Strategy and Capability: Sustaining Organizational Change

Modern managers and students of management are inundated with advice on how to change organizations in order to improve their effectiveness. This book makes sense of all this competing advice, considering the best ways for organizations to develop their strategic capabilities in a fast-changing world. The authors map all the major routes to organizational improvement and classify them into a number of basic categories. Five separate categories, each with its own theoretical provenance, are identified, and each type of approach is assessed and evaluated. The authors’ approach draws on both strategy and human resource management, and highlights the interesting and subtle relationships between strategy and capability. The book is highly practical, enabling the manager or HR professionals, through an informed understanding of the advice available, to assess which solutions are most appropriate for their organization.