TY - BOOK AU - Gandellini,Giorgio AU - Pezzi,Alberto AU - Venanzi,Daniela ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Strategy for Action – II: Strategy Formulation, Development, and Control T2 - SpringerBriefs in Business, SN - 9788847024755 AV - HD28-70 U1 - 658.4092 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Milano PB - Springer Milan, Imprint: Springer KW - Business KW - Management science KW - Management KW - Leadership KW - Business and Management KW - Business Strategy/Leadership KW - Business and Management, general N1 - 1 Introduction to the second volume -- 2 Business strategy: Formulation, development and control -- 3 Corporate strategy: diversification and management of multiple SBUs -- 4 Organization, ownership and collaboration strategies -- 5 Financial performance and sustainability of strategy.   N2 - The innovative and unique feature of this book is that it does not contain theoretical concept that cannot be translated into practice. This second volume expands the analysis of the strategic decisions, emphasizing the importance of a sustainable competitive advantage, and proposing an integrated conceptual and operational framework (the “Strateco Dashboard”), that complements and significantly improves the recent and well-known Blue Ocean approach to strategy development. Finally, it addresses the measurement of the performance of strategy in terms of value creation, highlighting differences and similarities, as well as strengths and weaknesses, of the main metrics. Furthermore, it proposes a comprehensive and operational framework for the assessment of the financial feasibility of strategy, through the measurement of the impact of the planned strategic moves on financial needs and the evaluation of their financial sustainability UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2475-5 ER -