TY - BOOK AU - AU - AU - TI - The management of strategy: cases. SN - 9780324587043 AV - HD30.4.I65 PY - 2009/// CY - London: PB - South-Western KW - Strategic planning. KW - Industrial management. KW - Business planning KW - Marketing--Management N1 - (Contains 24 case studies); Contents: 3M: Cultivating core competency -- A-1 lanes and the currency crisis of the East Asian tigers -- AMD vs. Intel: competitive challenges -- Boeing: redefining strategies to manage the competitive market -- Carrefour in Asia -- Dell: From a low-cost PC maker to an innovative company -- Ford motor company -- Jack Welch and Jeffrey Immelt: continuity and change in strategy, style and culture at GE -- The Home depot -- China's home improvement market: should home depot enter or will it have a late - mover (Dis)advantage? -- Huawei: Cisco's Chinese challenger -- ING DIRECT: Rebel in the banking industry -- JetBlue Airways: challenges ahead -- Lufthansa: going global, but how to manage complexity? -- Microsoft's diversification strategy -- Nestle: sustaining growth in mature markets -- An entrepreneur seeks the holy grail of retailing -- PSA Peugeot Criteon: Strategic alliances for competitive advantage? -- Sun microsystems -- Teleflex Canada: a culture of innovation -- Tyco international: a case of corporate malfeasance -- Vodafone: out of many, one -- Wal-Mart stores, Inc. (WMT) -- WD-40 company: The squeak, smell and dirt business (A) -- ER -