Strategic Direction: Volume 24 Issue 7

So you have strategy … how do you get it adopted?

This paper aims to share the latest thinking in how to get innovative ideas and new strategies adopted.

Mixing the old and new: How to succeed with corporate rebranding

Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Staying local while going global: Alcoa Alumina stays loyal to regional economy

Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Predicting industry inflections at Nokia: Strategic modeling helps prepare for a downturn

Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Bike builders put Taiwan back in saddle: Rivals join forces to counter Chinese competition

Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Business climate: How CEOs are cashing in on climate change

To discuss some of the actions investors and businesses are taking against climate change.

Director input to corporate strategy: Getting the board on board

Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Tall tales?: Storytelling for marketers, change managers and operational researchers

Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Interview with Mikko Kosonen and Yves Doz

The paper aims to present an interview with Yves Doz and Mikko Kosonen.

A grand challenge for the twenty‐first century: Commercializing solar energy

Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Maximizing R&D value: Increasing investment in R&D

Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

What's on the web

How Not to Come Second

Weather the storms (customer management programmes)

Ten common misconceptions about enterprise risk management

Diary

The battle to harness people power

Competitive horizon

Bloom and bust (cut flower industry)

Integrated environmental product innovation and impacts on company competitiveness: a case study of the automotive industry in the region of Munich

Managing human resources for service excellence and cost effectiveness at Singapore Airlines

Customer profitability

In or out? (Outsourcing)

Intranet editors as corporate gatekeepers and agenda setters

Energy performance certificate requirements extended to include commercial property with effect from October 1 2008

ICT, skills, and organizational change: evidence from Italian manufacturing firms