What is the one thing organisations, projects and teams can learn from F1 and motor racing?” Professor of Business Strategy Mark Jenkins provides an answer using The Performance Pyramid


    The Performance Pyramid
  

The field of Corporate Finance has developed into a fairly complex one from its origins focussed on a company's business and financial needs (financing, risk management, capitalization and budgeting). Corporate Financial Strategy provides a critical introduction to the field and in doing so shows how organizations' financial strategies can be aligned with their overall business strategies.


    Corporate Financial Strategy
  

Dr Tazeeb Rajwani talks about his new book which takes a strategic management approach to a company's engagement with political, regulatory and social arenas and interests; and develops a conceptual framework and managerial process for designing and delivering successful nonmarket strategies.


    Competitive Strategies for the Political and Social Arenas
  

Professor Mark Jenkins on whether to innovate or imitate to build competitive advantage.


    Innovate or Imitate
  

Richard Allen talks about his PhD research about organisational performance management in the 3rd sector and how performance is managed inside programmes which deliver services to beneficiaries. Richard highlights how focusing on desired outcomes and evidence of change can help to determine required interventions. This leads on to considering delivery mechanisms in ways which make sense and can demonstrate maximum impact.


    Performance Management in the 3rd Sector
  

David Denyer on research approaches with impact


    Management Research: Delivering Business Results - Short version
  

Professor David Denyer outlines a rigorous partnership approach to research which successfully addresses important business issues.


     Management Research: Delivering Business Results - Full version
  

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Professor David Buchanan discusses the findings of an in-depth study of NHS middle managers. His study highlights the key role of middle managers in change and recommends how an enabling environment can be fostered.


    Middle Managers: Front Line of Change
  

Management Tip from Cranfield School of Management: Dr Tazeeb Rajwani gives 3 tips on whether to use or reject best practices when developing a new product or process.


    Best Practices
  

Management Tip from Cranfield School of Management: Dr Tazeeb Rajwani focuses on 3 simple steps that need to be addressed when developing an organisation’s strategy.


    Develop a Strategy
  

Strategy, Complexity and Change Management

Companies are continually urged to make the most of their uniqueness, but how do they go about that? Professor Cliff Bowman answers the question.


    What makes your firm special?
  

Open innovation and making the best use of internal and external resources is becoming an integral part of the future of strategic sourcing and doing business. What does open innovation consist of? How do you put this into practice? What blocks and barriers are there?


    Open Innovation: Harnessing Assets
  

Maria De Villa is researching the structural changes organisations are forced to make, and their adaptive capabilities, when entering international markets in high uncertainty contexts.


    Dynamic capabilities within the internationalisation process and high uncertainty contexts 
  

Heather Stebbings is looking at how organisations can learn to flex and implement change on a continuous basis in order to optimise their ability to evolve and get ahead of the competition.


    Continuous organisational change
  

David Medcalf talks to Cliff Bowman about his book "Strategy in Practice"


    Strategy in Practice
  

Steve Macaulay talks to Mark Jenkins about his book Advanced Strategic Management


    Advanced Strategic Management
  

Thomas Lawton looks at the fate of strategic planning following the recession.


    Does Your Strategy Still Work?
  

A Formula 1 race success prompts the insight that sometimes going off strategy is the right thing to do.


    Go Off Strategy to Win?
  

Veronica Burke considers how setting goals in elite sports has important lessons for managers.


    Performance Goals in Business and Sport
  

In this debate we explore the relevance of social networking - Facebook, MySpace, etc. - to business. A lot of assumptions are routinely made about the benefits of social media; we call some of those into question. For instance, what are the consequences of expecting workforces to exploit their social networks for organisational benefit? Does social networking improve business performance?


    Social Networking or Notworking: The Value of Social Media in Business
  

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