Editorial objectives
Strategic Direction is an essential management information resource for today's strategic thinkers. As a unique service, we scan through the best 400 management journals in the world and distill the most topical management issues and relevant implications for senior managers out of the cutting-edge research. We regularly present case study reviews of the Fortune 500 companies. Each briefing (no more than 2 to 3 pages long) is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the arguments in context.
Unique attributes
Strategic Direction offers CEOs powerful advantages by briefing them on the key ideas and major issues affecting business today.
Topicality
As the business environment becomes more competitive, the quality of strategic thinking demonstrated by an organization can become a measure of its success. This journal is the first of its kind, built solely around the needs of the CEOs and their strategy teams, and is an essential tool in the conception and implementation of powerful strategies.
Key benefits
The journal's quality content will help CEOs define strategies, and also ensure their support within the organization, by suggesting ways of communicating your objectives and motivating others to achieve them.
- Save valuable management time by accessing the best management research through our easy-to-digest reviews
- Keep up-to-date with management developments worldwide
- Track the success or failures of strategies undertaken by the Fortune 500 companies
- Read the current ideas from some of the best strategic thinkers today
Key journal audiences
- Managing Directors
- Market Analysts
- Business Strategists
- Management Consultants
- Company Directors
- Financial Directors
- Chief Executive Officers, their advisors and strategy teams
Coverage
- Defining the strategic intent of your organization
- Initiating change - and ensuring it happens
- Learning from global competitors
- Managing information technology
- Protecting your technological lead
- Procuring, organizing and utilizing competitive information
- Recruiting, motivating and keeping people you need
- Using manufacturing as a strategic weapon
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Sample Articles
- Interview with Rupert Merson, author of Guide to Managing Growth
William Strange
Volume: 28 Issue: 1; 2012
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- Interview with Professor Robert Kaplan, author of What to Ask the Person in the Mirror
William Strange
Volume: 28 Issue: 2; 2012
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- Interview with Marshall Goldsmith
Juliet Harrison
Volume: 28 Issue: 4; 2012
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- Interview with Anders Dahlvig
Gareth Bell
Volume: 28 Issue: 5; 2012
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- How to create a thriving workplace: reaping the benefits of employee satisfaction
Martin Hellawell
Volume: 28 Issue: 5; 2012
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- Interview with Marshall Sponder, author of Social Media Analytics
Gareth Bell
Volume: 28 Issue: 6; 2012
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- New media needs new marketing: Social networking challenges traditional methods
Volume: 28 Issue: 6; 2012
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- Interview with Dr Stanley C. Abraham, author of Strategic Planning: A Practical Guide for Competitive Success
Gareth Bell
Volume: 28 Issue: 7; 2012
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- Happy landings for Chilean airliner
Volume: 28 Issue: 7; 2012
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