The Game Changer

How Leading Organisations in Business and Sport Changed the Rules of the Game
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-36270-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 490 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 862 g

The Game Changer powerfully demonstrates how some organisations in business and sport have done more than raise their performance; they have also changed the rules of the game or the game itself within their industry. It gives examples of the strategies and governance programmes that have emerged to accomplish this, and the challenges of executing them.

This book brings to life strategic management in business, sport and not-for-profit organisations. It explores many of the theories taught on MBA and other professional programmes through case studies from the worlds of sport and business, written by authors who have played a part in the change. Alistair Gray has spent much of his career in senior roles in these sectors and brings a unique insight to the field, as well as providing the reader with tools and techniques for improvement in governance and performance.

The Game Changer is essential reading for both professionals looking for methods to improve their own performance and to embed strong principles of governance, and business students looking for real-life lessons from practice.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gray, Alistair

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Dienstleistungssektor & Branchen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Sportveranstaltungen, Sportmanagement, Teams & Clubs

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword - by Sir Tom Farmer KBE, Founder of Kwik Fit

Acknowledgements

Our Authors

Chapters

1 Introduction: The Grand Strategist and The Focus Framework

Changing the Game in Business

2 NCR Manufacturing – Challenging Michael Porter’s Generic Strategy Theories

3 Scenario Thinking – The Answer to Future Uncertainty

4 New Age of Strategic Management

5 Power of Purpose (by Fiona Gifford)

6 Innovation Management and MTBD>MTBS

7 Strategic Benchmarking

8 Braveheart 2 - Future Lessons from Yesterday’s Leaders

9 Clusters are Cool!

10 Making Mergers Work - Mixing Spirits

11 Managing in (and out of) Recession

12 Adelon Ireland - The Road to a Strategic Site (by James Bowen)

Changing the Game in Sport

13 Ambition as a Driving Force for Performance (by Brian MacNeice)

14 Sustaining Sports in the Future

15 Cathy’s Pillars and the reform of The Football Association (in England)

16 Good Governance does not Win Gold Medals

17 Performance Strategies for National Football Associations

18 Performance Sport - The Winning Formula

19 Good to Great - Inside the Black Box

20 The New Zealand All Blacks - The Ultimate High Performing Sporting Organisation (by John Bull)

21 All you need is Love

Appendices

Checklists

Bibliography: 50 Books that have influenced me

NCR- Source of Entrepreneurs

Postscript - My Personal Renaissance - 'You've got to find what you Love’

Über Autor(innen)

Alistair Gray is the founder and Managing Director of Renaissance & Co, UK, and one of Europe’s leading strategic management consultants. He is also a lecturer on strategic management on the MBA programme at Strathclyde Business School, UK. A director of a number of companies, he has held a range of board positions in business and sport.