Strategic Transformation Changing While Winning

by Hensmans, Manuel; Johnson, Gerry; Yip, George

• ISBN13: 9781137268457
• ISBN10: 113726845X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-01-08
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Very few companies are successful in undertaking strategic transformation while maintaining long term superior financial performance. Strategic Transformation, written by leading strategy experts, draws upon extensive interviews with business leaders and provides insights from companies faced with this challenge.

Author Biography

MANUEL HENSMANN is Professor of Strategic Management at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, ULB, Belgium. He was previously a Research Fellow at the Advanced Institute of Management Research and a Marie Curie Fellow at Manchester School of Management. His research focuses on how firms can grow sustainably without experiencing major stakeholder crises, and he has conducted projects at Board of Directors level with multiple organizations. His research has been selected amongst the best papers of the journal Long Range Planning and the Strategic Management Society Conference. He has acted as an executive lecturer at Rotterdam School of Management and an executive tutor at London Business School.

GERRY JOHNSON is Emeritus Professor of Strategic Management at Lancaster University School of Management and a Senior Fellow of the UK Advanced Institute of Management Research. He is the co-author of Europe's bestselling strategic management text, Exploring Strategy (Prentice Hall, 9th edition, 2011) and author and co-author of several other books. His research interests are in the area of strategic management practice, in particular with the processes of strategy development and change in organizations. He has published his research in leading journals including the Academy of Management Review, the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Management Studies, the Strategic Management Journal, Organization Studies, the British Journal of Management, and Human Management Journal. As a consultant he is a partner of Strategy Explorers and works at a senior level with management teams on issues of strategy development and strategic change.GEORGE YIP is Professor of Management and Co-Director of the Centre on China Innovation at the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management Research and a Fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB). An earlier book, Total Global Strategy: Managing for Worldwide Competitive Advantage (Prentice Hall, 1992) was selected as one of the 30 best business books of 1992 and has been published in ten languages. His extensive full time business experience includes Vice President and Director of Research and Innovation at Capgemini Consulting, product and account manager with Unilever companies, and senior manager of PricewaterhouseCoopers' strategic management consulting services in the Eastern United States. His previous academic positions include being Dean at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, and a Professor at UCLA, Judge School of Business at the University of Cambridge, and London Business School. As a consultant, board director, and speaker he works with companies on issues of international strategy, strategic transformation, and innovation.

Table of Contents

PART I

The Challenge of Change
The Background
PART II

The Three Successful Transformers: Beginnings
The Three Successful Transformers: Developments
The Three Successful Transformers: Breakthroughs
The Three Comparators
PART III

Four Traditions of Transformation
Playing the Long Game: Implications for Managers