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Collaborations

Chinese Culture University of Taiwan

We are delighted to be working with the Chinese Culture University of Taiwan on a practice-and-research program on Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Dynamics see sdl.re/EASDvideos. (EA is the key platform for planning enterprise-wide information systems strategies, see The Open Group whose standards and certification programs for Enterprise Architecture have been adopted worldwide.

Andy Milward

Effective strategic management of organisations requires effective strategic leadership, and we are pleased to be working with the rigorous and experienced top-level coach, Andy Milward, on codifying the connection between these two vital issues.

Wathbah Consulting

Wathbah Consulting is a management and strategy consulting house based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Founded by a Saudi national team with a diverse backgrounds and expertise, and it offers consulting and advisory services based on modern and unconventional methods and tools that tackle complex, wicked and dynamic problems.

Other

We support the International System Dynamics Society in its strategic planning.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) includes our online strategy dynamics course annually, Fall semester, in the online graduate programs in System Dynamics.

Useful Journals

Usually accessible through University library services

System Dynamics Review … the key journal on our underlying science - system dynamics - includes many examples of strategy models. <
McKinsey Quarterly …flagship journal of leading strategy consultants McKinsey & Co, offers many useful strategy articles, including business dynamics (system dynamics in business cases)
Strategy+Business … on management and strategy issues, published by Booz & Company, now part of PricewaterhouseCoopers
Harvard Business Review includes important and influential articles on strategy and related topics

SOME IMPORTANT BOOKS

Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World: Sterman. The definitive textbook on system dynamics modelling and systems thinking.
Valuation - Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies : McKinsey Inc., Koller, Goedhart and Wessels, explains what Finance needs from Strategy.
Contemporary Strategy Analysis : Robert Grant. The most popular business school textbook on standard strategy approaches.
Understanding the environment outside the industry, in The Portable MBA in Strategy Narayanan and Fahey. Does what it says!
Scenarios: The Art of Strategic Conversation : van der Heijden. Key book on this critical strategy skill.
Strategic and Competitive Analysis: Methods and Techniques for Analyzing Business Competition. Fleisher and Bensoussan. Another critical skill for developing and managing strategy.
Competitive Advantage and Competitive Strategy : Porter. Two classics on industry forces and business profitability.
Gaining and Sustaining Competitive Advantage : Barney. The definitive book on the Resource-Based View.
Strategic Human Resource Management : Truss, Mankin and Kelliher. Good chapters on the vital HR<>Strategy connection.
The War for Talent : Michaels and Handfield-Jones … McKinsey-expert view on HR.
Product Design and Development : Karl T. Ulrich and Steven D. Eppinger. "Dynamic-compliant" handbook on this vital function for strategic progress.
The Innovator's Dilemma and The Innovator's Solution : Christensen (and Raynor). Key books on the dynamics of innovation and product generations.
How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business : Hubbard. Intangibles are critical – here's how to really understand them.
Enabling Knowledge Creation : von Krogh, Ichijo, and Nonaka. Key reference on this critical intangible.
Process Mapping: How to Reengineer your Business Processes : Hunt. Business processes are key to developing of strategic resources and capabilities.
The Balanced Scorecard and Strategy Maps : Kaplan and Norton. The key books on this planning method used by nearly half the world's top corporations, and many public-service and non-profit organisations.