Management by processes entails design and deployment of systems that ensure implementation of policies, strategies, and action plans through a set of integrated processes (systematic and defined ways) to meet the stakeholders’ requirements.
Continuous improvement is a means to ensure meeting and exceeding increasing expectations of customers and other stakeholders and overcoming the challenges posed by changing market forces.
partnerships are a means to ensure high level of operational linkages with the resources that are critical for the success of the organization and yet beyond its control.
What companies are expected to concentrate on is civic positioning, apart from market positioning – by building a stock of reputation capital to gain extra mileage of goodwill.