Strategy in Action: A Holistic Management Strategy Framework to Navigate Businesses and Multinational Organizations

How to develop best-practice strategy in a business or a multinational organization? Putting in value the strategy function and embracing a Holistic Management Strategy (HMS) framework would unleash performance for any business or organization. This book illustrates with real examples the HMS, a set of 10 frameworks that provide best-practice to design and develop strategy. The HMS approach is differentiated between business unit and divisional/group level, and adapted to situations of existing versus new markets and organic versus inorganic growth. The book introduces new topics such as integrated business model and strategy & financial plan at business unit level, attractiveness and opportunities framework for new markets linked with inorganic growth, portfolio horizons connected with the company’s market valuation gap, leadership & management excellence programme (e.g. THICOSIV), company excellence based on a balanced designed and considered decision-making, the future of the strategy function, and seven meta-architectural levers to successfully address digital disruption.

Dr. Angel Gavieiro Besteiro has more than 25 years of international executive experience as a banker and strategist across corporate and investment banking and retail and commercial banking, covering EMEA, North America, and Asia-Pacific markets out of the UK, the UAE, and Spain. As a strategist, he has held senior executive roles as SVP/divisional head of strategy and business development for Barclays Bank’s international retail and commercial banking division, Lloyds Bank’s wholesale banking and markets division, and Wells Fargo’s EMEA region. Before that, he was a management consultant at McKinsey & Co. In addition, he is the founder and managing partner of AG Strategy & Partners, a London-based management consulting and advisory boutique focused on the financial services industry. As a banker, Angel has run business P&L as SVP head of domestic corporate markets for Al Hilal Bank’s wholesale banking division and agency treasury services and corporate finance for Lloyds Bank’s financial institutions group, starting his career in debt capital markets at Société Générale. He has an MBA from Duke University (USA) and Ph.D. in financial economy from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). Angel is a Fulbright scholar, Fuqua scholar, and Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of International Bankers of the City of London.