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Organizing for Improved Performance
This session will introduce a broad range of themes in organizational design. Four main aspects of organization will be emphasized-people, architecture, routines, and culture-and while some are more easily influenced than others, all four can be shaped by the leaders of the firm.
Innovation and Competition
To sustain a competitive advantage, many of today's firms must compete in a global industry marked by rapid technological innovation that continuously changes the competitive landscape. In this session you will learn a framework that will help you identify the organizational challenges that need to be tackled in order to compete effectively in high-velocity industries and the business policies that can improve a firm's performance in these circumstances.
Industry and Competitor Analysis
One of the most important determinants of firm performance is the attractiveness of the industry in which it competes. This session will provide practical tools for conducting an industry analysis and for evaluating a firm's position in its industry.
Activists, Governments, and Regulation
The management of a firm's interactions with institutions in the non-market environment is a central component of its strategy to achieve optimal overall performance. The sessions that address this topic will provide insight into the interconnectedness between markets and the non-market environment and into how boycotts, legislation, regulation, and trade policy affect firms' market performance. They will also shed light on the integration of a non-market strategy with a firm's market strategy.
Leading a High-Performance Culture
It is extremely difficult for companies to successfully imitate other companies’ value-producing organizational arrangements even when information about those arrangements is widely available. Thus, sustainable competitive advantage may come as much from organizational culture and managerial practices as from other things such as technology or business models that are more readily copied. In his two sessions Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer will address what can be done to effectively eliminate the knowing-doing gaps that often prevent companies from achieving and sustaining their competitive advantage.
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 Stanford's Executive Program in Strategy and Organization provides a good opportunity to step back and really think about issues closely aligned but not directly connected with immediate, short-term business demands. A good broadening experience.
Joseph M. Johnson
President, China Operations
Best Foods Asia Ltd.
Program dates, fees, and faculty are subject to change. If a program is cancelled, Stanford will refund the program tuition in full but is not responsible for travel, accommodations or other expenses incurred by the participant.
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