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Dr. Brown's thesis not only makes sense, but his identification of
the "sense-making" processes that yield strategic decisions is
profound, and it can be used both internally as a planning
approach, and as a tool for competitive analysis. And he has the
research to back up his insights. STS is truly an operating system
for 21st century business. Jonathan Salem Baskin, author, Tell The
Truth: Honesty is Your Most Powerful Marketing Tool, & Branding
Only Works on Cattle Dr. Brown has accomplished a rare feat with
his book-he has taken the overused and often misunderstood notion
of organizational strategy and provided a clear and practical
definition coupled with a pragmatic model grounded in systems
thinking that offers a potential roadmap for firms to better
leverage their organic capabilities and gain a competitive
advantage in the business landscape. The book reads well and can be
readily utilized by planners and leaders in today's workplace. Tim
Goodly, PhD Senior Vice President Human Resources Fortune 100
Company Dr. Brown provides a very insightful analysis of what it
takes to formulate a successful organizational strategy that
ensures sustainable competitive advantage. The cornerstone of his
reasoning is that much like other systems, strategy should take
into consideration competitive, capabilities, and customer focused
approaches toward strategy making and that can be only be fully
realized through organizational sense-making processes. The
"Systems Thinking Strategy" has many lessons to offer on strategy
formulation for contemporary organizations. I recommend this as a
"must read book" for all interested in organizational strategy
formulation and practice. Ramkrishnan (Ram) V. Tenkasi Fulbright
Senior Research Scholar Professor of Organization Change PhD
Program in Organization Development and Change Benedictine
University
The rapid pace of technological innovation and the effects of the
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) revolution have
resulted in dramatic changes on a global scale, from the
empowerment of the individual to the spawning of global markets.
From the business perspective, the widespread deployment of
Information Technology (IT) has resulted in many organisational
changes and the development and use of new management and business
processes. An important challenge for today's manufacturing
organisations is to be able to anticipate the impact of investments
in new (frequently IT-based) manufacturing technologies and
programmes. Ideally, management needs to be able to identify and
articulate the many ways in which investment decisions influence
their organisation - in terms of performance across a range of
measures. Furthermore, in today's manufacturing environment, it is
increasingly necessary that a close relationship exists between
manufacturing decision making and corporate business strategy, so
that manufacturing decisions complement and are fully aligned with
the organisation's strategic objectives.
Strategic Decision Making in Modern Manufacturing introduces and
explains the AMBIT (Advanced Manufacturing Business ImplemenTation)
approach, which has been developed to bridge the gap between
strategic management considerations and the operational effects of
technology investment decisions on the manufacturing organisation,
so that the likely impact of new manufacturing technology and/or
programme implementations can be evaluated, anticipated and
accurately predicted. The AMBIT approach focuses specifically on
the non-financial aspects of such investment decisions andoffers an
approach that allows a manager, or more frequently a management
team, to understand the impacts of a new technology or a new
programme on the manufacturing organisation in terms of
manufacturing performance.
The prediction of future trends and patterns is a very imprecise
and ambiguous activity at the best of times. Yet despite such
ambiguity, managers need to be forward looking. They need
appropriate tools and approaches to help them anticipate the
future. Thus, whilst the pages of organisational history may be
filled with anecdotes about organisations that failed to "predict"
the future, it is the challenge of today's organisations to evade
such a fate. The AMBIT approach delineated in this book has been
specifically developed to anticipate the future by analysing the
impact of managerial decisions.
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Dr. Brown's thesis not only makes sense, but his identification of
the "sense-making" processes that yield strategic decisions is
profound, and it can be used both internally as a planning
approach, and as a tool for competitive analysis. And he has the
research to back up his insights. STS is truly an operating system
for 21st century business. Jonathan Salem Baskin, author, Tell The
Truth: Honesty is Your Most Powerful Marketing Tool, & Branding
Only Works on Cattle Dr. Brown has accomplished a rare feat with
his book-he has taken the overused and often misunderstood notion
of organizational strategy and provided a clear and practical
definition coupled with a pragmatic model grounded in systems
thinking that offers a potential roadmap for firms to better
leverage their organic capabilities and gain a competitive
advantage in the business landscape. The book reads well and can be
readily utilized by planners and leaders in today's workplace. Tim
Goodly, PhD Senior Vice President Human Resources Fortune 100
Company Dr. Brown provides a very insightful analysis of what it
takes to formulate a successful organizational strategy that
ensures sustainable competitive advantage. The cornerstone of his
reasoning is that much like other systems, strategy should take
into consideration competitive, capabilities, and customer focused
approaches toward strategy making and that can be only be fully
realized through organizational sense-making processes. The
"Systems Thinking Strategy" has many lessons to offer on strategy
formulation for contemporary organizations. I recommend this as a
"must read book" for all interested in organizational strategy
formulation and practice. Ramkrishnan (Ram) V. Tenkasi Fulbright
Senior Research Scholar Professor of Organization Change PhD
Program in Organization Development and Change Benedictine
University
There is nothing most constant in business than change, and there
are few things more challenging. The term change management is
commonly used, but not universally understood. An operations person
might think about shifts in the reporting structure and how that
impacts who does what. An IT person is likely to think about
tracking the modifications of code from one version of a software
application to the next. An HR person is likely to think about the
training and communication tasks that are required to enable the
people in that organization to adopt the new processes and
procedures for that change. All of these definitions can be useful
at different times. Unfortunately, this diversity of meanings can
also cause confusion and challenges. For starters, we often find
two people may be using change related terms at the same time but
not mean the same thing; and they may not even realize it. An
example of this would be when the above mentioned HR and IT people
talking to each other about the change plan. They may walk away
from the conversations with completely different understandings of
what was said, and end up taking different actions than the other
expected. This can drive frustration and limit communication.
Without good communication, we end up with scenarios where the
various changes, or even individual parts of a large change, occur
in a vacuum. This results in uncoordinated activities. Under the
best of circumstances, a lack of coordination will result in
duplicated and wasted efforts. In a worst case scenario, the
results can mean confusion for employees, conflicting outcomes, and
pretty much chaos. The best way to mitigate the risk of these
challenges is to evolve how we think about change. Don't just think
about change as a set of individual activities. Think about it in
terms of the broader journey that the organization is on. Don't
just talk about change management approaches that are limited in
scope and finite in application, but focus on a holistic Journey
Management approach that can address the full continuum of
outcomes. At the simplest level, Journey Management is the process
of assessing the impacts of major organizational changes, and
actively managing those transitions so as to maximize positive
results and minimize negative consequences. Journey Management is
different from traditional change management is several key ways...
While change management tends to be tactical and limited in vision,
Journey Management is strategic and considers the whole enterprise
While change management is reactive, Journey Management is
proactive A guiding principle of Journey Management is to always
link change to some desired performance outcomes. If a change can't
be linked to some performance outcome then what is the point of
doing it? This is not to say that Journey Management is about
abandoning the valuable parts of traditional change management.
Instead, it is more about expanding and integrating those efforts
so that they are coordinated across the enterprise. We do this
through five major five major activities: Awareness - Recognizing
the need for change Planning - Setting up processes to make it
successful Readiness - Preparing the organization, the systems AND
the people Coordination - Integrating with other activities
Execution - Following the plan, measuring the outcomes and
adjusting if necessary By effectively executing these cycles we not
only drive positive outcomes of the change at hand, but also
instill a culture that allows our organizations to change more
effectively over time. In today's ever evolving business
environment, the ability to adapt and effectively change is the
only truly sustainable strategic advantage.
Similar to works like Good to Great and In Search of Excellence,
the book is an effort to express the findings of a rigorous
scholarly study that looked at how to address deficiencies in the
current strategic planning paradigms by applying a particular kind
of strategic thinking known as systems theory to the strategic
planning process. It not only describes the theoretical basis for
this assertion but also reports real world data that demonstrates
that many top performing organizations are already applying these
kinds of mental models, even if they do not formally realize it.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
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