Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Structural Adjustment

This book is about achieving excellent Change Management using a variety of techniques and contains many new concepts and applications for consultants, would-be consultants and everyone involved in change in a business setting.

Revised and updated for the new economy, this text describes how the radical redesign of a company's processes, organization and culture can achieve a quantum leap in performance. In the 1990s, reengineering was implemented in the back office, the factory and the warehouse. For the new century it is being applied to the front office and the revenue producing side of the business.

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...

The narrative of this text follows ten years of a major initiative by Pirelli General - the creation and operation of an automated factory of the future. Topics and themes developed and analyzed include: strategy formulation; and strategy and structure.

The process of globalization has meant the intensification of global interdependencies, and this has provided breeding grounds for new organizations and the elaboration of extinct ones, This book describes these organizations and the modern managerialism t

The business world is in the midst of a radical transformation. The turbulent 90s have made fast responses, innovation, adaptability and customer orientation key behaviours of tomorrow's successful organization. These capabilities depend on a radical change in the form and character of all aspects of business organization and management. In Managing for the Future the author details the essential organizing concepts and patterns that will characterise tomorrow's successful organization. The book examines the emerging and alternative approaches to: the business process, the customer, the...

The role of a Turnaround Manager is to save companies from a seriously unprofitable situation. This may follow a merger, take-over, restructure or as a result of adverse market conditions or mismanagement. A first class Turnaround Manager is more than a short-term 'company doctor'; he or she redefines the company's business mission and restructures it for long-term survival. This book shows how to do this. It includes practical advice from experienced Turnaround Managers, real-life examples of best practice and an objective guide to the principles involved in this increasingly important...

Francois Dupuy's book describes and analyses how managers need to understand organisations in order to help them effectively implement the changes necessary to operate in today's competitive environment. Focusing on the need to cooperate, Dupuy provides a diagnostic and a methodology that shows managers how to understand why people do what they do and how they can use this knowledge to implement organisational change.

Outlines the importance of original thinking to give you the edge on the competition. Drawing on his many years of experience as a marketing manager, the author uses anecdote and example to illustrate new ways to approach business and to succeed at it.

Shows how the insights of complexity science can allow managers to embrace the challenges and uncertainty of the twenty-first century, and oversee organizational change and development. Outlining the historical relationship between science and organization

The insights of complexity science can allow today's managers to embrace the challenges and uncertainty of the twenty-first century, and successfully oversee organizational change and development. Elizabeth McMillan's book brings these ideas into perspective by:

• outlining the historical relationship between science and organizations
• reviewing current perspectives on organizational change and best practice
• citing real-life examples of the use of complexity science ideas
• discussing issues which may arise when using ideas from complexity.
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This text brings together the work of leading international thinkers working in the overlapping areas of economics, organization studies, business history, corporate strategy, and innovation. There is a growing awareness that the perspectives of a single discipline are unable to capture and explain the complexities and dynamics of firm behaviour, organizational structure, and corporate strategy.

The Management of Technological Innovation (MTI) is one of the most important challenges facing businesses today. Innovation has become the fundamental driver of competitiveness for firms of all sizes in virtually all business sectors and nations.
The first edition of this book has become one of the most popular texts for students of innovation and technology management. This new edition sees David Gann and Ammon Salter join Mark Dodgson as authors, drawing on their combined experience of 60 years of researching and teaching MTI. It combines the most relevant theoretical analysis with...

The Management of Technological Innovation (MTI) is one of the most important challenges facing businesses today. Innovation has become the fundamental driver of competitiveness for firms of all sizes in virtually all business sectors and nations.
The first edition of this book has become one of the most popular texts for students of innovation and technology management. This new edition sees David Gann and Ammon Salter join Mark Dodgson as authors, drawing on their combined experience of 60 years of researching and teaching MTI. It combines the most relevant theoretical analysis with...

This book responds to a growing demand in the academic community for a focus on customer-related proactive behaviour in the study of radical innovation development, combining a thorough theoretical discussion with detailed international case studies considering the role of this proactivity in five firms engaged in the process.

Unlike other studies in this area, this book demonstrates that anticipation plays an important role at the idea generation stage and Sandberg introduces a new way of describing a firm's proactivity as a dynamic pattern. Furthermore, the deeper...

An analysis of radical changes across institutions such as the privitization of British Rail, and the role of governments in such shifts. Challenges current thinking, highlighting the limitations and difficulties inherent in system change.

This book examines discourses of knowledge and innovation in post-industrial societies and knowledge-based organizations. The author investigates the value of knowledge and the question of innovation management in a fully commercial environment for a technology company.

In contrast with most of the mainstream approaches to knowledge and innovation management this volume chooses as its starting point a critical examination of these assumptions before proceeding with further suggestions on how to manage knowledge. Using brand new empirical research, the author argues for the...

The Challenge of Remaining Innovative explores innovation as a complex phenomenon that may be organizational as well as technological, that operates both within firms and across the broader economy, and that involves matters not only of research and development, but also of marketing, design, and government relations. The contributors explore two main themes: the challenge of remaining innovative and the necessity of managing institutional boundaries in doing so. The collection is organized into four parts, which move outward from individual firms; to networks or clusters of firms; to...

Fast track route to the successful management of business growth

Covers the key areas of growth management, from understanding how organizations grow and the changes needed to facilitate growth, to mergers and acquisitions, franchising and alliances

Examples and lessons from some of the world's most successful businesses, including AOL, Dixons, Starbucks, and Wal-Mart, and ideas from the smartest thinkers, including Patricia Anslinger, Thomas Copeland, Peter Lorange, Baghai Mehrdad, Noel Tichy, David White and Chris Zook.

Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources...

One of the toughest lessons every business leader learns is how hard it is to generate sustained growth. Stalled growth is the rule, not the exception--even for the best-managed companies. That's especially true in unpredictable economic environments such as the one we're experiencing today.

McKee has a unique understanding of what happens when growth stalls. His firm commissioned a study of 700 companies that had at one time been among the nation's fastest-growing businesses. Developed in concert with Decision Analyst, a leading national research and consulting firm, the study probed...