This paper examines the relationship between organizational performance and consensus (or agreement) within top management teams on company objectives and competitive methods for a sample of nineteen ...

To run a successful business, you must effectively get the word out about about your products and services. Successful marketing requires a winning strategy. Understanding marketing strategy ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract By acknowledging the inherent antagonism between strategic planning and the structure and function of hospitals, and explicitly integrating ...

There is widespread dissatisfaction with the existing strategy formulation process and resulting documents because of their perceived lack of prioritization and the disconnect between goals and ...

Let's be honest. Most strategic business plans fail. There is a plethora of writing on the subject of why. My list of reasons is quite long, but I'll save that for another time. Let's focus on just ...

Strategies are shaped by the processes that produce them. If designed well, a strategy formulation process enables decisionmakers to evaluate the political, security, and budgetary environments, ...

Henry Mintzberg, a world-renowned professor of management studies at McGill University, once said, "Management is, above all, a practice where art, science and craft meet." What Mintzberg did not ...

There is plenty of advice in the air as the Defense Department prepares its latest National Defense Strategy, the report formerly known as the Quadrennial Defense Review. Most of the advice concerns ...