Roadmaps and Revelations: Finding the Road to Business Success on Route 101

Rory Newman?s company is going through big changes the kindno one likes having been bought by a global competitor thatis now shaking things up. His new boss?s first order of business isto demand that Rory come up with a new process for strategicplanning to guide the company as it struggles to reinvent itself inthe marketplace. Up until now, the company?s strategic plans were made up ofvisions in the former CEO?s mind. Now, Rory?s got five short daysto develop, formalize, and deliver a winning strategic planningprocess. Rory planned to use a leisurely drive down the 101, enroute to his wife?s family reunion, to gather his thoughts, butthings change when he halfheartedly agrees to pick up his wife?ssecond cousin Sydney Wise from the airport. To his astonishment,Sydney turns out to be instead of another maddeningrelative a strategic planning guru, entrepreneur andRory?s rescuer. Discover, along with Rory and Sydney, what strategic planning isreally about, why it is important, and how to develop a simple yetpowerful strategy your company can use to set it on the course tosuccess. Through Rory?s experience, you will find out why strategicplanning is not something left to the higher ups, but somethingin which everyone in an organization needs to be invested. Roadmaps and Revelations: Finding the Road to BusinessSuccess on Route 101 uses an entertaining storyline to walk youthrough the daunting process of creating a successful strategy.Sprinkled with practical examples and workable solutions forbusiness executives, managers, and consultants, this motivatingfable will put you on track toward creating a strategy forsustainable success. INDICE: Introduction vii.1 Emergency Meeting 1.2 The Challenge 3.3 Change of Plans 11.4 The Red Zone Is for Immediate Loading and Unloading Only 19.5 Who Is this Guy? 25.6 What Is Strategy, Anyway? 35.7 Ask a Silly Question 41.8 What You See Is Not Always What You Get 47.9 Getting to the Core 61.10 Think Fast 73.11 A Push in the Right Direction 77.12 One Night at the Vine View Manor 89.13 Pucker Up 95.14 Charged Up in Pismo Beach 109.15 You Know What Nietzsche Said about Groups 123.16 Two Thumbs Up 133.17 Sandy Resolutions 145.18 KISSin Cousins 155.19 Every Dog Has His Day 163.20 The Reunion 173.Roadmap Strategy Process and Model Summary 185.Roadmap Strategy Online 215.References 217

• ISBN: 978-1-119-12472-6
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Fecha Publicación: 29/04/2015
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés