Systems & Planning, Strategic Planning, Business & Finance 

This manual accompanies the new, fully updated edition of John Thompson's European text on Strategic Management. The main text is student-centred in approach and covers the core elements of business strategy. It is accompanied by learning objectives, boxed examples, key terms, summaries, revision checklists, and numerous case studies relating the theories to the practical world of business. The lecturer's resource manual forms part of a complete and flexible teaching package to accompany the third edition of Strategic Management: Awareness and Change. The manual includes: teaching notes - short notes summarizing the main themes of the chapters in the book highlight the main topic areas and provide starting points for lectures and summary handouts; self-assessment questions - a bank of nearly two hundred additional self assessment questions to test the student's understanding of key topics in the book; commentaries on the full-length case studies; questions and guidance to possible answers and issues relating to the eleven cases in Strategic Management: Awareness and Change; additional cases - an extra four cases to add to the above eleven, accompanied by questions and commentary; OHP masters for the main figures from the text. The Strategic Management website completes the teaching package for all teachers and students of strategy. Visit the website for full updates to the case studies, a strategy discussion forum, teaching and learning notes, routes through the book, the latest journal articles and readings and links to the best strategy sites on the WorldWideWeb. - from Amzon