and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines how education is changing and outlines what is desirable and workable. The authors suggest clear guidelines for policy-makers and practitioners.

Download or read book The Strategic Leader s Roadmap written by Harbir Singh and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We can all become strategic leaders if we stay on the right path. Even a strong leader can flounder without an effective strategy, and the most powerful strategy can fail without the right leader. Only those who master and integrate both skills can effectively navigate the challenges that lay ahead for today's organizations. The authors offer a 6-point checklist for leading strategically that will help managers strengthen their capacity to develop strategy and to lead its execution.

Download or read book The Strategy Planning Process written by Rudolf Grünig and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing future strategies for a company is an important and complex task, and forms the core issue in this book. A company’s strategy defines its future direction, specifying its desired market position and key competitive advantages both at the level of market offers and of resources. This book provides clear, straightforward advice for professionals: after a brief introduction to strategic planning, a heuristic process for determining future strategies is presented. It shows how to analyze a company’s current situation, develop and assess options for the future, and define implementation projects. Throughout the book, detailed recommendations are illustrated with the help of numerous concrete examples. As a result of studying applications of the book in practice, the second edition benefits from a simplified, hands-on analysis and planning process at the business level.

Download or read book Structured Creativity written by T. Sauber and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-12-06 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovation is crucial for competitive advantage and long-term success. Based on both theory and practice, this book develops a concrete, structured and practitioner-orientated code of practice that enables companies to understand their innovation system and encourage creativity at a strategic level. The process of innovation strategy formulation presented by Sauber and Tschirky is a major step toward turning an often chaotic innovation system into an innovation machine where creativity, efficiency and effectiveness are not contradictory requirements.

Download or read book North Korea s Foreign Policy Under Kim Jong Il written by Tae-Hwan Kwak and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North Korea under the leadership of Kim Jong-il remains as unpredictable and mysterious as ever. This comprehensive study brings together leading scholars in the field to examine the country's current foreign policy under Kim Jong-il as well as its bilateral relations with the USA, China, Russia, Japan and South Korea.

Download or read book Making Universities Matter written by Pauline Mattsson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-29 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era of rapid change and increasing societal demands, the role of universities as knowledge producers and catalysts for change has come under scrutiny. This open access book offers a fresh perspective on the significance of universities in society, shedding light on how their knowledge can truly matter beyond academia. Drawing upon insightful inquiries from both the Swedish and international contexts, this volume delves into the multifaceted interactions between universities and various knowledge users, emphasizing the need for scholars to reflect on how their knowledge can become useful and applicable to wider society. Organized into three compelling themes, collaboration, engagement, and impact, this book explores the concept of "mattering". Together and jointly, they point at the fluid movement of scholars and scholarly knowledge across academic, political, and public spaces, and the intentional actions of scientists to leverage their expertise for real-world impact. Essential reading for social science and humanities scholars, university management professionals, and individuals keen on a critical understanding of the evolving role of universities, this volume offers a comprehensive examination of how universities have mattered, continue to matter, and can shape the future.

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