This book provides a practical approach to designing and implementing a Knowledge Management (KM) Strategy. The book explains how to design KM strategy so as to align business goals with KM objectives. The book also presents an approach for implementing KM strategy so as to make it sustainable....

This book takes a process approach of identifying, evaluating, selecting, managing and developing suppliers to create more value for customers. It begins by outlining the mental shift necessary to build robust relationships with suppliers. Next, the book details strategic sourcing methodology: a...

This book addresses the core challenges currently faced by traditional companies. In the age of digitization many industries are now challenged by disruptions of the traditional value chain: new competitors are coming into play, traditional products don’t sell any more, and profits are at...

This book presents strategies that put the customer at the center of an enterprise. It elaborates on the reasons for viewing customers as assets that a firm needs to acquire, develop and cultivate in order to generate profitable relationships, and champions customer profitability as the metric...

This practice guide on procurement strategy brings together methods and tools used by global purchasers across different industries. The authors lay major focus on the themes of global sourcing, risk management, and the dynamic topic of negotiation strategy. The authors present their...

Part I Introduction -- Family strategy over generations -- Part II Managed by neglect: solutions that create problems -- Riding a ghost train: “What happens if ‘nothing’ happens?” -- Part III The Witten theory of the business family -- Family and business - the “impossible endeavour”...

Part I: The Concepts and Theories Behind Innovative Strategy Design -- Part II: A Structured Approach to Strategy Development -- Part III: Laying the Foundation for a Successful Strategy -- Part IV: Iteratively Developing the Business Model Underlying the Strategy -- Part V: Exposing the...

1 Outline -- 2 Bank Management and Steering -- 3 Banks in their Regulatory and Economic Environment -- 4 Risk Modeling and Capital - Credit Risk (Loans) -- 5 Risk Modeling and Capital - Counterparty Credit Risk (EPE) -- 6 Risk Modeling and Capital - Credit Risk (Securitizations) -- 7 Risk...

Strategic Management Control in Theory and Practice -- Illustrating an Organisation's Strategy as a Map -- Painting the Relevant Organisation -- Planning for Control and Evaluation -- Strategic Pricing: The Relationship Between Strategy, Price Models and Product Cost -- Controlling and Being...

Introduction: Storytelling, Storylistening, and the Stories About Your Boss -- PART I: THE NARRATIVE SIDE OF ORGANIZATIONS -- Stories: What Organizations Are Made Of -- The Cartography of Narrative Organizations -- Why the Future Belongs to Narratively Competent Organizations -- INTERMEZZO:...