One Strategy : Organization, Planning, and Decision Making

by Steven Sinofsky (Microsoft Corporation); Marco Iansiti (Harvard Business School)

• ISBN13: 9780470590034
• ISBN10: 0470590033
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-11-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Learn from the concepts, capabilities, processes, and behaviors that aligned around one strategy with the hard-won, first-person wisdom found in One Strategy.Challenging traditional views of strategy and operational execution, this book-written by Microsoft executive Steven Sinofsky with Harvard Business School professor Marco Iansiti-describes how you can drive innovation by connecting the potential of strategic opportunities to the impact of operational execution. Lessons from the unique combination of real-world experience managing a large scale organization with academic research in strategy and innovation Reveals what it takes to align a complex organization around one strategy, manage its execution, and reach for "strategic integrity" Written by Microsoft executive Steven Sinofsky with Harvard Business School professor Marco Iansiti-a combined forty years of management and research experience A unique perspective on strategy development, alignment, and executionDrawn from Sinofsky's internal Microsoft blog where he communicated some of the management processes the team put to work while developing a 4,000 person, multi-year project-Microsoft Windows 7-One Strategy shares the hard-won insights you can use to successfully make the leap from strategy to execution.

Table of Contents

List of Blog Posts

Acknowledgments

Preface

Strategic Integrity

Strategy: A Participatory Approach

The Foundations of Strategic Integrity

Integrity and Innovation

Planning: Innovation, Risk, and Agility

Organization: Matching Capabilities to Strategy

Organization: What Managers Do

Decision Making and Value Systems

Personal and Organizational Growth

Lessons from Aligning Strategy and Execution

Index

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