Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Management Science

The concept of innovation is the result of human activities carried out to produce a new product, service or something new that creates value. More recently, the idea of an innovative enterprise, organization or company has emerged, thanks to an increasing interest in innovation as an essential process in a variety of economic, technological and sociological contexts.

This book is part of a set on Innovation between Risk and Reward and focuses on the close relationship between innovation and knowledge. It provides the reader with the outline of an innovative company, focusing on the...

Creativity and Strategic Innovation Management was the first book to integrate innovation management with both change management and creativity to form a guide to innovation as a tool for survival in rapidly changing market conditions. Treating creativity as the process, and innovation the result, Goodman emphasise the importance of a strategic approach to management through fostering creative processes.

Revised and updated for a second edition, this groundbreaking book now includes:

• A new section on contemporary themes in innovation management, such as the...

Creativity and Strategic Innovation Management was the first book to integrate innovation management with both change management and creativity to form a guide to innovation as a tool for survival in rapidly changing market conditions. Treating creativity as the process, and innovation the result, Goodman emphasise the importance of a strategic approach to management through fostering creative processes.

Revised and updated for a second edition, this groundbreaking book now includes:

• A new section on contemporary themes in innovation management, such as the...

While emerging technologies create massive opportunity, especially for investors and companies that seek more adaptable forms of economic growth than currently available, value is held inert by traditional approaches, patents, and other closed systems. Yet, open data, content, and information may be the key to mass innovation for future technologies, although they bring difficult challenges to private-industry models that depend on the established ideas of intellectual property.

It is from this foundational observation that OpenXFORM (a blending of the words Open and the...

Essentials of Modeling and Analytics illustrates how and why analytics can be used effectively by loss prevention staff. The book offers an in-depth overview of analytics, first illustrating how analytics are used to solve business problems, then exploring the tools and training that staff will need in order to engage solutions. The text also covers big data analytical tools and discusses if and when they are right for a retail loss prevention professionals, and illustrates how to use analytics to test the effectiveness of loss prevention initiatives. Ideal for loss prevention...

A school of thought hails microcredit as a social innovation, a messiah to enable people to help themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship. An opposing school of thought considers microcredit as a capitalist demon ensnaring the poor in poverty and debt. The layman and the million professionals working in this industry are at a loss to make sense of the stories that circulate about microcredit. This book provides this sense-making, useful for students, professionals, investors and researchers who are attracted to this field.

Poverty is a wicked problem, akin to Hydra, the...

In the past, company success was typically measured by financial indicators. Lately though, non-financial measures such as employee morale have become popular. Although there are approaches that look into quantitative and qualitative performance measures affecting company success, none of them characterize it in a holistic way, combining all the critical performance measures. This book presents a multifaceted approach that prepares engineers and future organizational leaders/managers to measure, monitor, and predict company success in a more meaningful way.

This book examines higher education institutions that exemplify gendered success whether in terms of the presence of women in senior positions or attempts to change a gendered organisational culture. It reflects a global perspective, drawing on case studies from eleven countries: Australia, Austria, Ireland, India, New Zealand, Portugal, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom. In each country an organisation has been selected that demonstrate best practice in terms of gendered outcomes or processes. Gendered Success in Higher Education highlights...

An IT manager is only as good as his or her team is. This means that one of the most critical skills that an IT manager has is the ability to build the perfect team. The better a team that you can build, the better your team is going to make you look

What You'll Find Inside:

• IT LEADERS DEAL WITH THE THREE D'S: DEATH, DIVORCE, AND DISEASE
• HOW TO KEEP YOUR TEAM FROM LEAVING AS THE ECONOMY IMPROVES
• HOW DO IT LEADERS WRITE A GOOD JOB DESCRIPTION?
• HOW TO HIRE IT PEOPLE: WHAT THEY NEVER TOLD YOU

Building a world-class IT team...

In order to be successful as an IT manager, you need to be able to show the company that under your leadership your team is able to deliver high quality products on time and under budget. If you want to have any chance of being able to pull this off, then you are going to have to discover ways to build a high performance IT team.

What You'll Find Inside:

• DOES YOUR TEAM KNOW THAT YOU APPRECIATE THEM?
• WHY IT MANAGERS NEED TO BUILD TEAMS THAT ALL GENERATIONS WANT TO WORK ON
• WHY FAILING JUST MIGHT BE THE BEST THING TO EVER HAPPEN TO AN IT MANAGER
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