Principles of corporate renewal

Since its publication in 1998, this indispensable text has been the only systematic examination of corporate renewal, offering a rational approach for dealing with financially distressed companies. It contains the first logical and orderly discussion of a number of modern business issues including outsourcing, turnaround ...

From knowledge to intelligence

creating competitive advantage in the next economy

In the New Economy, intelligence will be essential for firms to gain competitive advantage?not just information or knowledge. Competitive intelligence, or the strategic gathering of knowledge about competitors, climate, trends, new products, has a long and successful history of generating competitive advantage. In this ...

Managing (e)business transformation

a global perspective

how a business can be transformed into an internetworked enterprise where IT infrastructures are used to link customers, suppliers, partners and employees to create superior economic value. The book is written based on the premise that integrating internet technologies throughout the value chain is crucial ...

Understanding industrial and corporate change

Understanding Industrial and Corporate Change contains pioneering work on technological, organizational, and institutional change from leading theorists and practitioners such as Joseph Stiglitz, Oliver Williamson, Masahiko Aoki, Alfred D. Chandler Jr., and Sidney Winter. Trans- disciplinary in its approach, the book explores three distinct themes ...

Time for a model change

re-engineering the global automotive industry

The automotive industry ranks among the most significant business phenomena of the 20th century and remains vitally important today, accounting for almost 11% of the GDP of North America, Europe and Japan and one in nine jobs. In economic and social terms alike, its products ...

Essential readings in management learning

This volume brings together some of the best writing published in the journal Management Learning since its re-launch under this title in 1994. The selection very much reflects the mission of the journal to act as a showcase for innovative, international and interdisciplinary work which ...

Como gestionar el cambio con éxito

Ofrece consejos prácticos y útiles sugerencias sobre aspectos clave de la gestión del cambio, como el análisis de estado actual de su empresa, cómo vencer la resistencia al cambio y cómo despertar el entusiasmo para mantenerlo y hacerlo progresar.

Carlos Ghosn

Carlos Ghosn es actualmente el ejecutivo de la industria del automóvil con una trayectoria más apasionante y brillante.El mismo es un ejemplo de la globalización que desde hace años se ha implantado en ese sector.Nacido en Brasil,de familia libanesa y formación francesa ...

La tecnología al servicio de las personas

e-hr

El siglo que acabamos de estrenar se encargará de ratificar en su infancia la realidad del discurso, hoy todavía y teórico, de que las personas son la fuente de valor diferencial en las organizaciones. Nada se conseguirá si no se sabe gestionar de manera excelente ...

Change

how to adapt and transform the business

Every business decision takes us into a future of opportunity and danger. To move forward with confidence, we need to get to grips with risk and uncertainty. Risk is a concise overview of the principles of risk management and decision making. It will help you ...

Customer mania!

it's NEVER too late to build a customer-focused company

In Customer Mania!, Ken Blanchard, one of America's biggest bestselling authors and inspiring business leaders, writes of the key to customer service#creating a people-oriented, performance-driven, customer-first organization. Along with coauthors Jim Ballard and Fred Finch, Blanchard explains why the customer is the right ...

How to manage experience sharing

from organisational surprises to organisational knowledge

This book has grown from a workshop that brought together researchers and practitioners from a wide range of areas, including the safety domain. The focus of the workshop was on the well-known issue of organisational learning and organisational memory. The special merit of the book ...

Restructuring strategy

new networks and industry challenges

New industries are emerging; others are disrupted; old barriers are crumbling, while new ones are rising. This book seeks to better understand the challenges facing industries, networks, businesses and management during periods of industry structuring and restructuring. Comprising a series of contributions from experts in ...

Reengineering the corporation

a manifesto for business revolution

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 ...

Organizational change for corporate sustainability

A guide for leaders and c hange agents of the future

Lean thinking

banish waste and create wealth in your corporation

Managing change and transition

Dealing with change and crisis is difficult in any business environment, let alone one as turbulent as managers face today. Managing change and transition offers comprehensive advice and tools for controlling stress levels and sharing information during transition. Packed with timely answers, this is an ...

Learning by design

building sustainable organizations

Learning is an essential process for attaining and maintaining sustainability at both the individual and business level. Establishing a learning organization requires a wholehearted and sustained endeavour. This text facilitates such an endeavour by providing both a coherent framework for analysis and practical models for ...

Making sense of organizational change

This text offers a way of understanding the processes of organizational change. Rather than being structured as a "how to" book, it provides the reader with practical insights and skills for managing (or resisting) organizational change. Its strength lies in three key areas. Firstly, and ...

Enterprise programme management

delivering value

Many large scale projects are delivered over schedule and over budget. Programme management is a new approach to maximize the likelihood of successful change management. While being based around a set of techniques this book describes an approach to programme management that outlines the skills ...