Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez

The Focused Organization (eBook, PDF)

How Concentrating on a Few Key Initiatives Can Dramatically Improve Strategy Execution

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In The Focused Organization Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez shows you how fewer, more effectively elected and managed projects are the key to strategic and long-term success. The Focused Organization discusses the characteristics that comprise a focused organization. It describes key areas where a focused organization builds its levels of maturity; provides examples of focused organizations that outperform the rest; and explains in practical steps how all enterprises can become focused. The book finishes with a unique and inspiring case study where we learn how a business was conducted and how management evolved with the introduction of business theories, including project management

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317031574
• Artikelnr.: 44864222

Autorenporträt

Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez, professor and best-selling author of the book on strategy execution "The Focused Organization". Antonio has been featured in several magazines, including Singapore Management Institute, Strategy Business Review and The Economist. He is the founder of the largest LinkedIn group in Strategy Execution (StrateXecution) which has more than 5.000 experts worldwide. Antonio is a professor at the #1 executive education school in the world (Duke CE) and other leading business schools such as Instituto de Empresa, Solvay and Vlerick. He has delivered executive programs to leaders of more than 30 multinationals on how to improve their strategy execution and project management capabilities. In 2013 Antonio was elected as Director for the Board of Directors of the Project Management Institute (www.pmi.org ). Currently he is the ViceChair of the Board. In addition, Antonio is the Head of Transversal Portfolio Management at BNP Paribas Fortis. Prior to that, he was head of post-merger integration at Fortis Bank, leading what was the largest takeover in the financial service history: the acquisition of ABN AMRO. He also worked for 10 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers as a senior manager.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Foreword, Greg Balestrero
Benny's tale
Introduction
Part I Why Most Companies Only Partially Achieve Their Strategies: Organizational evolution and the challenges of strategy execution
Evidence of the neglect of project management
Why so many strategic initiatives have failed. Part II The Benefits and Methods of Becoming Focused
How companies can FOCUS
A six-pillar framework for becoming a focused organization
How to implement a focused organization
Case study: the evolution of Spare Parts Benny, Inc.
Bibliography
Index.