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This guide to the entire business planning process from start to finish provides a framework for: conceiving the vision of the firm; defining the purpose of the firm; setting business goals and strategies for achieving them; establishing operating plans for functions; and executing the plan.

"More than just a standard outline of reward systems-of-the-moment, this book explains the do's and don'ts of building a competitive, successful pay system - and helps you avoid the failures inherent in a pay system that stands apart from your company's overall business plan. The book covers: sources of business strategy; forces influencing compensation strategy; work analysis and evaluation; base pay systems and structures; measurement of individual,...

Pasmore has brought over 20 year's worth of expertise to this conceptually sophisticated yet practical guide concerned with organization design and change. Concentrates on implementation and how organizational planning and transformation efforts can improve performance productivity. Features extensive cases and examples developed by the author from his consulting work at enterprises like Proctor & Gamble, TRW, Goodyear, General Foods and other companies....

Organizational change may well be the most oft-repeated and widely embraced term in all of corporate America-but it is also the least understood. The proof is in the numbers: Nearly two-thirds of all change efforts fail, and they carry with them huge human and economic tolls. Lacking any overarching paradigm for change, executives of large, underperforming organizations have been left with little guidance in how to choose the strategies that will...

"At the forefront of research and practice in public affairs, this handbook draws upon the expertise of leading figures in the field to provide a comprehensive overview of a huge growth area in the strategic thinking of organizations." "The Handbook of Public Affairs is an essential resource for students and academics in public affairs, business and management, communications, policy, politics and media, as well as CEOs, association executives, politicians,...

Here is a practical model for business leaders striving to innovate and succeed in today's competitive marketplace. But more than that, Utterback tells engaging tales of industry transformation throughout the decades - ranging from the birth of typewriters to the emergence of personal computers, from gas lamps to fluorescent lighting, from George Eastman's amateur photography to electronic imaging - capturing the personalities, the historical background,...

This new edition features the strategy change cycle, a proven planning process used by a large number of organizations; offers detailed guidance on implementing the planning process and includes specific tools and techniques to make the process work in any organization; introduces new material on creating public value, stakeholder analysis, strategy mapping, balanced scorecards, collaboration, and more; includes information about the organizational...

"In The Strategy-Focused Organization, Robert Kaplan and David Norton share the results of ten years of learning and research into more than 200 companies that have implemented the Balanced Scorecard. Drawing from more than twenty in-depth case studies - including Mobil, CIGNA, Nova Scotia Power, and AT & T Canada - Kaplan and Norton illustrate how Balanced Scorecard adopters have taken their groundbreaking tool to the next level. These organizations...