The Bending Moment: Energizing Corporate Business Strategy

by David E. Hawkins

Overview

This book draws upon the idea that internal and external pressures and stresses can result in a change in the shape and form of the organization, the bending moment. It suggests the importance of a holistic business strategy as a crucial part of building for success in the complexity of the market place and relates this to a range of themes and topics including mergers and acquisitions, risk management, leadership and change management.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403998385
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/12/2005
Edition description:	2005
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

DAVID E. HAWKINS is Director of Project Operations for PSL. He has an extensive career in projects and procurement, particularly in the construction industry, working in many parts of the world. He has developed training programmes and has been a leading speaker in the field of exploiting relationship management through effective leadership and strategy development. He is also a regular contributor to professional magazines and journals and joint author, with Shan Rajagopal of, Sun Tzu and the Project Battleground published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2004.

Table of Contents

The Force of Balance Corporate Silos Customers and Competitors Business Environment Mergers and Takeovers Acquisitions Partners and Outsourcing Market Knowledge Strategic Stakeholders Strategic Stress Holistic Self-Assessment Allies Corporate Initiatives Strategic Sustainability Finance Management Goals and Objectives Planning and Processes Risk Management Leadership Tactics Change Management Visibility Collaboration Agents and Representatives Optimising Strategy Creating Destiny Testing the Temperature Adapting the Direction Building for the Next Shift

Editorial Reviews

'Organizational change is an on-going requirement in response to an increasingly turbulent business environment. Managing the dynamics of that change process is the focus of The Bending Moment which provides a new angle on this pressing issue' - Professor Martin Christopher, Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management, School of Management, Cranfield University, UK

'David takes a very broad view of business strategy. He will particularly appeal to company executives and students of business administration. I don't think I have ever seen a book that covered all of the relevant areas as comprehensively as this one.' - Dr. Gunther Kruse, Scope Management (ex-Director, KPMG)

'David Hawkins has explained so well, how companies can leverage networks in their language. He describes how the shift to network- based thinking and culture is not only obvious, but necessary for survival. The Bending Moment is prerequisite reading for any organization planning a Twenty-first-century business strategy.' - Thomas Power, Chairman of Ecademy

'Excellent read! Anyone involved in a global business will appreciate the holistic analysis of the barriers to effective operation, and be stimulated by the author's suggestions on transformation through the management of the organizational 'forces'.' - Brain Flintoff, Vice President Technology, Metso Minerals Inc.

'In today's global market place, with ever increasing competition, it is all the more important that businesses strike the right balance between their strategic objectives and the coherence of their internal practices and processes to deliver such objectives. It is all too easy for different parts of an organization to be pulling in different directions. When an organization gets it right the 'whole' is invariably greater that the sum of the individual parts. What David Hawkins has endeavoured to do in The Bending Moment is identify these potential internal conflicts and how they can be positively addressed. It's a recipe that many would find invaluable to follow.' - Andy Scott, Director, CBI International and UK Operations

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