The Strategy Gap: Leveraging Technology to Execute Winning Strategies

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The Strategy Gap: Leveraging Technology to Execute Winning Strategies

Author(s): Michael Coveney (Author), Dennis Ganster (Author), Brian Hartlen (Author), Dave King (Author)

  • Publisher: Wiley
  • Publication Date: March 21, 2003
  • Edition: 1st
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 240 pages
  • ISBN-10: 9781119090823
  • ISBN-13: 9781119090823

Book Description

With shortened business cycles, increased competition, and rapidly changing technologies, companies need to be more nimble than ever. They must narrow the gap between strategy formulation and operation execution to guarantee success. The Strategy Gap will provide a framework that senior financial managers can use to ensure that their strategies are implemented successfully and that their corporations remain competitive. Filled with informative case studies and best practices for optimum financial processes, this valuable resource will help managers leverage information technology to successfully implement corporate strategies. This book also shows managers how to eliminate surprises in poorly managed or unforeseen activities, while applying new approaches to financial management for faster and more accurate business modeling. Expert advice from those who have used these strategies clearly explains how to integrate planning, budgeting, consolidation, and reporting into one cohesive management system.

Editorial Reviews

Review

..”.a well-argued foundation for managers who are all too aware of that short-term ‘noise’ that often gets in the way of their…strategic goals…” (“Information Age,” June 2003)

..”.could just go down in history alongside books like Crossing the Chasm as a technology industry must read…” (“Computer Business Review,” August 2003)

.”..a well-argued foundation for managers who are all too aware of that short-term ‘noise’ that often gets in the way of their…strategic goals…” (“Information Age”, June 2003)

.”..could just go down in history alongside books like Crossing the Chasm as a technology industry must read…” (“Computer Business Review”, August 2003)

.,.”a well-argued foundation for managers who are all too aware of that short-term ‘noise’ that often gets in the way of their…strategic goals…” (“Information Age,” June 2003)

.,.”could just go down in history alongside books like Crossing the Chasm as a technology industry must read…” (“Computer Business Review,” August 2003)

.,.”could just go down in history alongside books like Crossing the Chasm as a technology industry must read…” (“Computer Business Review,” August 2003)

…”a well-argued foundation for managers who are all too aware of that short-term ‘noise’ that often gets in the way of their…strategic goals…” (“Information Age,” June 2003)

…”could just go down in history alongside books like Crossing the Chasm as a technology industry must read…” (“Computer Business Review,” August 2003)

From the Inside Flap

Praise for The Strategy Gap

“With a better handle on the financial pulse of the business, enterprises will be better able to meet the Street’s expectations of financial transparency and corporate accountability. The writers do a masterful job of getting readers to this point of awareness, and further display their insight by explaining how corporate performance management (CPM) and finance are essentially ‘joined at the hip’ in concept and execution. This interdependence must be embodied in methodology and technology for CPM to work. Chapter ten (What Lies Ahead) is a must-read for C-level executives–and their IT counterparts–that want to quickly catch up on some of the new technologies shaping CPM and finance.”
Alan Y. C. Yong, Director, Financial Analytics, Aberdeen Group

“This book is a must-read for all students of business, from college students to CEOs. The authors have an uncanny ability to create excitement on topics that have been a part of business vocabulary for a long time. Without doubt, this book will also affect the thinking of software innovators who see opportunities for a new generation of software to support the book’s concepts and theories.”
Dr. G. R. Wagner, Distinguished Professor, Peter Kiewit Institute, University of Nebraska

The Strategy Gap provides a pragmatic insight into where the barriers to execution of a corporate strategy are. Backed by excellent examples, we’re shown not just ‘here’s what you should do’ but also ‘here’s how to do it.’ The book helps make the black art of turning strategy into tactics a clearer process that is more accessible to those who need it. The Strategy Gap is almost a handbook of how to take strategic decisions and support their execution with the help of information technology.”
Rick Crandall, Chairman, Giga Information Group

“This book authoritatively describes the disconnect between many companies’ strategic planning efforts and the successful implementation of the plans. It combines academic rigor and practical ‘how to.’ It brings strategists’ and technologists’ knowledge together in a very insightful, readable, and useful book.”
Hugh Watson, C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry Chair of Business Administration, Terry College of Business, University of Georgia

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