The definitive handbook of business continuity management

Hiles and Barnes provide comprehensive conceptual and practical guidance for managers and businesses who want to establish a strategy for protecting their organization from disruption and disaster.

Planning under pressure

the strategic choice approach

Planning under Pressure offers managers, planners, consultants and students a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the Strategic Choice Approach, which has gradually been attracting worldwide recognition as a fresh, versatile and practical approach to collaborative decision-making under uncertainty. Starting from basic principles, the book uses ...

Research methods in management

a concise introduction to research in management and business consultancy

Written specifically for the Research Methods aspect of an MBA course, Research Methods in Management is the ideal companion for those needing guidance on carrying out a research project. The author offers a succinct guide to the topic which provides MBA and Business Students with ...

Procter & Gamble

los 165 años de P&G construyendo marcas

PROCTER & GAMBLE es una de las compañías más grandes e influyentes del mundo, productora de un sinnúmero de marcas generadoras de miles de millones de dólares y que ha contribuido a forjar el estilo de vida de millones de personas. Marcas como Ariel, Fairy, Don ...

Strategy in transition

The bursting of the 'dotcom bubble' and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, have brought into question received wisdom about strategy. This volume reviews the lessons to be learnt from these events, and proposes that, as a result, strategy in the twenty-first century will ...

Strategic planning and performance management

develop and measure winning strategy

Strategic Planning and Performance Management: Develop & Measure a Winning Strategy shows how to: - Make strategic management simple yet highly effective. - Integrate strategic analysis, strategy formulation and performance measurement. - Compete in three ways - Scale, Scope and Structure and write these 3 S's of Strategy to ...

Corporate strategy

a resource-based approach

CORPORATE STRATEGY breaks the mold. It is a completely new course whose design has been honed over six years of teaching at the Harvard Business School. It presents, for the first time, a single consistent framework for the analysis of corporate-level strategy. Based on the ...

Images of competitive space

a study of managerial and organizational strategic cognition

Based on a study of residential estate agents, comprising one of the most sophisticated datasets ever gathered in the field of managerial and organizational cognition to date, this book provides strong supporting evidence for a number of key theoretical concepts. It powerfully demonstrates why we ...

Cooperative strategy

Description *clear and systematic overview of an important topic *alliances, joint ventures, and networks are increasingly common *international/comparative examples *the authors have extensive academic and consulting experience *clear structure making it suitable for course teaching and management training New to this edition *Thoroughly revised ...

Exploring corporate strategy

Over 600,000 students worldwide have used this best-selling book to understand and explore strategic management through their academic and professional careers. Exploring Corporate Strategy has established a reputation as a pre- eminent textbook in its field, based upon the expertise of authorship, range of ...

Best practices in leadership development and organization change

how the best companies ensure meaningful change and sustainable leadership

In this important book, successful organizations#including well-known companies such as Agilent Technologies, Corning, GE Capital, Hewlett Packard, Honeywell Aerospace, Lockheed Martin, MIT, Motorola, and Praxair#share their most effective approaches, tools, and specific methods for leadership development and organizational change. These exemplary organizations serve ...

Knowledge management in organizations

a critical introduction

This introductory-level textbook provides a critical review and analysis of the key themes that underpin the subject of knowledge management in organizations. Adopting a thematic approach, the key debates are presented including epistemologies of knowledge, managing and sharing knowledge, and learning and innovation. To fully ...

Economic foundations of strategy

Economic Foundations of Strategy provides not only the essential basic tenets of strategy, it also shows the inter-relationships of five major theories of the firm: the behavioral theory; transaction costs theory; property rights theory; agency theory; and dynamic resource-based theory. Even though technological, organizational and ...

Complex knowledge

studies in organizational epistemology

In this book Haridimos Tsoukas, one of the most imaginative organizational theorists of our time, examines the nature of knowledge in organizations, and how individuals and scholars approach the concept of knowledge. An ideal introduction to the thinking of a leading organizational theorist, this book ...

Guide to business modelling

All organisations face more and more complex decision-making while the risks dependent on their decisions require increasingly explicit understanding of potential outcomes. The new edition of this widely acclaimed guide is full of practical help on how to build the best, most flexible and easy-to-use ...

El poder de lo simple

una guía para eliminar lo absurdo y ser menos complicados

¿El poder de lo simple¿: ¿teoría simplista o una óptica sabia? Este libro ejecutivo empieza con la dedicación que resume su "razón de ser": ¿Dedicado a los que están agobiados y perplejos, y que sienten que debe haber un modo más simple de hacer las ...

Innovating strategy process

Innovating Strategy Process presents a series of reflective essays by established and emerging scholars on the subject of innovation, considering it both as an outcome of strategy and as a process in itself. The book has something to offer to a wide range of readers ...

¿Y por qué no?

cómo utilizar el ingenio para reiventar mercados y resolver problemas

Hay muchas grandes ideas que sólo están esperando a ser descubiertas... ¿Por qué no hacer que los comerciales le paguen a usted por su tiempo cuando le llaman para venderle algo? O, ¿por qué no ofrecer una póliza de seguros contra la devaluación del precio ...

Capabilities for strategic advantage

leading through technological innovation

In a competitive environment rivals will quickly respond to changes and improvements. This new contribution demonstrates that companies need to have a methodology for developing strategy with regard to future technology. New technology needs to be integrated into a strategic process and companies who are ...

iCon

Steve Jobs the greatest second act in the history of business

Lightning never strikes twice, but Steve Jobs has, transforming modern culture first with the Macintosh and more recently with the iPod. He has dazzled and delighted audiences with his Pixar movies. And he has bedeviled, destroyed, and demoralized hundreds of people along the way. Steve ...