In the world of industry and management the service industry is unique. This book provides a framework on these unique management issues and looks into the special characteristics of services and the conditions necessary for successful service management. The book stresses the need for a streamlined service management system and analyses and illustrates growth strategies and the nature of innovation, in particular the nature of social innovation, but above all it emphasizes the special role played by good leadership. A provocative and pragmatic book which, by using new concepts, focuses on...
In the world of industry and management the service industry is unique. This book provides a framework on these unique management issues and looks int...
Strategy is the art of creating value. It provides frameworks, conceptual models, and governing ideas that allow a company's managers to identify opportunities for bringing value to customers and for delivering that value at a profit. This book illustrates how new ways of creating value are being created by current global competition, changing markets, and new technologies. It shows how the focus of strategic analysis should not be the company or the industry, but the value-creating system itself, within which suppliers, business partners, allies, and customers work together to co-produce...
Strategy is the art of creating value. It provides frameworks, conceptual models, and governing ideas that allow a company's managers to identify oppo...