TY - BOOK AU - Tovstiga,George TI - Strategy in practice: a practitioner's guide to strategic thinking SN - 9781119121671 AV - HD30.28 U1 - 658.4/012 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Chichester, West Sussex, UK PB - Wiley KW - Strategic planning KW - Planification strat�egique KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS KW - Industrial Management KW - bisacsh KW - Management KW - Management Science KW - Organizational Behavior KW - fast N1 - Revised edition of the author's Strategy in practice, 2013; Includes index; Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Preface to the third edition -- About the author -- Introduction strategy in practice -- Strategic thinking -- Sense making and strategic insight -- Insight-driven strategic analysis -- Appendices: -- Appendix A: Probing the strategic boundaries of the firm's unique competing space -- Appendix B: Strategy mapping and narrative (based on analysis of the relevant strategy building blocks) -- Index N2 - Strategy in Practice presents a practitioner-focussed approach to strategy. Rigorously founded on current thinking and theoretical concepts in the field of strategic management, it aims to: -Provide the strategy practitioner with a systematic and insight-driven approach to strategic thinking.-Establish and translate the relevance of strategy theory to its application in the practice field. This is where many executives in firms have great difficulty: they lose sight of the wood for the trees when it comes to strategy.-Leads the reader through the strategic thinking process, beginning with the formulation of compelling and clearly articulated strategic questions and an appropriate analysis of the relevant issues. The book offers students and executives the tools they need to develop insight or 'get the big picture' on the basis of limited information and fast reaction to unexpected crisis. Its concise format will make it a popular primer for all readers UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119169154 ER -