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Strategic Sustainability: Why it matters to your business and how to make it happen (Doshorts Ser.)
by Alexandra McKayIn many businesses sustainability is one person’s passion and responsibility. A large part of their job becomes selling sustainability to other people in the business.This book offers arguments, information and tactics will help that person get the buy-in they need to move sustainability forward in their business.Strategic Sustainability: sets out why sustainability matters to businesses – the benefits to you and your stakeholders; shows how to identify the biggest issues, impacts and wins for your business; helps you identify the resources you will need to put sustainability at the heart of your business; outlines key reasons why businesses that are not multinationals should take action on sustainability, and how to do it; looks in detail at how to integrate sustainability with business strategy and mission.Sustainability is of strategic importance to a business. This book makes an airtight case for why action is essential and how sustainability can help a business not only survive but thrive in competitive marketplaces.
Strategic Sustainability: The State of the Art in Corporate Environmental Management Systems
by Robert Sroufe Sarkis JosephThe last decade has seen increasing awareness of the importance of understanding corporate environmental management systems (EMSs) and their relationships with sustainability, competitiveness and institutional practice. It is now assumed that most large companies have some version of an EMS in place with systems ranging from informal policies and practices to formalised third-party certified systems that are widely publicized by companies and are now integral to their strategic direction. No matter what level and type of system a firm chooses, both practitioners and researchers wish to examine and better understand the extent to which these systems are cross-functional, how they impact on performance evaluation, their capability to monitor supply chains and the life-cycles of products and services and, most importantly, whether these systems actually make a contribution to better environmental performance. This book provides intriguing insights into strategic and sustainable EMSs. It provides clear evidence of benefits that should exceed the costs (tangible and otherwise), and help practitioners understand the attributes of well-developed and strategically focused EMSs. It also demonstrates the link to performance measures such as reputation, improved position in the marketplace, cost, quality, waste reduction and numerous sustainable development-based metrics and issues. The comprehensive scope of topics spans several industries and provides environmental systems insight involving sustainable management systems, strategic and operational impacts of environmental systems, cross-country comparisons of EMS design processes and results, product-based environmental systems, EMS impacts at innovative organisations and environmental systems integration within specific industries. The book is split into three sections. First, the book covers the broad issues of planning and designing an EMS and includes topics such as performance evaluation, comparisons between multinational environmental systems, sustainable development and links between already established quality systems and an EMS. The second section focuses on EMS implementation and operation and incorporates some corporate or industry-specific case studies. The third and final category of the book highlights the use of an EMS to evaluate business processes. Strategic Sustainability will be essential reading for both managers faced with decisions regarding their own EMSs and to researchers seeking additional insights from state-of-the-art examples for further theoretical development and testing.
Strategic Sustainability Management: A Practical Approach for Companies Using the SDGs as a Framework
by Robert Bodenstein Josef HergetThis book provides a practical guide to implementing sustainability strategies within companies. It introduces a model-based approach that enables a comprehensive, yet focused strategy, ensuring that complexity doesn’t overshadow the core objectives. The concept of Sustainability Excellence offers a versatile methodology, designed to meet the needs of both large corporations and small businesses with limited resources. The approach is adaptable to various sustainability frameworks and strategies. To demonstrate its application, the book uses the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a concrete example of how the method can be put into practice. Special emphasis is placed on integrating the sustainability strategy into the corporate culture, ensuring it becomes a fundamental part of the organization's DNA. The book is enriched with practical tools, including checklists and insights into the opportunities and risks of sustainability management. It is a valuable resource for managers, business owners, consultants, and anyone interested in shaping effective sustainability strategies within their organizations.
Strategic Sustainable Procurement: Law and Best Practice for the Public and Private Sectors (Doshorts Ser.)
by Colleen Theron Malcolm DowdenProcurement is playing an increasingly strategic role as a lever for sustainable development and social and environmental responsibility. Greater regulation on sustainable procurement in the public sector, including significant changes to the EU Directive in April 2014, are driving this change.This comprehensive guide to sustainable procurement by practising legal experts Colleen Theron and Malcolm Dowden distils key developments in EU and UK public sustainable procurement legislation, government guidance and policy; provides an introduction to sustainable procurement more broadly; provides case studies and practical examples on contractual aspects of procurement; shows you how to set up a sustainable procurement strategy; and contributes to the development of sustainable procurement policy. There is also increased emphasis on "clean" supply chains in the private sector, as best practice seeks to mesh with public sector requirements and reduce the risk that bids for public contracts might be undermined by adverse environmental impacts or social misconduct along the supply chain.Private sector companies should act now to establish best practice sustainable procurement principles to minimize the risk of litigation; several international standards are embedding the principles of sustainable procurement into their requirements.The book also offers practical examples of what sustainable procurement entails, whether the organization is bidding for public sector contracts, in need of meeting tender requirements, looking to obtain certification for a standard, or is simply seeking to improve its supply chain management and implement best practice.
A Strategic Understanding of UN Economic Sanctions: International Relations, Law and Development (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics)
by Golnoosh HakimdavarEconomic Sanctions are increasingly used as a legal, non-military technique of combating abusers of international peace. However it remains unclear how the success or failure of these sanctions is measured. This book examines the seldom-explored United Nations’ economic sanctions deliberation process and exposes systematic problems in the measurement of the success or failure of these sanctions. Centering on the key concepts of "peace and security," the author brings the reader’s attention to the discrepancies that exist in the process of decision-making, implementation, and evaluation of UN imposed economic sanctions. She engages international law and development methods to provide proof for the lack of consensus in measures of success and failure, which in turn suggests that sanction implementation on a uniform domestic front are unattainable. This thorough analysis concludes with suggestions for improving the sanctions process, only to clear the path for negating them as a whole and suggest alternative non-coercive measures for mitigating conflict situations and threats to peace and security.
The Strategic Use of International Law by the United Nations Security Council
by Rossana DeplanoThe book offers insights on whether international law can shape the politics of the Security Council and conversely, the extent to which the latter contribute to the development of international law. By providing a systematic analysis of the quantity and quality of international legal instruments referred to in the text of resolutions, the book reconstructs patterns of the Security Council's behavioural regularities and assesses them against the provisions of the United Nations Charter, which establishes its mandate. The analysis is divided into three periods - the origins and Cold War period, post-Cold War period and the twenty-first century - and assesses the resolutions passed in each period by thematic category. The book argues that while international law plays an important role in shaping the politics of the Security Council, the Council's resolutions do not contribute significantly to the development of international law.
Strategic Visions for Human Rights: Essays in Honour of Professor Kevin Boyle
by Geoff GilbertStrategic Visions for Human Rights takes a multi-disciplinary approach to future directions for human rights. It looks beyond what international human rights treaties have so far established and considers the context in which rights in the twenty-first century might develop to meet needs. The book examines how international law might be utilized to protect groups rather than just individual members of the group and it also calls into question the liberal positivist approach to international law that provides the framework for human rights norms. The book is written and published in honour of Professor Kevin Boyle. It celebrates his long career in human rights law both as an academic and a practising barrister. Professor Boyle has taken numerous cases on human rights issues to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and has long been involved in human rights aspects of the peace process in Northern Ireland. He has published widely on human rights issues, focusing on freedom of expression and religion and non-discrimination. The contributors to this volume are well-known academics in the field of human rights and include Francesca Klug, Conor Gearty, David Beetham and Asbjorn Eide. Amongst some of the issues addressed in the book are the future of the European Court of Human Rights, the role of academics play in engendering transition to post-conflict democratic states, and human rights and religious pluralism.
Strategically Created Treaty Conflicts and the Politics of International Law
by Surabhi RanganathanTreaty conflicts are not merely the contingent or inadvertent by-products of the increasing juridification of international relations. In several instances, States have deliberately created treaty conflicts in order to catalyse changes in multilateral regimes. Surabhi Ranganathan uses such conflicts as context to explore the role of international law, in legal thought and practice. Her examinations of the International Law Commission's work on treaties and of various scholars' proposals on institutional action, offer a fresh view of 'mainstream' legal thought. They locate in a variety of writings a common faith in international legal discourse, built on liberal and constructivist assumptions. Ranganathan's three rich studies of treaty conflict, relating to the areas of seabed mining, the International Criminal Court, and nuclear governance, furnish a textured account of the specific forms and practices that constitute such a legal discourse and permit a grounded understanding of the interactions that shape international law.
Strategies and Responses to Crime: Thinking Locally, Acting Globally (International Police Executive Symposium Co-Publications)
by Melchor De Guzman Aiedeo Mintie Das Dilip K. DasEvery year, esteemed scholars and practitioners meet at the International Police Executive Symposium to discuss contemporary issues in policing and share ideas about effective strategies in their jurisdictions. Drawn from the proceedings at the Thirteenth Annual Meeting held in Turkey and updated with new developments since the conference, Strategi
Strategies and Tactics for the MBE (Emanuel Bar Review)
by Steven EmanuelStrategies & Tactics for the MBE, 6E is full of up-to-date advice on how to analyze Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) questions, including details on how to handle each MBE subject, specific, step-by-step strategies for analyzing different question types, tips about how subtle differences in wording can completely change the meaning of an answer, and strategies for "rewording" questions in your mind to make them easier to analyze. Updated by Steven Emanuel, Strategies & Tactics for the MBE, 6E contains a full-length, 200-question practice MBE exam, as well as more than 325 additional questions broken down by subject a total of over 500 NCBE-released questions. The new edition also includes 70 author-generated Civil Procedure questions. Each subject begins with detailed advice on how to handle MBE questions on that subject and how to focus your studies on the most common and trickiest MBE topics. Every question has a fully explained answer that analyzes, in detail, every answer option. Features: Updated to include a comprehensive section on Civil Procedure, which was recently added to the MBE exam. This new section features approximately 70 author-generated questions. For the traditional MBE topics (Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law and Procedure, Evidence, Real Property and Future Interests, and Torts), every one of the more than 500 questions in this book represents an actual question asked on a past MBE. These questions have been reviewed for accuracy and updated.
Strategies for Compliance: Tools, Techniques and Challenges in Financial Services
by Alan BrenerCompliance is a fundamental control function within regulated industries globally. This book provides an expert introduction to corporate compliance using cases, examples and insights from the financial services sector and beyond. The author, an experienced compliance practitioner and academic, highlights compliance challenges, using examples such as Wells Fargo, whistleblowing in the financial services and the mis-selling of payment protection insurance in the UK banking sector. The book explores strategies for creating compliant cultures and fostering regulatory trust, whilst practical guidance is provided on anticipating regulatory changes. Addressing organisational obstruction and delay, the author presents a series of valuable tools and techniques for real-world practice. An essential professional development resource for board directors, compliance officers and other senior managers, the book also provides a unique learning and development resource for students of corporate compliance globally.
Strategies for High-Tech Firms: Marketing, Economic, and Legal Issues
by P.M. Rao Joseph A. KleinThis is the first book to present marketing strategy of high-tech products and services in a legal, economic, and global context. From software to hardware, from pharmaceuticals to digital movies and TV, the authors argue that the understanding of intellectual property rights (IPRs) is essential to devising effective marketing strategies.
Strategies for Responsible Innovation: Perspectives, Projects, and Tools for Co-creating the Future We Want
by André Martinuzzi Alexander Graf Florian FindlerHow can responsible business work in the highly competitive areas of innovation? Focusing on business opportunities and illustrating how Responsible Innovation can be successfully implemented in practice, this book captures experiences and insights from key decision‑makers in business, politics, and academia, to answer this question. In addition to interviews with leading thinkers in the field, Strategies for Responsible Innovation describes the experiences of eight EU projects and provides tools for Responsible Innovation in the business sector.The examples in this book illustrate how to move from a vague societal aspiration to a business case for Responsible Innovation, and provide a compelling argument for collaboration at the important intersection between government, business, and academia. In this way, Responsible Innovation transcends a singular market-based approach to deliver value at many levels, co-creating in a truly inclusive manner. The book sheds light on the strategic benefits of applying the concept of Responsible Innovation in practice and offers concrete tools for its implementation.Aimed primarily at managers of innovation processes in organizations, and consultants and facilitators working on Responsible Innovation and sustainability management, the book also provides insight into the logic and principles of Responsible Innovation management for academics, policy-makers, and civil society organizations, helping them better communicate their requirements to business.
Strategies of Compliance with the European Court of Human Rights: Rational Choice Within Normative Constraints (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
by Andreas Von StadenIn Strategies of Compliance with the European Court of Human Rights, Andreas von Staden looks at the nature of human rights challenges in two enduring liberal democracies—Germany and the United Kingdom. <P><P>Employing an ambitious data set that covers the compliance status of all European Court of Human Rights judgments rendered until 2015, von Staden presents a cross-national overview of compliance that illustrates a strong correlation between the quality of a country's democracy and the rate at which judgments have met compliance. Tracing the impact of violations in Germany and the United Kingdom specifically, he details how governments, legislators, and domestic judges responded to the court's demands for either financial compensation or changes to laws, policies, and practices. <P><P>Framing his analysis in the context of the long-standing international relations debate between rationalists who argue that actions are dictated by an actor's preferences and cost-benefit calculations, and constructivists, who emphasize the influence of norms on behavior, von Staden argues that the question of whether to comply with a judgment needs to be analyzed separately from the question of how to comply. <P><P>According to von Staden, constructivist reasoning best explains why Germany and the United Kingdom are motivated to comply with the European Court of Human Rights judgments, while rationalist reasoning in most cases accounts for how these countries bring their laws, policies, and practices into sufficient compliance for their cases to be closed. <P><P>When complying with adverse decisions while also exploiting all available options to minimize their domestic impact, liberal democracies are thus both norm-abiding and rational-instrumentalist at the same time—in other words, they choose their compliance strategies rationally within the normative constraint of having to comply with the Court's judgments.
Strategies of Financial Regulation: Divergent Approaches in Conduct of Business Regulation of Mis-Selling in the UK and South Korea
by Junghoon KimThis book analyses different strategies and their results in implementing financial regulation in terms of rule-making, public enforcement and private enforcement. The analysis is based on a comparative study of conduct of business regulation on mis-selling of financial instruments in the UK and South Korea. It extends into liquidity regulation in the banking sector and credit rating agency regulation. The book concludes that in rule-making, purposive rules are more effective for achieving regulatory goals with minimal undesirable results, but a rule-making system with purposive rules can only work on a foundation of trust among rule-makers, enforcers and the regulates, that with respect to public enforcement, the enforcement strategies should combine the compliance-oriented and deterrence-oriented approaches and be continuously adjusted based on close monitoring of the regulatory outcomes and that in private enforcement, regulation should be instituted as the minimum requirement in private law.
Strategies of Multinational Corporations and Social Regulations
by Xavier Richet Violaine Delteil Patrick DieuaideThis contributed volume seeks to provide a unique window on the globalization process by analyzing the dynamics of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Europe and Asia, as well as its influence on the renewal of public policies and regulations, both transnational and local. It discusses the link between the trans-nationalization of productive and business systems and the renewal of local regulations in the light of concerns over competitiveness and attractiveness, as well as new social tensions. Multinational corporations (MNCs) as key actors of globalization are central for understanding the new interactions between the global, regional and local dimensions as well as for highlighting the challenges of regulation both at transnational level and within national boundaries. Research approaches along two broad lines are presented: First, a theoretical and empirical approach that examines links between the strategies of multinationals and local public policy in order to contribute to a better understanding of the institutional dynamics of social regulation. Second, a comparative approach that compares regional spaces, with particular attention to Europe on the one hand, and to the two great emerging powers, China and India, on the other.
Strategies Tactics First Year Law Student: Maximize Your Grades (Strategies And Tactics Series)
by Steven EmanuelStrategies and Tactics for the First Year Law Student gives you a detailed, step-by-step program for surviving the first year of law school. <P><P>Note-taking--Sharpening your note-taking skills will maximize your study time and improve your grades <P><P>Your law professor's personality--Understanding it can be to your advantage <P><P>Study traps--What are they and how to avoid them <P><P>Memory aids--How classic memory systems work and when you should (and shouldn't) use them <P><P>The pressures of law school--Effective techniques for handling the pressure from classmates, professors, and reading assignments <P><P>Taking exams--Nine steps to writing exceptional exam answers <P><P>The Internet--Useful search engines and websites
Strategies to Achieve a Binding International Agreement on Regulating Cartels
by John Sanghyun LeeThis book addresses the lack of binding multi-lateral international agreement on cartels, through analysis of trials and failures. It also suggests strategic approaches to overcome current standstills. In addition, the book contrasts international agreement on cartels with inter-governmental commodity agreement which has been developed separately through international law. Through this project, the author puts forth that successful international law on cartels needs to reflect the interests and arguments of developing countries.
Strategische öffentliche Beschaffung: Die Berücksichtigung von Nachhaltigkeitszielen im österreichischen und europäischen Vergaberecht (BestMasters)
by Iryna SaucaDie Auswirkungen des Klimawandels und soziale Missstände sind immer stärker spürbar. Die Europäische Union und die Mitgliedsstaaten sehen sich daher dringender denn je mit der Frage konfrontiert, welche Maßnahmen dagegen ergriffen werden können. Das Vergaberecht kann dabei eine wichtige Rolle spielen, da es durch die Berücksichtigung strategischer Beschaffungszwecke die Einbeziehung von gesellschaftspolitischen Zielen bei der öffentlichen Auftragsvergabe ermöglicht. In dem vorliegenden Buch wird daher die Entwicklung der strategischen öffentlichen Beschaffung auf europäischer und österreichischer Ebene untersucht. Dabei werden deren Potenziale und rechtliche Grenzen aufgezeigt.
Strategische Philanthropie: Wie Sie mit Ihrem Engagement mehr Wirkung erzielen
by Peter Frumkin Georg von SchnurbeinVor dem Hintergrund globaler Herausforderungen an den Finanzmärkten und beschränkte öffentlicher Haushaltsbudgets ist die Fähigkeit von privater Philanthropie, Lücken zu füllen, von besonderer Bedeutung. Unterstützung für gesellschaftliche Probleme, die Finanzierung innovativer Projekte oder die Entwicklung alternativer Angebote bieten vielfältige Möglichkeiten, sich für die Gesellschaft zu engagieren. Aber wie können Philanthropen und Spender Gewissheit haben, dass ihre Beiträge auch eine Wirkung erzielen? Wie können Fundraiser überzeugend und nachvollziehbar ihr Projekt präsentieren? Dieses Buch bietet allen in der Philanthropie involvierten Akteuren - von Philanthropen über Fundraisier bis hin zu Nonprofit Managern - einen praktischen und kompakten Leitfaden zur wirkungsorientierten Umsetzung. Die Autoren definieren fünf Herausforderungen, die zu berücksichtigen sind, wenn ein Engagement mehr als eine flüchtige Spende sein soll. Dazu zählen der zeitliche Umfang des Engagements, die Formulierung der erwünschten Wirkung und die Übereinstimmung der Spende mit der eigenen Identität und dem eigenen Stil des Gebenden. Die Berücksichtigung dieser grundsätzlichen, strategischen Aspekte des Gebens erlaubt es Philanthropen, ihre Ziele effektiver zu erreichen - und eine dauerhafte Beziehung mit den unterstützten Institutionen und Destinatären aufzubauen. Gerade für die nächste Generation von Philanthropen, die vor der Herausforderung stehen, effektiv zu verteilen, was Andrew Carnegie den “Überschuss-Reichtum" genannt hat, ist dieses Buch eine unverzichtbare Anleitung mit praktischen Fallbeispielen, Empfehlungen und Methoden.
Strategische Wahrheiten: Desinformation und Postfakten in der strategischen Kommunikation
by Olaf Hoffjann Lucas Seeber Ina von der WenseStrategische Kommunikation zielt mit ihren kontingenten Wirklichkeitsbeschreibungen seit jeher auf gesellschaftliche Wahrheitsmodelle. Wie häufig gesellschaftliche Wahrheitsmodelle auf strategische Kommunikationsbemühungen zurückgehen, auf Unwahrhaftigkeit beruhen und damit zumindest zeitweise zu strategischen Wahrheiten werden, zeigen eindrucksvoll zwischenzeitlich geglaubte Wahrheiten, die sich als Lüge entpuppt haben: von Walter Ulbrichts „Niemand hat die Absicht, eine Mauer zu errichten“ über Hitlers Tagebücher bis hin zu den Massenvernichtungswaffen im Irak. Die erfolgreichen Kampagnen der Brexiteers und von Donald Trump 2016 haben diesem Thema zu neuer und bislang ungeahnter Aufmerksamkeit verholfen. Während die Themen Desinformation und postfaktische Gesellschaft die Journalismus-, politische Kommunikations- und Medienethikforschung aktuell zu dominieren scheinen, ist das Schweigen der deutschsprachigen und internationalen PR- und Organisationskommunikationsforschung auffällig. Dies ist umso bemerkenswerter, weil die PR-Wissenschaft in der Vergangenheit immer wieder versucht hat, ihren Gegenstand zu schärfen, indem sie sich am Begriff der Propaganda abgearbeitet hat. Daraus müsste eigentlich eine Affinität für das Thema Desinformation resultieren. Aber genau das Gegenteil ist offensichtlich der Fall: Hat sich die PR-Wissenschaft gerade deshalb nicht mit Desinformation beschäftigt, weil sie sich so dezidiert von Propaganda und darin eingeschlossenen desinformierenden und manipulativen Techniken abgrenzen will? Was sind die Gründe hierfür? Glauben wir, bereits alles zum Thema gesagt zu haben? Liegt dies daran, dass sich die PR- und Organisationskommunikationsforschung seit jeher vor allem für Unternehmen und weniger für politische und Non-Profit-Organisationen interessiert? Oder fühlen wir uns hier schlicht und ergreifend nicht zuständig? Es scheint offenkundig höchste Zeit zu sein, sich wieder eingehend mit Fragen der Desinformation aus der Perspektive der strategischen Kommunikationsforschung zu befassen. Die Beiträge des Tagungsbandes fokussieren hierzu auf neue theoretische Perspektiven, normative Bewertungen und empirische Befunde.
Strategisches Controlling: Gänzlich Ohne Zahlen (Essentials)
by Willibald ErkWillibald Erk geht in diesem essential alle Verantwortungsbereiche eines Unternehmens systematisch an, um sie zu optimieren bzw. neu auszurichten, mit dem Ziel nachhaltiger Geschäftserfolge. Anders als beim herkömmlichen Controlling stehen Lösungen und Handlungen im Vordergrund, nicht die betriebswirtschaftlichen Kennzahlen. Außerdem wird dreifach auf die Menschen fokussiert: als begeisterte Kunden, als motivierte Mitarbeiter und als innovationsoffene Firmeninhaber. Nur deren Zusammenwirken erreicht die erforderlichen Geschäftsergebnisse und kann diese dauerhaft sichern.
Strategisches Management der Nachhaltigkeit: Eine praxisorientierte Methode für Unternehmen am Beispiel der SDGs (SDG - Forschung, Konzepte, Lösungsansätze zur Nachhaltigkeit)
by Robert Bodenstein Josef HergetDieses Buch setzt sich mit der konkreten Umsetzung von Nachhaltigkeitsstrategien in Unternehmen auseinander. Damit die Strategie wirkungsvoll umgesetzt werden kann, wurde eine modellbasierte Methode entwickelt, die einen ganzheitlichen Ansatz ermöglicht, ohne dass die Komplexität den Blick für das Wesentliche verstellt. Das vorgeschlagene Konzept der Nachhaltigkeits-Exzellenz stellt eine Vorgehensweise zur Verfügung, die sowohl Herausforderungen in großen Unternehmen als auch begrenzte Ressourcen in kleinen Unternehmen berücksichtigt. Die entwickelte Methode eignet sich für alle gewählten Konzepte zur Nachhaltigkeit. Die praktische Umsetzung der vorgestellten Methode wird am Beispiel der Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) der Vereinten Nationen (UN) konkret dargestellt. Die Integration der Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie in die Unternehmenskultur erhält eine besondere Betrachtung. Abgerundet wird das Werk mit zahlreichen Checklisten sowie Hintergrundinformationen zu Chancen und Risiken des Managements von Nachhaltigkeit in Unternehmen. Das Buch richtet sich an Manager, Eigentümer, Berater und alle, die an Strategien zur Nachhaltigkeit in Unternehmen interessiert sind.
Strategisches Management und wirkungsorientierte Steuerung in Kommunen
by Jens WeißDie Beiträge des Bandes stellen Grundlagen aus den Bereichen Verwaltungsmanagement und Verwaltungsinformatik sowie Ergebnisse der empirischen Forschung zum strategischen Management in kleinen und mittleren Kommunen dar. Fallbeispiele aus Kommunen in Österreich, Italien, der Schweiz, der Slowakei und Deutschland zeigen praktizierte Managementsysteme, Einführungsprozesse und Aspekte der informationstechnischen Unterstützung.
Strategy and Leadership as Service: How the Access Economy Meets the C-Suite
by Sara DawStrategy and Leadership as Service isn’t just a nice idea; it is a practical, alternative vision of the future of work for senior executives that is starting to gain significant interest and is being adopted by businesses globally. Disrupting and challenging the traditional full-time employment model, the Strategy and Leadership as Service framework provides businesses with access to the complete range of functional, emotional, and collective intelligence at the C-suite level by moving their positions from the “pay-roll” to an “access-role.”Many entrepreneurial and growing businesses don’t need, don’t want, and can’t afford full-time C-suite executives. For larger organisations, it is becoming harder to find the skills and knowledge required to fulfil all the obligations of a functional C-suite with a fixed group of individuals. By moving to the Strategy and Leadership as Service framework, the outcomes are better for all stakeholders: more engagement, access to the right skillsets and mindsets at the right time and in the right quantity to match the changing business agenda, more flexibility for senior leaders, and strengthened risk management. Through presenting a working business model, and real-world case studies throughout, this book provides executives and leaders with a complete understanding of this ground-breaking approach and its key benefits, the theory upon which it is based, its essential ingredients, the mindset change required and, most importantly, how to apply it in practice.The book provides business leaders, C-suite portfolio executives, human resource professionals, strategy consultants, leadership coaches, organisational development consultants, recruiters, professional service firms, academics, and forward-thinking business students with a radical new view of how the access economy can be applied to business strategy and leadership for more sustainable futures.