Books & Research
From research rigour to the boardroom table.
Books, research and tools designed to be used by Boards and executive committees.
El Consejo Estratégico
A handbook for moving Boards from reporting to strategic conversation and execution.
Governing is not meeting. Governing is deciding.
Many organisations have Boards and committees full of good intentions, and still end up with endless information packs, debates that never close and decisions that are reopened again and again.
The book proposes a practical way to turn governance into a system: the Board Operating System (BOS), a set of rules, habits and tools that turn meetings, information and conversations into clear decisions and verifiable execution.
El Replanteamiento Estratégico
La Metodología de Planificación con Escenarios de Oxford (the Oxford scenario planning approach)
The Spanish edition of Strategic Reframing: The Oxford Scenario Planning Approach, by Rafael Ramírez and Angela Wilkinson (Oxford University Press). A reference for bringing scenario planning to senior leadership, and for reframing the strategic situation before deciding.
Research
Academic questions with consequences for the Board.
- Doctoral research · Universitat de València
Technological innovation and organisational resilience
How collaborating with external partners builds the capacity to explore and exploit at the same time, and what that means for a company’s survival in a crisis.
For a Board: external collaboration is not discretionary spending in hard times. It is part of the capacity to withstand them.
- Book chapter · Dykinson
Artificial intelligence in strategic management
The impact of AI on how strategy is formulated, decided and governed.
For a Board: AI is a governance matter too, not just a technology one.
- Research line
Governance in large, professionalised family firms
The governance a family firm needs before it opens its capital or changes generation.
For a Board: governance is designed before it is needed, not once the transaction is under way.
Publications
Three lines of research, all still open.
Almost thirty years studying how organisations decide, innovate and adapt, from industry to the boardroom.
- 2026Book
Iborra, J. (2026). El Consejo Estratégico: manual para pasar del reporte a la conversación y ejecución estratégica. Independently published. ISBN 979-8241382283.
- 2026Textbook
Iborra, J. (2026). Manual de Dirección Estratégica Corporativa (2.ª ed.). Ediciones Universidad Internacional de Valencia. ISBN 979-13-88081-24-8. 1.ª ed.: 2022, ISBN 978-84-19314-30-7.
- 2025Book chapter
Iborra Casanova, J. & Broseta Dupré, B. (2025). Hacia un nuevo paradigma en la dirección estratégica corporativa: impacto de la IA en la enseñanza y la práctica empresarial. En Propuestas educativas en la era de la IA: regulación y uso ético. Dykinson. ISBN 979-13-7006-023-7.
- 2023Textbook
Iborra, J. (2023). Manual de Estrategias y Herramientas de Valoración de Empresas. Ediciones Universidad Internacional de Valencia. ISBN 978-84-19855-55-8.
- 2014Case study
Iborra, J. & Safón, V. (2014). Los fabricantes de muebles en España y el grupo Royo. Parte II: el grupo Royo. En M. Iborra et al., Fundamentos de dirección de empresas. Conceptos y habilidades directivas (pp. 527-541). Ediciones Paraninfo.
- 2014Case study
Safón, V. & Iborra, J. (2014). Los fabricantes de muebles en España y el grupo Royo. Parte I: análisis del sector. En M. Iborra et al., Fundamentos de dirección de empresas. Conceptos y habilidades directivas (pp. 505-526). Ediciones Paraninfo.
- 2020Translation and foreword
Ramírez, R. & Wilkinson, A. (2020). El Replanteamiento Estratégico. Traducción y prólogo de Javier Iborra. Edición original: Strategic Reframing: The Oxford Scenario Planning Approach, Oxford University Press, 2016. ISBN 978-1-8381040-0-9.
- 2011Master’s thesis in Strategy
Iborra, J. (2011). Revisión del estado del arte en scenario planning y aplicación al caso del sistema prospectivo CEFFOR® en la industria del mueble. Universitat de València.
- 2006Conference paper
Navarro, J. & Iborra, J. (2006). The Spanish furniture observatory: an economical intelligence system for the furniture and wood industry. En AIDIMA (Ed.), Wood resources and panel properties. Conference proceedings, COST Action E44-E49 (pp. 223-230). AIDIMA. ISBN 84-95077-24-8.
- OngoingDoctoral research
Iborra, J. Tesis doctoral sobre innovación tecnológica y resiliencia organizativa. Programa de Doctorado, Universitat de València.
- 2024Textbook
Iborra, J. (2024). Manual de Gestión de la Innovación. Universidad Europea Online.
- 2004Journal article
Iborra Casanova, J., Boronat Ramón, J. M. & Navarro Campos, J. (2004). Análisis de la industria del mueble en España: un nuevo modelo de negocio como base de la innovación. Economía Industrial, 355-356, 317-334. ISSN 0422-2784.
Frameworks
Tools for Boards and executive committees.
Board Operating System
Rules, habits and tools that turn meetings, information and conversations into clear decisions and verifiable execution.
Board Reality Map
An X-ray of how the Board actually works over six to twelve months: how it spends its time, which conversations dominate and which decisions keep coming back.
Decision Log
A record of every significant decision: what was decided, on which assumptions, who is accountable and when it will be reviewed.
Strategic Questions
Questions that help the Board spend its time on the future, not only on explaining the past.
Scenario Map
Scenarios and early signals for decisions that hold up in more than one future.
Board Note
One idea, one tension, one framework, one implication and one question for the Board. On a single page.
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