The search for speed has become the latest initiative in the pursuit of competitive advantage. This book equips the practising manager with the tools and techniques needed to utilise the philosophy of Time Compression. The authors explain how Time Compression can accelerate strategic change. They apply the principles of Time Compression to production and manufacturing systems as well as the human aspects of a business to gain competitive advantage. With detailed examples from companies that have used Time Compression, such as the Rover Group, Coats Viyella, British Airways, Lucas Industries,...

Many books have been written about the way business leaders manage their corporations, but little is known about how they have managed their own careers. Roads to the Top provides insights into how 18 business leaders of both the older and younger generations have made decisions about their careers, what fundamentally motivates them, what has been important developmentally, how have they balanced their personal and professional lives, what are their views on leadership and advice to others about how to make career decisions and get to the top.

This book provides a guide to successful management. Managers need to set the right objectives for the company and clear objectives for themselves. A general manager must develop new strategies that are relevant to the environment and are based on the core competences of the corporation. These strategies will need to yield a long term competitive advantage so that they significantly increase the value of the company over time. This book, by the Chief Executive of a major multinational company, provides many insights and thoughtful consideration of important aspects of successful management.

Packed with compelling insights and vivid illustrations, The Transformation of Management is the first comprehensive guide to the way organizations will need to manage if they are to survive and succeed in the new, global economy. Here is the secret not only to beating your competitors and so being one of the winners today, but to beating evolution so that you can go on winning tomorrow. In short here is a way to take control of your own destiny, to manage change and thereby to shape a successful future for yourself and your organization.

Being 'world class' is inextricably linked to being competitive. In this new book the author builds upon Becoming World Class and incorporates his experience of introducing fundamental changes in a number of major organisations. The author discusses how organisations can compete when competitors have also introduced the management innovations of recent years and become lean'. He argues that success comes not from making business processes more efficient but from the contribution of people and he examines how companies can successfully motivate employees. This is an innovative book which puts...

Information undoubtedly represents one of the key competitive weapons of the next decade, whether it takes the form of tracking the shopping habits of individual customers or changing the price of airline tickets minute by minute to take advantage of changes in demand. The implications for management are huge yet most companies are still at the early stages of trying to understand how they can extract maximum value for their information assets. This book looks at the impact of this information revolution and shows how companies can exploit information for competitive advantage.

In many countries shopping has been transformed from High Street stores to large out-of-town Retail Parks and Shopping Centres. Technology now provides the opportunity for many products and services to be promoted and purchased electronically, particularly via the Internet. This will progress differently for different products, regions, consumer groups, etc. This book presents future scenarios for the retail industry in the light of Internet shopping. Through its unique perspective, it examines developments so far, and through the insight of the author who is one of the leading professionals...

In this follow-up to the ground-breaking, Dynamic Organisations, David Jackson leads the reader step-by-step through the change management process. He describes the change management process using a unique 'double loop' model and uses this to clarify processes which can otherwise appear intimidating, such as environmental scanning, direction setting, change planning, implementation and sustaining activities. A 'Change in Action' section uses vivid case-studies to show how real organisations have risen to the challenge of sustaining on-going innovation. David Jackson wrote Becoming Dynamic to...

In this new book Peter Wickens gets to the very core of what makes a successful and dynamic enterprise. Building upon his earlier work in, The Ascendant Organisation and slaying a number of business fads and sacred cows along the way, he shows how to energise the enterprise in key areas such as leadership, teamworking and innovation. With the use of many examples and cases and building upon considerable experience he shows the way forward for companies to achieve a sense of purpose and to energise their organisations. If you are tired of the latest business fad then this will be the book for...

This book provides a clear and practical approach to creating and implementing cost-effective business processes. Focusing on the key elements of a robust business plan, it defines the core business processes needed in a successful process-driven organisation. The core processes are described supported by diagrams and checklists of essential criteria for designing the process. The book distils the author's extensive experience of business planning across various industry sectors including Dunlop, GKN Technology and Lucas Aerospace.