Process-based Strategic Planning

A company's strategies define its future direction specifying not only target market positions for many years to come, but also the key competitive advantages both at the level of the market offers and for resources. Developing future strategies is an imp

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Process-based Strategic Planning

Rudolf Griinig • Richard Kiihri

Process-based Strategic Planning Fourth Edition Translated by Anthony Clark

With 138 Figures

Springer

Professor Dr. rer. pol. Rudolf Griinig Chair of management University of Fribourg Avenue de I'Europe 20 1700 Fribourg Switzerland [email protected] Professor Dr. rer. pol. Richard Kiihn University of Bern EngehaldenstraCe 4 3012 Bern Switzerland [email protected]

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3-540-32754-1 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-32754-7 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York

ISBN 3-540-23571-X 3. edition Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York

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Preface for the fourth edition In the fourth edition, Chapter 12 has been revised and enlarged. With the corporate options matrix, a new approach for developing options at the corporate level is introduced. The authors would like to express their thanks to Tu Le for her substantial work in revising the manuscript and the figures for this edition. The authors would also like to thank Esther Thahabi for updating the references and the bibliography. April 2006 Rudolf Grunig, Richard Kuhn

Preface for the third edition In the third edition. Part II has been enlarged with a new chapter about the strategic analysis and planning toolbox. In addition, some revisions have been made to the text and figures and the visibility of the text has been improved with a new font format. The authors would like to express their thanks to Tu Le for her substantial and excellent work in revising the manuscript and the figures for this third edition. October 2004 Rudolf Grunig, Richard Kuhn

Preface for the second edition As a result of valuable feedback on the first edition of this book, some revisions have been made to the text and the figures for this second edition. In addition,