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How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth about How Companies Innovate
ISBN: 9781578519040 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents lessons from the famous 'Invention Factories' past and present. Did you know that the incandescent lightbulb first emerged some thirty years before Thomas Edison famously 'turned night into day'? Or that Henry Ford's revolutionary assembly line came from an unlikely blend of observations from Singer sewing machines, meatpacking, and Campbell's Soup? In this fascinating study of innovation, engineer and social scientist Andrew Hargadon argues that our romantic notions about innovation as invention are actually undermining our ability to pursue breakthrough innovations. Based...
This book presents lessons from the famous 'Invention Factories' past and present. Did you know that the incandescent lightbulb first emerged some thi...
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Beyond the Core: Expand Your Market Without Abandoning Your Roots
ISBN: 9781578519514 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. All companies must grow to survive--but only one in five growth strategies succeeds. In Profit from the Core, strategy expert Chris Zook revealed how to grow profitably by focusing on and achieving full potential in the core business. But what happens when your core business provides insufficient new growth or even hits the wall? In Beyond the Core, Zook outlines an expansion strategy based on putting together combinations of adjacency moves into areas away from, but related to, the core business, such as new product lines or new channels of distribution. These sequences of moves carry less...
All companies must grow to survive--but only one in five growth strategies succeeds. In Profit from the Core, strategy expert Chris Zook revealed how ...
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Off-Shoring the Middle Class: Managing White-Collar Job Migration to Asia
ISBN: 9781589399136 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators: From Idea to Execution
ISBN: 9781591397588 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Even world-class companies, with powerful and proven business models, eventually discover limits to growth. That's what makes emerging high-growth industries so attractive. With no proven formula for making a profit, these industries represent huge opportunities for the companies that are fast enough and smart enough to capture them first. But building tomorrow's businesses while simultaneously sustaining excellence in today's demands a delicate balance. It is a mandatory quest, but one that is fraught with contradiction and paradox. Until now, there has been little practical guidance. Based...
Even world-class companies, with powerful and proven business models, eventually discover limits to growth. That's what makes emerging high-growth ind...
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Double-Digit Growth: How Great Companies Achieve It--No Matter What
ISBN: 9781591840664 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In their 1995 blockbuster The Discipline of Market Leaders, Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema explained how great companies dominated their markets by offering superior value propositions. Now Treacy is back with an equally groundbreaking book--revealing how great companies master growth each year and how all businesses can identify and exploit opportunities for increased revenues, gross margins, and profits.
Treacy's main point is simple--it really is possible to grow your business by 10 percent or more, year after year, in good times and bad, without cheating. Great... In their 1995 blockbuster The Discipline of Market Leaders, Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema explained how great companies dominated their mark...
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Managing Change Across Corporate Cultures
ISBN: 9781841125787 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Managing Change Across Corporate Cultures peels away the mysteries of corporate culture to reveal why it has such a powerful influence on every aspect of the performance of a business. It shows how to shape high-performing corporate cultures in a complex international environment.
As the natural successor to Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner's landmark bestseller, Riding the Waves of Culture, Managing Change Across Corporate Cultures shows exactly how to create an environment where astonishing business breakthroughs are possible. You will also learn how to renew cultures as part... Managing Change Across Corporate Cultures peels away the mysteries of corporate culture to reveal why it has such a powerful influence on every aspect...
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Mortgaging Women's Lives: Feminist Critiques of Structural Adjustment
ISBN: 9781856491020 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Reengineering in Action: The Quest for World-Class Excellence
ISBN: 9781860941399 / Angielski / Twarda / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Business process reengineering is arguably the management paradigm of the decade. No other paradigm for organizational innovation and improvement has achieved a stronger presence and impact in corporate boardrooms around the world. In recent years reengineering has also moved away from the hype into real-world application, and there is now a vast pool of techniques and experience ready to be tapped by organizational-change advocates.This book provides an international showcase of reengineering in action, with contributions from more than forty experts spanning five continents. Besides...
Business process reengineering is arguably the management paradigm of the decade. No other paradigm for organizational innovation and improvement has ...
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The Management of Change: Perspectives and Practice
ISBN: 9781861520470 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a practical introduction to the management of strategic change. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the conduct of change in the real world. The author avoids an overly academic approach and stresses the international dimension to competition and change. Mini-cases are used throughout to illustrate the theory, and a further 20% of the whole book comprises full case studies addressing a wide range of business sectors and different sized companies.
This is a practical introduction to the management of strategic change. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the conduct of change in the r...
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Intervening and Changing: Looking for Meaning in Interactions
ISBN: 9780470512012 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presenting new thinking in organizational psychology from the Netherlands, Intervening and Changing is a guide to applying global thinking and democratic values to achieve innovation. Expertly steered by Jaap Boonstra and Leon de Caluwe, it explores tensions and paradoxes in the field of organizational change and presents interventions based in social interaction theory. Its vision is of people collaborating, making sense of their work and living situations and developing collaborative action for breakthrough innovation will be a source of inspiration for any manager, consultant or...
Presenting new thinking in organizational psychology from the Netherlands, Intervening and Changing is a guide to applying global thinking and ...
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At Your Own Risk!: How the Risk-Conscious Culture Meets the Challenge of Business Change
ISBN: 9780470259412 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on over thirty years of experience, recognized industry leader Gary Lynch reveals in this essential guide a game plan to identify and manage a range of risks faced in this brave new globalized world of changing market dynamics and complex high-tech value networks. This groundbreaking book articulates an experienced-based and spot-on assessment of risk management realities that all corporations should make core to their corporate cultures.
Based on over thirty years of experience, recognized industry leader Gary Lynch reveals in this essential guide a game plan to identify and manage a r...
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Ultimate Sales Machine
ISBN: 9781591842156 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chet Holmes helps his clients blow away both the competition and their own expectations. And his advice starts with one simple concept: focus Instead of trying to master four thousand strategies to improve your business, zero in on the few essential skill areas that make the big difference.
The Ultimate Sales Machine shows you how to tune up and soup up virtually every part of your business by spending just an hour per week on each impact area you want to improve?sales, marketing, management, and more. Chet Holmes helps his clients blow away both the competition and their own expectations. And his advice starts with one simple concept: focus Instead...
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Leading Strategic Change: Bridging Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9780521849470 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why do some companies continue to be successful while others experience difficulties and even failure? In Leading Strategic Change, Eric Flamholtz and Yvonne Randle demonstrate that the key to long-term organizational success is the ability to adapt to and manage different types of change. Drawing on over 30 years' consultancy experience within major firms, they combine theoretical and practical models of organizational change, together with a new theory of leadership, to build a framework for understanding, planning, and leading change. The scope and value of this framework is then shown in...
Why do some companies continue to be successful while others experience difficulties and even failure? In Leading Strategic Change, Eric Flamholtz and...
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Discovery-Driven Growth: A Breakthrough Process to Reduce Risk and Seize Opportunity
ISBN: 9781591396857 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. You've been charged with growing your business. Incremental growth can no longer deliver the results you need. You need truly dynamic growth - and you need to achieve it without risking a hugely expensive gamble. How can you encourage innovative new ventures and pursue ambitious growth while minimizing risk? In Discovery-Driven Growth, authors McGrath and MacMillan show how companies can plan and pursue an aggressive growth agenda with confidence. By carefully framing their strategic growth opportunities, testing each project assumption against a series of checkpoints, and creating a...
You've been charged with growing your business. Incremental growth can no longer deliver the results you need. You need truly dynamic growth - and you...
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Organization Change w/web
ISBN: 9780470260562 / Angielski / Miękka / 1016 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume contains the must reads for a depth of understanding about organization change. Each of book's seventy-five papers included in this volume have launched their own fields of inquiry or practices and are the key readings for any student or practitioner of organization development. The most notable articles on organization development by such luminaries in the field as Bennis, Schein, Tichy, Tushman, Weick, Drucker, Quinn, Beckhard, O'Toole, Bridges, Hamel, Gladwell, and Argyris.
This volume contains the must reads for a depth of understanding about organization change. Each of book's seventy-five papers included in this volume...
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Management and Creativity: From Creative Industries to Creative Management
ISBN: 9781405119955 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the relationship between the management of creativity and creative approaches to management.
This book explores the relationship between the management of creativity and creative approaches to management.
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Determinants of Innovative Behaviour: A Firm's Internal Practices and Its External Environment
ISBN: 9780230206328 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A rich overview of current research on determinants of innovative behaviour. It is a unique work as it illuminates these from different perspectives such as, economics, management and psychology. Using several methods of analysis, it shows what specific determinants are predominant in explaining firm performance on innovation.
A rich overview of current research on determinants of innovative behaviour. It is a unique work as it illuminates these from different perspectives s...
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Challenging Women: Gender, Culture and Organization
ISBN: 9780761951513 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a radical reassessment of organizational forces for change and barriers encountered by the challenging women' - senior women managers faced with the task of transforming their organizations. Much has been written about women at work, the "glass ceiling'" and" "discriminatory employment practices. This study is seminal in the linkage it makes between gender, innovation and organizational transformation. The book highlights the implications of this for all types of organizations and women managers everywhere.
This book offers a radical reassessment of organizational forces for change and barriers encountered by the challenging women' - senior women managers...
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Managing at the Speed of Chang
ISBN: 9780471974949 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A source for anyone - from mid-level through to top-level executives - who needs to implement business decisions on time and within budget. The author illustrates that change needs to be made quickly, effectively, economically and with as little political fallout as possible. His methods should teach today's managers to negotiate these transitions by teaching them what distinguishes resilient people from those who suffer future shock and why major change is difficult to assimilate. It teaches the key elements and the flow of events involved in human transition; what roles are central to...
A source for anyone - from mid-level through to top-level executives - who needs to implement business decisions on time and within budget. The author...
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Privatization, Corporate Governance and the Emergence of Markets
ISBN: 9780333778920 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The volume focuses on privatisation in transition countries, addressing issues ranging from corporate governance to the relationship between privatisation and the emergence of markets, from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The contributors investigate both the theoretical groundwork of privatisation and enterprise restructuring as well as recent empirical evidence. The contributions show that changes in ownership titles are but one part of the story, being closely interwoven as they are with the transformation of corporate governance, enterprise restructuring, network transformation and the...
The volume focuses on privatisation in transition countries, addressing issues ranging from corporate governance to the relationship between privatisa...
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