Description
This book provides a comprehensive guide to corporate strategy, covering a variety of situations where a company operates more than one business. The book provides clear guidance on how to make effective decisions across a range of areas, including investment, selection and guidance of managers, and centralization of decision-making. This book is an essential resource for anyone involved in corporate strategy, and will help to develop leaders in the field.
A revised edition of the bestselling classic This book covers strategy for organisations that operate more than one business, a situation commonly referred to as group-level or corporate-level strategy. Corporate-level strategy addresses four types of decisions that only corporate-level managers can make: which businesses or markets to enter, how much to invest in each business, how to select and guide the managers of these businesses, and which activities to centralise at the corporate level. This book gives managers and executive students all the tools they need to make and review effective corporate strategy across a range of organisations.
Review:
The strength of this important book is in its unmistakable authority. (Developing Leaders, August 2014)