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Practical Strategy

Practical Strategy

Gary Stockport
ISBN: 9780734611123 / 9780734611123
Price: A$69.95 NZ$83.95 US$59.95
Binding: Softcover
Trim: 200 x 250 mm   280 pp (approx.) 
Published Date: August 2012

The goal of the book Practical Strategy is to enable a wide range of readers and users—from students to senior managers—to apply strategy models, frameworks and theories within a practical context. 

For example, it will consider:

• how to think strategically,
• how to identify key strategic issues,
• how to identify and better manage stakeholders,
• how to better manage strategic transformation, and
• how to identify the business that you are in.
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Chapter 1 - Introduction: The goals, aims and learning  outcomes of this book
Chapter 2 - Strategic thinking and key strategy issues
Chapter 3 - Stakeholders
Chapter 4 - Strategic transformation
Chapter 5 - Strategic process
Chapter 6 - Defining the business/market/industry  attractiveness
Chapter 7 - Strategic choice
Chapter 8 - Business models
Chapter 9 - Core competencies
Chapter 10 - Managing strategic change
Chapter 11 - Measuring strategy
Chapter 12 - Pulling strategy together
Chapter 13 - Conclusions and the way forward



Gary Stockport, BA (Leeds), PGCertEd (Nott.), MBA (Warwick), PhD (Cran.), ITP (London Business School), is a Winthrop Professor in Management (Strategic Management) at the University of Western Australia (UWA), and since 2001 has been Foundation Director of the Executive MBA (EMBA) program. Gary was a Visiting Professor at Wits Business School in South Africa from 2002 – 2008, and is currently Visiting Professor at Danube University Krems in Vienna, Austria, where he has taught Strategy on their EMBA Program each year since 2003 and supervised their Masters thesis students.

Gary has consulted globally for a number of organisations, and has extensive experience teaching on specialist and generalist executive programs. Recently, he consulted and taught for BHP Billiton, the Aboriginal Policy Services Directorate, the Australian Department of Premier and Cabinet, Diabetes WA and the WA Treasury Corporation in Australia, and for BHP Billiton, Mittal Steel and Supersport in South Africa.

Gary has published a number of journal articles, book chapters and case studies. He has presented his research at top international conferences in Australia, Finland, Holland, India, New Zealand, the UK and the US. His key research areas include: strategy, strategic transformation, strategy process, strategic decision-making, strategic leadership, strategic change, and turnaround management.
Also by the same author

Also written by the Gary Stockport and published by Tilde University Press:

Gary Stockport, Strategy Case Studies, ISBN 978-0-7346-1114-7
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