Modelling Techniques for Business Process Re-Engineering and Benchmarking
ISBN: 9780412789106 / Angielski / Twarda / 395 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today enterprises must strive to improve their competitiveness in a changing environment. To reach this objective it is necessary for companies to evaluate their performances and to combine modelling, business process re-engineering and benchmarking techniques. This book demonstrates the successful combination and implementation of these various techniques.
Today enterprises must strive to improve their competitiveness in a changing environment. To reach this objective it is necessary for companies to eva...
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760,37 zł |
The Voluntary Sector: Comparative Perspectives in the UK
ISBN: 9780415309745 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Increasingly central to public policy debates in the UK, the voluntary sector is one of the fastest growing segments of the economy. The agencies situated between the market and the state are the lifeblood of the organized civil society. This textbook examines whether these expectations are well founded, through detailed examination of the rhetoric and practice of voluntary sector action. Adopting a comparative approach to the subject, The Voluntary Sector examines the sector's relationship to policy, progress and politics. It features insights from a major international study, as well as...
Increasingly central to public policy debates in the UK, the voluntary sector is one of the fastest growing segments of the economy. The agencies situ...
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912,11 zł |
The Voluntary Sector: Comparative Perspectives in the UK
ISBN: 9780415309752 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Increasingly central to public policy debates in the UK, the voluntary sector is one of the fastest growing segments of the economy. The agencies situated between the market and the state are the lifeblood of the organized civil society. This textbook examines whether these expectations are well founded, through detailed examination of the rhetoric and practice of voluntary sector action. Adopting a comparative approach to the subject, The Voluntary Sector examines the sector's relationship to policy, progress and politics. It features insights from a major international study, as well as...
Increasingly central to public policy debates in the UK, the voluntary sector is one of the fastest growing segments of the economy. The agencies situ...
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298,92 zł |
Digital Infrastructures: Enabling Civil and Environmental Systems Through Information Technology
ISBN: 9780415324601 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Digital Infrastructures is the first integrated treatment of how IT technology is fundamentally affecting how critical infrastructures are managed. It is geared to provide the new infrastructure professional with state of the art concepts,
Digital Infrastructures is the first integrated treatment of how IT technology is fundamentally affecting how critical infrastructures are managed. It...
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937,45 zł |
Digital Infrastructures : Enabling Civil and Environmental Systems through Information Technology
ISBN: 9780415324618 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Digital Infrastructures is the first integrated treatment of how IT technology is fundamentally affecting how critical infrastructures are managed. It is geared to provide the new infrastructure professional with state of the art concepts,
Digital Infrastructures is the first integrated treatment of how IT technology is fundamentally affecting how critical infrastructures are managed. It...
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298,92 zł |
Dutch Enterprise in the 20th Century : Business Strategies in Small Open Country
ISBN: 9780415350273 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first book to summarise the twentieth century economic history of the Netherlands from a business history perspective. It has a broad historical coverage of Dutch business development including in particular the major multinationals such as Philips, Shell, and Unilever. Although focused on Dutch business it has a strong international flavour.
This is the first book to summarise the twentieth century economic history of the Netherlands from a business history perspective. It has a broad hist...
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684,09 zł |
Strategic and Organizational Change : From Production to Retailing in UK Brewing 1950-1990
ISBN: 9780415360500 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The brewing industry, through its network of public houses, has a profound impact on the lives of much of the population of United Kingdom. This book explores the shaping of the industry in the years from 1950-1990, showing how the industry has moved from being largely concerned with the technical issues of production to being a key part of the retail industries.
Utilizing resources drawn from theoretical traditions such as critical realism and new institutionalism "Strategic and Organizational Change "demonstrates the considerable differences between major companies in the industry and... The brewing industry, through its network of public houses, has a profound impact on the lives of much of the population of United Kingdom. This book ...
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684,09 zł |
Business Alliances Guide: The Hidden Competitive Weapon
ISBN: 9780471570301 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Business alliances are rapidly growing as a means of meeting new competitive challenges. Robert Lynch is one of America's leading experts on this increasingly important topic and in this book he shares his knowledge, as well as compelling case studies, with the corporate world.
Business alliances are rapidly growing as a means of meeting new competitive challenges. Robert Lynch is one of America's leading experts on this incr...
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320,04 zł |
Encountering Chinese Networks: Western, Japanese, and Chinese Corporations in China, 1880-1937
ISBN: 9780520216259 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Big businesses have faced a persistent dilemma in China since the nineteenth century: how to retain control over corporate hierarchies while adapting to local social networks. Sherman Cochran, in the first study to compare Western, Japanese, and Chinese businesses in Chinese history, shows how various businesses have struggled with this issue as they have adjusted to dramatic changes in Chinese society, politics, and foreign affairs.
Cochran devotes a chapter each to six of the biggest business ventures in China before the Communist revolution: two Western-owned companies, Standard Oil... Big businesses have faced a persistent dilemma in China since the nineteenth century: how to retain control over corporate hierarchies while adapting ...
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261,37 zł |
Rowntree and the Marketing Revolution, 1862 1969
ISBN: 9780521023788 / Angielski / Miękka / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a business history that deals with an important but surprisingly neglected topic. There have been no comprehensive accounts of Rowntree, the confectionery manufacturer, and no assessment of its role in a global industry. For the first time this book reveals the importance of marketing to the success of Rowntree, and makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of marketing and mass consumption in economic development. Rowntree was also a pioneer in managerial organization and industrial relations, as well as in marketing.
This is a business history that deals with an important but surprisingly neglected topic. There have been no comprehensive accounts of Rowntree, the c...
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255,48 zł |
Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont R and D, 1902-1980
ISBN: 9780521028523 / Angielski / Miękka / 780 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on voluminous corporate records and extensive interviews with key employees, Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont R and D, 1902 1980 provides a comprehensive, critical study of research and development in a large US corporation. Du Pont was among a handful of US corporations that established formal research and development laboratories at the turn of the century to improve competitive positions in their respective industries. Initially, Du Pont's executives viewed R&D as an important though not central part of the corporations strategy. However the gains made by the company's...
Based on voluminous corporate records and extensive interviews with key employees, Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont R and D, 1902 1980 provides...
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291,25 zł |
The Business of Research: RCA and the Videodisc
ISBN: 9780521322829 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of the RCA VideoDisc is a rare inside look at a company and the way it conducts the complex process of science-based innovation. The author examines how RCA shaped a sophisticated consumer electronics technology in a research and development effort that spanned fifteen years. We see how the company's history, its structure, its technical capability, and its competition all influenced the choices that were made in moving VideoDisc from laboratory to development group to market, and ultimately to withdrawal from the marketplace. Published in hardcover as RCA and the VideoDisc.
The story of the RCA VideoDisc is a rare inside look at a company and the way it conducts the complex process of science-based innovation. The author ...
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438,35 zł |
Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont R and D, 1902-1980
ISBN: 9780521327671 / Angielski / Twarda / 780 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on voluminous corporate records and extensive interviews with key employees, Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont R and D, 1902 1980 provides a comprehensive, critical study of research and development in a large US corporation. Du Pont was among a handful of US corporations that established formal research and development laboratories at the turn of the century to improve competitive positions in their respective industries. Initially, Du Pont's executives viewed R&D as an important though not central part of the corporations strategy. However the gains made by the company's...
Based on voluminous corporate records and extensive interviews with key employees, Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont R and D, 1902 1980 provides...
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375,94 zł |
From Monopoly to Competition: The Transformations of Alcoa, 1888-1986
ISBN: 9780521352611 / Angielski / Twarda / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past century, Alcoa has developed from a small entrepreneurial venture to a giant corporation; from a one-dimensional, owner-managed firm to a complex managerial bureaucracy; from a domestic company to a multinational enterprise. In the process, Alcoa survived a difficult transition from its long-held position as a monopolist (of aluminum production) to its current status as a firm operating in highly competitive international markets. This book presents Alcoa's history, from its beginnings as a speculative venture seeking to exploit an untested technology, through its rise to become...
Over the past century, Alcoa has developed from a small entrepreneurial venture to a giant corporation; from a one-dimensional, owner-managed firm to ...
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611,17 zł |
The Dynamics of Industrial Competition: A North American Perspective
ISBN: 9780521465618 / Angielski / Twarda / 482 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Dynamics of Industrial Competition provides the first extensive quantitative examination of the processes associated with competition: entry and exit, mergers, growth and decline of incumbent firms. It uses a unique data base to investigate phenomena that have rarely been measured and even more rarely set side by side so as to provide a comprehensive picture of the intensity of competition and its effects on productivity, efficiency and profitability. It will be of interest to all social scientists who are concerned with the workings of markets--economists, political scientists,...
The Dynamics of Industrial Competition provides the first extensive quantitative examination of the processes associated with competition: entry and e...
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606,38 zł |
The Dynamics of Industrial Competition: A North American Perspective
ISBN: 9780521633574 / Angielski / Miękka / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Dynamics of Industrial Competition provides the first extensive quantitative examination of the processes associated with competition: entry and exit, mergers, growth and decline of incumbent firms. It uses a unique data base to investigate phenomena that have rarely been measured and even more rarely set side by side so as to provide a comprehensive picture of the intensity of competition and its effects on productivity, efficiency and profitability. It will be of interest to all social scientists who are concerned with the workings of markets--economists, political scientists,...
The Dynamics of Industrial Competition provides the first extensive quantitative examination of the processes associated with competition: entry and e...
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207,88 zł |
To Profit or Not to Profit: The Commercial Transformation of the Nonprofit Sector
ISBN: 9780521785068 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nonprofit organizations are changing dramatically in the ways they are financed. They are becoming increasingly commercial, operating more like private firms. Far more is involved than the generation of revenue. As donations decline in importance and user fees and money-raising ancillary activities come to dominate, they bring side-effects on the social missions that justify public support. This book examines these little-recognized relationships for the overall nonprofit charitable sector and then focuses on each of six industries; important differences are found among hospitals,...
Nonprofit organizations are changing dramatically in the ways they are financed. They are becoming increasingly commercial, operating more like privat...
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198,27 zł |
Achieving Process Profitability: Building the IT Profit Center
ISBN: 9780595289707 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Where once computers and technology were viewed as great time savers and tools to enable greater profitability, businesses today view technology simply as a cost of doing business. "Achieving Process Profitability: Building the IT Profit Center" shows that the typical classification of IT as a cost center is wrong, lays out the three canons of IT and shows how to transform the attitudes and perceptions about computers and technology within a business in order to achieve the single, universal and undeniable mission of IT.
Written in an easy-going and down-to-earth style that does not talk... Where once computers and technology were viewed as great time savers and tools to enable greater profitability, businesses today view technology simpl...
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51,32 zł |
Bonding: Integrating a Human Resource and Security Paradigm Change Through Effective Leadership
ISBN: 9780595405091 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout this book, author Thomas Ampeliotis provides insight written in the first person. Ampeliotis talks primarily from his experience through eleven years of Law Enforcement/Security experience, Security Management for an International Company, Human Resources, and through his educational background that includes two master's degrees and work towards an Ed D in Organizational Leadership.
A good security professional is always thinking of what could happen and how to stop it from happening. That is one reason I wrote this book. I wanted to help security/human resource personnel by... Throughout this book, author Thomas Ampeliotis provides insight written in the first person. Ampeliotis talks primarily from his experience through el...
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94,27 zł |
The Great Collaboration: A Prescription for a Healthy, Sustainable Future
ISBN: 9780595438587 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first years of the 21st century have been tumultuous ones for a new world full of uncertainties, economic, diplomatic and social. This new work by noted Japanese econometrist and pundit Naoya Fujiwara exposes the challenges facing Japan and the world in an age of turbulent change. With the coming collapse of old-style capitalism and the American hegemony, Japan stands at the threshold of a redefined global landscape. It is a time of soul-searching, but also a remarkable opportunity to re-envision the country's socio-economic architecture, to rebuild it from the ground up, and Fujiwara...
The first years of the 21st century have been tumultuous ones for a new world full of uncertainties, economic, diplomatic and social. This new work by...
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55,62 zł |