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Building the Flexible Firm

How to Remain Competitive

By: Henk Wijtze Volberda

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Building the Flexible Firm

How to Remain Competitive

By: Henk Wijtze Volberda

How do firms cope with changing environments? Is flexibility really the solution? Based on an Igor Ansoff Award winning study, Building the Flexible Firm shows how flexibility has become the new strategic challenge for contemporary firms. Offering a wealth of insights and based on extensive interviews with practitioners, Henk Volberda provides a strategic framework which explains what types of flexibility are effective under different organizational conditions and environmental characteristics. He also demonstrates an integrated method for diagnosing a firm's flexibility and for guiding the transition to greater flexibility and responsiveness.

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0198295952

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The New Professional Service Firm

How Consultants, Accountants, and Lawyers Need to Reinvent Themselves

By: L. Martin van der Mandele,Henk W. Volberda,Rob B. Wagenaar

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The New Professional Service Firm

How Consultants, Accountants, and Lawyers Need to Reinvent Themselves

By: L. Martin van der Mandele,Henk W. Volberda,Rob B. Wagenaar

The authors of this book alert that professional services like law, accountancy, and consultancy firms are set to face major disruption. The most important driver and enabler are the new technologies that help and in part substitute the work done by professionals. The second important disruptor is the new generation of professionals – “NewGen” – who are less interested in building their careers in a hierarchical organization and more interested in entrepreneurial challenges in small teams, with more rapid returns. In the meanwhile, major service conglomerates – the “big four” accounting firms, the “big three” consulting firms to name a few examples – build their network using their brand and substantial resources. All along, the relentless pressure from clients to receive more services at lower cost continues. Medium-sized professional firms as well as one-person independents appear to suffer most from these disruptions and are most anxious to find new ways to conduct their business. But the leaders of large firms also feel that they are increasingly unable to support the innovative entrepreneurship of their most promising professionals while their organizations institutionalize and their overheads continue to grow. This book proposes a new orientation and model of a professional service firm as an answer to these challenges, by creating a Professional Service Community. It is a synergistic team of organizations that share a vision of their role in society and main lines of their mission as well as the quality of their deliverables and their key clients. At the same time, they are independent in designing their internal business models – like recruitment, training, knowledge management, and economics. The Professional Service Community provides a unique and highly attractive level of entrepreneurship, flexibility, and efficiency to the benefit of its clients, partners, staff, and other stakeholders. It is the way of the future.

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3031061349

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Strategic Management

From Confrontation to Transformation

By: Henk W Volberda,Rick M. A. Hollen,Joana R. Pereira,Jatinder S. Sidhu,Kevin Heij

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Strategic Management

From Confrontation to Transformation

By: Henk W Volberda,Rick M. A. Hollen,Joana R. Pereira,Jatinder S. Sidhu,Kevin Heij

In the quest for competitive advantage, navigating change can be daunting. Following a unique, four-part structure focussing on & confronting strategic issues, sensing opportunities and threats choosing strategies and transforming organizations, this essential textbook offers a fresh and provocative perspective on strategic management. Covering the latest theories and concepts and taking an action-oriented approach, the book includes: • Cutting-edge content on the confront-sense-choose-transform stages of strategic management such as purpose and sustainability, emerging technologies, ecosystems and platforms, and business model innovation • Four diagnostic chapters providing practical tools for each stage of the strategy process • Nearly 70 case studies of internationally recognisable companies like Airbnb, Ben & Jerry’s, Epic Games store, Hilton, Icebreaker, McDonald’s, Nestlé, Northvolt, Tesla and PayPay • ‘Key Debate’ boxes outlining opposing perspectives on hot topics in the strategy field and ‘Strategic Focus’ boxes digging deeper into contemporary phenomena Instructors can access a range of online resources, including a teaching guide complete with case study teaching notes, further reading and video links, PowerPoints and a bank of additional case studies. Suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students of strategy, Strategic Management: From Confrontation to Transformation will help you grow your knowledge and experience of developing and implementing strategy in the real world. Henk W. Volberda is Professor of Strategy & Innovation at the Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam. Rick M.A. Hollen is a Lecturer and Researcher at the Strategy & International Business section of the Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam and a Managing Research Associate at the Amsterdam Centre for Business Innovation (ACBI). Joana R. Pereira is Lecturer in the Strategy and Organization group of Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds. Jatinder S. Sidhu is Professor and Chair in Strategic Management and Organization at Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds. Kevin Heij is Senior Researcher of the Amsterdam Centre for Business Innovation at the Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam.

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SAGE Publications Limited

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152961273X

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Reinventing Business Models

How Firms Cope with Disruption

By: Henk Wijtze Volberda,Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch,Kevin Heij

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Reinventing Business Models

How Firms Cope with Disruption

By: Henk Wijtze Volberda,Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch,Kevin Heij

Re-inventing Business Models concentrates on the how and when of business model innovation. It provides managers with menus to outperform competitors and helps them choose between improving the existing business model and radically renewing it. The conclusions are supported by the authors' own research and case studies.

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0198792042

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The Oxford Handbook of Individual Differences in Organizational Contexts

By: Aybars Tuncdogan,Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Marketing and Technology Aybars Tuncdogan,Oguz A. Acar,Professor of Marketing & Innovation Oguz A Acar,Professor of Strategy & Innovation Strategy Henk Volberda,Ko de Ruyter,Henk W. Volberda,Professor of Marketing Head of Marketing Group and Vice-Dean of Research Ko de Ruyter

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The Oxford Handbook of Individual Differences in Organizational Contexts

Comprising twenty-six chapters authored by fifty-seven esteemed academics, this book facilitates readers in comprehending the key findings, questions, and future research areas of individual differences research in organizational contexts.

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Strategic Management

From Confrontation to Transformation

By: Henk W Volberda,Rick M. A. Hollen,Joana R. Pereira,Jatinder S. Sidhu,Kevin Heij

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Building the Flexible Firm

How to Remain Competitive

By: Henk W. Volberda

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How to Remain Competitive

By: Henk W. Volberda

How do firms cope with changing environments? Is flexibility really the solution? How can we measure a firm's flexibility? Can a more flexible firm be created? Based on an Igor Ansoff Award-winning study and now available for the first time in paperback, Henk Volberda's Building the Flexible Firm shows how flexibility has become the new strategic challenge for contemporary firms. Although traditional organizational forms have worked well in the relatively stable environments of the past, the globalization of markets, rapid technological change, shortening product life cycles, and increasing aggressiveness of competitors have radically altered the ground rules for competing in the 1990s and beyond. Increased competition forces firms to move more quickly and boldly than before, and to experiment in ways that do not conform to traditional administrative theory. This book offers a wealth of insights into the way firms can increase their flexibility. It is based on extensive interviews with practitioners and supported by many longitudinal case studies on flexibility improvement within large corporations. The author provides a strategic framework which explains what types of flexibility are effective under different organizational conditions and environmental characteristics. He also demonstrates an integrated method for diagnosing a firm's flexibility and for guiding the transition to greater flexibility and responsiveness.

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Reinventing Business Models

How Firms Cope with Disruption

By: Henk Wijtze Volberda,VOLBERDA ET AL.,Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch,Kevin Heij

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Reinventing Business Models

How Firms Cope with Disruption

By: Henk Wijtze Volberda,VOLBERDA ET AL.,Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch,Kevin Heij

Reinventing Business Models' concentrates on the how and when of business model innovation. It provides managers with menus to outperform competitors and helps them choose between improving the existing business model and radically renewing it. The conclusions are supported by the authors' own research and case studies.

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Reinventing Business Models

How Firms Cope with Disruption

By: Henk Volberda,Frans van den Bosch,Kevin Heij

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How Firms Cope with Disruption

By: Henk Volberda,Frans van den Bosch,Kevin Heij

Although research on business model innovation is flourishing internationally, many important questions on the 'how', 'what', and 'when' of this process remain largely unanswered, particularly in regard to the role of top management. This book answers some of those pressing questions by taking a deliberately managerial perspective. Based on new and original findings derived from a survey among firms from various industries, and several case studies (including DSM, NXP Semiconductors, Randstad, and TomTom), the authors provide new insights into how and when managers can change a firm's business model. They turn their attention particularly to one key question: is it better to replicate existing models or develop new ones? Business model renewal is regarded as being especially vital in highly competitive environments. Nonetheless, whatever the environment, high levels of both replication and renewal will be key for a firm to succeed. The book looks at four levers that can be used by managers to innovate their business model: management itself, organizational structure, technology, and co-creation with external parties. It discusses the individual effects of these levers on business model replication and renewal. It also analyses specific combinations that strengthen business model innovation, including those which are technology oriented, internally oriented, externally oriented, and those which combine all of the levers in an integrated way.

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0192509861

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The New Professional Service Firm

How Consultants, Accountants, and Lawyers Need to Reinvent Themselves

By: L. Martin van der Mandele,Henk W. Volberda,Rob B. Wagenaar

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The New Professional Service Firm

How Consultants, Accountants, and Lawyers Need to Reinvent Themselves

By: L. Martin van der Mandele,Henk W. Volberda,Rob B. Wagenaar

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The Oxford Handbook of Individual Differences in Organizational Contexts

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Book's by Henk Volberda

Building the Flexible Firm

Building the Flexible Firm

The New Professional Service Firm

The New Professional Service Firm

Strategic Management

Strategic Management

Reinventing Business Models

Reinventing Business Models

The Oxford Handbook of Individual Differences in Organizational Contexts

The Oxford Handbook of Individual Differences in Organizational Contexts

Strategic Management

Strategic Management

Building the Flexible Firm

Building the Flexible Firm

Reinventing Business Models

Reinventing Business Models

Reinventing Business Models

Reinventing Business Models

The New Professional Service Firm

The New Professional Service Firm

The Oxford Handbook of Individual Differences in Organizational Contexts

The Oxford Handbook of Individual Differences in Organizational Contexts

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