Designing World Class Corporate Strategies considers the key role of corporate
centres within very large, primarily multi-business organisations. At present,
these corporate centres are under attack as not creating and value and merely
adding cost to their groups.The authors have developed a corporate
configurations model which demonstrates four ways in which corporate centres can
add significant value. However this requires the centre to act in specific ways
depending on the external environment in which the group is operating.Designing
World Class Corporate Strategies is highly readable, with a large number of
illustrative examples included in the text. Academic references and theoretical
underpinnings are placed in the final chapter of