Description
The Game Changer powerfully demonstrates how some organisations in business and sport have done more than raise their performance; they have also changed the rules of the game or the game itself within their industry. It gives examples of the strategies and governance programmes that have emerged to accomplish this, and the challenges of executing them.
This book brings to life strategic management in business, sport and not-for-profit organisations. It explores many of the theories taught on MBA and other professional programmes through case studies from the worlds of sport and business, written by authors who have played a part in the change. Alistair Gray has spent much of his career in senior roles in these sectors and brings a unique insight to the field, as well as providing the reader with tools and techniques for improvement in governance and performance.
The Game Changer is essential reading for both professionals looking for methods to improve their own performance and to embed strong principles of governance, and business students looking for real-life lessons from practice.
Table of Contents
Foreword - by Sir Tom Farmer KBE, Founder of Kwik Fit
Acknowledgements
Our Authors
Chapters
1 Introduction: The Grand Strategist and The Focus Framework
Changing the Game in Business
2 NCR Manufacturing – Challenging Michael Porter’s Generic Strategy Theories
3 Scenario Thinking – The Answer to Future Uncertainty
4 New Age of Strategic Management
5 Power of Purpose (by Fiona Gifford)
6 Innovation Management and MTBD>MTBS
7 Strategic Benchmarking
8 Braveheart 2 - Future Lessons from Yesterday’s Leaders
9 Clusters are Cool!
10 Making Mergers Work - Mixing Spirits
11 Managing in (and out of) Recession
12 Adelon Ireland - The Road to a Strategic Site (by James Bowen)
Changing the Game in Sport
13 Ambition as a Driving Force for Performance (by Brian MacNeice)
14 Sustaining Sports in the Future
15 Cathy’s Pillars and the reform of The Football Association (in England)
16 Good Governance does not Win Gold Medals
17 Performance Strategies for National Football Associations
18 Performance Sport - The Winning Formula
19 Good to Great - Inside the Black Box
20 The New Zealand All Blacks - The Ultimate High Performing Sporting Organisation (by John Bull)
21 All you need is Love
Appendices
Checklists
Bibliography: 50 Books that have influenced me
NCR- Source of Entrepreneurs
Postscript - My Personal Renaissance - 'You've got to find what you Love’
