Strategic Thinking for Turbulent Times [Hardcover]

Strategic Thinking for Turbulent Times is a conceptual and operational guide to the process of business strategy formulation within a turbulence driven economic and business environment. This book features pioneering work on the process of strategic thinking after the dramatic shift in the fundamental premises of strategic management.Part I: The Fall of the Gurus: Are Yesterday's Strategic Thinking Concepts Valid Today? Part II: The Driving Forces of Strategic Thinking Today Part II.1: Fundamental Shifts in the Foundations of Strategic Behaviour Part II.2: Capital Markets Part II.3: The Corporation Part.II.4: The China Factor Part III: How Will Companies Strategize Tomorrow? Part IV: The New LandscapeProfessor Dr M.S.S. El Namaki is Dean of the Victoria University of Switzerland. He has developed and introduced management degree programs (MBA, EMBA, DBA and PhD) at institutions in the Netherlands, China, Egypt, Brazil, Poland, Canada, Kazakhstan, Syria and Indonesia. Professor El Namaki has taught globally at such institutions as MSM (Maastricht), Kellog (Chicago), Jiao Tong University (Shanghai), Beijing University (Beijing), AIT (Bangkok), Helsinki School of Economics, Sheffield University (UK) and several others. He assumed executive positions within Philips (Eindhoven), McKinsey (London and Dar es Salaam) and Time Inc. (Amsterdam). He has consulted and delivered executive seminars on a wide scale and his clients included Fortune 500 companies such as DuPont, Philips and Pepsi as well as landmark national corporations such as China Pacific Insurance Corporation CPIC (Shanghai), Eastern Tobacco (Egypt) and Abraaj (United Arab Emirates). He has published 6 books and more than 100 articles. He teaches and consults on strategic thinking, entrepreneurship and international business.