Description
What does strategy really mean? What is effective strategic leadership? Why are global events and trends important to South African organizations?

Strategic Management: Winning in the Southern African Workplace answers these fundamental questions and probes many more. It covers emerging political, economic, technological and social trends which are integral to good strategic decisions. The nature and process of strategic management, strategic intent and analysis are discussed, as are strategy development, formulation and implementation. The authors look to the future and make predictions on strategic management in a high-tech, fast-paced world. In short, strategic management is covered from the outside in and from the inside out.

Strategic Management: Winning in the Southern African Workplace is designed to enable students to engage analytically with the components of strategic management. It is compelling reading for anyone interested in how strategic management practice and principles can translate into winning companies.

Key features

• More than 50 case studies to practically illustrate how to apply strategic management principles to everyday situations
• Strategy in action, a unique feature which reveals how top organizations in southern Africa and elsewhere have turned their operations around using strategic thinking
• Questions which provoke in-depth discussion and analyses
• Experiential exercises which consolidate reader understanding of the practice and principles of strategic management
• Suggested websites to stimulate sustained knowledge acquisition in most of the topics discussed.

Contents

Readership
University students at third or fourth-year level, or enrolled in honours courses or graduate school of business courses. The book is also aimed at university of technology students following BTech courses in strategic management.