TY - BOOK AU - Tovstiga,George TI - Strategy in practice: a practitioner's guide to strategic thinking SN - 9781119121640 (pbk.) AV - HD 30.28 .T649 2015 PY - 2015/// CY - Hoboken PB - Wiley KW - Strategic planning N1 - Previous edition: 2013; Includes index; Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Preface to the third edition -- About the author -- Introduction strategy in practice -- Strategic thinking -- Sense making and strategic insight -- Insight-driven strategic analysis -- Appendices: -- Appendix A: Probing the strategic boundaries of the firm's unique competing space -- Appendix B: Strategy mapping and narrative (based on analysis of the relevant strategy building blocks) -- Index N2 - A practitioner-focused approach to strategy and real-world strategic thinking This 3rd edition has been revised and updated throughout to reflect the current thinking in strategy in view of the current economic and business climate. It questions how we are thinking differently about strategy now, in light of emerging from the global economic crisis. It includes new and updated case illustrations throughout, plus a new chapter on Strategy Execution and Performance Appraisal. Rigorously founded on current thinking and theoretical concepts in the field of strategic management, Strategy in Practice ER -