Strategy Dynamics Essentials
This ebook is summarised and updated from the textbook Strategic Management Dynamics, and is aimed at making the method more accessible to a wider audience
Title: Strategy Dynamics Essentials
Author: Kim Warren
Publisher: Strategy Dynamics Ltd
ISBN no: 978-1-903723-08-1
Available in electronic (PDF) format only.
Strategy Dynamics Essentials explains why a rigorous, dynamic approach to strategy is required, and provides a solution to that need. Chapters match those of the more detailed textbook Strategic Management Dynamics but at just 140 pages may be more digestable for some readers.
Chapter 1: Building Performance Over Time
Chapter 2: How Resources Drive Performance
Chapter 3: Resources Won and Lost
Chapter 4: Interdependence and the Strategic Architecture
Chapter 5: Resource Quality
Chapter 6: Developing Resources
Chapter 7: Competitive Rivalry
Chapter 8: Steering Strategy and Performance
Chapter 9: Intangible Resources
Chapter 10: Capabilities
Strategy Dynamics Essentials may be used together with the following software and support materials:
- mystrategytm, a user-friendly program for mapping and modeling strategy and performance that supports the strategy dynamics method.
- Worksheets to help apply the frameworks described in each chapter. Links to these can be found on the chapter summaries page.
- “Essentials” includes a case analysis of Europe’s low-fare airline, Ryanair, with information on its performance and resources history updated to 2009. The data spreadsheet and mystrategy models, plus information on how to use them, can be found here. This material is provided at no charge and may be freely used for private study or in classes.
- Since managing an organization’s performance as it changes over time can be difficult, simulations and games help to build the understanding required to do this critical task well. Several of these Microworlds are available on this site and relevant examples are highlighted at appropriate points in the text.
Get your money back! If this short book gets you interested and you want to understand more about the approach, publishers John Wiley and Sons have kindly offered a discount on the full textbook, Strategic Management Dynamics, equal to the cost of Strategy Dynamics Essentials. Information on how to claim your discount is provided on purchase of Strategy Dynamics Essentials.
Other resources to complement Strategy Dynamics Essentials include our
online course, a biweekly series of email briefing-notes (under
My Account, subscribe to SMDBriefing) , and a discussion group on
LinkedIn.