Flowing Stream Strategy: Leveraging Strategic Change with Continuity

✍ Scribed by Sushil (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer India
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 292
• Series: Management for Professionals
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Though the concern regarding the confluence of continuity and change is well accepted, there is hardly any well known framework in the literature that can be used as a benchmark to deal with this paradoxical issue. Keeping in view the significance of the topic and the lack of practical frameworks in managing continuity and change this book is an endeavor to fill the gap. The main proposition of the book is that the strategic management of change could be better leveraged with clear understanding of continuity of the organization and consciously managing the vital and desirable areas of continuity along with change, rather than leaving the continuity to be managed by default. The continuity of any company provides the bedrock along which the flow of change could be channelized. It adopts flowing stream as the principal metaphor for continuity and change to be taken side by side. It can be treated as a stepping stone to inspire a lot of research in this area.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Leveraging Strategic Change with Continuity....Pages 3-14
Comparing Flowing Stream Strategy and Blue Ocean Strategy....Pages 15-24
Strategic Flexibility: The Fountainhead....Pages 25-35
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
Continuity Forces: The Flywheel of Inertia....Pages 39-50
Change Forces: The Stimulants for Progress....Pages 51-64
Strategies for Managing Continuity and Change....Pages 65-80
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
Principles of Flowing Stream Strategy....Pages 83-93
Key Channels Framework....Pages 95-101
Golden Strategies in Practice....Pages 103-117
Converge–Flow–Diverge Framework....Pages 119-127
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Flowing Stream Strategy Process....Pages 131-144
Crystallize Continuity and Change Forces....Pages 145-156
Prepare Strategic Landscape....Pages 157-172
Channelize Strategic Trajectories....Pages 173-183
Execute and Evolve the Flowing Stream....Pages 185-193
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Case Studies of Flowing Streams....Pages 197-241
Front Matter....Pages 243-243
Looking Beyond....Pages 245-250
Back Matter....Pages 251-290

✦ Subjects

Management/Business for Professionals; Administration, Organization and Leadership; Organization/Planning