1st Edition

Designing World Class Corporate Strategies

312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

Designing World Class Corporate Strategies considers the key role of corporate centres within very large, primarily multi-business organisations. At present, these corporate centres are under attack as not creating and value and merely adding cost to their groups. The authors have developed a corporate configurations model which demonstrates four ways in which corporate centres can add... Read more
The Corporate Configurations Model; Create or Capture Value; The Role of the Centre, Developing the Rainbow diagram, Leadership Challenges of the Model. Developing the Model over Time: the Corporate Life Cycle: The Need for Reinvention, Congruent, Dysfunctional and Divergent Strategies, Voluntary versus Compulsory Initiatives. Applying the Model: Leadership Tensions and Conflicts, Governance Processes: Planning and Control Systems, Sustainability Issues. individual Configurations: Controls Configuration, Scale Configuration, Scope Configuration, Creative Configuration, Underpinning Frameworks to the Model.

Biography

Keith Ward, Cliff Bowman, Andrew Kakabadse