SWOT analysis (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, and Threat) has been in use since the 1960s as a tool to assist strategic planning in various types of enterprises including those in the construction industry. Whilst still widely used, the approach has called for improvements to make it more helpful in strategic management. The project described in this paper aimed to study whether the process t...

For 20 years, conflict between the planning and process schools of strategy has shaped the debate on strategy creation. Here we argue that a scenario-based approach to strategic planning can serve as an innovative management tool in the field with the potential to overcome discrepancies between the two opposing schools of strategy. The scenario-based approach to strategic planning builds on the...

Strategic management involves decision-making about an organization's objectives together with the formulation and implementation of plans, particularly regarding the allocation of resources, to support their achievement. As such, strategic management is a dynamic and complex process involving consideration of internal and external factors, and the short and long term. The effectiveness of an o...

BACKGROUND Coronary artery bypass and percutaneous intervention have become the established methods of coronary revascularization in treating angina pectoris. Subsets of angina patients, however, are not amenable to either of these procedures. Transmyocardial laser revascularization (TMR) has been developed as a potential treatment to address such patients, and clinical research to date illustr...

Organizations have been forced to transform themselves from “product-centric” to “customer-centric” for various reasons. Becoming customer centric is one of the most important aims of any organization. Customer Relationship Management has attracted the attention of both marketing practitioners and researchers over the last decade. Despite, or maybe due to, the attention drawn to the subject, a ...

Software ecosystems is an increasingly popular form of industry organization promoted by leading software vendors. Due to its novelty and complexity, many issues remain unclear for the various parties involved in the ecosystem. A transition from more conventional industry structures and relationships to an ecosystem will likely have profound impacts on business as well as technical design choic...

In interactive design processes, strategic decisions are made at different levels. To support designers, design support systems need to include corresponding strategic knowledge at these levels. In this paper three levels of strategic interaction and strategic knowledge are identified within a compositional model of design. These levels are identified in reasoning about the manipulation of requ...

This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the implications of a quality management QM initiative on strategic flexibility. Our study defines flexibility from a strategic approach and examines the extent to which, why, and how the triggering factors of strategic flexibility are related to QM elements. The hypotheses put forward are tested in an empirical study carried out on a ...