Managing Strategy Implementation

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Edition: 1st
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Pub. Date: 2000-04-07
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

Strategy according to Percy Barnevik, Chairman of ABB, is 10 per cent vision and 90 per cent execution. Yet standard textbooks of strategic management are decidedly light in terms of their treatment of the organizational issues which frequently derail change initiatives. Managing Strategy Implementation collects the insights of leading practitioners and academics experienced in executive education in a volume that explicitly examines the organizational issues. The book is divided into four sections, dealing respectively with new models of the process of strategy implementation, key roles in the strategic change process, and success factors in strategy implementation. Topics include the narrative of strategic change, management of uncertainty, the role and utlity of consultants as well as emotional intelligence, the leadership of learning, the role of teams in implementation and the public sector context. A detailed treatment of the emotional world of implementation is given which includes consideration of the stress issues involved, plus a detailed treatment of the middle manager as both architect and potential saboteur of change. The final section focuses on practice and the enablers of successful strategy implementation.

Author Biography

Patrick C. Flood is Professor of Organizational Behavior and University Fellow at the University of Limerick. His previous books include Managing without Traditional Methods (1996), The EU and the Employment Relationship (1997), and Personnel Management in Ireland (1990). He is on the editorial board of Business Strategy Review and the Journal of Irish Business and Administrative Research.

Tony Dromgoole is Director of Open Programmes, Awards and Research Programmes at the Irish Management Institute. He is a part-time member of the School of Business Studies, Trinity College, Dublin. He has published articles on a wide range of management topics and is currently editing, with P. Coughlan, a special edition of the International Journal of Operations and Production Management.

Stephen J. Carroll is Professor at the University of Maryland. He is the author or co-author of more than 12 books and over 100 published papers. He has been a consultant to more than 40 business and government organizations. He has been elected Fellow of the Academy of Management, the American Psychological Association, and the American Psychological Society.

Liam Gorman is a Programme Director at the Irish Management Institute and Lecturer in Business Studies at Trinity College, Dublin. He has published six books on management topics, including one on the Management of Irish Business, and has published articles on a wide range of management topics. He has been a consultant to OECD on the future of management development and has worked in twenty countries on executive education and consulting assignments. He is a Fellow of the Irish Management Institute and has been conferred with a Special Award of Merit by the Irish Psychological Society for his outstanding contributions.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Foreword viii
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction 1(12)
Stephen Carroll
Patrick Flood
Part 1 New Perspectives on the Strategy Implementation Process 13(56)
Strategic Management in a World Turned Upside Down: the Role of Cognition, Intuition and Emotional Intelligence
15(16)
Paul Sparrow
Implementing Strategic Plans through Formalized Goal Setting
31(13)
Stephen Carroll
Analysing Strategic Activity through Narrative Analysis
44(13)
Sarah Moore
Strategy Implementation and Polarity Management
57(12)
Tony Dromgoole
David Mullins
Part 2 Behavioural Barriers and Problems in Strategy Implementation 69(54)
The Emotional World of Strategy Implementation
71(9)
David O'Donnell
Change Management and Stress
80(16)
Carol Borrill
Sharon Parker
Strategy Implementation in Public Sector Organizations
96(13)
David Mckevitt
Leading and Managing the Uncertainty of Strategic Change
109(14)
Jean Hartley
Part 3 Key Roles in Strategy Implementation 123(58)
From Advice to Execution: Consulting Firms and the Implementation of Strategic Decisions
125(13)
Timothy Morris
The Leadership of Learning: the Core Process of Strategy Implementation
138(14)
Dennis Gillen
Middle Management Resistance to Strategic Change Initiatives: Saboteurs or Scapegoats?
152(16)
Mark Fenton-O'Creevy
Constraints on Strategy Implementation: the `Problem' of Middle Managers
168(13)
Philip Stiles
Part 4 Barriers and Enablers to Strategy Implementation 181(55)
The Primacy of Imagination
183(13)
Charles Carroll
Developing and Implementing Strategy through Learning Networks
196(14)
Tony Dromgoole
Liam Gorman
Implementing Turnaround Strategies in Strongly Unionized Environments
210(14)
Niall Saul
Teams in Strategy Implementation: Some Case Examples
224(12)
Ken Smith
Henry Sims Jr
Editors' Conclusion 236(10)
Biographical Notes 246(5)
Index 251

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