ABSTRACT
This chapter opens with a contextual focus from the boardroom, explores the key principles and strategic approaches of senior management and warns of the chaos that can result from top management's too distant view of real-time activity. It explains the impact of contextual change, the evolution of organisational structures, and the importance of organisational culture and achieving employee trust. The chapter also explores the challenge of change and selecting an organisational style, and focuses on the traditional business game. The main players in the national and international business games are multinational corporations (MNCs), small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), non-governmental organisations (NGOs), charities and governments in a direct or indirect mode. The chapter argues that business is in need of a strategic approach to innovation that in many cases will require organisations to change the way they operate and adopt a holistic TEAM approach.
