Beyond strategy: management style for the knowledge economy
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the need for a new style of management to enable companies and organisations to better face the future.
Design/methodology/approach
Draws on analysis carried out within the Challenge Forum in recent projects.
Findings
Companies face an increasing number of “engines of change” which present a more complex environment than the past. Management strategy of the past – to focus on core activities, to outsource, to re‐engineer, to simplify – has left most organisations without the capacity to deal with the growing complexity they face. The article outlines a management approach designed to understand this complexity and enable the organisation to take advantage.
Originality/value
Builds on developments in management thinking and provides an outline for a new management style in the knowledge economy.
Keywords
Citation
Sparrow, O. (2008), "Beyond strategy: management style for the knowledge economy", Foresight, Vol. 10 No. 2, pp. 3-6. https://doi.org/10.1108/14636680810869635
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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