Powerful new forces are reshaping the business world and the role of the manager in making effective strategic choices is increasingly demanding. This book shows today's manager how to create and sustain a dynamic, profitable business with techniques to support effective decisions. It evaluates the tools, tactics, and techniques for making profit-boosting decisions. Moreover, it contains insights into effective strategic decisions--what worked and why, what failed and why.

Successful Business Planning: Energising Your Company's Potential
Using a real company case history, Norton Paley explains the techniques of building a strategic business plan; he then shows you how to develop a one-year tactical section and link it to the strategic section. Further case studies of companies facing severe competitive problems show how they developed successful strategies for winning through. the book ends with valuable checklists for developing competitive strategies and help topics.