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Working for the Japanese
ISBN: 9780029109328 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For three years, journalists Joseph and Suzy Fucini closely observed the interactions between American managers and workers and their top Japanese bosses at a new state-of-the-art Mazda auto plant in Michigan. They found that for all its strengths, the team system requires sacrifice of individual interests to the good of the group, and that no matter how hard an individual tries to become Japanese, advancement, for both managers and workers alike, will be limited by the fact that they are not Japanese.
For three years, journalists Joseph and Suzy Fucini closely observed the interactions between American managers and workers and their top Japanese bos...
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74,21 |
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Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution
ISBN: 9780060559533 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The most successful business book of the last decade, Reengineering the Corporation is the pioneering work on the most important topic in business today: achieving dramatic performance improvements. This book leads readers through the radical redesign of a company's processes, organization, and culture to achieve a quantum leap in performance. Michael Hammer and James Champy have updated and revised their milestone work for the New Economy they helped to create--promising to help corporations save hundreds of millions of dollars more, raise their customer satisfaction still... The most successful business book of the last decade, Reengineering the Corporation is the pioneering work on the most important topic in ... |
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Managing the Change Process: A Field Book for Change Agents, Team Leaders, and Reengineering Managers
ISBN: 9780070129443 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explains the global changes confronting business leaders. This book includes strategies for managing major change, creating an organizational culture conducive to change, and leading change effectively. It contains tools that managers need to get a handle on the change management strategies and ensure the success of their business improvement.
Explains the global changes confronting business leaders. This book includes strategies for managing major change, creating an organizational culture ...
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172,33 |
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Turbulence in the American Workplace
ISBN: 9780195064612 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Turbulence--rapid and sometimes tumultuous changes--has characterized the labor markets of the 1970's and 1980's. Turbulent competitive conditions have cut sharply into profits and have forced downsizings and radical readjustments in America's workplaces. Workplace turbulence has resulted in lost jobs, declining incomes, and falling productivity for American labor. From the perspectives of business and labor, turbulence and its consequences is the key human resources issue for the last part of the twentieth century. In Turbulence in the American Workplace, a distinguished group of...
Turbulence--rapid and sometimes tumultuous changes--has characterized the labor markets of the 1970's and 1980's. Turbulent competitive conditions hav...
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782,81 |
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Transforming Organizations
ISBN: 9780195065046 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines how organizations can, and should, transform their practices to compete in a world economy. Research results from a multi-disciplinary team of MIT researchers, along with the experiences and insights of a select group of industry practitioners, are integrated into a model that stresses the need for systemic and transformative rather than piecemeal or incremental changes in organization practices and public policy. This integration of research and experience results in an argument for a new organizational learning model--one capable of gaining advantage...
This book examines how organizations can, and should, transform their practices to compete in a world economy. Research results from a multi-disciplin...
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Organizational Change and Redesign
ISBN: 9780195072853 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What are the root causes of the increasingly rapid rate of change in the business environment? What patterns exist in the ways environmental change leads to organizational change? Confronted with a state of continuously accelerating change, what should managers and organizational scientists do? Organizational Change and Redesign addresses these questions to provide a clear and comprehensive understanding of the relationships among environmental changes, organizational redesign, and performance. George Huber, William Glick, and some of the most respected authorities working in the...
What are the root causes of the increasingly rapid rate of change in the business environment? What patterns exist in the ways environmental change le...
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Change at Work
ISBN: 9780195103274 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A far-reaching transformation is taking place in the US in the relationship between employers and employees. The lessons learned from Japan and from "best practice" companies like IBM about how job security, training, and internal development can improve employee commitment and performance have given way to a new set of lessons about how companies can redue fixed costs, increase flexibility, and improve performance by eliminating the elaborate employment systems that prepared employees for long careers in the company. Where the old arrangement protected employees from outside market...
A far-reaching transformation is taking place in the US in the relationship between employers and employees. The lessons learned from Japan and from "...
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225,09 |
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Changing the Game: Organizational Transformations of the First, Second, and Third Kinds
ISBN: 9780195117646 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do companies like Microsoft and Wal-Mart rise to the top of their industries and dominate year after year, while others like PeopLe Express and LA Gear burn out after promising starts? In Changing the Game, Eric Flamholtz and Yvonne Randle, two leading management consultants, reveal that the key to success lies in how you transform your organization.
Virtually all organizations face critical transition points in their life cycle, when they must change how they play the game, or perish. Flamholtz and Randle focus here on three critical moments: the move from entrepreneurial to... How do companies like Microsoft and Wal-Mart rise to the top of their industries and dominate year after year, while others like PeopLe Express and LA...
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168,61 |
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Re-Creating the Corporation
ISBN: 9780195123876 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the last three decades the average life expectancy of a corporation in North America has dipped well below 20 years. In fact, by 1983 a full third of the 1970 Fortune 500 companies had been acquired, merged, or broken apart. In this landmark book, one of the business world's foremost pioneers, Russell L. Ackoff, delivers this indispensable guide for those hoping to beat these odds--and to better navigate the corporate challenges of the next millennium.
While most business and management schools continue to teach the functions of a corporation separately--production, marketing,... Over the last three decades the average life expectancy of a corporation in North America has dipped well below 20 years. In fact, by 1983 a full thir...
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Organizational Change and Innovation Processes: Theory and Methods for Research
ISBN: 9780195131987 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a world of organizations that are in constant change scholars have long sought to understand and explain how they change. This book introduces research methods that are specifically designed to support the development and evaluation of organizational process theories. The authors are a group of highly regarded experts who have been doing collaborative research on change and development for many years.
In a world of organizations that are in constant change scholars have long sought to understand and explain how they change. This book introduces rese...
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641,62 |
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Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation
ISBN: 9780195135008 / Angielski / Twarda / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a world of organizations that are in constant change scholars have long sought to understand and explain how they change. This book introduces research methods that are specifically designed to support the development and evaluation of organizational process theories. The authors are a group of highly regarded experts who have been doing collaborative research on change and development for many years.
In a world of organizations that are in constant change scholars have long sought to understand and explain how they change. This book introduces rese...
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476,91 |
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When Firms Change Direction
ISBN: 9780195136432 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Firms within the same competitive environment (industry) respond in different ways to changing environmental (competitive) conditions. The authors of this book argue that the strategy field has not found answers to the questions that flow from this observation. They answer these questions by using what they call a "cognitively anchored theory of strategic change."
Firms within the same competitive environment (industry) respond in different ways to changing environmental (competitive) conditions. The authors of ...
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Innovation Management: Strategies, Implementation, and Profits
ISBN: 9780195142303 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Innovation is the key to gaining and maintaining a competitive advantage in the business world. Using multi-functional research from economics, organizational theory, general management and marketing, and strategy literature, Innovation Management, 2/e, provides a systematic approach to the strategies and processes that underlie the financial results of innovation.
Designed to meet the increasing number of courses in innovation management, the text provides full coverage of this vitally important area of business. Drawing from his extensive professional and academic experience,... Innovation is the key to gaining and maintaining a competitive advantage in the business world. Using multi-functional research from economics, organi...
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1163,96 |
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Surviving Transformation: Lessons from Gm's Surprising Turnaround
ISBN: 9780195171419 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How did a major corporation manage to turn itself around while Wall Street and others continued to predict its slow death? The answer may surprise you, and it provides a model for corporate transformation for any company or government agency operating in a world of accelerating change. The company is General Motors, and this book tells how it was able to change the way important decisions were made, leading to resurgence in business across its many product lines. At the beginning of the 1990s, GM was perceived by nearly everyone as falling behind its competitors at an alarming rate. By the...
How did a major corporation manage to turn itself around while Wall Street and others continued to predict its slow death? The answer may surprise you...
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Technology, Organization, and Competitiveness: Perspectives on Industrial and Corporate Change
ISBN: 9780198290964 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing together ideas of leading thinkers in business strategy, organization studies, and innovation, this book explores the dynamics of competitiveness and the origins of the firm's capabilities. Contributors include David Teece, Oliver Williamson, Richard Nelson, Mark Granovetter, Gary Hamilton, Martin Fransman, Keith Pavitt, and William Lazonick.
Bringing together ideas of leading thinkers in business strategy, organization studies, and innovation, this book explores the dynamics of competitive...
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Building the Flexible Firm: How to Remain Competitive
ISBN: 9780198295952 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do firms cope with changing environments? Is flexibility really the solution? Based on an Igor Ansoff Award winning study, Building the Flexible Firm shows how flexibility has become the new strategic challenge for contemporary firms. Offering a wealth of insights and based on extensive interviews with practitioners, Henk Volberda provides a strategic framework which explains what types of flexibility are effective under different organizational conditions and environmental characteristics. He also demonstrates an integrated method for diagnosing a firm's flexibility and for guiding the...
How do firms cope with changing environments? Is flexibility really the solution? Based on an Igor Ansoff Award winning study, Building the Flexible F...
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Managing Corporate Growth
ISBN: 9780198296676 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As economic growth in Western countries shows signs of fatigue, companies are battling hard to discover how to generate and sustain corporate growth. The restructuring and reengineering processes of the early 1990s, and the massive lay-offs they brought about, have only given an additional boost to the need for expansion. Corporate efficiency is indispensable, but is not a sufficient condition for corporate survival. Firms need to think about their future growth.
As economic growth in Western countries shows signs of fatigue, companies are battling hard to discover how to generate and sustain corporate growth. ...
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Reeingineering Health Care: The Complexities of Organizational Transformation
ISBN: 9780199240845 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through the use of a real case study within a major NHS hospital, this book attempts to address the idea of Process Transformation in the field of health care. The authors explore three interlined themes: the models and nature or organizational change; the implementation of Business Process Reengineering or BPR and the management of contemporary public sector organizations. Process Transformation: A Case of Reengineering in Health Care, reveals the major challenges of reorganization and provides knowledge and feedback on the impact of corporate change, impediments and enablers of lateral...
Through the use of a real case study within a major NHS hospital, this book attempts to address the idea of Process Transformation in the field of hea...
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900,46 |
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Agents of Change: Crossing the Post-Industrial Divide
ISBN: 9780199261758 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on the transition faced by business organizations and their stakeholders as they move from protected markets to open competition, and it explores how these changes can be facilitated by outside interveners/agents. The four authors-two from Europe and two from the United States-have worked separately as consultants with leaders of many companies and unions facing these challenges including AT & T, Lucent, Electricite de France and the Italian State Railways (Ferrovie dello Stato). The reader is thus afforded an unusual insight into the process of change in a large...
This book focuses on the transition faced by business organizations and their stakeholders as they move from protected markets to open competition, an...
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Reeingineering Health Care: The Complexities of Organizational Transformation
ISBN: 9780199269075 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through the use of a real case study within a major NHS hospital, this book attempts to address the idea of Process Transformation in the field of health care. The authors explore three interlined themes: the models and nature or organizational change; the implementation of Business Process Reengineering or BPR and the management of contemporary public sector organizations. Process Transformation reveals the major challenges of reorganization and provides knowledge and feedback on the impact of corporate change, impediments and enablers of lateral organizing structures and contradictions...
Through the use of a real case study within a major NHS hospital, this book attempts to address the idea of Process Transformation in the field of hea...
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476,91 |