1.Introducing Strategy & Strategic Management: objectives, introduction, challenges, definitions, levels of strategy, examples, the business environment, the competitive environment, managing change and the environment, summary chart, points for reflection, strategic summary. 2. The Concept of Strategic Management: objectives, concept of strategic management, strategic success, a view of strategy, points for reflection, strategic summary. 3.Strategic Success: objectives, strategic success, monitoring and evaluating performance, competitive success, business failure, points for reflection, strategic summary. 4.Strategy Creation: objectives, strategy creation, strategic alternatives, strategy evaluation, strategy formulation, structures and policies, points for reflection, strategic summary. 5.Visionary Leadership: objectives, visionary leadership, strategic leadership, visionary leadership and strategy creation, points for reflection, strategic summary. 6.Planning Strategies: objectives, planning strategies, planning systems, two realities of planning, points for reflection, strategic summary. 7.Adaptive Strategic Change: objectives, adaptive strategic change: strategic management in a dynamic environment, incremental and adaptive change, empowerment, the learning organization, business process re-engineering, review of strategy creation, points for reflection, strategic summary. 8.Power, Politics and Culture: objectives, power politics and culture, culture, power politics and strategy, strategy creation, conclusion, points for reflection, strategic summary. 9.Strategy Implementation and Strategic Control: objectives, strategy implementation and strategic control, structural alternatives, styles of corporate management, the role and contribution of corporate headquarters, organizations in the late 1990s, points for reflection, strategic summary. 10.Strategic Success: objectives, strategic success and change, strategic challenges, strategic change, discontinuous change and strategic regeneration, points for reflection, strategic summary.
