Mapping a Winning Strategy

Developing and Executing a Successful Strategy in Turbulent Markets

Marc Baaij

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In an increasingly connected world experiencing accelerating levels of technological disruption, the strategic challenges for business leaders are greater than ever before, and conventional approaches to strategy are unable to contend with today's VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) business environment. A new approach to strategic decision-making is required to motivate and mobilize stakeholders to achieve the business’s overarching goals, such as making a profit and delivering on people- and planet-related objectives.

Mapping a Winning Strategy introduces a new mapping method for creating and executing an effective business strategy. This method uses visual maps to engage colleagues throughout the organization, ensuring that every stakeholder’s voice is considered by avoiding a top-down approach. It also enables business leaders to identify the strategic issues they face without distraction, so that a clear path is formed towards the best strategic plan. By mapping out the most effective strategy, organizations can anticipate and manage roadblocks to strategic change and make winning and well-executed operational choices.

Preface: Why Read this Book?Chapter 1: Overcoming the Challenges of Strategy with the Mapping Method Chapter 2: Engaging Critical Stakeholders to Support the Strategy Process Chapter 3: Spotting the Real Strategic Issues and Developing Superior Insights Chapter 4: Developing Superior Strategic Options and Making Winning Choices Chapter 5: Making Your Strategy Work - Anticipating Execution Issues Chapter 6: Looking Ahead - Developing Strategies for Anticipating Your Future Chapter 7: Getting Started - Using the Mapping Method in Practice

Baaj and Reinmoeller introduce student and practicing business managers to the mapping approach for developing and executing a successful business strategy in turbulent markets. They cover overcoming the challenges of strategy with the mapping method, engaging critical stakeholders to support the strategy process, spotting the real strategic issues and developing superior insights, developing superior strategic options and making winning choices, making strategy work: anticipating execution issues, looking ahead: developing strategies for anticipating the future, and getting started: the mapping method in practice.
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Marc Baaij, PhD is an associate professor of strategy at the Erasmus University in The Netherlands. He coaches managers on real-world strategy projects. Baaij has previously been a strategy consultant and a research manager at The Boston Consulting Group. Marc has authored many articles for scientific and professional journals, as well as professional titles and textbooks on the strategy and problem-solving methods used by top-tier consultants. He has also worked for IBM, and holds degrees in economics and strategy.

Patrick Reinmoeller, PhD is a professor of strategic management and the academic head of the 'Directors as Strategic Leaders' programme at the Cranfield School of Management. He was previously a professor at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and Erasmus University, where he retains a part-time position. Reinmoeller's research on innovation, organizations and strategy has been published in several leading journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, the Asia-Pacific Management Journal, Organization Studies, and the MIT Sloan Management Review. He speaks and consults for companies worldwide.